Italian wine: A Taste of Dolcetto in Liguria with Ormeasco di Pornassio
WTI Magazine #82 2016 August 19Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com Translation by: As we all soak up the summer rays we can also dream of doing the same on the Italian Riveria. If you're not familiar with where exactly the Italian Riviera is, it's actually located in the region of Liguria in the top northwes...
Italian lifestyle: The Jewelry of Giuliana Mancinelli Bonafaccia
WTI Magazine #4 2013 Nov, 8Author : Maria Elena Capitanio for PoisonDrops Translation by: The Language Institute Today I will tell you about a Roman designer, Giuliana Manicelli Bonafaccia who, while studying architecture and interior design, discovered her passion for jewelry making, cultivated in t...
Italian cinema: Movie'n'Food
WTI Magazine #25 2014 Apr, 11Author : Simone doc Bracci Translation by: One of our most appreciated and important sense is taste, not in a metaphorical sense, but literally. The taste for food, for example, distinguishes us as men; the taste for art as educated men. If we combine the two things we have a lasting partnership that results...
Italian gardens: Villa Devoto in Cagliari, Sardinia
WTI Magazine #82 2016 August 19Author : Italian Botanical Heritage Translation by: Villa Devoto and its adjoining park, located in Cagliari, was built between 1915 and 1919 by Girolamo and Oddone Devoto; since 1955, following the purchase by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, it has become the institutional home of the President of t...
Italian wine: Main red wines from Lombardy
WTI Magazine #25 2014 Apr, 11Author : Vino OK Translation by: Lombardy is a nationally unmatched area from the quantitative point of view of the production of wine. The Lombard wine can in fact rely on a large number of specialties, but among these only a few have managed, over the years, to get the DOC or DOCG label. The second cate...
Italian wine: Aglianico, What Makes the Basilicata Pop!
WTI Magazine #75 2016 January 18Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com Translation by: Welcome to 2016! For the beginning of this new year we tackle some of the lesser discovered regions of Italy and they're all to the south starting with Basilicata. I've always appreciated all wines and of course I have some f...
Italian language: The origins of Thanks, You are welcome, Grazie and Prego
WTI Magazine #77 2016 March 18Author : Giosuè Prezioso Translation by: According to the Californian neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, the amount of words pronounced on a daily basis by women and men is very diverse: the former, in fact, can use until 20 thousand terms, the latter only 7 thousands, basically a third. Among these wo...
The Italian Way: Celebrating Ferragosto
WTI Magazine #82 2016 August 19Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: While I was working on my American schedule on August 15th, I got many emails and text messages wishing me "Buon Ferragosto," "Buona Festa" from my Italian friends and family. It took me a couple of seconds to realize that in Italy, this very day is a day of...
Italian flavors: Feast of the Roman artichoke, Ladispoli
WTI Magazine #25 2014 Apr, 11Author : folclore.it Translation by: The traditional Roman cuisine includes among its ingredients the Roman artichoke. This product is delicious and rich of organoleptic and therapeutic properties, and is celebrated in a three-day feast in Ladispoli, the Feast of the Roman Artichoke.
Italian traditions: The Cavalcade of the Three Wise Men in Florence
WTI Magazine #75 2016 January 18Author : folclore.it Translation by: On January 6, the day of the Epiphany, since 1997 Florence has recovered an ancient tradition to commemorate the visit of the Three Wise Men (in Italian, "I Re Magi") to the infant Jesus. The ride of the Three Wise Men starts in the afternoon from the Pitti Palace, pas...
Italian culture and history: Trento
WTI Magazine #77 2016 March 18Author : italia.it Translation by: Art and architecture, nature and museums have made Trento a cultural hotspot. Provincial and (autonomous) Regional Capital, this city in Trentino Alto Adige boasts a long, rich tradition and some of the most important monuments in Italian history. Trento was struck at t...
Italian art: Ro.Bo.Coop
WTI Magazine #82 2016 August 19Author : Enrico de Iulis Translation by: There are forms of street art that contain other forms of art, and then propose them in a new and altered way. The Ro.Bo.Coop collective has become almost an emblem about these intentions, a true inventive phenomenon that is attracting more and more attention in...