Some of the most beautiful Gothic buildings found in Italian villages
Traveling from North to South through Italy, by virtue of the intense and very ancient history associated with the country, one encounters buildings, palaces and constructions of every era and architectural style. Particularly prevalent are the Norman, Romanesque and Baroque styles, but there is no shortage of fascinating and interesting Gothic sit...
Three Memoirs of Fiume
After various attempts to seize the city, in 1924, Mussolini annexed Fiume. As a result, thousands of Fiumani who identified as Croatians, Slovene, Hungarians, etc., became victims of legislative, political, and physical persecution. Here, the first Fascist laboratory of ethnic cleansing took form. From the library and archive of Centro Primo Levi,...
Bernina Express: the route of the most scenic UNESCO train
How many ways is the Bernina Express scenic train route called? Probably as many ways as the wonders that the scenic Bernina Red Train, an Italian-Swiss UNESCO site, connects. Yes, because the famous Bernina Express, from Chur (Coira in Italian) to Tirano via St. Moritz, is a masterpiece of engineering so sophisticated that its beauty can only be s...
What Is Sardinian Casu Marzu Cheese And Why Is It Illegal In The US?
Let's take a ride in the way-back machine. We're headed to Borneo. The year is 2000. A bunch of bandana-wearing Americans are gathered around a table wondering what's for dinner. The answer arrives in the form of squiggly wiggly live grubs. That was the first-ever food challenge on the first season of "Survivor." Based on the reactions of the conte...
Pirelli HangarBicocca Museum in Milan: From Industrial "Dead Zone" to Dynamic Art Hub
Milan, today known for its robust role in finance and fashion, was once defined by blocks of manufacturing warehouses on its outskirts. Many of those factories are now museums. A former gin distillery became Fondazione Prada, a contemporary art museum from the namesake fashion house, founded in 1995 in the southeast Porta Romana area. A gas turbine...
The Frick acquires his first Renaissance portrait of a woman
A red-haired woman looks at the viewer suspiciously from a gilded frame. Her gaze is steely, direct and somewhat confrontational. The painting Portrait of a Woman (c. 1575) by Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni was a centerpiece of a 2019 exhibition of his work at the Frick Collection, Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture....
Origins Of Cartellate, An Apulian Dessert
Cartellate, also known in their dialectal version as cartiddhate, are typical Apulian Christmas sweets that can be tasted all year round, especially during Christmas. They are more typical of the Bari area but can be found as far as Salento. In Salento, these sweets are prepared together with another typical Christmas delicacy, the purceddhuzzi. Th...
Rediscovering Calabria’s Mystical White Olives
CALABRIA, THE SOUTHERNMOST REGION OF the Italian peninsula, is the birthplace of some of the world’s most well-known myths, such as the terrifying tale of Scylla and Charybdis immortalized in the Odyssey. Yet one local curiosity remains in obscurity. Wander through the gardens of Calabrian churches or abandoned farmland in late autumn or early wint...
San Antonio restaurant Albi's Vite Italian Kitchen to open second location
San Antonio pasta haven Albi's Vite Italian Kitchen will expand its footprint with a second location near Leon Springs, MySA reports. Owner Albi Zogaj told the news site his team is aiming for a grand opening by the end of this month. The original Albi’s, located at 4979 NW Loop 410 near Leon Valley, opened amid the COVID-19 pandemic, slinging scra...
Classic Italian Cinema heads to Huntington
In the month of January, Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre will host a celebration of Italian Cinema. The three day series will feature new restorations of several of Italian cinema’s most enduring classics: Giuseppe Tornatore’s Academy Award winning Cinema Paradiso, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, and Bernardo Bertolucci‘s The Conformist. As well...
The United States celebrates Barolo: galas for the great Piedmontese wine in Los Angeles and New York
Americans are getting ready to celebrate “his Majesty” Barolo: two gala events dedicated to the great Piedmontese wine, on January 28, in Los Angeles, and, from February 1 to 4, in New York, organized by Vinous by Antonio Galloni, world-renowned wine critic and one of the leading overseas experts of the prestigious Italian denomination. The “Festa...
Italians Twice as Likely to Use eWallets for eCommerce Transactions
On a global scale, Italy emerged fourth in mobile wallet adoption, behind Japan (25.7%), Germany (22.2%) and Singapore (21.3%), according to the PYMNTS Connected Economy report, “How The World Does Digital: Different Paths To Digital Transformation,” Locally, about a fifth (20.4%) of Italian consumers surveyed reported paying for their last in-stor...