Art Train to Cross Italy

A special train is to bring some of Italy’s greatest modern painters to the country’s main cities next month.
The ‘Art Train-Museum For A Day’ will visit 28 Italian cities from Turin to Palermo and back north to Milan.
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Riva

You can move about the lake very easily by boat and one of the other towns is Riva. It is the most northern around the lake and is also the 2nd largest. It has long beaches and in fact has the longest in the lake. Architecture wise it has a number medieval towers. It also has a number of churches and palazzi from the Renaisance period.


Riva's Garda fortress was constructed in 1124 and was originally used for defensive purposes. It is now used for the town's museum. The Museum contains a variety of stuff including archaeological, local history, nature, and local artist Guiseeppe Craffonara. He is a well known Artist from the early 19th century.

Limone

Limone is the name of the place where we will be based when we are in Lake Garda, Italy. In Italian it translates to be lemon which probably give you a bit of an idea about the place. Bot others say that the town name is taken from a latin word being border. So hence the town hides itself around the cliff with citrus trees on the terraces. It looks on to the lake Garda with stunning views. Just outside is the mountain region which you will see olive grooves. It is here that the extra virgin olive oil is made.
Beside there being the agriculture, the town used to be a fishing village before its transformation into a tourist resort. If you go to Limone you will see many old fisherman cottages about.
Looking at the architecture of the town you will see that the first church built in Limone was a Romanic church. The town is also the birthplace of the Roman Catholic Missionary Daniele Comboni. He had real passion for the Africa and really tried to involve the whole catholic church in his missionaries pursuit.

Rain in Venice

The last time we visited Venice it was raining and had to shelter in St Marks Square!!! The rain this time might be a bit more than our visit to Venice. Lets hope that the weather is nicer when we are in Italy.

Venice on Monday braced for its first high water of the season with high tide expected to be between 90cm to 95cm above normal.

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World Pizza Day

Naples, the city that invented pizza, has lined up the first edition of ‘World Pizza Day’.
Pizza-makers and lovers from all over the world, including Neapolitans who have rolled dough into big money in the United States, Australia and Japan, will attend the inaugural event on the opening day of the city’s famous Pizzafest on Thursday.

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