In Gallicano in Garfagnana (Lucca, Tuscany), the 11th-century parish church of San Cassiano has been found; traces of it had been lost since 1400
An exceptional discovery at Gallicano in Garfagnana: excavations have unearthed the precious remains of the 11th-century Pieve di San Cassiano, of which there had been no trace since the late 15th century. The finds were unearthed by archaeologists from the paleopathology division of the University of Pisa engaged in the Gallicano Project, directed...
How NYC’s ‘professional Italians’ exploded on social media with memes you can’t fuggedabout
Post the TikTok — take the cannoli. A family of Brooklynites is championing social media creators in New York’s Italian American community who produce funny and authentic content that’s being devoured like fra diavolo worldwide. Siblings Sabino and Michela Curcio and their cousin Rocco Loguercio have run “Growing Up Italian” across social media sin...
Italy top nation at Youth Sailing Worlds
A total of 418 sailors from 70 countries competed in the 2024 Youth Sailing World Championships, held July 15-19 in Lake Garda, Italy. The host country retained their Nations Trophy, awarded to the best overall nation, by winning six of the 11 events Maria Vittoria Arseni and Antonio Pascali led the way in men’s and women’s ILCA 6, as did Carola Co...
Austin Italian Restaurant Intero Opens New Gelato Truck Soon
Austin Italian restaurant Intero is opening a gelato truck this summer. Piccola Gelateria will be parked outside of Intero’s other Italian restaurant, Poeta at the Frances Modern Inn, in Central East Austin at 1123 East 11th Street, starting on Wednesday, July 24. Piccola will offer scoops of gelato and sorbets. The former’s flavors include roasted...
An Italian woman at the top of global stem cell research
Italian-born researcher Valentina Greco has been elected president of the International Society for Stem Cell (Isscr), the world's largest stem cell scientific society. Valentina Greco, was born in Palermo in 1972 and at the university in the Sicilian city she graduated in Molecular Biology. Today she leads a research group at the Yale School of Me...
Honolulu welcomes the Amerigo Vespucci
The Amerigo Vespucci, the historic sailing ship and training vessel of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare), is sailing towards Honolulu and will reach the Honolulu Harbor (Pier 9 - Aloha Tower) on July 25th! This stop, from July 25th to 28th, 2024, will mark the 21st stage of its World Tour, following an 18/day, 2,500-mile-long voyage from Los Angel...
Italy's "Path of Love" reopens after 12 years
The Cinque Terre's most romantic hiking trail – aptly dubbed the Via dell'Amore (Path of Love) – is reopening in Italy on 27 July, 12 years after the September 2012 landslide that injured four Australian tourists and highlighted the area's dire need for renovations and increased safety measures. The 800m footpath, carved on steep cliffs with breat...
Italian American guitarist legend Al Di Meola turns 70
Al Di Meola turned 70 on July 22. The American was one of the co-inventors of jazz-rock and is one of the most influential and fastest guitarists in music history. Together with John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola released the live acoustic album "Friday Night In San Francisco", which sold millions of copies. For the New Jersey-born Ital...
Three Generations in the Kitchen
I was born and raised in a tiny village of 500 people in the Venetian countryside, surrounded by miles and miles of flatlands dotted with sleepy villages like mine–a place with no apparent rhyme or reason outside of its rural vocation. It hasn’t always been this way, or so I am told. The land was diversified, fertile, and, more importantly, populat...
Beautiful country named 'most family-friendly' for holidays - and it's not France or Spain
A beautiful European country has been named the 'most family-friendly' for summer holidays - and it's not France, Spain or Portugal. Though others may steal the spotlight, Italy has been declared the best place to take children by the Telegraph. Many hotels have specially designed rooms for those with small children as well as play areas and baby c...
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Named Director of International and Global Studies Program
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder has been appointed as the new director of the International and Global Studies Program (INST) within the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Calabretta-Sajder, who currently serves as an associate professor and section head of Italian, as well as the associate director of the Gender Studies Program, brings a wealth of aca...
The true story of the Giants of Peccioli
In the long fields of the Pisan province, among hills, crags and blue sky, we come across some installations that blend with the environment in a very striking and innovative way. And they certainly do not go unnoticed. We are talking about the Giants of Peccioli: human-shaped sculptures that ’emerge’ from the ground to reach up to 9 meters in heig...