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Casale Monferrato is a quaint town of just over 30,000 in the Alessandria province of Piedmont. It is known as the main settlement in the Monferrato area of the region which is part, along with Langhe and Roero, of the UNESCO World Heritage. Casale is known for wine and good food, for its elegant old-Piemonte streets, and for that pleasantly sleepy...

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Nature as far as the eye can see, unique emotions and breathtaking beauty: the Gran Paradiso National Park is one of the most evocative and ancient Italian parks. Where is the Gran Paradiso National Park? The park is located between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont around the Gran Paradiso mountain range and borders the Vanoise National Park. It was f...

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Wine, with its prestige and added value, and with an increasingly pronounced propensity to export is, for some time now, the main product of Italian agribusiness. And it is not surprising, then, that among the agricultural lands of Italy, apart from rare exceptions such as the orchards and apple orchards of Alto Adige, it is the vineyards, in gener...

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In Turin's Piazza Castello, between the Teatro Regio and Palazzo Reale, under the porticoes of the Prefecture, there is a bronze medallion depicting Christopher Columbus, with the little finger of his right hand protracted outward.The relief was made by Dino Somà in 1923, (Villafalletto 1886- date and location of death unknown), in memory of the pa...

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If you’re planning a trip through Europe, don’t forget to consider these Italian villages. “To visit them is to participate in Italy’s beauty while helping keep these enchanting places alive,” says Fiorello Primi, president of the “Most Beautiful Villages in Italy” association (I Borghi più belli d’Italia). While you know Rome, Florence, or Milan,...

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Enzo Ferrari could be described as nothing more than the inspiration behind the project for the “little GP car”, and as stated in the specialised press, seeing what was done at Maserati it would have needed a 4- or 6- cylinder engine. At Alfa Romeo, the suggestion for the new racing car was taken on board, but was based on a more sophisticated stra...

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More world records in Italy: this time we are talking about wine, more specifically the world's largest barrel located in the Langhe region and certified by Guinness World Records. If you want to see it, you have to go to the Roberto Sarotto farm in Neviglie, in the province of Cuneo, in the heart of the Langhe. The dimensions of the barrel in ques...

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It is the longest river in Italy and it gives the name to one of its richest areas, the Pianura Padana,  but the Po, especially for the people who live along its banks, from Piemonte to Emilia Romagna, it’s much more than that. It’s livelihood and fertility; it’s wealth and happiness; it’s history and family. It’s memories and future at once. It is...

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Khaby Lame, the Senegalese-born comedian who is the most followed TikTok user in the world, has been granted Italian citizenship. Lame, 22, has lived in Italy since he was one and has said he “always felt Italian”. He received his citizenship during a ceremony in Chivasso, his home town, close to Turin in the northern Piedmont region, on Wednesday....

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If you came to Italy in the past twenty years, you’ve definitely seen it, even if you’ve never been to Turin, because the Mole Antonelliana is on the back of our 2-cent coins. If, by any chance, you come from a Piedmontese heritage, you’re probably way more familiar with it, because its unmistakable silhouette is as traditional of Turin as gianduio...

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