What's up with WTI: Editorial # 179
Dear friends, September is always a month full of events and activities, but never before has We the Italians been as busy as this year when returning from summer vacations, although as you know, we never stop. As you know, we are partners in a particularly important traveling event. It's called Salerno-Verona, History of the American Fifth Army in...
Italian culture and history: Aosta, the little Rome of the Alps
Aosta has earned the nickname “little Rome of the Alps” due to the extraordinary wealth of its archaeological sites from Roman times that can be visited like an open-air museum. Conquered by Rome in the days of Augustus, the city was renamed Augusta Praetoria and was enriched with important monuments due to its strategic position on the Roman Via d...
Italian art: Vasari's Masterpiece Reunited. A Renaissance Ceiling Shines Again in Venice
After nearly 500 years, Giorgio Vasari's magnificent ceiling from Palazzo Corner Spinelli in Venice has been fully restored and is once again on public display. This Renaissance jewel has been painstakingly reassembled after its panels were scattered among private collectors and museums at the end of the 18th century. For the past 40 years, the Ita...
Italian cuisine: Calabrian Chicken, Pepper, Tomato, and Potato Stew
September is National Chicken Month and National Potato Month, and I have the pleasure of spending it in my ancestral homeland of Calabria, Italy. Here potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes find their way into many traditional recipes even though they were originally New World ingredients. Last week my dear friend and culinary collaborator Giampiero Mont...
Italian healthcare: The making of Medical Tourism Italy
A small town of not more than 1500 people deep in the inland of Veneto, plunged in the hills, equally distant from Verona, at the west, Vicenza, at the East, and the Alps, at the north. This is a town of humble people, where everybody knows each other, with that working-class awareness that you must make it on your own. This is where Claudio Pacca...
Italian sport: Twenty years without Marco Pantani
On February 14, 2004, the lifeless body of Marco Pantani, widely considered the greatest cyclist of the late last century, was found in a room of a residence in Rimini, the famous tourist resort in Emilia Romagna. Around the end of the last millennium, Pantani was one of the most famous sportsmen in the world, not only in Italy and Europe, where cy...
Italian handcrafts: The Stonemasonry of Oratino
Stonecraft in Molise has ancient roots. It is thought that stone structures and objects were made initially to ensure people’s safety and survival. Entire districts built of stone can be found in some towns in the region, and beautiful examples of architectural and decorative features, such as capitals and statues, are not hard to find. At one time...
Italian little Italies: Buccheri, Wellness Oasis of the Iblei
On Colle Terreo the remains of the Norman castle can be visited, of which some important evidence remains today. Not far away, among the elements of religious architecture, is the S. Antonio Abate Church, which dominates the town from the top of a scenic flight of steps (built in 1911); inside the church interesting paintings by G. Borremans from 1...
Italian historical trademarks: Benetton
The Benetton Group has joined the Associazione Marchi Storici d'Italia as a Founding Member. Founded in 1965 in Ponzano Veneto, in the province of Treviso, Benetton Group is today one of the best-known fashion companies in the world. Present in the main international markets with a commercial network of about 3,600 stores, it has always dedicated s...
Italian land and nature: Ostuni and the Itria Valley
With its still expanses of olive trees as far as the eye can see, the Itria Valley is red soil, green groves and vineyards, and white trullo houses under a serene blue sky – essentially, a marvelous chromatic effect that repeats itself several times over. Also known as the Valley of the Trulli, it makes up part of the Provinces of Bari, Brindisi an...
Italian good news: Sports like drugs, a bipartisan bill for tax deduction in Italy
It may be the Olympic spirit or awareness of the benefits to state budget of a healthy and active population: in Italy a new bill, supported by all parties, aims to include sports activity in medical prescriptions subject to tax relief. In Italy, inactivity will cost 1.3 billion over the next 30 years sport represents a tool for investing in the co...
Italian report: AI, Italy is among the top three countries in Europe that have introduced it
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the business world and has established itself as a stable presence in the business of enterprises. More than three-quarters (77 %) of Italian respondents to our research say they have direct experience with the new technology. Most of them use AI predominantly in their private lives (43 %), or in the work...