There are two terms to know when it comes to Italian gardens: Pergola and Bosco. Pergolas, which date back to ancient Roman times, are tunnel-like structures often covered with vining plants, like ...

Picture every color of the rainbow, with herbs cavorting gayly with veggies, and edible flowers brightening the space, and you have an Italian garden. When starting a vegetable garden, an Italian ...

Joyce Mariani created "Opera in the Garden," a free outdoor concert that takes place each summer in Rockefeller Park's Italian Cultural Garden, to celebrate Italian immigrants' contributions to the ...

For the best part of a year, I worked as a gardener at a private estate in Val d'Orcia, a region of Tuscany that feels much like the land that time forgot. South of Siena, Val d'Orcia is a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The notion struck her as crazy initially. No one, thought Joyce Mariani, would be interested in live opera at the Italian Cultural Garden. How wrong she was. Not only did the event ...

It seems as if I have always known of the Villa d‘Este, the celebrated Renaissance villa and adjoining gardens northeast of Rome, but until this spring I really didn’t know much about it. I was dimly ...

Are you waiting for the day you can travel again and see new sights? Aren’t we all? In light of that, the members of the Marin Rose Society invite you to join them Tuesday, as Jerry Georgette takes ...

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.

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The Chianti Hills (also known as the Chianti Mountains) are a short mountain range (about 20 km) straddling the provinces of Florence, Siena and Arezzo that mark the eastern border of the Chianti ...

Planning a post-vaccination vacation this year? Chances are, you’ll be spending a lot of time outdoors. With destinations slowly opening up for tourism again, and travelers tentatively booking flights ...