This year’s Festival di Sanremo’s winner is songwriter Diodato, with his Fai Rumore, a song dedicated to a couple’s communication problems. Contrarily to last year’s winning song, Mahmood’s rap tune Soldi, Fai Rumore fits well into the more traditional verse-chorus-verse, love-centered trend typical of the Festival di Sanremo. Antonio Diodato […]
Author: Francesca Bezzone
Italian hand gestures: let’s have a little chat
Italian hand gestures are something that puzzles our country’s visitors. Thankfully, the New York Times put together this quirky video about Italy’s “parla con le mani” tradition. If you want to know more about Italian hand gestures, check out our article about how all Italians speak with their hands!
Kobe Bryant and Italy: a story to remember him by
Kobe Bryant and Italy: it was in Italy where he discovered basketball and it was here he wore his first team’s jersey
Italian origins of Buffalo wings and pretzels
Did you know an Italian hand is behind the invention of Buffalo wings?
Pasta doesn’t make you fat: finally food lovers can rejoice
Finally science supports Italians: pasta doesn’t make you fat, guys! Thing is, who doesn’t love pasta. Pasta is the ultimate comfort food, the thing we Italians go to when we are in a mood and nothing can console us: spaghettini and tomato sauce, topped with loads of parmesan. It’s really […]
Radicchio, a favorite of the Fall
Interesting information about radicchio and its characteristics, origins, how to use it in the kitchen, both to cook and as a health boosting ingredient.
The Triora Witch Trials: the Italian Salem
Italy, 1898. Three hundred years after the Triora witch trials, the witches’ screams echoed once again in the quiet, crystal-clear air of the Ligurian mountains. The Triora witch trials: one hundred years before Salem (Roland Scheerer/flickr) Someone summoned them. Someone rose them from their sleep of shame and pain, calling them […]
20 Fun Facts about Pizza
Are you looking for interesting facts about pizza in Italy? Because there’s always something new to learn about what you love! And pizza, oh the pizza is something we really love! So, what facts about pizza do you already know? Let’s see if we can add some more information to […]
The legendary Italian love stories
Italy’s nickname could be “the land of love stories.” In fact, the cultural heritage is dotted with famous, adorable couples. It’s the country of Venice and Rome, romantic cities for excellence. And the land of writers and their excruciating Italian love stories. Paolo e Francesca, the real Romeo and Juliet […]
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.