Culture: March 2003 Archives

Massa Lubrense is an ideal place for a great holiday, 108 km of marked trails in the country side, gentle landscape, famous for its cuisine (seven restaurants in the Top 20 of Campania, one of the best three in Italy), a coastline almost 20 miles long in the middle of the Protected Marine Area of Punta Campanella.

"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"

Valcamonica, in the Lombardy plain, has one of the greatest collection of prehistoric petroglyphs to be found anywhere.

Aristide Maillol, the French sculptor, draftsman and painter, was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer on December 8, 1861.

Near the village of Monticiano in Tuscany, stands the dramatic ruins of the church of San Galgano, the remains of a Gothic Cistercian church and abbey built by monks between 1224-1288.