How Locals Spend Easter in Southern Tuscany
Even if you’re not religious, Easter in Italy’s smallest towns is a chance to see century-old traditions that continue to bring together their communities like no other time of year. On Santo Sabato (the Saturday before Easter), Gabriella Serafinelli, 63, lines a wicker basket with a clean white tea towel. A former baker, she has lived her entire...
Più made in Italy su Amazon con 12mila Pmi in vetrina
Dal parmigiano reggiano alle camicie su misura fino all’artigianato innovativo che crea tavolini, cinture, portachiavi riciclando materiale di scarto o realizza orologi da parete trasformando i vecchi 33 giri in vinile. C’è anche il meglio del made in Italy e dell’innovazione artigianale nel sempre più nutrito drappello di micro, piccole e medie az...
Alex Chinneck 'unzips' a building's traditional façade for Milan Design Week
British sculptor alex chinneck, known for inverting electricity pylons and tying grandfather clocks in knots, has ‘unzipped’ the façade of a building in milan as part of the city’s design week festivities. to create the dramatic effect, chinneck created a totally new elevation in the style of traditional milanese architecture, which appears to open...
L'America nel bicchiere
L’AMERICA terra promessa del vino italiano, il mercato più importante per il nostro export, con un valore di 1,7 miliardi di dollari. Ma quali sono i vini più amati dagli americani? Ce lo dice un sondaggio di Wine Spectator, la bibbia dei wine-lovers americani, presentato ad Opera Wine 2019. Il vino preferito dai lettori della rivista americana è i...
My Personal Journey in Campania’s Resurrection
For the last two columns I have been focusing on a subject dear to my heart, dear to my heritage and dear to my wallet: the wines of Campania. This wine region in Southern Italy, southeast of Naples, has been cultivated for millennia for its indigenous grapes. These wines, planted by ancient Greeks and Romans, flourished for centuries, but were nea...
12 incredibly awesome things to do in Bologna, Italy
“Bologna is a city you come to be a local, not a tourist,“ This was the advice given to us - by a Bologna local, no less - before our trip to Italy’s famed red city (after our hike through the incredible Emilia Romagna region), and our curiosity had instantly been piqued. In a time when many Italy’s most popular destinations are calling for help as...
College Life Italia, calciatori del Belpaese negli USA. A maggio le selezioni a Bari
AIC e il Sogno di Giocare a Calcio negli Usa L'Associazioni Calciatori promuove lo Studio e Sport negli USA Il 13 maggio a Bari, presso il campo comunale San Pio, si terrà un nuovo appuntamento con le selezioni calcio targate AIC e College Life Italia per dare la possibilità a giovani talenti di studiare e giocare a calcio negli Stati Uniti. L'Asso...
The Trulli of Puglia Part II
At one time, Puglia was full of trees. Of course, it still is full of trees – Olive trees that is – but, years ago, there would have been forests of Pine, Yew, Beech and others. Today, Puglia is a land of plains and huge cultivated areas of vineyards, olive trees and citrus groves. The forests of old have largely disappeared, cut down many centurie...
Gravina in Puglia, a nexus of antiquity, superstition and hopeful innovation
Deep-rooted cultural and religious rituals are resplendent in Gravina in Puglia, an ancient town sitting timelessly beside one of the many karst ravines scoring the landscape on Puglia’s border with Basilicata. Alta Murgia national park, a protected plateau, is nearby. In the rural yet art-filled town, the beauty is in the details “starting from t...
Ambassador Eisenberg: “Puglia and Matera Enchant Me”
During a two-day-trip to the southern regions of Puglia and Basilicata, Ambassador Eisenberg had the opportunity to visit the Leonardo factory in Grottaglie, where parts of the Boeing 787 fuselage are assembled, as well as the city of Matera, which was awarded the coveted title of 2019 European Capital of Culture. In Grottaglie, after touring the p...
Technology and Innovation Pave the Way at Castello Banfi
The Pursuit of Excellence at Castello Banfi inspired research to produce wines more naturally. Several of Europe’s foremost enologists joined the president of The World and The Italian Enological Societies at Castello Banfi to pioneer technology to reduce sulfites, eliminate histamines and errant enzymes, perfect vineyard improvements, develop nitr...
All roads lead to Rome
Have you ever heard the saying “all roads lead to Rome”? This phrase refers to the road system of the Roman Empire in which Rome was positioned in the center with every road departing from it. In all, the Romans built 50,000 miles of hard-surfaced highway that spanned three continents. The first of the great Roman roads, the Via Appia (Appian Way),...