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La Mortella Gardens, Wolfgang Wagner and Lady Walton – very different keepers of the flame
Thursday, 25 Mar, 2010 – 8:30 | One Comment
La Mortella Gardens, Wolfgang Wagner and Lady Walton – very different keepers of the flame

Wolfgang Wagner and Lady Walton, who have both died, nurtured the memory of composers Richard Wagner and William Walton respectively, but in distinctive ways
By Rupert Christiansen
With the deaths announced yesterday of Wolfgang Wagner, at the …

Postcard from Forio – Ischia
Friday, 26 Jun, 2009 – 19:11 | No Comment
Postcard from Forio – Ischia
Ischia Restaurants Pizzerie and Pub
Friday, 8 Feb, 2008 – 16:02 | No Comment
Ischia Restaurants Pizzerie and Pub

Many local recipes use rabbit which live in the wild in the local woods (also full of mushrooms, berries and strawberry trees), but that have also been bred for centuries in pits dug out in …

La Mortella Garden Ischia
Friday, 5 Oct, 2007 – 12:38 | One Comment
La Mortella Garden Ischia

The garden was made by the English composer, William Walton and his Argentian wife. Walton loved the isolation and composed there for 35 years. His wife believed there was a connection between music and gardening. …

Church of saint maria del soccorso
Friday, 28 Sep, 2007 – 8:56 | No Comment
Church of saint maria del soccorso

The primitive church, built in 1704 for the institution of the archconfraternity, was subsequently widened and probably also modified in the orientation. The current church, of modest dimensions, is with a unique aisle, illuminated from …