The Mystery of the Riace Bronzes, Ancient Greek Statues Found in Italy
The mystery over the Riace Bronzes, two magnificent ancient Greek statues, remains almost half a century after the day they were recovered off the coast of the Italian region of Calabria in August of 1972. To this day, archaeologists and other scientists have been unable to identify with certainty who the bronze statues depict, when they were creat...
Italy's Potential for Bakery and sweet Confectionery
Sweet bakery products, which account for about 52 percent of the total value exported by the Italian confectionery sector, recorded an increase in exports of +16.6 percent in volume in 2021, and +15.8 percent in value. This is 755,920 tons of products and a turnover of 2,425.8 million euros. These data were released by Unione Italiana Food, the Ita...
Cinque Terre Is My Favorite Place In Italy, Here’s Why
Italy is such a wonderful and diverse country to visit; each region seems to have a personality all its own. For instance, Rome is an eclectic mix of ancient and modern, while Florence is a big city with a small-town feel. I have traveled all over Italy, visiting Capri, Rome, Florence, Venice, and more, but no place has captured my attention and st...
Wet hair just might kill you: peculiar customs and habits of life in Italy
Tere’s a plethora of articles out there on what not to do to avoid self-proclamation of “I’m a tourist!” when visiting Italy. Much of it is worthy advice…unless you prefer sticking out. However, many of these eye-openers for the stranieri (foreigners) go beyond ways to circumvent disagreeable tourist behavior and are, in fact, related to everyday l...
Gallo Nero is also an art district: “A (rt) message in a (Chianti Classico) bottle”
Chianti Classico has inspired artists since Vasari and Leonardo da Vinci, who immortalized it and made it famous in the sixteenth century. Then, Vasari, the renowned biographer of the greatest painters and sculptors, sealed the duo art-Black Rooster, with his famous “Allegory” in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, in which C...
Naples - The Power of the Red Cornicello
Looks like a red chilli. In fact, Naples' traditional good luck charm is a horn. This is supposed to ward off the "evil eye". The lucky charm must be stiff, hollow, crooked and pointed to be effective, so they say. And you have to Cornicello or Curniciello (as it is correctly called in Neapolitan) on being given as a present... The writer Matilde S...
A Chiara, the Italian arthouse answer to The Sopranos
Swamy Rotolo was nine years old when she was cast as the 15-year-old protagonist of Jonas Carpignano’s engrossing coming-of-age thriller A Chiara. Not that she knew it at the time. In 2014, Rotolo was auditioning for the blink-and-you-miss-it role of Chiara in Carpignano’s second feature, A Ciambra; in private, though, the Italian-American director...
10 Best Things to Do in Naples Italy
Planning for the best things to do in Naples Italy is the basics for a perfect trip to Southern Italy. Cuddled up in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and close to the Tyrrhenian Sea lies Naples, also recognized as the third-largest city in Italy. Naples has a rich history that goes way back to the Neolithic period. As such, the cultural arts you can fi...
The Medieval Italian City Where Paper Is Still Created By Hand
The fascinating city of Fabriano is off the tourist trail in the rarely explored region of La Marche, Italy. If you love handmade paper (Remember? We once used paper to communicate with each other), then you will love this city, famous for its production of paper and for inventing the watermark in the late 1200s. Tucked between two Apennine Mountai...
Ugento: the most beautiful coastal area of Salento
In Italy there are incredible places that allow you to spend a holiday in contact with nature and the sea. One of these is Ugento Shore among the most beautiful seaside campsites on the whole coast of Salento. Here you will discover where this wonderful location is located and you will know in detail what it consists of. You will also have the oppo...
Out of 25 million Italians who go on vacation, one in five choose the open air
Flexible, sustainable and safe: thanks to its intrinsic characteristics, the open-air sector in recent years has been able to earn and win the trust of Italians. Credit also goes to its ability to evolve, intercepting the needs and demands of new target audiences. If on the one hand the pandemic has brought people closer to a more conscious and pro...
The Arabic culture in Italian food
Italy suffered many raids from the Arab people since the 7th century. They conquered Sicily and settle here for about 200 years until the arrival of Normans. During this time, Arab bring some changes to the Italian food culture. We find these changes above all in many Sicilian dishes but also in many dishes of the Southern Italy. Arab bring to Ital...