Presentation of the Transatlantic Investment Committee at Centro Studi Americani in Rome
The Italian Ambassador to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, participated in the launch of the "Transatlantic Investment Committee", a platform dedicated to industrial, scientific-technological and entrepreneurial collaboration between Italy and the USA, speaking at an event organized by the Amerigo Association, in collaboration with the Centro...
Biden lands in Rome for G20 Italy and talks with pope
US president Joe Biden landed in Rome's Fiumicino airport in the early hours of Friday morning ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit hosted by Italy this weekend. The president will join the heads of the world's most powerful nations at a two-day summit in the capital's Nuvola conference centre on 30-31 October. Before he attends the talks, centred on '...
The 23 Italian cities nominated for the Capital of Culture 2024
23 cities have presented their candidacy dossier for the Italian Capital of Culture 2024, including title, cultural project, body responsible for the project, evaluation of economic and financial sustainability and objectives pursued. The candidacies will be evaluated by a commission composed of 7 experts from the world of culture, arts, territoria...
The Day of the Dead Summons Age-old Rituals & Traditions in Italy
There’s much to celebrate during autumn in Italy. Unlike summer, which is the period where tourists flock to the boot from all over the world, the fall is really a season for locals. It’s the period of the olive collection and oil production, the making of wine from the grapes that have matured ever so perfectly during the summer heat, and the peri...
Museo Mario Cassisa: Atelier le Labyrinthe de la Mèmoria
IN THE HISTORIC CENTER OF Trapani, just behind the busy pedestrian thoroughfare of Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, a multitude of ceramic faces adorn the facade of a particular building. Another glance reveals a group of colorful sculptures created from a hodgepodge of diverse objects. Welcome to the world of Mario Cassisa, a Sicilian-American outsider art...
VoloCity: Rome's Fiumicino airport to bring flying taxi drones to Italy
Getting from Rome's international Fiumicino airport into the centre of the Italian capital normally takes about 45 minutes in a taxi, depending on traffic. This journey time could be cut to just 15 minutes within a couple of years under futuristic plans unveiled by Aeroporti di Roma (AdR) and Atlantia, the Italy-based global company which manages m...
Here's why Florence is perfect for your next winter break
With its long warm days and smorgasbord of iconic sights to tick off every world-traveler’s bucket list, summer has always been the hot time of year to visit Florence – it was often packed to bursting point pre-pandemic. Yet each season has a beauty of its own, with a stack of top sights to see and things to do whatever the time of year and your in...
Restoration reveals the secrets of Michelangelo's Pietà Bandini
We are between 1547 and 1555. Michelangelo sculpts the Pietà in a single large block of white marble. It depicts the Virgin and Mary Magdalene receiving the body of Christ, deposed from the cross by the elderly Nicodemus. Buonarroti, in his seventies, thought that the sculpture could be placed on the altar where he wanted to be buried. But then, un...
Sentiero Italia Cai, the longest of the paths
One of the most beautiful experiences that you can have in your life is undoubtedly taking a walk in unspoiled nature among breathtaking landscapes and almost a surreal silence. Italy’s longest path offers the possibility to trekking for hiking lovers and not only that, it also offers the chance to discover several natural places and some of the mo...
Iconic Italian Motorcycle Brand Moto Guzzi Celebrates 100 years of Greatness
I’m brapping around Manhattan on a Centenary Edition Moto Guzzi V7 bedecked in charcoal and olive-green livery. An 850cc V-twin which makes me want to hit the Swiss countryside and find some barbed-wire fence to jump, à la Steve McQueen in The Great Escape. Sadly, the proxy has to be Park Avenue; a venue with its own inherent risks, challenges, and...
The 2022 Maserati Ghibli Is An Awesome Italian Sports Sedan
Very few car brands across the world conjure up emotions like the Italian car brands. Names like Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Lancia. All convey different emotions, but all of them are the same in that they show us what a car is really about. Of those brands, Lancia is sadly no longer what they were, and Maserati has not exactly...
Sicilian Vegetables and their traditional names
In Sicily, when we talk about the products of the earth, besides being unique and sometimes unobtainable in other parts of the world, they also have very particular names and that obviously vary even within Sicily itself. When it comes to Sicilian vegetables, Sicily does not fear comparisons: for centuries it has been producing veggies with genuin...