The event highlights two of Italy’s greatest cultural arts: opera and ballet, both of which originated in Renaissance Italy. It’s a perfect opportunity to introduce children to the great Italian opera ...

The first sound you hear is that of cascading water that catches the diamond brilliance of the sun as one enters through the massive stone columns that grace the front entrance of the Italian Cultural ...

When Cardinal Gregorio Berbarigo planned his "landscape" in the countryside of Venice, Italy, he wasn't just thinking about curb appeal. In fact, back in the late 1600s when the good cardinal lived, ...

As paleoecologist, Foundation Professor and Gibson Professor of Geography Scott Mensing describes it, Tuscia, Italy looks straight out of a movie set. Located on the western side of the country near ...

Based on papers presented at the symposium entitled "Recent issues in Italian garden studies"; held on Oct. 19-20, 2007 and organized by the Garden and Landscape Studies Program at the Dumbarton Oaks.

For Italian landscape designer Jonathan Fargion, New York City has been home for the past decade. After arriving there as a fresh graduate after his architecture studies at the Politecnico di Milano, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The folder includes worksheets, photocopies of articles, a calendar, a planting list, historical information about the Italian community, and 28 ...

My introduction to Italy was a two-week visit to Venice 30 years ago, and although I have returned many times since, for the most part I saw tantalisingly few gardens. Tantalising because the ones ...

The designers intended for the theatricality of the terraced view to be accentuated by the enclosed viewing amphitheater, thereby contemplating the surrounding landscape and "bringing to stage the ...