Club ItaloAmericano gives out honors
Club ItaloAmericano of Green Bay recently hosted the 10th annual WisItalia Awards Banquet, where the local club was honored for promoting events that encourage Italian heritage in the greater Green Bay area. Lisa Joy Meli, Italian language teacher at Preble and East high schools was presented with the 2013 Teacher of the Year Award, and ch...
Aziende italiane con l'ICE all'Interbike di Las Vegas
Sono 32 le aziende italiane che, coordinate dall'Agenzia Ice e dall'ANCMA, partecipano in questi giorni all'edizione 2013 di Intrerbike, la principale manifestazione dedicata alle biciclette negli Stati Uniti, inaugurata ieri al Centro espositivo del Mandalay Bay, a Las Vegas. Le importazioni Usa di biciclette, parti e accessori nel 2012 h...
Via Colori street painting festival set for Nov. 23-24
The Via Colori street painting festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 23-24, in downtown Houston. Via Colori was introduced to Houston in 2006 to celebrate the Italian Renaissance art of street painting while benefiting Center for Hearing and Speech, a nonprofit organization that teaches speaking, listening and literacy skills to c...
Italian art: The seven works of Mercy
WTI Magazine #7 2013 Nov, 29Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti In 1606 Michelangelo Merisi, also known as Caravaggio, left Rome to go to Naples.Rome was no longer a safe place, due to a death sentence which hung over his head. He will never come back again in the capital city that...
The “World’s Biggest Christmas Tree”
by Ishita Gaikwad A tiny Italian town is all set to spread Christmas cheer all through the Umbrian countryside. Hundreds of grown-ups and delighted children watched as a tablet computer switched on the dazzling display called the "The World's Biggest Christmas Tree" on a hill above the town of Gubbio. The holiday display, which has been i...
SME’s in Italy – A snapshot
Italy's SME sector — the largest in the EU by number of firms — is dominated by more than 3.6 million micro-firms with less than 10 employees. Micro firms therefore contribute more to employment and value-added than elsewhere in the EU: nearly half of total employment and one-third of value added says the European SBA Fact Sheet. There is...
Italian land and nature: The Riviera in Emilia Romagna
WTI Magazine #14 2014 Jan, 24Author : italia.it Translation by: Many know it as the Riviera of Fun, given its expansive and well-maintained beaches and innumerable attractions; the Adriatic Riviera (in Emilia Romagna) is one of Italy's best-known beach resort localities, and no doubt that the Riviera of Fun is a definition that suits...
Precario della Tirrenia trova 26mila euro e li restituisce: "Non ho avuto esitazioni"
Andrea Tarantino, precario da una vita su un traghetto della Tirrenia, ha trovato 26mila euro sulla nave e li ha restituiti senza pensarci un attimo alla legittima proprietaria, una signora cinese che l'ha ricompensato con soli 200 euro. E' successo tutto l'altra mattina, quando la nave è approdata a Napoli. Lui come tutti i giorni, dopo l...
Italiacamp presenta ad ambasciatore Usa startup scelte per Wall Street
La delegazione dell'Associazione e della Fondazione ItaliaCamp, composta dai presidenti onorari Gianni Letta e Antonio Catricalà e dal presidente Fabrizio Sammarco, ha incontrato ieri all'ambasciata americana a Roma l'ambasciatore John Phillips, per illustrare la missione internazionale USACamp che si svolgerà dal 26 febbraio al 3 marzo tra Ne...
Italian Innovation Day 2014: Six Take-Aways
by Mauro Battocchi Thanks to the Mind the Bridge Foundation more than 250 high-tech professionals from Silicon Valley learnt something that hardly ever pierces through the media walls - facts about Italy's innovation capabilities that are generally confined to a smaller circle of hands-on experts. Such is Italy's success in culture, food,...
Finding the Motherlode Returns to California Riding a Wave of Acclaim
by Mauro Battocchi After a successful California premier and screenings in New York City, Finding the Motherlode — thedocumentary about the history of Italians in California by Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien, co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs — has been invited back to California for a tour of eight screenings aro...
Italian wine: Arborea
WTI Magazine #24 2014 Apr, 04Author : Vino OK Translation by: The wine area that involves the Arborea DOC is located in the province of Oristano in the eastern area that extends beyond the Plain of Terralba, slightly offset to the south. This area, totally flat, was obtained from a wide reclamation work undertaken during the Fascism:...