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Every Tuesday morning, a little bit of Italy comes to Our Lady of Grace Church in Gravesend. The friendly tour guide is Jeanne Nisi, a retired educator who teaches an Italian language class once a week for free.  Her students, all adults who number between 10 and 15 from week to week, get the chance to learn how to read, write, and speak Italian. T...

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Taranto is not the romantic Puglia visitors have been clamoring for in recent years. But it is a city in bloom and one with the potential to become a creative capital of southern Italy–if given the right energies and investments.  The City of the Two Seas–so called because it overlooks both the Ionian Sea (the Great Sea) and an inland body of water...

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Ferrero North America, part of the global sweet-packaged food company the Ferrero Group known for Keebler®, Butterfinger®, Nutella®, Kinder®, Tic Tac®, and other well-loved brands, today celebrated the opening of its first chocolate processing facility in North America and third globally. The 70,000 square foot expansion to Ferrero's manufacturing...

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With its relaxed pace of life, Italy is a popular pick for expats looking to live abroad after retirement. Landscapes differ greatly across the country, however, so one social media user Dramatically Expatic, whittled down her top picks for best places to move to in 2024. According to the Italian news outlet, El Sole 24 Ore, Udine was named the bes...

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This year 2024 should be considered a milestone of the Italian musical culture because in this year finally it took place the UNESCO’s recognition of the Italian Opera as an immaterial patrimony of the humanity.  In order to celebrate this extraordinary event, our Ministry of Culture, together with Fondazione Opera Lirica di Verona planned a specta...

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There were 6453 visitors to the Embassy of Italy on Saturday for the usual EU Open House, during which all European Union embassies open their doors to the public for Europe Day celebrations. Visitors, welcomed into the Embassy building designed in the nineties by architect Piero Sartogo with a shape that replicates the layout of Washington created...

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Senator George Borrello, President of the Conference of Italian American State Legislators, has announced that Italian-American Day will be held on Monday, May 20 this year. This year’s events will include the popular Mulberry Street Fair in the Well of the Legislative Office Building, the Festa Italiana in Troy and three celebrity guests who will...

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Ostuni isn’t just an aesthetic delight. Its white-washed buildings are not just beautiful: they’re also a historical (and technical) device for combatting the ravages of the relentless southern Italian sun, keeping the houses below them cool enough to be tolerable. Ostuni is also an archaeological delight: its main tourist attraction is its 15th-ce...

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"A Italian granita, only for adults." That's how the New York Times titled it a few years ago to introduce the sgroppino, a kind of rather creamy and alcoholic lemon sorbet, traditionally served between courses - especially between fish and meat dishes - or at the end of the meal to cleanse the palate and aid digestion. In Italy today, it is mainly...

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Natural World Safaris has conducted a study to determine the hottest destinations for Americans in the summer of 2024. To do this, experts at Natural World Safaris analyzed Google search volumes using the tool Ahrefs to find out which destinations are on the top of everyone’s list this year. They not only looked at the destinations that have increa...

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On Friday May 3, Istituto Marangoni Miami welcomed back Rocco Iannone to its campus. Since 2019, Iannone has spearheaded the creative content, design and image of Ferriar’s licensed apparel and accessories. Iannone took part in a conversation with the Institute's student body and community members during the Miami Grand Prix on his imagination for...

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“In 1994, shortly after he’d won the San Remo Song Festival in the ‘new voices’ category for his song ‘Il mare calma della sera’,” Laura Biancalani, CEO of The Andrea Bocelli Foundation wrote me, “I knocked on Andrea’s front door to ask him to organize a concert to benefit a local hospice for the terminally ill. Impressed that only at age 18 I was...

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