Gran Festa di Ferragosto 2025 - St Louis
On Sunday, August 24, 2025, the Italian Community of St Louis is excited to host the 8th Annual Ferragosto, a traditional Italian summer party, from 5pm to 10PM. Our venue, the Enterprise Pavilion at Shaw Park is located at: 27 S Brentwood Blvd, Clayton, Missouri 63105. There is free parking on site. Besides music and entertainment, Italian wines a...
On Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, ISDA Celebrates Progress and Pioneers Change
Basil M. Russo, national president of the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA), was elected to his sixth term during the 47th ISDA Biennial Convention, held on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Since first taking office in 2014, Russo has been unanimously reelected five consecutive times, leading ISDA through a decade of sustained cultural and fi...
We the ItaliaNews: Italy in english. Episode 28/2025
Italy’s agri-food sector strengthens its lead in Europe The state of Italian soccer: improving finances, rising women’s game, but stadiums lag behind Back to the peaks: how Italy’s mountains are calling people home Beyond the garden: past, present and future of Italian exports Quality, concern, and ethics drive Italian growing commitment to susta...
Cruise travel: 15 million tourists expected in Italy in 2025
The Italian cruise industry is poised to continue its robust rebound. The forecast for 2025 confirms the momentum already noted during 2024, driven by sustained high demand. Leading the national cruise ports is Civitavecchia, projected to welcome 3.6 million passengers. Trailing behind are Naples with an anticipated 2.1 million and Genoa with aroun...
Italy’s exceptional – yet often overlooked – innovative potential
Italy has a long and remarkable history of technological innovation, yet paradoxically, this is not one of the first qualities typically associated with the Bel Paese. We are a nation of inventors and creative minds, but this solid legacy is rarely acknowledged, despite our contribution to a vast array of inventions that have changed the world. Fro...
Sal “The Voice” Valentinetti in Newtown, PA
The Zlock Performing Arts Center in Newtown, PA is thrilled to welcome Sal “The Voice” Valentinetti, the golden-voiced Italian-American crooner and fan favorite from America’s Got Talent, for one night only on Friday, September 13, 2025, at 7:30 PM. A finalist and Heidi Klum’s memorable 2016 Golden Buzzer recipient, Sal brings his powerhouse vocals...
A guide to Gallura, Sardinia’s historic northeast coast
Gallura is where Sardinia lets its wild side run riot. In the island’s northeast, boulder-scattered hills and dense forests of holm oak, olive, pine and myrtle trees roll down to a coast that makes you gasp out loud. Castaway coves, wave-whipped promontories and dune-flanked sands ease into the gloriously blue Strait of Bonifacio. The Maddalena isl...
$1.5 Million Gift Honors Community Pillars, Establishes Marinoni Endowed Chair in Italian
Few people have had as much positive impact on the state of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas as Professor Antonio Marinoni and Rosa Zagnoni (Zan-YO-nee) Marinoni, who each broke new ground in the studies of language and poetry at the state’s flagship land grant institution. Now, to celebrate their profound and enduring legacy, the Marinoni...
12th Annual St. Anthony’s Italian Festival in Glassboro, NJ
The vibrant sights, sounds, and flavors of southern Italy will return to Downtown Glassboro on Saturday, September 13, 2025, for the 12th Annual St. Anthony’s Italian Festival, a beloved cultural celebration hosted in partnership with St. Anthony’s Mutual Aid Society. The Italian Festival is a showcase of Glassboro’s rich Italian-American heritage,...
Charnel houses, witches and castles: 6 chilling places to discover in Lombardy
Kicking off the new season of the Wednesday Addams series on Netflix, which has achieved great success with its dark aesthetic and gothic charm: for the occasion, we have selected six places in Lombardy that seem to have come straight out of an episode of the Addams family. Ruined castles, charnel houses decorated with skulls, abandoned villas shro...
The biography of Joe Benvenuti, one of America's most successful Italian immigrants, will launch this summer
The biography of Hamilton, Ontario-born Joe Benvenuti, from his early beginnings through his rise to becoming Sacramento, California's own and one of America's most successful Italian immigrants, will launch this summer. The long-overdue story, written by first-time author and one of Benvenuti's grandsons, Deron R. Benvenuti, tells the stirring acc...
Retiring in Italy: how a Seattle couple embraced spontaneity and found paradise
It takes a special kind of person to embrace change, whether large or small – someone adventurous, flexible and patient. But a change on the scale undertaken by Mark Hinshaw, a former Seattle architect and urban planner, might be considered off the charts. In 2017, Hinshaw quit his job, sold his Pioneer Square condo, and together with his wife, Sav...