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Not farfrom Reggio Calabria, deep into the beautiful Aspromonte National Park  and at the heart of the Griko-speaking area of the region (Griko is a dialect, vestige of the  old presence of the Greeks here), curious travelers will find one of the country’s most famous ghost towns, Pentedattilo.  From North to South, the ghost towns of Italy are man...

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Tropea wins the Borgo dei borghi 2021 competition. The proclamation took place this evening, during the eighth edition of the Rai 3 program, conducted by Camila Raznovich. There were 260 villages in Italy competing, of which 20 reached the final stage. But in the end Tropea won, which represented the whole of Calabria and received the highest numbe...

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Casa Italia will be ready to hit the ground running once restrictions are lifted thanks to the generosity of the Italian-American community. The Calabresi in America Organization got the ball rolling with a $100,000 donation to fund a host of improvements. Among them are new emergency and exit lighting throughout the property, new boilers in the Co...

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L’Associazione Sabir, braccio operativo della Caritas Diocesana di Crotone Santa Severina, e la Filitalia International, Fondazione americana con sede a Philadelphia, impegnata nel settore della promozione della cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti, hanno lanciato in queste ore un partenariato per un nuovo progetto dedicato alla promozione dell’impre...

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In this week’s edition of Cibo & Cinema, a look at olive harvesting in Calabria with one of my favorite short films- Luigi Di Gianni’s 1967 “Tempo di Raccolta,” which documents a day in the life of Calabrese women as they work in the olive groves of the region.  The simple yet stunning beauty of those majestic centuries-old trees, Di Gianni’s choic...

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Si è tenuta online la presentazione del Master di I livello in “Progettazione e gestione dei viaggi delle radici” promosso dall’Università della Calabria e finanziato dal Ministero degli Esteri. Il webinar è stato organizzato dall’Associazione Direttori Albergo, rappresentata da Giovannangelo Pergi, che ha parlato della necessità di hub territorial...

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Whenever someone in my native Ireland asks me where in Italy I live and I answer “Calabria,” I almost always get the same reaction: a vacant nod or a question along the lines of “Is that near…?” I find that if I simply say, ‘The Toe,” people can connect that to the visual representation of ‘The Boot’ for which Italy has become so famous. That the a...

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The Long Branch New Jersey (USA) Free Public Library and the Long Branch Historical Association are conducting a ZOOM event titled, “Rediscovering Family, Rediscovering Calabria”. A history, Immigration and Family Roots discussion with Steven J Sacco, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Italian at San Diego State University. Wednesday March 3, 2021 at 7pm E...

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Calabria is a land where spirituality and nature often merge, giving life to places of extraordinary beauty. In Paola, near Cosenza, a seaside town, the Sanctuary of San Francesco is a stop not to be missed when you visit Calabria. The patron saint of Calabria and the people of the sea was born in Paola, where his remains are kept and a lot of mira...

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While traveling across the pond remains, at least for the moment, still a dream, dreaming and planning aren’t forbidden and, certainly, they aren’t dangerous. On the contrary, busying our minds with something pleasant and oriented towards a virus-free future, may be a healthy and   relaxing way to spend some time.  For many Italophiles, moving to t...

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