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A history of family business spanning over a century: who are the masters of wood, the excellence of Made in Italy

Article taken from the December 2022 issue of Forbes Italia. Subscribe! An entrepreneurial reality capable of representing a beacon in the resolution of the great challenges of the contemporary world. This is the feeling you get when conversing with Andrea Margaritellibrand manager and fourth generation of the founding family of Listone Giordano, excellence of Made … Read more

Rome, the sustainable cedar wood nativity scene arrives in St. Peter’s Square from 3 December

by Virgil Kish

From 3 December, the Nativity scene of Sutrio will decorate the heart of Piazza San Pietro in Rome with its 50 cedar wood statuettes. The Vatican’s 2022 Christmas nativity scene will be the one from Friuli Venezia Giuliamore precisely from Sutrio in Carnia (Ud). Created by a team of eleven artists, the nativity scene entirely … Read more

The chapel in the wood of San Francesco | Adriaeco

by Michael Miller

The project of a new place of prayer and recollection in the forest of the Sanctuary of La Verna for the 800th anniversary of the Stigmata of the Saint of Assisi. The workshop-competition of ideas for young designers under 40 is underway In 1224, on a rocky outcrop near where the Sanctuary of La Verna … Read more

A new chapel will be built in the Casentinesi Forests for the wood of San Francesco

by Michael Miller

Home » Territories » Tuscany » A new chapel will be built in the Casentinesi Forests for the wood of San Francesco BOLOGNA – In 1224, on a rocky outcrop near where the Sanctuary of La Verna stands today, in the Arezzo area, St. Francis of Assisi received the stigmata, the five wounds of Jesus … Read more

Madonna del Monte: the Municipality wants to redevelop the wood, but the access is owned by the friars

by Michael Miller

The farewell of the Franciscan friars to the convent of Nostra Signora del Monte, after 578 years, struck the Genoese community, which has been linked for centuries to the imposing structure on the heights of San Fruttuoso. It was the friars themselves who made the announcement, at the basis of the decision organizational problems, linked … Read more

Feast of “adoptions in the chestnut wood” at the Abbey of Marola

by Saturnina Kaiser

“Let us ask the Lord for thoughts of peace and pray so that we do not disperse strong symbols present in our homes, schools and in the work and living environments”. These are some of the words spoken by Don Riccardo Camellini at the celebration of Holy Mass in the Abbey of Marola which, after … Read more

Tom Wood in Mougins, portrait of an eternal Saturday on Earth

by Steven Felton

If Ray Davies, leader of the Kinks, is undoubtedly the most witty and insightful chronicler of British society in the sixties, Tom Wood, whom we fully discover thanks to the exhibition dedicated to him by the Center de la Photographie de Mougins, today appears as the most brilliant portrait painter of Merseyside of the 80s … Read more