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When you travel around Italy you will quickly notice that, in every single region, there are culinary traditions locals are not only proud of, but also genuinely consider the best, if one was to compare them with those of the rest of Italy. Recipes change from one town to another, or from one house to another, and each one is the best according to...

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Rome (according to this survey) is the world's 12th most visited destination, and that certainly comes to no surprise to anyone who has set foot in Italy’s formidable capital city, according to The Local, over 50 million people stayed in hotels and vacation apartments last summer alone. With a wealth of antiquities and cultural attractions, it rema...

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Water: the locus where the world of the seen and the unseen meet, the origin of life, the strongest of protection against enemies, the most melodious of voices for lovers and poets. In Rome, water means Tiber and just there, at the very heart of the Capital’s own river, lies a small sliver of land, nestled between Trastevere and the Jewish area: th...

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Posizionate in vari luoghi del centro della Capitale, le Statue Parlanti nacquero in epoca pontificia quando il popolo cominciò ad appendere al collo di queste sculture cartelli con scritte satiriche, invettive e dialoghi umoristici mirati a deridere vari personaggi pubblici, tra i quali spesso anche il Papa, ovviamente rigorosamente di autori anon...

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When a fellow Italian like Constantino Brumidi gets to be called the “Michelangelo of the Capitol”, the readers of We the Italians understand that this is one of the topic that deserve to be addressed in an interview. This is why we are honored and grateful to have with us Dr. Barbara Wolanin, Ph.D. in art history, Curator Emerita (from 1985 to 201...

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Miami Scientific Italian Community and ALSERD (Association for Smart Learning Ecosystem and Regional Development) have signed an institutional agreement for the development of a synergistic action for the study and promotion of territories and smart communities where the individual is at the center of technological innovation (people centered smart...

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You can visit the Dolomites in Rome until September 2nd 2018, courtesy of photographer Georg Tappeiner (born in Merano, South Tyrol in 1964) – who portrayed these beautiful mountains and is now showcasing some forty wonderful photographs at Spazio Fontana at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, for a show titled, “Dolomites. The Heart of Stone of the Earth”....

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Beer lovers around the world rejoice because a new “abbey beer” is coming to town straight from Italy and the oldest beer-producing monastery in the world. The Montecassino Abbey was founded in 529 AD by Saint Benedict of Nursia and it’s the birthplace of the Benedictine order, but it’s also the oldest monastery in the world known for its beer prod...

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John Franco, stella dei New York Mets che lo hanno introdotto nella Hall of Fame per le sue oltre 400 salvezze in MLB, è stato in visita questa mattina assieme alla Iabf(Italian American Baseball Foundation) al cimitero americano di Nettuno. Una visita toccante per Franco che ha, per prima cosa, visitato il Visitor Centre all’ingresso. Poi una gita...

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Archaeologists have been left at a loss by the discovery of some mysterious ruins in Rome, which could be the remains of one of the city's earliest churches. The find was made at Ponte Milvio, a bridge along the River Tiber in the northern part of the city. And it came about completely by chance while electrical technicians, who were laying cables...

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