La Darbia Blog
Unforeseen places, which are most unlikely to be found in tourist guides. Follow our posts and you will discover places, people, products and everything that makes our region unique.
AUTHOR'S WALLS
Fr, 10 May 2019
Street art characterizes some small villages around Lake Orta, communities with walls painted with frescoes of great emotional impact. In the beginning it was Legro, a pretty fraction of Orta, which gave over its walls to artistic decoration. And after twenty years, the frescoes on the facades of t..
AN EXTRA-REAL EXPERIENCE
Tu, 30 April 2019
One of the most beautiful Savoy residences, the palace of Venaria, awaits us just outside Turin. Imagine a sumptuous eighteenth-century gown. And a wig full of curls, of course. Imagine a crowd of liveried valets. Imagine also the baroque music that welcomes you in the great ballroom... It is easy..
THE GARDEN OF LA DARBIA, A WONDER FOR THE SENSES
We, 10 April 2019
An ancient proverb says "show me your garden and I will tell you who you are". And we at La Darbia, we took these words to the letter, creating a garden that cannot be more genuine. When I meet Giuliano in the garden in the morning, intent on treating tomatoes, planting basil or pulling weeds, my d..
AT THE SACRED MOUNT OF VARALLO, THE SUN IS BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
We, 27 March 2019
A mountain consecrated by religious devotion and an artistic heritage of inestimable value: here we are in Varallo, the "new Jerusalem". A beautiful sunny day. That is all you need to visit the Sacro Monte di Varallo. Nothing else ... You really don't require anything else!Simply the correct light ..
THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD
Th, 7 March 2019
