The Center for Arts and Innovation Selects Renzo Piano to Design Boca Raton's Creative Campus
The Center for Arts and Innovation has just selected Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano to design its new creative campus. The campus is situated in the heart of downtown Boca Raton in Florida and aims to become a global hub for creative excellence. Ultimately, The Center is on a mission to transform Boca Raton into an internationally rec...
Lamborghini, Ferrari, Fiat, Maserati, Ducati: the roar of Italy
Lamborghini – The Man Behind the Legend had its global premiere at the Rome Film Festival. Set in 1950s Italy, the film, penned and directed by Bobby Moresco, Oscar winner for Crash, was released in Italy in January, just days before the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of one of the world’s most celebrated...
Hidden Gems: Quality Foods Gourmet Market, a space of Italian splendor
Quality Foods Market might now sound like one of the best dang Italian restaurants in the region, but this subtly named market and restaurant delivers flavor in spades. There’s a reason it has near perfect 5-star reviews on OpenTable, and earned one of the top Diners Choice slots in the Tampa metro area. You can visit the market and restaurant at 1...
How a 16th century Italian anatomist came up with the word 'placenta': It reminded him of a cake
Ever wondered where the placenta got its name? In Italy in the 1500s, the anatomist Matteo Realdo Colombo coined this term to describe the large fleshy organ of pregnancy. Colombo chose placenta because it resembled another big, round object seen in daily life: a cake. In the premodern world, there existed a variety of words and concepts used to un...
Italy America Chamber of Commerce and National Grocers Association Partner to Bring Resources to Independent Grocers
The Italy America Chamber of Commerce (IACC) has entered into an official partnership with National Grocers Association (NGA), the trade association representing the independent supermarket industry, the designed to benefit independent grocers across the United States looking to access new products and resources. “Independent supermarkets are conti...
Italy’s Mysterious Mycenaean-Like Cyclopean Walls
A wide range of gigantic Cyclopean walls found across Italy—from Tuscany to Sicily and Sardinia—have puzzled archaeologists for centuries, as their origin remains a mystery. Their polygonal masonry greatly resembles the building style of some of the most famous Mycenaean fortifications in Greece. However, there is no solid archaeological evidence s...
Serving fresh Italian food for 40 years
This October, Marino Ristorante on Melrose celebrates its 40th anniversary. The restaurant was opened in 1983 by Naples-born Ciro (also known as Mario) and wife Maria Marino, who had been restaurateurs since the 1960s. Marino quickly became a hot spot for locals, Hollywood and political elite and anyone looking for authentic Italian food served wit...
Mosaic of the Great Hunt, Piazza Armerina
In Sicily, in Enna, precisely in Piazza Armerina, stands the Villa del Casale, a wonderful example of Roman luxury construction of the late-periodand important testimony to study and understand the life of the Roman civilization thanks to the precious mosaics perfectly preserved that illustrate scenes of everyday life. Given the many past dominatio...
San Gennaro honored at parish in Port St. Lucie
Members of Holy Family Parish celebrated the feast of San Gennaro, honoring St. Januarius, patron saint of Naples, Italy, Sept. 23, at the church in Port St. Lucie. The saint’s actual feast day of Sept. 19 is marked in grand fashion every year in Italy and in New York’s Little Italy, where many of the diocese’s Italian faithful attended before movi...
Italy's Rimini Is Best Known For Its Beaches But It Also Has Impressive Roman Ruins Worth Seeing
Rimini is a small Italian city on the Adriatic coast that is famous in modern Europe for being a beach-going destination. But Rimini has much more to offer visitors than just beaches; it also has a number of impressive ancient Roman monuments to explore. Those traveling down the Adriatic coast should stop by Rimini and explore its ancient monuments...
Italian cuisine drives the ethnic foods market
According to Technavio’s (a global technology research and advisory company) latest report on the global ethnic food market, Italian cuisine is driving the growth of ethnic foods worldwide. The reasons for the growth Technavio reports are a few. Consumers continue to favor pasta and pizza. Italian restaurants continue to open in both the US and the...
Susegana: among castles and vineyards within Prosecco Hills near Treviso
If you are planning a nice trip to Veneto you absolutely can’t miss the unique and suggestive panorama of the Prosecco Hills, a territory being part of Unesco heritage since 2019 located in the heart of the region, in the province of Treviso. Here, among green hills embellished with iconic castles and above all rich vineyards, whose grapes are the...