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On 9 April 2025, as part of our 'garden project', nature lovers had the opportunity to stroll through the grounds of La Foce, thanks to a special tour with estate manager and co-owner Katia Lysy, whose new book, La Foce: Paradise in Tuscany , recounts the 'garden within a garden' that her grandparents Antonio and Iris Origo built, whilst working to reclaim large swathes of the Val d'Orcia, for agriculture. Iris Origo, well-known for books like Images and Shadows or War in Va

Here’s a glimpse of Il Palmerino, thanks to shared photos by Sara Papini. On a stormy day in mid-March, a brave group of ‘garden project’ aficionados enjoyed of visit of the home and garden of English author Vernon Lee and English painter and poet Lola Costa. These two women whose cultural contributions to early-twentieth-century Florence remain little known but hugely significant today. Il Palmerino, a cultural centre, family home and working farm is a garden oasis for moder

140 works at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes make up the venue’s newest exhibition: ‘Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour’, which...

Are you curious to see five samples representative of the wonderful outcomes of our project ’5,000 Negatives’? The project, designed to...

June 26, 2024 saw the opening of the exhibition ‘Return Home: Lola Costa at Il Palmerino’. “Lola Costa’s art does not protest the status...

Presenter Linda Falcone interviews National Central Library conservator Alessandro Sidoti and Natacha Fabbri, scientific curator from...