Relazioni Italia-Usa, a Palazzo Reale celebrati 75 anni di amicizia
Non sempre la diplomazia e’ un mestiere facile, specialmente se l’interlocutore e’ un popolo che ha subito una guerra fratricida, ma quando uno ti tende la mano per risalire dal fosso profondo ove si e’ precipitati, non si deve guardare in faccia il Salvatore perché sia degno di noi. Aiutare il prossimo certe volte odora di bruciato e i primi ad av...
Inside Milan’s Casa Verdi, where musicians retire in harmony
When Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi in the late 1800s built a neo-Gothic mansion in Milan, he envisioned a bustling sanctuary for professional musicians who were not earning livable incomes. Since then, Casa Verdi has hosted 1,500 residents and become an exclusive retirement home for elderly players. Special Correspondent Christopher Livesay repor...
Foggia. In ricordo di Joe Petrosino
Pubblico e privato insieme, come spesso avviene, per ribadire e rilanciare l’impegno contro la diffusa cultura dell’illegalità. Stavolta, però, nel nome e nel ricordo del grande Joe Petrosino, il primo poliziotto italoamericano che si oppose a Cosa Nostra, pagando con la vita. L’Università di Foggia e Patto Consulting Impresa Sociale, in collabora...
At Age 90, Famed Composer Ennio Morricone Reveals His Best Life Advice
Composer Ennio Morricone is celebrating his 90th birthday on Nov. 10, and he has been nothing but prolific as of late. He won his second Oscar at 87 for scoring Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, and is currently on The 60 Years of Music Tour of Europe, which runs through late January 2019. While his work for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is c...
The Perfect Union Between Slow Travel and Food in Sicily
Train journeys in the South of Italy from Rome downwards towards Sicily are infamous for their slow pace and inefficiency. Yet the genuinely epic train ride from Rome to Naples, through the tale of the Italian Alps at Calabria should really be experienced at least once. At the final station on the peninsula at Villa San Giovanni, the carriages are...
Italy Plus Tours: Not your Typical Tour Guides
There are thousands of travel agents and tour guides that specialize in trips to Italy. However, there are not many like Giovanni Catalano and MJ Parri of Italy Plus Tours. Certainly, they, like the thousands of others, guarantee their clients will receive the best experience in European travel, especially to Italy. However, what sets them apart is...
Casino di Venezia - the oldest casino in the world
Venice may not be the first association one thinks of when they hear the word "casino", however, Las Vegas could most probably be the first thing that comes to mind. But Venice indeed is the place that the first casino in the world opened its doors to visitors. It was estblished in 1638 to be a theatre with a wing for gambling. It definitely starte...
Cervinia: an enchanting place to sky in October
Italy offers the possibility of places to ski even in the month of October, and this thanks to the presence of glaciers on the mountain range of the Alps that delimits the Italian territory to the north. One of these places is Cervinia which is located in Val d’Aosta. Italian Traditions will guide you on the discovery of this magnificent mountain v...
How To Entertain Like Massimo Bottura, The World's Best Chef
At the helm of the world's currently top-rated restaurant, Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, is Massimo Bottura, a recognizable face and personality from Chef's Table and Aziz Ansari's Master of None. Eating at Bottura's small, highly sought after restaurant can be close to impossible, but you even without achieving a top chef status, you can s...
Meet the Next Generation of Italy’s Business Dynasties
The deaths of Wanda Ferragamo and Gilberto Benetton this month highlighted a challenge for some of Italy’s most well-known family businesses: With the post-war entrepreneurs who built the companies leaving the stage, they need to ensure that members of the next generation, or trusted outsiders, are ready to step up to fill the void. Some families,...
A “memento mori” in San Bernardino alle Ossa
Italian best-selling author Giuseppe Genna has been familiar with San Bernardino alle Ossa since his childhood. Inside the Milanese Baroque church, built in the second half of the 17th century, he was particularly impressed by the human bones – retrieved from an ancient nearby cemetery – used to decorate the niches, pillars, doors and frieze of a c...
Oriana Fallaci. An Italian woman, a controvert journalist
Proud, dignified, charismatic, pragmatic: the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who passed away in 2006, was this and much more. A successful writer and renowned journalist, from a cultural point of view she was one of the most prominent women figures. Active feminist, famous for her love/ hate relationship with the dear departed, Pier Paolo Pasol...