What's up with WTI: Editorial # 178
Dear friends, August in Italy is a month when almost everything slows down, and what doesn't slow down stops. We the Italians has slowed down a bit, but it never stops, ahead of an autumn for which we are preparing so many things. I am in the mountains in the Emilian Apennines, where my roots are, and from here I write the editorial for this magazi...
Italian culture and history: Aquileia, on the Trail of the Roman Empire
A treasure chest of history and beauty in Friuli Venezia Giulia, it lies in the Province of Udine. Traces of the magnificent Roman Empire rest here in Aquileia - a bulwark against the Barbarian Invasions, launching point for expeditions and military conquests, and large commercial hub. Given that it was the fourth-largest city on the Peninsula for...
Italian sport: Great Italy at the Paris Olympics
Italy closes the Summer Olympic Games once again with an extraordinary result. Like three years ago in Tokyo, the Azzurri won 40 medals in Paris, taking ninth place overall in the medal table, thus fourth in Europe behind France, the organizing nation, the Netherlands and Great Britain. A success that had been announced by the Italian Olympic Commi...
Italian cuisine: Penne alla Norma
Eggplant is my favorite fruit, and come August I like to use them in everything from appetizers to desserts. This classic dish is a family favorite that is as fun as it is to prepare as it is delicious to eat. The name of the recipe is a tribute to the opera “Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini. It is said that when playwright Nino Martoglio first tasted t...
Italian design: Synergies between Made in Italy champions: Kartell furniture from Illy capsules
The Economy of our days is strongly conditioned by the paradigm of Sustainability, which is increasingly decisive in influencing the choices of Consumers and directing the activities of Companies. Design, in this context, represents a valuable tool available to Companies to tune production, organization and communication with the spirit of the time...
Italian books: The Eight Mountains
The Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne) is a book written by Paolo Cognetti and published in 2016. He was born in Milan in 1978. He studied mathematics and later earned a diploma in screenplay at the Cinema School in Milan. After that, he founded an independent film studio, called Cameracar, and worked on documentaries focusing on social, political...
Italian little Italies: Brisighella, In the Hills Amid Fog and Broom
The village of Brisighella is set against a chalky hill dominated by three selenite cliffs, upon which the Fortress, the Clock Tower, and the Sanctuary of Monticino stand. On the other side it was defended by two concentric lines of walls which can still be seen in the buildings which have incorporated them. Inside the historic quarter, the mediev...
IT and US: A beautiful Europe-US alliance to innovate schools
Europe and the United States have allied very often, on various issues and challenges. One fine alliance is the one we present that concerns innovation in education. In Europe, pedagogical structures and methodology went through several reforms since the beginning of the last century in the direction of making education more active and putting stud...
Italian flavors: Rotonda White Beans
Always present in the rural tradition of the Mercure Valley, white beans have played a major role in the agricultural history of the local populations. An 1852 publication by the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies speaks of the cultivation in the area of “graminaceous, leguminous and filierous plants” and specifically mentions the "bean, and this is sever...
Italian land and nature: The Thermal Parks of Ischia
Ischia, the largest of the Phlegrean Islands, has – as long as man can remember – been considered the European capital of wellbeing. Its springs and ancient natural baths offer intense pleasure and relaxation, in any season, to those looking to combine the best of wellness and spa treatments, enogastronomy, idyllic scenery and even sport activity,...
ICA: How to Relocate to Italy
The prospect of moving to Italy is an exciting one and many are curious about how to buy or rent property in Italy. However, this process can differ whether you are a citizen of a European Union country or a non-EU citizen in regards to how long you are allowed to stay in Italy and the additional benefits that only citizens or residents can take ad...
Italian handcrafts: Macerata Textiles
A technique characteristic of the Marche region, “liccetti” weaving required a traditional loom arranged according to the ancient textile-making process that, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, made it possible to create stylised, patterned borders on fabric. The existence of this procedure in Italian textiles is widely documented in the p...