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Keeping on a track made of ghostly figures and chilling places, we present you a series of articles on Italian Ghost Towns, another interesting addition to our spooky collection of articles for the month of November! Read on! Poggioreale, destroyed by an earthquake (by lachris77 at depositphotos.com) Roofless buildings, […]
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 […]
When the moon hits your eyes like a big pizza pie, that’s…………..? You most probably know thats’ Amore. Italian has two basic ways to show love : One is “Ti voglio bene” – I care for you, mostly used for family members like brother sister. The other is “Ti amo“, I […]
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 […]