Vicini Americani (VA), directly translating to "American neighbors", partnered with various organizations and agencies from around the 31st Fighter Wing to bring the installation and local Italian communities together in all new ways. Established in 2019, VA is a purely volunteer-based organization at Aviano AB made up of Americans and Italians. Me...

The "Storia e memorie" group of 21 students and teachers from Friuli and Sardegna returned to Italy this weekend after an intensive three-week program at Georgetown University and Casa Italiana. The program was funded by the Italian Senate and managed by Fri.Sa.Li World in cooperation with the Embassy of Italy. A CISC team - Liz DiGregorio, Anna Is...

A promotional week entirely dedicated to the Friuli Venezia Giulia region will be held in Miami from October 25-30, 2022. The initiative aims at promoting food and wine specialties from this Northeastern Italian region, as well as its tourist destinations, from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. During this week there will be two presentation and dinner...

More than 200 experiences, 34 child-friendly facilities, and opportunities from the seaside to the mountains are available to enjoy the region. The Family carnet is still in effect, with discounts and giveaways to amusement parks and other activities at participating venues. Friuli Venezia Giulia is becoming more and more family-friendly: as of thi...

Honoring one’s origins and realizing with one’s own eyes, and with one’s heart, that the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli Institute, where mosaicists have been trained for a hundred years in his grandfather’s native town, led Dr. David Zavagno to leave his hometown in the U.S. for Spilimbergo, Italy. Accompanied by his wife, Denise, and a couple of fri...

Halfway between Venice and Trieste (in the Province of Udine) lies Lignano Sabbiadoro. Given its natural characteristics – along 5 miles of fine-sand beaches – and its excellent lodging structures, this tiny Friulian Comune has obtained a number of important national and international recognitions, particularly the famous Blue Flag. Among the best-...

Grandiose buildings, coffeehouse culture and a central square big enough to parade a small army in … there’s a reason this city at the end of the Adriatic is called “little Vienna by the sea”. Since the 14th century, when it asked the House of Habsburg for protection from the covetous reach of Venice, Trieste has spent more time as an Austrian city...

Trieste is one of the Italy’s most beautiful and fascinating sea cities where different cultures and traditions coexist. This is a border town as it is located in the most extreme part of Friuli and Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. The visit of this place is a journey back in time and history. But that’s not all, in fact this is a unique...

New technologies have enabled us to travel even by just moving a finger on our smartphones. Here tourism has become somewhat virtual. And we have noticed it in these two years of lockdown and pandemic. Enabling it was the innovation introduced in 2007, just 15 years ago, by Google, which after changing our lives with the Maps application, launched...

The URBAN Photo Awards 2022 is a popular annual photography contest – you can enter 1 photo for FREE until 31 May – that is at the core of the Trieste Photo Days festival. The festival was founded in 2014 and it is dedicated entirely to urban photography and the exploration of contemporary life, so it makes sense to have a major competition linked...