What's up with WTI: Editorial # 149
Ciao from Rome! Dear friends, I would like to inform you that the audio version of We the ItaliaNews, the podcast born two years ago and which is now a real news broadcast followed on various platforms and social media by more than 1000 followers for each episode, is also on Spotify. Every Monday and Thursday there is a new episode, which tells y...
Italian land and nature: 10 lakes in Italy for an active holiday
There are more than 1,500 lakes with different features in Italy - dug by glaciers or of volcanic origin, enclosed by the mountains or a few steps away from the sea - where you can explore villages and natural areas but also engage in sporting activities. Here we have picked up ten Italian lakes among the most suitable for those who wish to spend a...
Italian sport: Italian sports geniuses
All over the world there are famous sports techniques invented by some athletes, such as the high jump with dorsal overrun invented by the Portland (OR) athlete Richard Douglas "Dick" Fosbury. Italians, always recognized as a people of geniuses, thanks to the countless inventions of every kind that they have realized during the centuries, have left...
Italian art: The miracle of Jacopo Bassano's quails
A piece of news that once again binds the fortunes of Italy and the USA in the field of art, bounced a few weeks ago in the social media: the purchase, by the Getty Museum, of a work by Jacopo Bassano, il Miracolo delle quaglie (the Miracle of the Quails). A masterpiece, by the very definition of the Los Angeles museum, which announced its purchase...
Italian cuisine: Spaghetti with Asparagus
The recipe for pesto, as we know it, dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. But this condiment was born from the fact that Liguria is traditionally the cradle of aromatic herbs. The use of aromatic herbs for Ligurians is a tradition which has its origins in the Middle Ages, with different habits, according to social categories: rich people used...
Italian books: The Decameron
The second instalment of this column continues with another great classic of Italian literature, a foundation of our cultural heritage and language, a work studied in schools and repeatedly analysed, a masterpiece that captivated our literary history: the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron was written between 1349 and 1351 and it cons...
Italian good news: There is an Italian company among the 10 fastest growing companies in Europe
For the second consecutive year, Italy is confirmed as the country with the highest number of companies in the FT1000, the annual ranking of the fastest growing companies in Europe, published by the Financial Times with Statista. In the 2022 edition, there are 235 Italian companies. Of these, 20 are among the top 100, and one conquers the top 10, c...
Italian little Italies: Campo Ligure, the light art of filigree
The Castle has been restored and is now used for concerts and cultural events. The walls were built during the 12th century, while the tower is more recent. It was restored in 1310, then it was abandoned in the 18th century. Entering the old town from the main street, you will see the Oratory of Saints Sebastiano and Rocco, built in 1647 in Baroque...
ICA: Living in the EU as an Italian citizen
Italian citizenship comes with many benefits; among these is the ability to travel to a number of countries without any restrictions, work, study and reside anywhere in the Europe Union, and access Italy’s high-quality universal healthcare service, affordable higher education system and competitive real estate market, to name a few. If you are thin...
Farewell to Antonio Martino
Last March 5, Italy lost a giant, and America lost a friend, an admirer and a great expert of its greatness and merits. We the Italians lost a friend and a guide. That's why we want to remember Professor Antonio Martino with the speech he gave, when he was Minister of Defense of the Italian Government, at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery on Memori...
Italian flavors: Nocellara del Belice
The history of the Nocellara del Belice olive is 2,700 years old. Sicily, particularly the Belice Valley area, has been colonized at various times over the course of the centuries. The land was subjected in turn by the Sicani, Elymians, Phoenicians and Greeks, followed by the Romans, Normans, Arabs and Spaniards. The reason for this is simple. Loca...
Italian entertainment: Pasolini, the provocative director that Italy was not ready to understand
"Only loving and knowing counts. Not having loved, not having known". It would be enough to contextualize this sentence to understand how brilliant, divisive and provocative Pier Paolo Pasolini has been for Italian culture. Writer, linguist, director, poet, he was born on March 5, 1922 in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, exactly 100 years ago. Because of h...