Museo Del Fiore
The Museo del Fiore is a small naturalistic, multimedial and interactive museum, located in Italy, in the woods of the Monte Rufeno natural reserve which is 10 km from Acquapendente (Viterbo) and 2 km from the characteristic medieval city of Torre Alfina. It is inside an old rural building, "Casale Giardino". With more than 1,000 species of known plants in its territories and rare animals, the Monte Rufeno natural reserve, at the border with Umbria and Tuscany, is an area with a large variety of plants and wildlife. The museum was created thanks to the many blooms of the reserve and the deep link that flowers and plants have within the local culture, which is expressed with the Pugnaloni of Acquapendente (a big mosaic composed with petals and leaves inspired by the dream of freedom from the oppression, made in honor of Our Lady of the Flower, which is celebrated every year on the third Sunday of May). Aims The museum aims to raise awareness of the environmental herita ...
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Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena. The word ''nature'' is borrowed from the Old French ''nature'' and is derived from the Latin word ''natura'', or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". In ancient philosophy, ''natura'' is mostly used as the Latin translation of the Greek word ''physis'' (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics of plants, animals, and other features of the world to develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word � ...
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