Italian Carnival is €200 mn very serious affair
by Francesco Prisco There is little to joke about when it comes to Carnival's value as a tourist attraction. The celebrations attract international attention and move a turnover of over €200 million. And this year is no different. Italy will host hundreds of more or less significant events based on local traditions, and is ready to re...
Pizza Jerk and Red Sauce Pizza: Review
By Martin Cizmar The final scene of The Sopranos was, I think we can all admit now, among the most perfect 4 minutes and 30 seconds of television ever aired. Tony's unseen but obvious-to-any-non-jamook whacking in a diner booth was the rare satisfying but non-gratuitous conclusion to a series, made all the more perfect because it...
Quality of life in Italian cities: where people live better
The Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore has recently published the 26th edition of its annual charter on the "Quality of Life" in Italy. Milan made a great performance in the last year. In fact, compared to 2014 when the city was ranked 8th, in 2015 the Lombard metropolis reached the podium, achieving the second position. This great success i...
Marriage 'Made in Italy' gains ground
Italy is the European destination of choice for couples wanting to get married abroad, according to figures from Italy's observatory on international weddings published at the weekend. On a global level Italy comes second only to the Tropics and Hawaii, followed by France, Greece and India, the observatory added. Marriages 'Made in Italy'...
Gelato town: The Italian treat is taking over Las Vegas
When our summer-ish spring rolls around and we're spending every minute out in the sun, a question arises: How is it possible this scorching city doesn't have tons of great ice cream shops? Because Vegas is a gelato town, baby. The icy Italian treat has taken over the Valley in recent years, expanding far past the tourist-cooling kiosks do...
Verona: Sol&Agrifood “racconta” l’agroalimentare italiano di qualità
Le eccellenze dell'agroalimentare italiano tornano protagoniste a Sol&Agrifood. Il salone internazionale di Veronafiere, dal 10 al 13 aprile, in contemporanea a Vinitaly, propone le migliori produzioni made in Italy nel campo dell'olio extravergine di oliva, ma non solo: paste e prodotti da forno, birre artigianali, formaggi, cioccolata, caffè,...
Looking at Rome as you never did before
To me, history is like morning coffee, I need it to function. I always loved it, since I was a child, and I've ended up making it the subject of my master's degree and of my doctorate. No wonder, then, I got very curious about the creation of a new app dedicated to Rome and how it looked like in different moments of its glorious past. &nb...
Assessment of Italy’s most active research universities depicts a map rich in surprises
As far as research is concerned, Italy's most active university is the Ca' Foscari of Venice, while at the bottom of the list there are the universities of Lecce, Campobasso and Catania. But also in the South of Italy there are some very productive universities, like Salerno, for example; while among polytechnic universities, Bari is slightly highe...
Stolen Letter Describing Columbus Voyage Is Returned to Italy
by Claudio Lavanga A rare copy of a 15th century letter describing Christopher Columbus' trip to the Americas has been returned to Italian authorities after being stolen from a library in Florence. "It is interesting how 500 years after the letter was written it has made the same trip back and forth from America," Italian Culture Mini...
Italian car collector Nicola Bulgari rides to America on Wheels' rescue
Almost since it opened in 2008, Allentown's America on Wheels Museum has struggled financially, dipping each year into a dwindling endowment to cover operating costs while its leadership waited for development of the city's Lehigh riverfront to shift into gear. The museum — which chronicles the history of over-the-road transportation — has...
Contrattisti USA: Della vedova risponde a Di Biagio (AP) e Turano (PD)
"L'8 giugno il Ministero degli Affari Esteri ha risposto alla mia interrogazione relativa alle criticità degli impiegati a contratto della rete diplomatico-consolare negli Usa". Ad annunciarlo è Aldo Di Biagio, senatore di Area Popolare eletto in Europa che - insieme al collega Turano (Pd) - aveva sottoposto all'attenzione della Farnesina la questi...
Of Pasta and Men: Hangar Theatre dishes in 'I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti' (Review)
There's truth in advertising in "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti," the one-woman show that opens the Hangar Theatre's 2016 season. Over the course of the play, we learn about the romantic misadventures of Brooklynite Giulia Melucci as she cooks bolognese sauce and makes pasta from scratch. It's a nifty gimmick, impressive to watch, but i...