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With just a few weeks to go before the start of the 2014 Superbike World Championship at the Australian circuit of Phillip Island on 23 February, the Ducati Superbike Team has been officially presented to fans, enthusiasts and press in an exclusive live streaming event from the Ducati Auditorium in Borgo Panigale. The 2014 season will see the retu...

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Coffee is a key part of the Italian culture, but instead of simply spending your trip sipping cappuccini on terraces, why not get a taste for life on the other side of the bar? Florence's Espresso Academyoffers a range of courses including basic, intensive and café latte art, while the Terzi Coffee School in Emilia Romagna offers intimate workshops...

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By Andrea Valente Chi ha inventato la pasta alla carbonara? Come, dove, quando, perché? E l'uovo va messo così o cosà? Pancetta, bacon, guanciale o speck? Spaghetti o maccheroni? E se cucinassimo senza porci troppe domande? Ecco che da un piatto di pasta può nascere una storia, o a volte è la Storia a infilarsi nel piatto di pasta. Quel che conta,...

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Knights of Columbus Star of the Sea Council 7297 is offering La Bella Italia, a tour of some of the most beautiful cities of Italy, leaving Saturday, Oct. 31, and returning Thursday, Nov. 12. Deposits are due April 10.   The tour goes from Venice to Bologna, Padua, Florence, Siena, Assisi, and Rome. The trip includes 11 nights in first-class...

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Italy's alpine huts, or 'rifugi', provide the perfect - and inexpensive - place to get some peace and quiet and escape the heat of the Italian summer. And the good news is that they are not as inaccessible as you might think. But what can you expect from a rifugio? Those in super-remote, high-altitude areas might not offer flushing i...

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Si chiama Emanuele Ceccarelli lo studente del liceo Galvani di Bologna unico italiano ammesso per il prossimo anno accademico al prestigioso Massachusetts Institute of Technology, una delle più importanti università al mondo.

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Lo scorso 7 maggio, a Bologna, l'Associazione Lavitabella ha presentato il progetto "Casa Bologna" del Comitato Bologna Portland, istituito in occasione del 10° anno di gemellaggio tra le città di Bologna e Portland, nello Stato americano dell'Oregon.   Il Comitato nasce dalla collaborazione tra la stessa Associazione Lavitabella e la Portla...

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“This is not just vinegar. This is balsamic. They are not the same,” Daniele Barbieri said when I visited his family’s Acetaia del Cristo in this Northern Italian city last fall. I heard him, but I was also engaged, engrossed in the parade of flavors in my mouth.   Mr. Barbieri had suggested that I stick my pinkie inside a 165-year-old juniper-wo...

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As we're having a great time wandering all over the 50 States in search of Italian stories, our trip today stops by Portland, Oregon: we're far from the motherland, but that doesn't mean that there's no Italy, here in the Beaver State.   On the contrary, we're happy and grateful to meet our friend Tonya Russo Hamilton, who will help us understand...

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  WTI Magazine #32    2014 May, 29Author : folclore.it      Translation by:   The Palio (contest) of Ferrara, in addition to being the oldest in the world, is peculiar for the type of race, which is a festival unlike many other contests with a competition formula that comes from actual wars between the contestants.    

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