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Planning a trip to Europe? Why not make a quick stop in Rome, the Eternal City. Alitalia, the flag carrier airline of Italy, is currently offering free stopovers up to three nights long for their passengers. If you’re wondering what a stopover is, allow me to explain. It’s basically an intentionally long layover so you can actually spend some time...

“It’s like ‘Game of Thrones, no?” jokes Massimo Bottura of his wolf motif T-shirt. The animalia was courtesy of Gucci, which is run by his old grade school chum Marco Bizzarri. The two, along with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, have collaborated on a range of projects, the latest of which is the Osteria at Gucci Garden in Florence, ope...

Gli Stati Uniti investono in tecnologia con iniziative strategiche come il piano Manufacturing USA, volte a riportare il paese in una posizione di leadership nel comparto manifatturiero; si aprono quindi nuove opportunità per le imprese fornitrici di macchinari e attrezzature ad alto contenuto d'innovazione. Obiettivo dell’Agenzia Ice è quello di m...

Bags, blouses, skirts, dresses—designer Jennifer Tattanelli does it all and is soon bringing her custom designs to Port Washington, a place which she is also now calling home after years of splitting her life between winters in Florence, Italy and summers in Westhampton Beach. Along with an interesting background, Tattanelli brings handmade leather...

You don’t have to be Italian to truly appreciate an authentic Italian meal. Conchi and Vicente Contreras, natives of Ecuador and owners of Rustica Ristorante, are proof positive you don’t have to be Italian to prepare one, either. The wife-and-husband, do-it-all duo behind the successful restaurant in Chester opened a second Rustica location last O...

Secluded in the middle of the sestiere of San Marco, the palazzo’s crowning feature is the large interior flight of winding stairs that spirals up into the sky, named the Scala Contarini del Bovolo. “Del Bovolo” translates to “of the snail” in the Venetian dialect, referring to the spiral shape of the scala (staircase). The winding tower was so pop...

The Italian-American Cultural Center of Iowa will present their 21st annual St Joseph Altar celebration on Sunday, March 18 and Monday, March 19. Doors will open at 5:00PM, with the program  beginning 5:30PM. The blessing of the altar and a traditional Lenten meal will take place on Sunday evening. All day visitation is Monday, with refreshments at...

Piattello Italian Kitchen, chef Marcus Paslay's southwest Fort Worth restaurant/cafe, is one of Texas Monthly's picks for best new restaurants in Texas. The restaurant, which opened in January 2017 in the Waterside shopping center, slid in at No. 10 — no slouch in a state this big. "I’m shocked — shocked — that the arancini here have not been desig...

Nonna Irma has become something of a celebrity in her native Italy after her proud granddaughter shared her story on Facebook this week. "This is my grandma Irma, a young lady of 93, who set off for Kenya tonight," wrote Elisa Coltro on Monday.  "Not to some tourist resort to be waited on hand and foot, but to go to a village of children, in an orp...

The Ferrari Museum in Maranello – where the legendary factory was founded in 1947 – is a wonderful space dedicated to the vision of a dreamer with a “a talent for stirring up men”, as Enzo Ferrari once described himself. In this magical place, the history of the Prancing Horse – one of the most famous Italian car brands in the world – zooms by on i...

We hear Tuscany and, of course, we think Florence, Siena, the leaning tower of Pisa, Lucca’s medieval walls. If idyllic settings and wine are your thing, then it’s all about the region of Chianti, and the towns of Montepulciano or Montalcino. Fancy a stint in the Italian wilderness, here’s Maremma. There are at least a dozens names coming to our m...

Ninety-one-year-old Joan Salvato Wulff, the “First Lady of Fly Fishing,” says that even after all these decades, she never fails to feel a jolt of life every time she casts into the water. “Fly fishing puts you in touch with the natural world,” she says. “Everything we do is in tune with that.” Salvato Wulff is a proud inductee of both the Internat...