Dry stone walls listed in the world heritage by UNESCO: an example in Badolato, Southern Italy
By Sonia Simpatico – JUMP team By putting a stone next to another stone, which will be put next to another one and so…
Needlepoint and embroidery: ancient traditions in Satriano, Southern Italy
By Sonia Simpatico – JUMP team In Satriano many women used to needlepoint and embroidery, technique which they learned by the nuns of the…
The art of Mimmo Rotella, calabrian artist destroyer of posters
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team The native land is the soil from which people draw the necessary elements for their growth and development.…
An ancient Arabian irrigation system in Badolato, Southern Italy
By Sonia Simpatico JUMP Team Today I will present you how an ancient watering technic, which is still used in a marvelous garden in…
Old sounds from Southern Italy: Calabrian folk music
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team “Listen to a Calabrian peasant singing as he follows his oxen along the furrow,or as he shakes the…
Turning a flower into a very special, historical and ecological souvenir from Badolato, Southern Italy
By Sonia Simpatico JUMP team The shrub Ballota acetabulosa belongs to the Lamiaceae (Labiate) family, to whom other Mediterranean aromatic plants like oregano, marjoram,…
Origins of Guardavalle: the twelve towers village
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team By the 6th century B.C. in the south of Italy the Byzantines had come into power. Under their rule, Calabria…
“Calanchi” landforms -Guardavalle, Calabria, Italy
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team We are along the side of the road that leads us to Guardavalle where a scenic landscape all…
Memoirs of 19th century Calabria
By Francesca Politi – JUMP team The desire to learn through exploration is not a new phenomenon, it also provides a link to the…
Piazza Castello, Badolato, Southern Italy: from a threatening castle to an enjoyable open air living room
By SONIA SIMPATICO, JUMP Team – Italy Where today there is Piazza Castello (Castle Square), in early days you could find a fortress to…