Italy with 27 medals: Barlaam, Trimi and relay, three gold medals!
With the silver medal in the women's foil team, Italy's Paralympic medals in Tokyo rise to 27: Simone Barlaam's gold in the 50 sl (cat. S9), Arjola Trimi's gold in the 50 backstroke (cat. S3) and the women's 4x100 sl relay team finished second behind the United States: Xenia Palazzo, Vittoria Bianco, Giulia Terzi and Alessia Scortechini were promot...
Why Menfi, Sicily, Belongs on Your Wine Travel List
I’m sitting in one of the two tasting rooms of Mandrarossa’s cavernous new winery in Menfi, a comune in southwest Sicily. From the window, ocher-hued soil lined with verdant vines stretches to the azure sea, which glistens its way out to the horizon to meet a cloudless, even bluer sky. I’m sipping the Santannella wine, a blend comprising 70% Fiano...
How Italy’s Torre Lupara Makes 11,000 Pounds of Buffalo Mozzarella a Day
Torre Lupara dairy farm in Campania, Italy, is one of the largest producers of buffalo mozzarella in the world. The skills needed to gather the milk, work the factory’s machines, and deploy multiple generations’s worth of hands-on knowledge, have been passed down through the Iemma family, who continually place emphasis on how this particular cheese...
The most beautiful villages in the hinterland near the Riviera Romagnola
Venture back from the Riviera romagnola, and you will discover gentle hilly landscapes and charming old towns where time seems to stand still. Among them is the imposing and majestic San Leo. Situated 35 kilometres far from Rimini, this fairy-tale village stands on a rocky cliff overlooking the surrounding valley. Reaching San Leo by car, you will...
Museo del Burattino in Bergamo
BENEDETTO GERVASIO (1915-1990) WAS ARGUABLY the most famous and best puppet-master of the province of Bergamo. In the late 1940s, he and his wife, Giuseppina Cazzaniga, decided to commit themselves to the art of puppeteering, which occupied them until his death. In 1993, the Benedetto Gervasio Foundation was set up, and Museo del Burattino was even...
Lamborghini Is Still Committed To The V12 Engine
The V12 engine has traditionally been the reserve of Italian supercars, and especially those who wear the mark of the raging bull, and it's Lamborghini who is fighting for its very survival it would seem. As the automotive world head towards an all-electric future, some brands are still clinging to the internal combustion engine, and as we've seen...
Italy’s Egadi Islands Are an Oasis of Wild Italian Living
Just off the western point of Sicily, the Italian island fantasy embodied by the likes of Capri and Panarea becomes raw and wild amid spawning bluefins and North African winds. The Egadi archipelago, composed of three main islands named Favignana (the largest), Levanzo, and Marettimo, is a feral landscape of phantasmagoric rock set within Europe's...
What to see in Siena, a city of medieval beauty
City of art, good food, and home of the famous Palio, many are the faces of Siena,one the most fascinating cities in Italy and the best preserved historical city of Tuscany. Italian Traditions takes you to see this medieval beauty and suggests what to see in Siena, for a trip you will never forget! Nestled among the Tuscan hills, it still maintains...
What to do in Piedmont: 10 unmissable places
Chianale is a small slate-house village immersed in the Provençal culture and placed in an ancient forest mentioned by Virgil in the Aeneid. It is an enchanting place crossed by the Chemin Royal, the old salt road travelled by traders to reach France. Chianale is also included in the Borghi più belli d’Italia (most beautiful villages in Italy). The...
Italy’s New National Airline Reveals US Route Plans
After years of bankruptcy, the Italian government is finally replacing Alitalia with a new national airline, Italia Trasporto Aereo (ITA). It remains to be seen how different the new airline will be from Alitalia, given that ITA intends to purchase some of Alitalia’s assets, potentially including the branding and planes. As of now the plan is for I...
Bebe Vio makes history with second Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair fencing
Bebe Vio is still golden. At the end of an extraordinary day and a dominated final - even on 7-4 she had to replace the prosthesis of her left arm - the Italian flag bearer beat 15-9 the Chinese Zhou Jingjing, defeated 5 years ago in the final at Rio 2016. Bebe was untouchable: six successes out of six in the rounds, then the assaults without histo...
Wonders of Italy: Riomaggiore (Cinque Terre)
As the first seaside village you encounter coming from the Ligurian town of La Spezia, Riomaggiore is the eastern gateway to the world-famous, Unesco-inscribed Cinque Terre. Founded in the 8th century by a group of Greek refugees according to legend, Riomaggiore extends from the coast of the Ligurian Sea to the Apennine mountains just behind, along...