ITALY SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
CASALE IL BARONETTO, ABRUZZO
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Here at "Casale il Baronetto" your holiday is really eco-friendly! We respect the environment reducing waste and Co2 emissions and supporting actively energies. We eat and cook in a eco-friendly way the products we grow. We believe in electric mobility and we support bartering. We dispose of many well equipped apartments: " Il Sole" e " La luna" are annexed to the main building and "Il Covo" and " Il Nido" are instead located in the beautiful medieval village of Penne.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
CASCINA RODIANI, DEZZO - COMO, LOMBARDY
Cascina Rodiani is a family run eco Room & Breakfast with a low
environmental impact. Its eco sustainable touristic activities date back to the
renovation of a colonial house in the 1600's and the repossession of its
surrounding grounds.
Located on top of a hill within the Spina Verde Regional Park, the
farmstead features stunning panoramic views, especially at sunset, over the
valley and eastern Alps. At the same time you can enjoy long relaxing
walks, hiking, bike rides and horse riding, due to start shortly, in the
park, along the alps or around Lakes Como and Lugano.
These well known Lakes offer numerous water sports,
sailing activities and the opportunity to visit the
neoclassic country homes and botanic gardens. Casina Rodiani is an ideal
choice for a healthy, relaxing holiday in a historical and natural
setting.
This ambitious project, which dates back to 2011, is the result of
creative minds and the different passions of those who have envisioned it.
During the restoration works, particular attention was paid in
maintaining and further enhancing the unique style of the building. At the same
time the concepts of “reuse, repurpose, recycle and reduce” were applied both for building materials, furniture and the
everyday running of the farmhouse ranging from water to food, waste and
electrical systems. In the future we intend to turn the farmhouse's 3 acres
into landscape and agriculture requalifying projects.
All essential elements for what is known as Green
Hospitality.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
ICHNUSA CHARTER, SARDINIA
Ichnusa is a unique eco-friendly
sailing ship. Unique in that it combines high technical
features with comfortable designed living space including 2 spacious bathrooms
and 4 double cabins. It is internally fitted out with the warmth of
wood and offers many innovative and practical features.
Unique, a real attraction when both
anchored, harboured or under sail.
We are talking about a Ketch,
a two-masted sailing vessel, equipped with stay, designed as a prototype by Dick Carter in 1982. The boat
was built at the Comet shipyard in Pesaro, Italy and is presently
harboured in Cagliari. The boat features a wooden structure, hull made of
fiberglass, central cockpit, teak flush deck and wheel-house
positioned at the rear of the boat. The cockpit can be converted into a table
for 8/10 people with an overhead awning.
Ichnusa is an ideal compromise between
resistance and performance with the power to hoist all 5 sails at the same time
and enable navigation even in light winds.
Ichnusa is part of the “Project
Zero” salvage and in 2012 was equipped with a battery run electric
engine rechargeable with eolian and photovoltaic panel generators, with
black/grey water system and a desalination implant for portable
water. As there is no need for a fuel tank on board a water supply tank of up
to 700 litres has been installed.
Mathias Reiter, Skipper of the boat and
promoter of the project says " Sailing is not only a means of enjoyment
and relaxation but also a lesson of Life: on one hand there is the formation where
everyone must work in a team performing simple and practical sailing
manoeuvres, on the other hand a sense of responsibility and respect for others
where work sharing and living conditions are concerned.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
CASCINA GILLI, PIEDMONT
Cascina Gilli is located in Castelnuovo Don Bosco, in the
Monferrato, on a spine of hilltops of
white soil completely grown by vineyard.
Gianni Vergano has bottled his first Freisa in 1985 and since then,
going trough his patience and passionate effort, worked for the preservation
and requalification of grapes that were almost extinguished elsewhere: Freisa, Bonarda Piemonte and Malvasia di Schierano.
Is particularly because of the
Freisa that Cascina Gilli
stands as one of Asti´s most influential wineries. We are so well known for Malvasia Gilli, a
dessert sweet wine that is characterized by his intriguing aroma and freshness.
Our engage and competence in wine production, including an excellent
Barbera d´Asti, has been confirmed both by many and loyal costumers and
gratifying judgments from the most well-established wine guides, with the
result that Cascina Gilli stands as one of Asti´s most prestigious wineries.
The winery, completely surrounded by vineyards, is structured by a
modern but well concealed from the outside wine-cellar and by the
eighteenth-century Villa that has been just restructured.
In here are located two spacious rooms where we offer our wine
tasting to our guests.
The measures took to restore the Villa have fully respected the
original configuration in order to lessen its impact on the landscape and the
surrounding area.
The farmhouse is always ready to welcome the numerous tourists which
want to discover this beautiful spot in the Monferrato that offers at the same
time examples of Romanesque art and together sits in the deep untouched
nature.
Near Cascina Gilli you can find Vezzolano Abbey a beautiful treasure
of Romanesque Art.
Accommodations for short time are also possible in the farmhouse,
enjoying the magnificent quiet surrounded by vineyards.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
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Monday, October 14, 2013
S´Argidda, Saffran, Sardinia
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S’Agridda is a farm with ancient roots. For generations
we have been passing down our passion for the cultivation of our precious earth
and obtaining the products that our Sardinian soil offers.
We cultivate simple
products using traditional and biological methods, tending towards quality over
quantity. We grow pulses, cereals and grains, but the real treasure is our
saffron, a product typical of the region. Our saffron is branded Biological,
D.O.P “Saffron of Sardinia,” and is officiated by the Slow Food movement, which
are important testaments to its authenticity, origin and quality.
We leave the saffron in its natural form, as stigmas,
which are the three red strands found at the centre of the flower. This
demonstrates the purity of our saffron, something which cannot be discerned if
it is reduced to a powder, as it often is, and mixed with substances of less
value. For this reason our saffron has a very high potency: you need just 1
gram to flavour 5kg of rice!
The saffron flowers in November. Each morning we collect
the flowers by hand, and in the evenings we carefully remove the stigmas from
the flowers to be dried. Obtaining the final product requires a lot of work,
and for this reason it is often given the name “red gold.”
Therapeutic properties: it is a powerful antioxidant,
warding off the sings of ageing, it stimulates the metabolism, aids digestion
and reduces the absorption of cholesterol and triglycerides in food.
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