What's up with WTI: Editorial # 182
Dear friends, 2024 has been another year full of very interesting people, topics, meetings for us at We the Italians. The eleventh book, the ninth annual yearbook, is available for you: a nice Christmas gift, with the twelve interviews from 2024 on twelve different topics that have in common Italy and the United States. We hope you will buy and giv...
Italian land and nature: Extreme sports in Italy
Thrill seekers and extreme sports lovers will find Italy is the ideal place in which to experience their passions. The "Belpaese" in fact offers endless opportunities to practice all types of extreme sports: ground, air or water ones. This is the country of national parks, mountain ranges and rivers full of water which make rafting one of the most...
Italian cuisine: Carrot and Cardamom Risotto with Burrata and Pistachios
Cold weather and risotto making go hand in hand for me. Ladling the warm stock into the carnaroli rice is a ritualistic tradition that I look forward to each winter. Every now and then I crave a risotto that is rich enough to be served alone. Last year I created this recipe using some of my favorite warming ingredients – citrus notes from oranges,...
Italian historical trademarks: Marchesi Antinori
Among the founding members of the Associazione Marchi Storici d'Italia is Marchesi Antinori, an Italian wine excellence with an “Ancient Future,” words that perfectly express an entrepreneurial path that has been handed down for 26 generations but is always in the process of becoming because it is aimed at improving the production of its wines. The...
Italian little Italies: Locorotondo, circular splendor
The name derives from the old latin word Locus Rotundus, rounded place. Already at the beginning of the 13th century, it was placed on a hill peak surrounded by a walled ring, the village assumed the circular shape that gave it its name, which also appeared in various documents in the following centuries. Locorotondo is the most beautiful balcony i...
Italian healthcare: Medical Tourism Association Italy, an advisorfor everyone involved in tourism
In the previous numbers of We the Italians, some articles considered the possibility of traveling to Italy for medical purposes. Italian medical excellence is, sometimes, a surprise for local people, never mind foreigners. However, Italy has a healthcare system ranked among the top in the world for the quality of its personnel and facilities. Not o...
Italian gardens and parks: Italia giardino del mondo
The photographic exhibition Italia giardino del mondo. Where Nature meets Art, Craft and Design, the first Italian stop of the traveling exhibition dedicated to the heritage of Italian gardens, classical and contemporary, conceived, together with the publication of the same name, as a project of integrated promotion of Italy, produced by the Minist...
Italian sport: Alessandro Del Piero's 50th birthday
There is only one sport in the world where to wear a particular jersey number you have to be the star of the team. The person who wears that number is the brains of the team, the player with the most imagination, the most class, often even considered a genius. The sport we are talking about is soccer, which has a worldwide fan following estimated a...
Italian report: 58th Annual CENSIS Report
Censis (Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali) has been producing for fiftysix years a constant and articulated research, advice and technical assistance in the socio-economic development. This business has developed over the years through the implementation of studies on the social, economic and territorial development, intervention programs and cultu...
Italian culture and history: Mantua
Mantua is one of the most beautiful cities in Lombardy, rich in art and culture. Located in the lower part of the Po plain, Mantua sits on the banks of the river Mincio, where its waters form a deep bight which embraces the city and creates Lake Superiore, Lake di Mezzo and Lake Inferiore (Upper, Middle and Lower Lakes). The city was born as an Etr...
Italian handcrafts: The Textiles of Prato
Since the Middle Ages, fabrics and yarns have been the main products of the Prato area, thanks to the creativity of those who, over the years, have been able to renew a tradition that has never waned. Today, the industrial district of Prato is one of Europe’s largest and is a production model that has attracted the attention of the most eminent eco...
Italian design: Palazzo Uffici Olivetti, symbol of Italian Design in the World
Olivetti was a company of extraordinary importance and originality that brought Italian Design to the World. Particularly strong was the link between Adriano Olivetti, his company, his products and the United States. Great stir was caused in 1959 by the acquisition by the Eporediese group of Underwood, a U.S. company with a great tradition in the t...