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For a group of Shepherd School of Music graduate students, summer 2025 offered more than just a change of scenery. It reshaped how they see their art, their craft and themselves. Thanks to the Margaret C. Pack Language Institute for Singers, vocal performance students going into the second year of the master’s program spent three immersive weeks in...

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Some trips just can excite more than others, especially when the pleasure of discovering spectacular places combines with being together with the person you love and sharing unique experiences to join in two. The ideal destination for your next trip as a couple indeed could be Val di Noto, a land in south-eastern Sicily rich in extraordinary histor...

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Siena was perhaps the Italian city best loved by Vittorio Alfieri, who in his Autobiography, published in 1806, did not fail to praise itselegance, a quality peculiar to this city. “So great is the force of the beautiful and the true,” Alfieri wrote about Siena, “that I felt almost a lively ray suddenly brightening my mind, and a most sweet flatter...

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You’ll need 300 grams of egg yolk, 200 grams of sugar, 80 grams of flour, and a litre of milk to make a good lemon cream —don’t forget the zest and a vanilla pod. That’s where you start to make the lingua di Procida, a delicate puff pastry rolled out by hand and baked in the oven, sealing inside all the fragrance of the island’s signature citrus fr...

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  The world’s first hydrogen-powered cruise ship is Italian With summer arriving, Italy’s love for gelato keeps growing, with new flavors Italy’s history finds new life on TikTok Summer 2025 tourism forecast: foreign visitors outnumber Italians for the first time Italy’s Coast Guard: protecting the nation’s waters for 160 years Moving out later: ho...

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Uber has announced that customers will be able to book helicopters in minutes in Italy this summer to beat crowds. From 26 July to 23 August, travellers on Italy’s Amalfi Coast can reserve a private Uber Copter to take them between Sorrento and Capri using the Uber app for €250 per head. The dual-pilot helicopter service will operate every Saturday...

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American Airlines launched new service from Miami International Airport (MIA) to Rome (FCO), just in time for the airline’s largest summer schedule in MIA history. American and Miami-Dade County stakeholders hosted an event to celebrate the new route, complete with Italian food and traditional entertainment for customers to enjoy ahead of the histo...

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American Airlines is soaring to new international heights this summer with the launch of its inaugural nonstop flight from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport and the return of daily seasonal service to Germany and Ireland. The new route offers travelers direct access from North Texas to one of Italy’s most iconic a...

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First things first: the Italian Lakes are beautiful. Balmy weather in what should be a region of Alpine chill nurtures palms, olives, lemons and a profusion of sublime villa gardens. Old fishing villages cling to the shores, the views are some of Italy’s loveliest, and gentle hills and rugged mountains tumble to the water to provide the most perfec...

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Italy is known for many wonderful things: art, architecture, opera, hand gestures, and an enviable approach to coffee. But tucked among these cultural icons, there is something just as incredible: its delightfully peculiar laws. Some are old, some still enforced, and some are just baffling enough to raise an eyebrow and bring a smile.  Whether aime...

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