How to Explore Italian Culinary Traditions during Expo Milan 2015
Expo Milan 2015 is a global event that should be visited for thousands of reasons. One of them is definitely related to the chance to learn more about Italian culinary traditions and assets. The Expo 2015 pavilion of the Italian food industry was recently presented in Rome, where Fiere di Parma CEO Antonio Cellie introduced it as "the resu...
Life of Italian Nobility for Sale, Complete With Regulations and Taxes
by Gaia Pianigiani Nestled on a gentle Tuscan hill near this town just east of Florence, and caressed by the morning fog, sits a medieval castle that was once home to the few prominent noble families who plotted against the Medicis' rule during the Renaissance, some of whom are believed to have taken refuge here. For centuries aft...
Cibus è Italia: cibo arte e design nel padiglione del Made in Italy all’Expo 2015
Un padiglione unico tra i 90 di Expo 2015, perché è il solo a raccontare i percorsi di tutte le filiere alimentari italiane grazie alla testimonianza di 420 tra aziende e consorzi ed il solo a presentare un happening culturale all'esterno, con artisti che cambiano continuamente la sua facciata. Queste le peculiarità del padiglione "Cibus è...
Street style: Why italians do it better
From street food to street beauty, nobody can deny Italians definitely know how to do it better on the street, giving a touch of their innate and unique Italian style to some of the simplest gestures. Swide has rounded up some of the best things Italians do on the street. Check it out! 1) Street food: Beyond top chefs and refined restauran...
Expo 2015 astounding architectural masterpieces
One of the protagonists of Expo 2015 is certainly architecture as a genre and its remarkable impact. Visitors passionate about it, should start their tour from the Zero Pavilion, where a 5 thousand squared meters path leads the guests through a deep insight of the humanity food story, stressing the global right to food security. A second s...
Scorrano, a little village turns into the Capital of the Luminarie for a few days a year
by Serena Perfetto Tradition, religion, heritage, and passion: from one generation to the other, a small town in the Apulia region, Scorrano, has been able to keep all these things untouchable and unique and give them expression during a festival called "Festa delle Luminarie". Those who had visited the village way before it becam...
Storia del primo unicorno italiano: così Yoox è passata dal garage alle stelle
di Arcangelo RociolaAlle 9.00 del 5 ottobre la campanella di Piazza Affari ha suonato il trionfo di un pezzo di digital economy italiana. In elegante abito scuro e volto visibilmente emozionato, Federico Marchetti, founder di Yoox, ha fatto debuttare in Borsa la newco nata dopo la fusione con Net-A-Porter. Un colosso dell'ecommerce che gen...
Musement vince il primo premio Imprenditore dell’anno di Ernst&Young per le startup
di Arcangelo Rociola A rivedere il 2015, turismo e digitale sono stati lo spartito su cui si sono suonati i successi di diverse startup italiane. Lo dimostrano sicuramente i numeri raggiunti da Travel Appeal, piuttosto che la strategia di crescita di Viaggiart. Startup che fanno bene. Musement non è stata da meno, anzi. La startup...
Lessons from the Bella 'Mbriana
Naples is a very old place and has many legends and spirits associated with it. Of the two most famous spirits in Naples, the bella 'Mbriana is certainly the more positive one. The other is Munaciello, a much darker and frightening entity that I intend to write about some time in the future. The two are often mentioned together when the topic of Ne...
Save San Filippino
My name is Rita Richardson, and I am a proud Italian American living in Nashville, Tennessee. My husband Tim and I recently created a nonprofit association to save an abandoned 17th century baroque chapel in Italy.The chapel is called San Filippino and is dedicated to its namesake, Saint Philip Neri, who was the founder of the Oratorian order of th...
Nibali wins 2nd Giro d'Italia title and 4th Grand Tour
Riding a completely pink bicycle and patting his teammates, home favorite Vincenzo Nibali clinched a second Giro d'Italia victory and a fourth Grand Tour title on Sunday but Giacomo Nizzolo's hopes of a first stage win were again dashed as he was disqualified. Nibali's chances of repeating his 2013 feat seemed impossible on Friday — as he started t...
Rio 2016: Mattarella hands flags to Olympic flag-bearers
President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday handed the Italian flag to Italy's flag-bearers for the Rio Olympics and Paralympics, respectively swimmer Federica Pellegrini and sprinter Martina Caironi, at a ceremony at the presidential place featuring the two teams. Mattarella said the Olympics "are an opportunity for solidarity, peace, friendship...