If you have traveled to the Peninsula, you might have heard of the Etruscan art in Italy. Time to find out more about it. So, who are the Etruscans? Why is Etruscan art in Italy so important? Bits of history in 1929, D.H. Lawrence wrote the essay Etruscan Place. In […]
The island of Sicily has always been a different entity compared to the rest of Italy. It is geographically closer to Africa than to Europe, culturally influenced by thousands of years of conquerors and linguistically distinct due in part to its tumultuous history. Today Sicily has been incorporated into the […]
The Nobel Prize is universally considered the most prestigious – possibly because the best known – among all prizes. Born off the will of notable Swedish chemist and businessman Alfred Nobel (who, by the way, invented dynamite), the Nobel Prize is assigned each year to members of the science, art, […]
See also Part 1. Here come more exceptional museums nestled within the beauty of the land of art, Italy. The detail of the House of the Faun mosaic (in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples) depicting Alexander the Great (The Guardian DEA/G Nimatallah/De Agostini/Getty Images/wikimedia) La Pinacoteca di […]
My name is Francesca, I am Italian and I love my country, but I also happen to love the US a lot: while living and studying abroad (I did both my MA and PhD in Ireland), I befriended many Americans, who became fantastic friends, some of them so close I consider […]
Italians like keeping informed and follow the news religiously. Even if the ways of accessing information have changed, with the average Italian relying more and more on the internet rather than newspapers, something has kept the same: a morbid interest towards crime. A crime scene… Lego style (Clement127/flickr) […]
Every nation has their Old Wives’ Tales and Italy is no exception. I go to Southern Italy often on holiday to see my family and not one year goes by when I get yelled at for doing something that I shouldn’t be doing on a certain day. The main thing […]
With 119,804 inhabitants, Latina is one of the youngest cities in Italy, pretty much built from scratch in 1936 during the Fascist era. Differently from other towns, Latina doesn’t really have any ancient historical elements, and all the buildings seem to be square and to follow the classic/futuristic style that Mussolini […]
The Strada del Vino Terre di Arezzo traverses the Valdarno, an area characterized by wonderful gentle rolling hills, medieval villages, hamlets, villas, and castles. This extensive Chianti sub-zone covers some 675 hectares of vines and is home to 86 producers, over 15 communes. Here’s all you want to know about Arezzo […]
Alexander VI, the Borgia Pope Pope Francis has called a Jubilee for year 2016. In over seven hundred years of history, the Jubilee has changed drastically. The first ‘holy years’ were under two highly controversial popes known for their ‘lack of spirituality’: Boniface VIII, who proclaimed the first Jubilee […]