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Fairytale places can make you feel like a king and queen for a day. Enveloped in history and magic are castles. They reign supreme in the narrow streets of picturesque villages, perched on majestic mountains, surrounded by enchanting forests and woods or lapped by the waves of the sea.  These castles, so different from each other and so beautiful,...

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy is arguably one of the most iconic and critically acclaimed pieces of cinematographic art ever made. And now, you can own the opulent Italian castle featured prominently in the franchise's third installment. The stunning property, known as the castle of the Pennisi Family of Floristella, spans a whopping...

The President of the Republic of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, received this past Friday, January 7, 2022, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti at the Quirinale building, with the Director General of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, the President of the Italian Space Agency, Giorgio Saccoccia, and the Head of Cabinet of ESA Director-General...

In 1984, when Kobe Bryant was 6, his father, Joe, uprooted him and his family to Italy to eke out a few more paychecks after an eight-year NBA career. A 6-foot-9 forward, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant had played for the Philadelphia 76ers, the San Diego Clippers and the Houston Rockets, and had now accepted an offer to play for Sebastani Rieti, based in t...

Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” has advanced to the short list in the 2022 Oscar race. The film is available stateside on Netflix. One of the stars of the film is actress Luisa Ranieri as the eccentric, troubled Aunt Patrizia, the Italian actress Luisa Ranieri. Born in Naples in 1973, Ranieri hit the ground running, finding her break out film...

The word “Parma’‘ has been used in 65 New York Times crossword puzzles. It has been clued in several different ways, including “Toscanini’s birthplace” and “Cheese city.” Parmigiano Reggiano, a beloved cheese Americans refer to as Parmesan cheese or “parm,” has a solid fan base composed of cheese lovers around the globe. The name of the pungent pow...

Italian authorities have announced they will introduce limitations on the number of people allowed into Venice, in an attempt to reduce mass tourism in the City of Canals. Previous data showed around 100,000 tourists were able to stroll through the city's squares every day up until now. But in a few weeks, it will no longer be possible to visit the...

The lack of an enzyme in the body causes the fatal nerve-wasting disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's Disease, an Italian study has shown, raising hope for new treatment options. The study by Milan's Mario Negri Institute and Turin's Città della Salute, published in the journal Brain, shows that the lack of cyclophillin A ind...

In the beautiful background of the Sorrento coast, Vico Equense stands out. It is on a block of tuff at the south of the Gulf of Naples and stands proud of its maximum height of 1,444 meters with the top of Mount Sant'Angelo, part of the Lattari mountains. In addition to the very marked tourism that populates the suggestive alleys in the summer and...

The cities, the archipelagos, the volcanoes and the monuments of the island have been inserted in the World Heritage UNESCO as testimony of the artistic and natural beauties of Sicily. From natural beauties to spectacular monuments, from archaeological areas to picturesque old towns, Sicily has many reasons to be defined as a World Heritage Site an...

The Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar™ is a three-week summer program that takes place at Roma Tre University. It is designed to introduce participants (doctoral students and professors) to cultural studies of the Italian diaspora from a variety of academic perspectives and to foster development of individual projects responding to the materi...

Prosecco has surpassed champagne as the most exported sparkling wine in the European Union. Despite a 6% decline in overall values, PROSECCO has surpassed champagne as the EU’s top sparkling wine export. Italian prosecco has ranked first among the main categories of sparkling wine exported from EU member states to countries outside the European Uni...