The $100K Bucket List Luxury Como Travel Experience That Can Be Yours — When You Give Back
Italian football club Como 1907 has launched an innovative charity auction inclusive of a non-fungible token (NFT) for lifetime tickets to matches, a VIP stadium experience, and a once-in-a-lifetime Lake Como travel package. All proceeds from the auction will be donated to charity organization EMERGENCY, which offers free care to victims of war, la...
Formula E returns to streets of Rome in 2022
Formula E returns to Rome on 9-10 April, with 22 drivers battling it out in battery-powered cars on the streets of the city's southern EUR district. This will be the fourth time for Rome to welcome the world’s fastest electric cars, after the inaugural FIA Formula E World Championship was held in 2018. The 2022 edition will see a return of the publ...
Rome reopens underground Roman houses on Caelian Hill
The Case Romane del Celio is an underground archaeological site comprising 20 rooms on various levels under the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, dating from between the second and fourth century AD. Located near the Colosseum, the complex reopens to the public on Monday 4 April after being closed for more than two years due to covid restrictions. Ac...
The father of Italian automobiles and the birth of Fiat - New episode | Italian Innovators (Giovanni Battista Ceirano)
In the new episode of the show I tell you the story of Giovanni Battista Ceirano, the man behind the birth of Fiat and Italy’s automotive industry. It all started in his bicycle workshop at the time of Turin’s national exposition in 1898, when he assembled the “Welleyes” car, the first ever produced in Italy. It was in a nearby café that a group of...
Elena Ferrante Still Shocks Us by Giving Voice to the Unspoken
Reading Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter for the first time, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who would go on to adapt and direct it in a critically acclaimed, Oscar nominated film, said that Ferrante “was saying things out loud that I knew to be true, but I had never heard said out loud. And I found that both disturbing and comforting, and I thought, in...
ITA Airways launches nonstop route to New York
ITA Airways (AZ) keeps expanding its summer route network with the launch of a new connection from Milan Malpensa (MXP) to New York's JFK. Starting today and running on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, the MXP-JFK flight will depart Milan at 1:4o pm local time and arrive in New York at 5:00 pm local time. The return flight from...
History Of Pininfarina: The Italian Automotive Design Maestro
We believe that only very few gearheads haven't heard about Pininfarina yet. This Italian car design firm and coach builder has built a global reputation for itself across its 90 years of operation. Although primarily known for its collaboration with Ferrari, Pininfarina is famous for many other design achievements conducted with big names such as...
A local’s guide to Udine, Italy: modern art and film in an ancient former capital
Sabrina Baracetti, president of the Far East Film Festival, shares tips on the northeastern city’s unique cuisine and arts scenes, leafy piazzas and €1 aperitifs FoodWe are spoilt for eating out in Udine. Prices are reasonable, and Friulano cuisine is totally delicious. Don’t miss Al Vecchio Stallo, where I love the contrast of the two grizzled own...
Who was Francesca Caccini? The Italian Baroque composer and author of the oldest surviving opera by a woman
Francesca Caccini was born on 18 September 1587 into a highly musical family. Her father, Giulio Caccini was a famed Italian Baroque composer, and her sister, Settimia Caccini, was a well-known singer during the 1600s. A musical virtuoso, Francesca was a singer, lutenist, and talented composer. For years, she was the highest paid musician in the Me...
From Padua to Camposampiero, 3 places dedicated to Saint Anthony
Hundreds of thousands of people flock to the square in front of the renowned Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua every year. Pilgrims, worshippers, or simply tourists and busy Paduans walk through that square with one thing in common. If you observe them carefully, they are all looking upwards. Towards the domes and the Gothic lines of the Basilica,...
AMHS Member Willy Meaux Returns to His Roots in Abruzzo
AMHS member Willy Meaux recently took the plunge and bought a farmhouse and surrounding land in Abruzzo, in his ancestral hometown, Bugnara. It seems Willy and his wife Mary Bernard chose well, since a few years ago, the town was named one of the most beautiful in Italy (i borghi più belli d’Italia). In December 2019, just before the COVID pandemic...
Italy's Lavazza ranks one of the top-50 companies in the world for its reputation
In 2022, the Italian leading coffee company Lavazza ranked once again among the top-100 companies with the highest reputation in the world, according to the “2022 Global RepTrak” ranking released by The RepTrak Company, which is a company specializing in measuring corporate reputation in the eyes of public opinion. Lavazza consolidates its reputati...