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The kick-off event for the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival was held Saturday evening at Village Square in Clarksburg. The festival’s annual spring gala to honor its new Regina Maria and her royal court, serves as a preview of what’s to come during the main festival on Labor Day weekend. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the acclaimed...

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Thursday, May 23, 2024, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Pittsburgh, PA - Free with registration here. "After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage" is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology,...

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The Regional Natural Parco delle Serre covers an area of 17,687 hectares (211,534 square yards) and also includes the area of Lake Angitola. Slopes and hills covered with forests characterize the landscape. Between the mountains, the park encloses vast depressions, including the plain of Lacina and the dales of Serra San Bruno, Chiaravalle, Mongian...

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Those looking for charming little towns and villages to visit should look no further than Italy. Italy is a charming place with small towns galore. One of the many affordable scenic small towns to visit in Italy is the southern coastal town of Tropea. Tropea is counted among the most beautiful villages in Italy (even being named the most beautiful...

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Calabria, Italy, is renowned for its beautiful beaches, stunning mountains, colorful hillside villages, and unquestionably—its exceptional regional cuisine. I was fortunate enough to be born in Calabria, the beautiful Southern region of Italy, which is separated from Sicily only by the undulating waters of the Strait of Messina. Calabria is the las...

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Do you know the most beautiful beaches in Tropea? You can find them on the Costa degli Dei in Calabria. The coast is a good 55 kilometres long with white beaches, scattered rocks and crystal clear water. Have you ever seen them? The stretch of coastline between Pizzo and Ricadi rises above the sea, forming a promontory that gives rise to an extraor...

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Growing up in Southern Italy during World War II, all of us children were kept in the dark about the horrors taking place near and far. Constant hunger, pestilent diseases and bombing raids were enough hardships for us to endure. It was June 10, 1940, when it all began. A huge crowd of somber townspeople gathered next door to our home. A wealthy la...

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The Calabria region, right down in the toe of Italy’s boot, is where Italian cuisine gets intense. Along with the usual wide range of classic dishes, locals relish spicy foods such as pig blood sausages known as sanguinaccio, and pasta laced with ‘nduja chile pepper salami. It’s a place steeped in ancient traditions, both cultural and culinary. In...

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Did you know that four Italian cities – Rome, Reggio Calabria, Syracuse, and Pozzuoli – are mentioned in the Bible, or that the first non-Jew that the Apostles converted to Christianity was an Italian? It is safe to say that Christianity itself might well have remained a minor Middle Eastern sect had it not been for the Italian domination of the Me...

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An Italian town known for its "fiery cuisine" and troubled past has long been known as the country's most beautiful. Tropea is a seaside resort town in Italy's Province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, close to the toe of the boot-shaped country. The community and larger province are several hundred miles from the country's tourist centres, with Naples...

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