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American-turned-Roman John Henderson, who blogs about life in Italy at Dog-Eared Passport, picks ten of his favourite lesser-known Italian destinations to inspire your 2018 travels. So you’re sitting at your desk and you can’t decide whether to continue your mind-numbingly boring project or kill your boss? Your last three internet dates looked stra...

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Palermo ripercorre gli ultimi giorni di Joe Petrosino a 109 anni dalla morte del detective italo americano, proprio nei  luoghi in cui si consumò la "tragedia". Una delle prime vittime della Mano nera, come veniva chiamata allora la mafia, in una città che poi avrebbe pagato un fortissimo tributo di sangue proprio a causa della criminalità organizz...

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American consumers are learning about Italian olive oil and the multiple ways to use it in the kitchen, said the general manager of Bono USA, a Sicilian manufacturer and importer of certified extra virgin olive oil. I believe there is growth in consumption because there is growth in knowledge, said Salvatore Russo Tiesi in this interview with Itali...

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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it . Boldness has  genius, power and magic in it.  Start now. Just by marrying these words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 2018 the partnership between Gustoso Export Promotion Italia and Sicilian Mood was officially born. Two Made in Sicily projects that have joined forces to increase the promotion of S...

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From February 3 to 5, the Sicilian city of Catania pays homage to its patron saint, St Agatha, with its most important religious festival of the year. St Agatha of Sicily is a virgin martyr who was born in Catania or in Sicily’s capital, Palermo, AD 231. She is one of seven women, who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in...

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Today more than ever, its position makes it unique and irreplaceable, a real cultural melting pot for the whole of Europe with a look at the world. To this important national event will be added, from 16th of June to 4th of November 2018, the artistic event MANIFESTA12, one of the main contemporary art Biennials on a world scale.

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Mozia sizzles in the Sicilian summer sun. The flat island sits in a lagoon just north of Marsala on the west coast of Sicily. The Phoenicians founded a colony on the island in the 8th century BC and named it Motya. They were a Semitic civilization that was located in what today is Syria, Lebanon and north Israel. The Greek gods descended from the P...

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February can be a dreary month, which is why carnival is a wonderful opportunity to inject some colour, fun and festive spirit into your life. In Italy, you're spoilt for choice when it comes to carnival celebrations, with plenty of towns and cities hosting events. Sure, Venice's celebration may be the biggest and best known, but it's far from bein...

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Una fotografia ormai virale e delle parole toccanti. Lady Gaga, approfittando del suo concerto meneghino, ha infatti voluto incontrare alcuni dei suoi parenti italiani, come riporta Tgcom24.  L'artista è giunta nei giorni scorsi in Italia, per tenere al Mediolanum Forum di Assago un concerto per la tappa del suo "Joanne World Tour". Poi la sorpresa...

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The LoFrisco Family Cookbook is part cookbook, part memoir. The author, son of Sicilian immigrants in the early 1900s, shares not only his mother's time-tested simple and delicious recipes, but he brings them to life by embracing them with endearing family stories of growing up in an Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.  LoFrisco intersperses...

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