Scuola elevata al lavoro: gli studenti italiani e l’esperienza presso le Camere di Commercio Italiane all’Estero
Avviata la terza edizione del Progetto "Scuola elevata al lavoro", promosso da Unioncamere in collaborazione con il Sistema Camerale e rivolto a giovani studenti – universitari e delle scuole secondarie superiori - italiani. Obiettivo dell'iniziativa, che nel 2013 ha coinvolto ben 3.030 studenti e 204 tra scuole ed enti di formazione, è quello di...
Presentazione: La rete italica. Idee per un Commonwealth
di Niccolò d'Aquino, giornalista e corrispondente dall'Italia di "America Oggi", il più importante quotidiano italiano all'estero.Martedì, 15 Luglio 2014, ore 17.00Istituto Italiano per gli Studi FilosoficiPalazzo Serra di Cassano, Via Monte di Dio, NapoliSaranno presenti l'autore e Piero Bassetti Nel suo libro, Niccolò d'Aquino racconta la genesi...
Letter from Umbria | A Storied Ceramics Workshop Where Visiting Artists Can Get to Work
You won't find Umbertide, Italy, in most guidebooks. This town in northeast Umbria has little to recommend it: no churches with vibrant frescoes, no hilltop vistas, no Michelin-starred restaurants, not even a first-rate pizzeria. Umbertide is so ordinary, in fact, that "The Companion Guide to Umbria," the 1969 classic armchair reader on th...
New investor confidence boosts Italian economy
Borrowing costs for southern European countries have fallen since the European Central Bank brought in unprecedented measures in June to help boost weak inflation in the bloc. Investors have also been cheered by upbeat data, with Italy's borrowing costs touching a new low of 2.666 percent, down from 2.714 percent. Read more ...
L'eccellenza italiana nel software
Quando si associa un Paese con il software, in Silicon Valley si pensa a Israele, all'India, all'Irlanda, sempre più spesso anche al Cile e ai Paesi scandinavi. L'Italia è nota – oltre che per l'arte e il cibo – per la meccanica, la moda e il design. I nostri giovani imprenditori IT che bussano alle porte di San Francisco sanno di andare i...
Da nord a sud una lista dei 20 borghi più belli d’Italia
di Rosanna Gattuso Da nord a sud, l'Italia nasconde villaggi, paesini e borghi belli dal punto vista storico, architettonico e naturalmente anche paesaggistico. Il Club de I Borghi più Belli d'Italia, nato per volere della Consulta del Turismo dell'Associazione dei Comuni Italiani (ANCI), ha stilato una lista dei piccoli centri divisi per...
New photo book shows beauty of Venice
Eighteen years after first visiting Venice, Locktov still remembers the moment: "When I first stepped foot on Venetian soil I had this overwhelming feeling of falling in love with a place on earth, which took me by surprise. "I loved it like a living, breathing entity." The American publicist thereafter made sure she kept coming back,...
The Park of the Monsters at Bomarzo in Italy
Just north of the small Italian town of Bomarzo is a quiet park where sunlight filters through the canopies of trees and lands on moss-covered stone sculptures. Many of these sculptures, however, are less than tranquil: There's a reason the place is called Parco dei Mostri, or the Park of the Monsters. Read more Source:&n...
The Story of Maria Grammatico and her Famous ‘Pasticceria’ in Sicily
Sicily's rich tradition of 'dolci' has been shaped by many diverse cultural influences throughout history, from the almonds and oranges introduced by the Arabs to the cocoa beans introduced by the Spanish to the island's industrious pastry-making nuns. Each dominant culture left behind its own cultural and gastronomic imprint, setting in m...
Italy: A Top Dream Destination for 2015
by Becky Zeferino Tripadvisor has officially announced the results of the study TripBarometer run for half a year. The study was about the world's greatest and most popular places to travel to. About one in every four people surveyed (28%) said that if money was not an issue they would love to travel to Italy, making the "Bel Paes...
Reaching Across Cultures in Italy
There is no better way to experience a culture than to be immersed in it -- just ask DePauw University junior Clare Polega, who's studying human development as it relates to interactions across cultures in Italy this semester. Polega is taking the "Human Development in Culture" class at the Umbra Institute, a study abroad program in Perugia, Italy....
Announcing the 2015-2016 Rome Prize Winners
The American Academy in Rome presented the winners at the Arthur & Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, held at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City on April 16th. The ceremony featured a presentation by artist Carrie Mae Weems, FAAR'06, which was followed by a discussion between Weems and Academy president Mark Robbins, FAAR'9...