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Dear friends, Welcome to the 2025 of We the Italians! The year begins with an important news for us. After 85,000 free contents, the first articles for those who would like to subscribe have appeared on our Facebook page. So many of you have asked us how to “subscribe” to We the Italians or help us grow, and today there is this tool that, for the p...

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Cortina d'Ampezzo sits in the heart of the Veneto Dolomites, in an ample valley surrounded by high peaks, and is one of the most famous mountain localities in the world. Host of the 1956 Winter Olympic Games and defined solely in the terms of chic and ski, Cortina is a glitzy, glam symbol both on the Italian and international scenes; Cortina has al...

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Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, boasts a rich history, culture, and climate that make it one of the most important wine-producing regions in Italy. The island has been making wine for over 3,000 years, with influences from the ancient Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Normans. Today, Sicily’s wine scene is flourishing, combining tradition...

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Dolores Prato wrote: "Treia shattered its history, the splinters sounded of broken echoes... the biggest pieces were used as building material, they also built the steps that climb up to the bell tower of the Cathedral". Twenty five centuries of history have left their indelible traces. The city of Treia with its thirteenth-century walls, Lombard t...

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Among the Founding Members of the Associazione marchi Storici d'Italia, an icon of one of the four A's of Made in Italy Clothing-Fashion, is the well-known shirting company Inghirami. Founded in Sansepolcro, Tuscany, in 1949 from the idea of lawyer Fabio Inghirami to install about 20 Singer sewing machines in a small home workshop to make tailored...

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While some Italian citizenship by descent applications are submitted at an Italian consulate, alternatively some must go through a judicial proceeding with a “1948 case”. If you are petitioning the Italian courts for citizenship by descent, you may have questions regarding the legal process, how the case is filed, and if you are able to choose the...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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