NEWS FROM : ITALY  

This weekend in Italy we lose an hour of sleep but gain an hour of sunlight when clocks "spring forward" by one hour at 02.00 Central European Time (CET) on Sunday 28 March. The practice dates back to more than a century, before the advent of electricity, to take full advantage of all the daylight hours during the working day. However it could be o...

Among the Dante 700 in the World initiatives linked to new technologies, the multimedia installation Inferno 5 is an app for smartphones and tablets available in five languages, offering the spectator an immersive experience of one of Dante's most memorable passages: Canto V of the Inferno. An innovative way of re-reading the immortal verses and a...

Italy, as we all know, is the country that alone holds approximately 70-75% of the world's artistic and cultural heritage. UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, is committed to protecting, safeguarding and promoting the sites of exceptional value and beauty registered as World Heritage Sites. Together with Ch...

Villa d'Este is a marker of Italian nobility located in the city center of Tivoli on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. Its history, dating back to the sixteenth century, makes it a great destination for professors, students, and tourists alike. The villa and its sprawling 100-hectare surrounding park house over a hundred fountains and water features, B...

Giorgio Faletti was a multitalented artist: a gifted crime novelist, an inspired singer-songwriter, a stand-up comedian, and an actor who added dramatic dimensions to his onscreen persona.  The adventurous storyteller died of lung cancer in 2014 in Turin, at age 63 on July 4, America’s Independence Day anniversary. It was just a coincidence, yet th...

Forget cappuccino and the croissant-like brioche/cornetto. In Sicily, locals start their summer days on a sweet and refreshing note, breakfasting on granita câ brioscia, or granita with brioche.  Granita for breakfast A Sicilian specialty, granita is a cold, sweet treat made from water, sugar, and fruit that is never completely frozen. It's mixed c...

The Association of the Celebrations of the Big Shoulder-borne Processional Structures was born in 2006 and includes four Italian religious feasts (the Santa Rosa Machine in Viterbo, the Gigli Feast in Nola, the Varia of Palmi and the Faradda di li Candareri in Sassari). Since 2013 this group is into the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by U...

The eight-part Italian miniseries, The War Is Over, airing on MHz Choice is so moving that it compelled me to dig deeper. The closing credits note that the narrative was adapted from a book, The Children of Selvino: Journey to the Promised Land, by Aharon Megged. Was the TV series faithful to the book? I wanted to find out. The fictional characters...

Barilla America received the Winds of Change Award from the Forum on Workplace Inclusion on March 12, 2021, for demonstrating sustained support for advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace. For 33 years, The Forum has served as a convening hub for those seeking to grow professional leadership and effectiveness skills in the field of DEI b...

It was a goddess that inspired Sunny Bertollini to move to Italy. The 50-year-old herbalist, and her husband, Mark Hinshaw, a 72-year-old retired architect, had been coming to Italy on vacation for years. On one trip, they visited an ancient temple to Salus, a Roman goddess of health and well-being — and Bertollini, who says she has “always been a...

La mostra “Dante ipermoderno. Illustrazioni dantesche nel mondo, 1983-2021” propone un percorso rappresentativo delle fasi più recenti della grande storia delle illustrazioni di opere dantesche in epoca contemporanea. Le nove serigrafie di Tom Phillips uniscono l’immediatezza pop a una raffinata ricerca evocativa, a tratti perfino informale. I dipi...

A group of houses, churches, monasteries and chapels were built into the natural grottos of Murgia, a limestone plateau characterized by deep cracks, ravines, rocks and caverns. These are the characteristics and aspects that have made the Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera UNESCO World Heritage Site. The UNESCO Value in Matera...