VIVI Podcast: Stories of here and beyond

Parco Sempione (Simplon Park) is located in Milan, Italy. Here stood, in ancient times, a graveyard. Legend says a mysterious lady dressed in black wanders around the park at night, taking few chosen ones to a hidden place where passion and death intertwine. Truth or legend? This is the story of the ghosts that, for centuries, have been haunting the park in the heart of Milan.

From our homes to yours, we wish you a Happy Easter. We chose two words to guide you in these weird festive days...

His name was Athenodorus. Profession: philosopher. And with “philosophy” he was able to overcome the difficult situation he found himself in. An old building and the ghost that inhabited it. This is the documented story, in a letter by Pliny the Younger (1st century A.D.), of the first haunted house and of the first ghost in History.

1933. An unidentified flying object crashes in the woods above a little village in the North of Italy. Aircraft they say. But maybe not from Earth. The event involved the fascist government that at the time ruled over Italy and the scientist and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi. A gloomy story that makes the little village the theater of unclear events and well-kept secrets and that can be considered the first UFO sighting in Europe.

A beautiful villa on the lake. Two lovers that still look for each other, after more than a century...even though death put them asunder. Condemned to never meet again. An intense and heartbreaking love story, with no happy ending.

It’s the beginning of 1500 when in Venegono Superiore, a small village in the North of Italy, seven women are accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death by burning: In the castle that still overlooks the town they were jailed, tortured and subjected to trial. The Holy Inquisition established by Pope Paul III to combat the Reformation didn’t exist yet, but in this part of Seprio, historical Region of Lombardy, witch hunt had already begun. A disturbing and sad story in which too often shadows take over lights

To you, who open the doors to the incoming year... You should know you're not alone. Mystery and the Invisible of a world that cannot be seen but exists, dance around you. A world with no established bounds. For 2020 we wish you to discover, with the force of your imagination, this magic universe that is suspended midway between earth and sky. We will join you, overcoming the linguistic border that separates us but unite us all at the same time. Let's enjoy a fantastic New Year.