Fun and curious fats about Italy. Pizza will unite the world: “Pizza is one of the very few words which is understood all over the world” 🙂
Year: 2020
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso is the story of a young boy that after WWII grows a love for movies and helps the local projectionist in his cinema.
Italian Cinema
The essential A-Z of Italian Cinema Anita Ekberg in the most iconic scene of La Dolce Vita (Giac83/wikimedia) Antonioni to Zavattini: Antonioni, Michelangelo: Antonioni was born in Ferrara in 1912, and became a fashionable director in the 60s. He is also celebrated as an author, a screenwriter and painter and […]
Janus: pagan symbol of January
Pagan symbols is everywhere and is easily found by researching the history of our modern customs and practices. Some of the days of the week and even some months of the year are named after Pagan gods. This week we are going to take a look at the month of January […]
Get Money to Move to Locana
The Alpine village where you get money to move. Locana: a small comune in the region of Piedmont is the last in a relatively long series of Italian villages and towns offering money to people for settling in. In other words, it’s town paying you to move there.
Skiing holidays in Livigno
Livigno slopes climb to almost 9000 ft, which means they usually have plenty of natural snow and is a great place for skiing.
Venetian Seafood
See Seafood Recipes Nothing defines Venice’s cuisine like its seafood. No meal is complete without some sea creatures as the fruitful harvest from the surrounding lagoon and the nearby sea washes onto the plate. If you’re looking to learn more about food in Venice, here’s our overview on the seafood […]
Vespa
Viva La Vespa! Still The Besta! Whenever I see one of those classic putt-putts of yesteryear zooming down a busy street, I cannot help but reminisce about the two beautiful years I spent in Perugia, half a lifetime ago. Within the trail of their vapor lie a myriad of sweet […]
Italian Americans during World War Two
Italian Americans during World War Two: millions of Italian Americans were affected by the implementation of Executive Order 9066
Risky Italian Breakfasts
Italians’s breakfast habits A typical Italian breakfast: cappuccino e brioche, eaten at a café on the way to work. Lovely, but is it healthy? (Colti Sbagli/flickr) Italians have had bad breakfast habits for quite a long time, but fortunately our way of dealing with “prima colazione” has been changing. […]