Giulio Della Rocca taught mathematics in the United States for many years. Giulio currently lives between Santa Monica (Los Angeles) and Viterbo, a city between Northern Rome and Lower Tuscany. He is very attached to his land called Tuscia and invites Americans to visit it.
Come to Visit Tuscia!
Fairbanks Alaska
Creating Human Connections through a simple painting
Idea by Adela Jackson and Giulia Marchetti
Mixing up colors and hands, making the brushstrokes confused on the canvas in order to become a single author.
Forget Me Not, flower symbol of Alaska, and many other flower shapes free themselves to compose the picture. A dancing ray of sun on the upper-left draws the word joy to remind us to love life. A butterfly symbolized our lives.
If each of us is generous to others, inevitably this generosity will return back to us, like a boomerang we launch to the Universe.
Laughing is a beautiful universal language and it needs no translations. Laughing is a reciprocal exchange of joy, it is a blast of sudden happiness, it is a storm of emotions. Laughing is contagious! Laughing is emotional but also physical, cheers up our souls and speeds up our heartbeats Laughing is therapeutic, regenerative, saving. Laughing …
Sant’Angelo di Roccalvecce in the province of Viterbo, Italy, has become the Fairy Tale Village. Thanks to ACAS cultural association, the support of many local people, and talented street artists, this semi-abandoned village has gloriously been transformed into a wonderland.
The Etruscan builders around the 7th century BC carved this Pyramid from an enormous rock of peperino. It measures about 16 meters (53 feet) long, 7 meters (24 feet) at its widest point, and 9 meters (30 feet) tall. And with its 28 steps, two minor altars, and a main one on the rock summit, the Etruscan Pyramid is one of the wonders of the world, immersed in an archaic and enigmatic site, for someone even esoteric or spiritually magical.
The Walk on the Way of Saint Rosa’exile is a series of excursions organized every year from September to December by “Take Off Association” chaired by Silvio Cappelli. These excursions want to evoke the exile of Saint Rosa from Viterbo in the 13th century walking along the same path that the Saint followed during her exile from Viterbo to Soriano nel Cimino and Vitorchiano. This trail leads through marvelous hamlets, fields in bloom, secular woods, and hidden archeological sites, always accompanied by the professional guide of Anna Rita Properzi.
What Travel-loving Should Prioritize One day I was playing with my mind, letting my thoughts migrate towards philosophical considerations about life when I came across an amazing discovery. There is tough work in our life that almost all of us would be willing to do without getting paid. And I am not talking about volunteer …
I am standing in line outside Sweet Maple café in Chicago, waiting to enjoy a special brunch on a warm and sunny Sunday of August. I have come here often to this café and, considering the long line outside, I realize that I am not the only one so affectionate about this place. From time …
