Retiring in Italy: The 7 Best Places to Retire in Italy
Italy's villages and cities appeal to retirees for many different reasons - the beautiful beaches, breathtaking countryside, amazing food, wonderful nightlife, bustling town markets and welcoming people. In this article, we cover several of our readers' favorite places, but one of our members offered the best advice, "in over 20 years of travel to ...
Pasquantino bonding with Italy teammates
For the first time in his life, Vinnie Pasquantino slept through an alarm. This was in November, and Pasquantino and his fiancée, Ryann, were in Italy on a trip that Team Italy manager Mike Piazza organized before the World Baseball Classic. It was a trip he called “Mission Classic,” bringing some of the American players with Italian heritage ove...
Italian film actor Giancarlo Giannini honored with Hollywood Walk of Fame star
A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Monday honoring Giancarlo Giannini for a career which included a best actor Oscar nomination, part of an extensive collaboration with legendary Italian director Lina Wertmuller. “This is a wonderful moment, and I’m very happy to be here,” Giannini told the crowd during the unveiling ceremony. “I wan...
Italian Energy and Agribusiness in Houston - Mission of Ambassador Zappia
The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, is on a mission to Houston for the launch of CERAweek, the primary annual U.S. energy review, as well as the 8th edition of "Taste of Italy," a fair dedicated exclusively to Italian agribusiness.CERAWeek includes a wide range of meetings and events with the participation of instituti...
Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature bursts with botanical life at the High Museum of Art
If you know the painter Joseph Stella, it’s probably from his famous urban landscapes like Brooklyn Bridge (1921), a futurist interpretation of New York’s dramatic 20th-century industrialization. But Stella was just as captivated by the botanical world as he was by cityscapes, and today, Atlantans can see that side of the artist in vivid color. Jos...
The Roman Empire Visualized in Infographics
It has become fashionable to compare the United States’ current disarray to that of ancient Rome. The parallels are easy to make — both are powerful empires, nominally operating by the rule of the people, with hefty engineering and military might to back up their conquest. Harder to appreciate is the fact that what we imagine as “Rome” is often jus...
Transiberian of Italy, the panoramic historical train
The Transiberiana d’Italia, also known as the Ferrovia dei Parchi, is a famous railway that winds between Abruzzo and Molise and offers a fascinating journey made of wonderful views of historic villages, mountains and natural areas. It is a path at high altitude on the Majella and up to the Major Highlands of Abruzzo of almost 1300 meters high, whi...
Review: Caruso’s Grocery arrives in Pike & Rose
Is it a crime to go to a red sauce Italian joint and fall in love with a salad? If it is, book me, because I can’t get enough of one offered at Caruso’s Grocery, which opened in the Pike & Rose development in December. When my tricolore salad arrives at the table, I stop for a few seconds to take in the prettiness of the assemblage of bright red ra...
The Tricolore: Unpacking the History and Symbolism of the Italian Flag
The Italian flag, known as “Il Tricolore,” is one of the most recognizable flags in the world. Its design is simple yet powerful, featuring three vertical stripes of green, white, and red. However, behind this design lies a rich history and symbolism that has made the Italian flag an important part of the country’s identity. The origin of the Itali...
Fulbright Scholar from Italy Comes to Seton Hall
Seton Hall is well-known for its faculty and students who win Fulbright Scholarships to study in other parts of the world, but the Fulbright Program also offers highly competitive grants to bring scholars from other countries to the United States to pursue their research. This semester (Spring 2023) Claudio Staiti of Italy is in residence at Seton...
You can write the message on the bottle by yourself, like on a blackboard: the “Lambrusco To You” by Ceci 1938
It made them colorful, dedicated to the joy of living, and with some of the most famous cities in the world, such as New York, and also capable of lighting up and becoming lamps, and so on and so forth. And now Ceci, a Lambrusco brand, one of the most “pop” wines ever - capable of uniting generations, between young people looking for wines that are...
Timeless family tradition becomes grocery store staple
Food has the power to nourish minds and bodies, bring people joy and unite different communities and cultures. Just four years ago, first-generation Italian immigrant Anthony Costella decided he would jar and sell his Nona’s original marinara recipe dating back to the 1800s. "I've always loved to cook, learned it, passed it down from two generation...