Italy’s e-commerce growth and trends in 2025
In 2025, online shopping in Italy is expected to grow by 6%, surpassing €62 billion. The services sector sees an 8% increase from 2024, reaching €22 billion, while product e-commerce experiences a 6% rise, surpassing €40 billion. Within product purchases, Food & Grocery and Beauty & Pharma outpace the average growth with rates around 7%. Other sect...
Disaronno celebrates 500 years of Italian heritage and innovation
In 2025, Disaronno, the world's most consumed Italian liqueur, celebrates its remarkable 500th anniversary, marking a significant milestone in its history. To commemorate this event, Disaronno introduces the Disaronno Bar concept, designed to strengthen its connection to the urban and daily life of neighborhood bars in emerging city districts. The...
Italy's Meloni says Trump will visit Rome and consider meeting EU
U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to an official visit to Rome and will consider also meeting representatives of the European Union while there, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday in the Oval Office. Meloni's U.S. trip came amid a tariff row between Washington and Brussels and was seen as an attempt to facilitate dialogue a...
Lights, camera, canzone! Italian music in international movies
If we think of Italian music and cinema, thoughts go immediately to two names: Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, who composed some of the most incredible and world-known soundtracks in the history of the Seventh Art. It is right to say, then, that Italian music has long had a significant role in international cinema, but not only through the works of...
How Italy’s Jure Sanguinis Changes Threaten Italian Food Culture
For decades, Italian-American chefs, bakers, and culinary dreamers have used Italy’s Jure Sanguinis (citizenship by descent) law as a gateway not just to a passport, but to a deeper, more immersive connection with their ancestral roots. They’ve apprenticed with village nonnas, trained in small-town trattorias, and walked through vineyards their gre...
The Art of Caffè Corretto, a Beloved Italian Drink With Meager Beginnings
After moving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in January 2009, I went to my first Feast of the Giglio festival that summer. For 12 days in July, the neighborhood’s historically southern Italian community comes together to celebrate and pay homage to la Madonna Della Carmine. After my friend and I got our fill of sausage and peppers and zeppole, we wander...
How to Explore Verona Like a Local: A Perfect Itinerary for First-Timers
Recognized for its role in Shakespeare’s eternal love saga, “Romeo and Juliet”, Verona is not just about beguiling love stories. This historic Italian city is filled with charming streets, remarkable architecture, and gastronomic delights that captivate the adoration of locals and tourists alike. For first-timers, planning the perfect itinerary can...
Firenze The 7 Most Beautiful Museums to Visit in Florence in 2025
If you're planning a trip to Florence, the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, and want to discover the best of the city's cultural attractions, this article offers a complete guide to the 7 most important museums, along with useful tips to make your visit easier, more enjoyable, and well-organized. Florence is a world-renowned cultural and ar...
Mozzarella di Bufala at Risk as U.S. Tariffs Loom
Proposed US tariffs on Mozzarella di Bufala Campana PDO risk undoing years of investment to build market share in the United States, where the product has gained traction among consumers despite persistent logistical hurdles. The US accounts for around 10% of total exports of the protected-origin cheese, with an export value of more than €30mn. Whi...
Drones revolutionizing healthcare logistics in Italy
In the near future of healthcare, logistical efficiency could be impacted by the widespread and systematic use of drones, transforming the sky into a new distribution infrastructure. Imagining that a blood bag or a life-saving drug could travel several hundred meters above the ground and land with precision (with use cases ranging from islands to m...
A global community of Italophony
A "Global Community of Italophony" to promote political dialogue, international cooperation, exchanges, and connections between civil societies, as well as cultural, economic, scientific, and academic relations among its members: this is the goal outlined at the fifth edition of the General States of the Italian Language in the World, which took pl...
Asphalt art transforms a street in Rome thanks to Bloomberg
A burst of colors has covered the asphalt of Via Monte Ruggero, in the heart of Tufello. This street in the Municipality III district is now part of Bloomberg Philanthropies' "Asphalt Art Initiative," a project founded by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. The goal is to transform streets around the world by filling them with color to ma...
