CHILDREN

Experiencing a garden with your children

All you need is a balcony, some soil and water, and a few seeds or seedlings: it is all child-sized, for it to look after and to learn to be patient, to wait and to care

WALKING PATH

Leonardo and the journey: from Malpensa to Rome on foot

Leaving the airport and start walking immediately. From Malpensa you can, and a group of people have already experienced this, thanks to one of the initiatives proposed by the Cammino di Sant'Agostino Association

BOOKS

The first time for Valcuvia’s primrose in an atlas

"Flora tra il Lago Maggiore e il Lago di Como" (Flora between Lake Maggiore and Lake Como) by Michael Kleih from Ticino, published by Nomos Edizioni, catalogues 1,300 wild species that can be traced back to an area that goes from the Po Valley to the Pre-Alps

CHILDREN

It is adults that eat more packaged snacks than children

Despite the example of adults, children are consuming fewer and fewer packaged snacks, which come 5th after fruit, yogurt, savoury snacks and sandwiches in terms of popularity

CHILDREN

Slow parenting, with little dangers and good examples

Slow parenting is a philosophy of parenting based on awareness and on respecting learning times and times for building the parent-child relationship

ITINERARY

The Via dei Sacri Monti between Piedmont and Lombardy

Over the past decade, the nine sacred ways were recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In Lombardy, the Sacred Mountains are two, one in Varese and the other in Ossuccio while the remaining seven are on the Piedmontese territory

SOLBIATE ARNO

In Solbiate Arno the inauguration of the “Area Sport”: a party for all

The new “Area Sport” in via Aldo Moro was inaugurated on Sunday, May 5. It is a modern facility, equipped for different sports and open to everyone

CHILDREN

No tablets or smartphones for children under 2: this is the recommendation of the WHO

The new guidelines from the World Health Organisation for children also recommend sleep and physical exercise; it is forbidden to stay sitting for more than an hour

SACRO MONTE VARESE

Sogno d’Estate is returning to Location Camponovo

There will be four months of exhibitions by the Association of Free Artists of Varese Province

THE PATHS IN THE PROVINCE

Walking from Malnate to Mendrisio

Seventeen kilometres surrounded by nature, more than half of which is in the park of the Lanza Valley. Even across the border, there are safe paths and roads to the station of Mendrisio

ITINERARY

Orta, the charm of past times: art, history and culture

As one of the prettiest villages in Italy, Orta has received the Italian Touring Club’s Bandiera Arancione (Orange Flag) as a mark of excellence. It has inspired writers and film directors, and is the ideal destination for a day trip in search of typical and characteristic lake surroundings

TORBA

The three lives of Torba Monastery

On Saturday, in the evening edition of the TG1, a long broadcast about the monastery of Torba was transmitted. The journalist Caterina Proietti interviewed Elena Castiglioni who told the story of the UNESCO Heritage site