Museo dell'emigrazione: alla commissione cultura la proposta dell'On. Nissoli
È stata assegnata alla Commissione Cultura della Camera la proposta di legge dell'onorevole Fucsia Nissoli (Sc) "Disposizioni per l'organizzazione e il funzionamento del Museo nazionale dell'emigrazione italiana". Il testo – sottoscritto da numerosi deputati di ogni schieramento – inizierà l'iter dalla sede referente per poi essere sottoposto ai p...
Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Great Beauty’ Wins Top Prize at European Film Awards
Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" was the big winner at the European Film Awards on Saturday in a wintry Berlin, where the Italo pic took home prizes for best film, director, actor for Toni Servillo, and editor for Cristiano Travaglioli. The screenwriter award went to Francois Ozon for "In the House," while Veerle Baetens was named bes...
Professional Development Course for Teachers and Trainers of Foreign Languages - Rome, July 2014
The American University of Rome is pleased to announce that the graduate-level seminar New technologies and multi-disciplinary perspectives in foreign language teaching will take place July 4-18, 2014 in Rome, Italy. NEW THIS YEAR!! Modules in English and ItalianTwo complete 60-hour modules, divided between lab practicum, theory and practi...
10 things Italy does better than anywhere else
Pizza, pasta, Verdi, the Coliseum, runway models. We know Italy does some things incomparably well. But travelers to the elegant boot don't just want to eat spaghetti, deal with opera and gawk at old ruins. Beyond the clichés, you'll find 10 other surprising ways in which Italy shines. Read more Source: http://edit...
Off eaten path: Italy's remote Basilicata holds hidden treasure
Boom! Boom! Gunshots shatter the early morning calm. It's not yet 8 a.m. when two rifle blasts echo through the countryside. Most of the village of Bernalda is already awake. I'm halfway through a bicycle ride when the gunfire reverberates through the valley that surrounds this sleepy Italian village. Birds scatter. Dogs bark in the distance. I lu...
Una domus e alcune tombe, nuove scoperte ad Ostia antica
Ambienti residenziali e spazi sepolcrali sono riemersi al Parco dei Ravennati, l'area compresa fra gli Scavi di Ostia Antica e l'adiacente Castello di Giulio II. Il Parco dei Ravennati è un'area verde di circa 15.000 metri quadrati che, due millenni or sono, si affacciava sul corso del Tevere, ora ricoperto di sedimenti. La tutela archeolo...
Expo 2015 is the first universal exposition with a certification for sustainability
Expo 2015 SpA has obtained the certification of conformity to the international standard ISO 20121: 2012 of the Management System for Event Sustainability. The award includes the activities of planning actions that affect the organization of the Universal Exposition. The certification was issued to the company Expo 2015 by the of third par...
Italian Cortina to undergo more than a facelift ahead of 2021 World Ski Championships
by Barbara Ganz After losing to the Swedish city of Åre the 2019 World Ski Championships, Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the province of Belluno, in recent days was designated as the host of the 2021 World Ski Championships. The World Ski Championships are events that can attract tens of thousands of visitors. The estimates predict a...
The spectacular Lame Rosse
The Lame Rosse ("Red Blades") are mountains and badlands in Marche, part of the Sibillini Mountains massif. Usually, travel guides describe the local landscape saying it looks like a place on Mars, Colorado's Grand Canyon, or some Saharan region. Those are indeed the closest comparisons. The red hue of the badlands and mountaintops, w...
WWII and the day Papa Vincenzo had to surrender his beloved radio
by Cookie Curci As a young Italian American, my childhood was filled with stories, stories that boasted colorful characters, lively dialogue, wonderful settings and, best of all, each story taught me a valuable lesson. Children's story books you say? No. Although I did my share of reading the fanciful illustrated fairy tales and...
Friends of FAI: Spreading Awareness of Italy’s Cultural Heritage in the U.S.
by Silvia Donati Italy has the largest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites - 51 - but that number doesn't even begin to quantify the immense (too immense to handle?) heritage of a country that, even in its most remote places, boasts some kind of historical or artistic treasure. The issue of how to safeguard Italy's - at times cr...
Here Are All the Roads That Lead to Rome
All road might not technically lead to Rome—but, if you happen to be in Europe, the majority of them do. In a new infographic, designers Philipp Schmitt, Benedikt Groß, and Raphael Reimann set out to answer the centuries-old question of: Do all roads actually lead to the Italian capital? To find the answer, the designers began by crun...