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by Jessica Andrews Inside Italy's borders are two independent states. One of them, you're sure to know: Vatican City is the smallest internationally-recognized state in the world, measured by both area and population. The other, though, is perhaps less known, even though tourism has become its major industry.   The Republic of San Marino si...

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by Silvia Donati The star of Italian Carnival celebrations! The first official record declaring Carnival a public celebration in Venice dates to 1296, when the Senate of La Serenissima made the day before Lent a holiday of fun and merrymaking.   In this respect, masks have always been a central component of the Venetian carnival, used to te...

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Amarena Fabbri, the maker of a trademark wild cherry product that is one of the best known brands in Italian cuisine, is having its 100th birthday. In 1905, a young Gennaro Fabbri bought a grocery store with adjoining fermentation cellar and transformed it into the "Premiata Distilleria G. Fabbri." The first Fabbri-branded products consisted of a...

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Orange County is ready for a tribute to Carnevale, the most famous Venetian Festival, celebrated in Italy every year since antiquity.   The event is a partnership between the Orange County Medical Association, a non-profit voluntary physician member organization designed to promote "the art and science of medicine, the protection of public h...

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Come eravamo noi italiani quando "Lamerica" si scriveva senza apostrofi e il miraggio di una vita dignitosa si concretizzava al di là dell'Atlantico. Milioni di persone, di molte regioni italiane, scelsero il Nuovo Mondo per un progetto di vita, per vivere meglio, per costruire un futuro.   Oltre 500 fotografie inedite da cui riemergono rico...

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Chissà cosa avrebbero detto i fondatori della CPL Concordia, cooperativa storica della provincia di Modena, se nel 1899 avessero loro detto che 114 anni dopo la società avrebbe fatto la manutenzione del più famoso dei grattacieli di New York, l'Empire State Building. A un anno dal terremoto che sconquassò l'Emilia, la coop ha annunciato la costituz...

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di Antonella Finucci   Se volete vivere un sogno dentro atmosfere da favola, se volete perdervi in mezzo alle viuzze di pittoreschi borghi medievali o, ancora, se volete sentirvi re e regine per un giorno, seguiteci: abbiamo selezionato per voi i 20 castelli più belli d'Italia.   Arroccate su maestose montagne, immerse in scenari natu...

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Bologna isn't a common feature on most tourists' Italian itineraries and for that reason, it is a city that has long been one of the best-kept secrets of northern Italy. When I was planning a little Italian getaway last month because I won a trip to Florence, I was keen to extend my stay an extra couple of days and see another nearby city because,...

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by Laura Cavestri Parmesan cheese and start ups were the pillars of Emilia-Romagna region President, Stefano Bonaccini's economic mission to California earlier in November.    With the area's excellent portfolio of "made in" regional producers in mind (Barilla, Granarolo, Casale Spa, Conbio, Horta, Arete as well as various associations...

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Today I am honored to welcome to San Francisco the President of Emilia Romagna Stefano Bonaccini who is arriving with a large business delegation that has a strong focus on agro-tech as well as other industries. Over the course of the delegation's visit for the next ten days, ten Emilia-Romagna start-ups, of which five belonging to the food sector,...

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