Diego Armando Maradona (Photo from veronello.com) The decade of the 1980s began with two major shifts in Italian football: the opening up of the game to foreign players and a gambling scandal that rocked the nation. Serie A was embroiled in turmoil when many major players and teams were involved in […]
Check out the second part of the History of Italian Soccer. Scudetto Edoardo Bosio was a textile trader born in Turin in 1864. After receiving a diploma in accounting, Bosio went to work for a British company in the textile trade. While living in England the Italian was exposed […]
Food and wine are among Italy’s most relevant sources of income. Internationally renowned, the excellence attached to the “made in Italy” tag is immense; just as big, it goes without saying, is the quality of true “made in Italy” products. We’ve learnt how to decipher Italian wine labels and recognise Italian food […]
Italy is a nation that lives and breathes soccer (football), appropriately, it also holds the second spot for most World Cups won (the second spot is shared with Germany, as of 2017). Ever. The World Cup, of course, is the single, most important sporting event on the planet, held every four years […]
From Golden Ball to Pasadena’s Penalty – a career filled with goals, passion and class Roberto Baggio, fifty years with a past full of great moves. Able to heat up spectators with his class like no one else in the history of Italian soccer – there’s only one Roberto Baggio, he […]
Catanzaro is the capital of the Calabria region in Italy. It’s also known as the “city of two seas”. Catanzaro is an urban region that remains immensely active and is an important tourism center in Italy. It stretches to a height of 600 meters from the sea and the coastal […]
Map of Aeolian Islands Among the Aeolian Islands, Stromboli is the smallest of islands located across the Tyrrhenian Sea, just to the north of Sicily. In fact, Stromboli is an active volcano in a continuous state of activity known for its violent eruptions. The volcanic island is about 900 metres in height, […]
NBA Logo While many might not know it, basketball and the NBA are a big presence in Italian culture. After soccer, basketball is the most watched and covered team sport in Italy, and Italian players like Gallinari, Bargnani and Belinelli (of the New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors and New Orleans […]
Visit Romantic Italy for Weddings and Honeymoons Newly weds in Venice Ph. depositphoto.com/lucianmilasan Italy is becoming more and more popular as wedding destination. In 2015, 7,000 foreign couples picked an Italian destination for their wedding, spending on average 54,000 euro. As more couples seek interesting locations for their weddings, […]
During a date it is sometimes difficult to start a conversation, as it may require more confidence than usual: if you are out on the town together, it means you probably like each other already, but a good chat may help to get to know each other better. Generally […]
