Italian culture and history: The Valle d'Aosta and Its Castles
WTI Magazine #12 2014 Jan, 10Author : italia.it Translation by: Charming, spectacular Aosta Valley is a region with a lot to offer its visitors.We'll show you a route created ad hoc, that combines nature, sports and culture: A tour of the fantastic castles of Aosta Valley. In addition to being we...
Italian cinema: Walt Disney and Italy
WTI Magazine #16 2014 Feb, 07Author : Simone doc Bracci Translation by: Romance is the best medicine invented by man. Reasoning on the idea, thinking of the potential and its benefits, calculating the possibilities we can with absolute certainty assert that from a long love story, as improbable as r...
Italian cuisine: Pici with breadcrumbs
WTI Magazine #36 2014 June, 25Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn Translation by: Pici alle briciole (pici with breadcrumbs) is typical dish from Siena, which I tasted the first time during a folk festival in Montepulciano, one of my favorite places in Tuscany!!! This dish is very simple, fast, and dates back to peasants' cuisine. If...
Italian language: Keep calm and use subjuntive
WTI Magazine #58 2015 April, 17Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: Today we continue to explore the pronominal forms of the Italian language. Let's focus on personal pronouns: as we will see, they can have function either as a subject or as a complement. In the first case, the subject expressed by the variou...
Great Italians of the Past: Adriano Olivetti
WTI Magazine #79 2016 May 13Author : Giovanni Verde Translation by: An extraordinarily important figure in the history of Italian enterprise, Adriano Olivetti is the architect of a unique and revolutionary business model, which has combined technological progress with richness of the human community. Engineer and entrepreneur, his mu...
Italian fashion: #Dieseltribute, a “capsule collection” for the 35th anniversary of Diesel
WTI Magazine #12 2014 Jan, 10Author : Francesca Favotto Translation by: Diesel is 35 years old and to celebrate it Nicola Formichetti, the new creative director of the brand, signs the first capsule collection: two lines man - woman, one devoted to denim, the other to skin. Are you ready to discover them? Nicola Formichetti is wa...
Italian language: A kiss is not always just a kiss
WTI Magazine #36 2014 June, 25Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: A travel into the language of the "Bel Paese" Give me a "Potin" or give me a "vasata". Where do you use these words? I'll tell you right now: in Italy. "Potin" and "vasata" are just two of the many examples of dialect words in use in...
Italian art: MUDEC, Museo delle Culture
WTI Magazine #58 2015 April, 17Author : Enrico de Iulis Translation by: John Cabot University The transformation of Milan - because of the forthcoming Universal Exposition - has been constantly growing. Besides the website for the event, for the new infrastructures of the city and the railroad modernizations, the Ambrosian museum center...
Italian traditions: The Armata di Pentecoste festival Sciò la Pica
WTI Magazine #79 2016 May 13Author : Terre del Piceno Translation by: When spring is at its height, on the feast of Pentecost, the historical festival of the Armata di Pentecoste takes place in Monterubbiano. Though it is difficult to date the origins of this festival accurately, there are 16th century documents which attest to its h...
Italian politics: A huge taxation with a strange representation
WTI Magazine #12 2014 Jan, 10Author : Francesca Papasergi Translation by: High school history books usually introduce the American Revolution with one of the better-known ellipsis ever pronouced. Indeed, no taxation without representation, the old Tea Party's core philosophy, would be suitable for the Ita...
IT and US: From Friuli to the US
WTI Magazine #58 2015 April, 17Author : Ente Friuli nel Mondo Translation by: John Cabot University The Ente Friuli nel Mondo is a non-profit private association established in Udine on June 20th, 1953, and it has considered as regional site by the Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia. The Ente independently promotes connections betwe...
Italian culture and history: Val d'Orcia
WTI Magazine #79 2016 May 13Author : italia.it Translation by: The magnificent natural scenery of the Val d'Orcia that extends through the Tuscan hills was inserted onto the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004. Val d'Orcia fuses art, landscape and ecosystem in one geographical space, and is the expression of a series of marvelous natu...