Vernazza Is The Most Stunning Cliff Town We've Ever Seen
Craving a getaway to a cliffside village of fresh pasta, ocean breezes and all-around perfect enchantment? Welcome to Vernazza. This Italian cliff town has been proclaimed the "loveliest" of the Cinque Terre, those five seaside towns on the northwestern Italian coast that are famous with hikers, who hop from one to the next on a netwo...
L'app italiana che consente di comprare foto sui social
L'idea è nata un anno fa. «Ero in Puglia, mi serviva una fotografia di un evento che si stava svolgendo a Roma. Cercai su Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter e non trovai nulla». Enrico Scianaro, che oggi ha 27 anni, capisce che «non esiste uno strumento che permette di chiedere foto di un luogo di tuo interesse a gente che non conosci». ...
Tuscany has Italy’s ‘most beautiful sea’
The top three "five sail" destinations classified in the annual guide to the "most beautiful sea" in Italy are Castiglion della Pescaia in Tuscany, San Vito Lo Capo in Sicily, and Pollica in Campania, as released on Friday in the 'Blue Guide' published by environmental group Legambiente and tourism association Touring Club Italiano. The guide find...
This Italian company pioneered innovative startup culture—in the 1930s
"This Underwood built an empire. Now you go build one of your own," says Frank Underwood's father on House of Cards, while giving Frank his portable Underwood typewriter. Founded in 1895, the New York City-based typewriting company produced America's first popular typewriter. But by 1959, the iconic typewriting manufacturer was no longer in Americ...
Sorpresa, il made in Italy è l'economia più “verde” d'Europa
Sgomberiamo il campo dai piagnistei e dai luoghi comuni, per una volta. Perché nonostante tutto - le mafie, le ruberie, le terre dei fuochi, o tumorifici come l'Ilva di Taranto - quella italiana è una delle economie sviluppate più verdi del Pianeta, sicuramente d'Europa. A dirlo sono i numeri di Eurostat e del Centro Studi Unioncamere, pubblicati...
Brief history of street food in Italy
It is one of the strongest culinary trends of recent years. Street food – food prepared and consumed quickly on the street – responds with taste and creativity to the lack of time in-day modern life. Eating quickly, perhaps on the move from one place to another, saves time and money, often without giving up satisfaction of the palate. But...
More than half of Italians moving abroad are between ages 20 and 40
The number of Italians emigrating abroad has resumed growing since 2012: after reaching a total of 100,000 people in 2014, last year the expatriates aged 20-40 for the first time crossed the symbolic 50% threshold of the total. As a result, the younger and most productive share of expatriated population is now officially the majority, according to...
Mario Bellini: Italian of the Week
Designer and architect Mario Bellini was born on February 1, 1935, in Milan, Italy. He attended and received his doctorate in architecture from Politecnico di Milano (Milan Polytechnic) in 1959. Two years later, he began as the design director of La Rinascente – a popular department store in Italy. In the 1960s and 70s, Mario designed typewriters f...
The most beautiful alpine huts at over 3,000 meters
Alpine huts are a relatively new concept, stemming from the 19th-century novelty of mountain tourism. In the 1800s, in addition to traditional high-altitude shelters constructed by natives for agro-pastoral reasons, a new type of building started to appear, designed by city architects who created hotels either in the valley or halfway up the s...
Italy's earthquake affects us all – theirs is a cultural richness like no other
Buildings are not people. It is an immense mercy that, so far as is currently known, there were no fatalities in the latest earthquake to hit central Italy. Yet I can't help mourning the basilica of St Benedict in Norcia. To see such a beautiful old building destroyed is gut-wrenching. The pictures speak for themselves. In one image dust fills the...
Why Italians eat well
It is well-known that the Mediterranean diet is one of the best in the world. UNESCO has well understood this fact proclaiming the Mediterranean diet, story together with the Japanese one, erectile the healthiest in the world. Among their advantages, it is worth mentioning their ability to reduce cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, inc...
Kerry alla Bonino: Pronti a collaborare con nuovo governo
"Il presidente Obama e gli Stati Uniti d'America sono pronti collaborare con questo governo in tutti gli aspetti, dal punto di vista economico, della sicurezza e in tutti i modi possibili che possano rafforzare le relazioni fra Stati Uniti e Italia, siamo molto impazienti di lavorare con voi". Lo ha detto il segretario di Stato americano John Kerry...