Have you ever heard of the most mysterious village in Italy? What would you think if we told you that there's a tiny mountain village wrapped in a real aura of mystery? Come with us to discover the mystery of Rosazza, a tiny village in the province of Biella. Rosazza counts just a hundred inhabitants and is one of the municipalities in the Valle Ce...

Back to classic. After having travelled among so many under-sung denominations of the Italian peninsula, in this episode of Rare Wines, we put two icons of Italian wine side to side. We do this by selecting two reds of extraordinary rigour and classicism, designed for a very long ageing in the bottle. The couple that we present here combines auster...

Italy is a country that is known for its beauty, culture, history, and cuisine. It is a land that has inspired countless works of art, literature, and music. Italy is home to many cities and towns that are worth exploring, and one such hidden gem is Brangio. Located in the northern part of Italy, Brangio is a small town that is full of surprises an...

Borsalino Foundation and the City of Alessandria teamed up for a new museum, which will value the heritage of the historic hatmaker. The exhibition is set to open to visitors on Wednesday, while the official inauguration will take place a day earlier. The museum will showcase the history of the house starting from 1857 up until the present day. The...

There are many municipalities looking for residents in 2023. For years, in fact, there have been several boroughs, north and south, paying citizens to incentivize relocation and try to reverse trends that see them increasingly deserted. For some time now, there have been various tax incentives to encourage housing resettlement and repopulation of s...

Totally blind for 30 years, he recovered his sight after an extraordinary surgery. It happened at the Molinette hospital in Turin where an 83-year-old underwent an autotransplantation of the entire ocular surface (cornea, part of the sclera and the conjunctiva) from one of his eyes. The elderly man had first lost sight in his left eye – due to irre...

For the three days leading up to Fat Tuesday, the men, women, and children participate in the largest organized food fight in Italy – the Battle of the Oranges. The origins of the fight are a little murky but seem to date back to a medieval revolt. In the 1100s, Ivrea was ruled by an evil tyrannical duke. Legend has it that the duke tried to attack...

The Bosco delle Sorti Safeguard Zone extends into a hilly environment with a viticultural vocation that lies between 118 and 311 meters above sea level, in a transition zone between the floodplain and the slopes, which rise gradually towards the Apennine belt. Its objective is to integrate and define the conservation and management of natural and l...

Us Italians have truly taken this Italian proverb to heart, both during carnevale and anytime we throw a festa–chaos-filled days celebrated with cheese chases and food fights and a sport somehow more violent than rugby. Though it may seem like chucking oranges at your neighbor’s head is ruthlessness for the sake of ruthlessness, there actually is s...

A delegation of Duncanville travelers and friends are planning a trip to Italy in June. They will enjoy an event-packed visit to their Sister City, Monasterolo di Savigliano, in northern Italy. The trip marks the 26th anniversary of the Sister City relationship and cultural exchange program between these two small cities over 5,000 miles apart. Del...