In 2019, the site Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano Valdobbiadene, located in north-eastern Italy, was inscribed on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List, becoming the 55th Italian site on the list. By virtue of the cohesiveness and the dedication of the different territorial actors, the aim was achieved after a nomination process that lasted ten ye...

West Putnam Avenue has long held a prominent position on the circuit of car collectors. That popularity has helped one of the world’s leading makers of ultra-luxury vehicles make a fast start during its first year of sales in Connecticut. Nearly a year after opening its showroom at 300 W. Putnam Ave., Lamborghini is seeing robust local demand for i...

The Italian touring exhibition, ‘Created in Italy – An Aptitude for the Impossible‘, will make its first overseas appearance at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, on 17 December 2021. The exhibition, which focuses on the landscape of Italian industry, features some of the most outstanding examples of new Italian industrial design and...

Ermenegildo Zegna is bringing a new luxury product to the New York Stock Exchange itself. And it is doing it in the most financially trendy way. On Monday, the Italian company known for its master of the universe suits will become, it says, the first Italian fashion brand to list on the exchange. It is going public by merging with a shell corporati...

Land shapes culture, giving rise to unique traditions, and people shape the land they inhabit. Nowhere is this more evident than at Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene in northeastern Italy. Here, in the chequerboard landscape where rows of vines grow on gentle, grassy slopes, interspersed with rosy-hued villages and thick patches...

We're all ready to celebrate 2022! Here are five dishes you can't miss! Felice Capodanno!  Are you wondering what an authentic Capodanno (literally "head of the year") looks like? The answer is straightforward: great food and excellent wine are the essences of this Italian experience. In Italy, we celebrate the night of December 31 with the so-call...

Prosciutto never gets old, though it can be refreshing to occasionally change the way you serve Italy’s most popular ham. Whether you're having a simple aperitivo or looking for a way to kick off a grand evening, switch up your prosciutto game with these three elegant ideas from our head chef Joëlle Néderlants.  To Share Sometimes the simplest idea...

“There may be at all times some magic within the crafting of a bell,” mentioned Armando Marinelli, who is likely one of the twenty sixth technology of his circle of relatives concerned within the industry. “Each bell has a special soul.” Mr. Marinelli, 61, and his brother Pasquale, 51, run the Marinelli Pontificial Foundry, a landmark on this small...

Christmas is approaching and in the table set for the festivities, are coming the extraordinary specialties of the Italian culinary tradition: among these there are the broccoli of Christmas, also called in Neapolitan dialect “vruoccole and fronna of Christmas”. In Naples is a typical dish of the Christmas Eve dinner characterized by a strong flavo...

The Valle brothers – Umberto and Bernardo – bought the Poggio Trevvalle estate in 1998, bringing to Tuscany the years of grape-growing experience they built up in Puglia. Their goal was to make wines that would truly reflect the grape variety, the vineyards themselves and the winemaking traditions of the territory: honest, artisan wines that have c...