Italian cuisine: Pasta, White Bean, and Tomato Soup
January is National Soup Month, and for many Italians and Italian Americans paste e fagioli is a culinary icon. Evoking warm memories of childhood and bold, yet comforting flavors, homemade pasta e fagioli comes in many forms. In Italy, the most ancient versions date back to the Southern regions that made up Magna Grecia. There, pasta (called lagan...
Italian healthcare: Rare Conditions
To create a company like Medical Tourism Italy, one should be a visionary as an entrepreneur. However, an entrepreneur, no matter how skilled they are, can’t make it on their own, especially when the business has to do with medical issues, for which it is necessary to be continuously updated. The birth of Medical Tourism Italy is connected to the t...
Italian gardens and parks: The Venaria Royal Palace
The Venaria Royal Palace, 10 kilometers from Turin, is extraordinary and immense. A Unesco's World Heritage Site, is one of the finest examples of Baroque architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, both in the palace and in the gardens. Today it is a “contemporary palace” open to all and each year offers a program of studies, activit...
Italian sport: Italy's great voices in sports
Rino Tommasi, a true monument of Italian sports journalism, passed away on January 8. The great Rino, born 90 years ago in Verona, was for decades the most famous voice and television face of boxing and tennis matches. He was a living encyclopedia, in the days when the Internet and Wikipedia did not exist he could recount by heart anecdotes, data,...
Italian handcrafts: The Triumphal Float of Matera
Matera, city of the “Sassi” and rupestrian churches, has always been a cradle of traditional craft skills rooted in the distant past. The local inhabitants are accustomed to working in terracotta, tuff, wood and papier-mâché, initially as a pastime and then for trade, resulting in the production of excellent artefacts. The art of papier-mâché, in p...
Italian culture and history: Lecce
Capital of the homonymous province and the cultural fulcrum of Salento (Apulia), Lecce is one of the most beautiful art cities in southern Italy. Known as the “Florence of the South,” Lecce knows how to astonish and intrigue visitors and locals alike. Its ancient Messapian origins and its archaeological ruins, left behind after Roman domination, fu...
Italian design: Farewell to Rosita Missoni, Italian queen of fashion and design
Rosita Missoni passed away on January 2, 2025, at her legendary residence in Sumirago. Born Nov. 20, 1931, in Golasecca, in the province of Varese, Rosita Jelmini Missoni was the last heir of a family of Lombard textile artisans: the Torrani family. Her life knew a turning point thanks to her meeting Ottavio Missoni, a young athlete at the 1948 Lon...
Italian territories: Exploring the Sila, a natural and cultural gem of southern Italy
The Sila is a mountain range located in Calabria, in the southern part of Italy, and is part of the broader Apennine mountain chain. This mountainous area spans across the provinces of Cosenza, Catanzaro, and Crotone. The Sila is divided into three main sectors: Sila Greca, Sila Grande, and Sila Piccola. These areas are known for their natural beau...
Italian flavors: Pecorino Romano
DOP (PDO) Pecorino Romano is the direct descendant of the sheep's milk cheese that was the staple food of the Roman Empire. The story goes that, over 2000 years ago in ancient Rome, the same sheep's milk cheese that we eat today was an important part of the daily meals and banquets of imperial palaces. In 48 BC, Virgil describes its nutritional and...
Italian report: Italian Food and Wine Tourism Report 2024
While in general in the post-Covid tourism sector the first signs of decline are evident, particularly among Italian tourists, there is one specific category that continues to grow and does so in double digits: it is food and wine tourism. Highlighting this is the “Italian Food and Wine Tourism Report.” This new edition, the seventh in the Report's...
Italian art: Jago, the Italian sculptor who became a gallery of his own
Jago, an Italian sculptor whose real name is Jacopo Cardillo, has quickly become a prominent figure in the contemporary art world. His unique approach to sculpture and his introspective philosophy have established him as an artist who bridges the traditional and modern, offering new interpretations of classical art forms while addressing current cu...
NASA and Italian Space Agency Test Future Lunar Navigation Technology
As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration. A technology demonstration helping pave the way for these developments is the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), a joint effort between NASA and the Itali...