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Anche per l'anno 2016 la MIB School of Management di Trieste, con il patrocinio del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della cooperazione Internazionale e in collaborazione con ICE/ITA Agenzia per la promozione all'estero e l'internazionalizzazione delle imprese italiane, promuove e organizza il corso di formazione manageriale "Origini Italia" destina...

by Lucia Bigozzi   Non è una novità, ma è bene ribadirlo. La Sardegna ha la spiaggia più bella d'Italia. La più bella del mondo, invece, sta ai Caraibi. Ma il primato tutto nazionale della Sardegna è assolutamente un motivo di orgoglio per una regione incantevole che porta sul podio della top ten dei lidi dell'Europa pluri-premiati, cinque l...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, endowed by Nature with a perfect climate and ravishing beauty, the islands of the State of Hawaii are for many the symbol of the ultimate getaway, the vestiges of an earthly paradise. 11,000 Italians visited the State last year.   What not so many know is that this community of 1,5 million people of differ...

  WTI Magazine #77    2016 March 18Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn      Translation by:   This pork roast is an appetizing and inviting main course to enjoy with family and friends. I know pork is excluded from the dinner table in many cultures, but in Italy it has long been an important part of our culinary tradition, particularly in the nor...

Breathing clean air, be it at home, at the office, in factories or in the city streets, might not be such a mirage: an Italian start-up has devised a technology that literally "washes up" polluted air with water to make it clean again.   The system, called APA (Air Pollution Abatement Systems), was developed by the innovative start-up Is Cle...

Returning in 2016 to the S. 9th Street Italian Market Festival where it was created in 2009, the John Marzano Half Ball Tournament marks its eighth anniversary with a lineup of the city's best players at the city's favorite street game. Play begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 21st. Players will enjoy the competition when they're not sampling th...

From April 29 to April 30, 2016. 09:00 am - 06:00 pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036   This interdisciplinary conference focuses on material culture in the contexts of Italy, its colonies, and its diasporic communities. Material culture, broadly defined...

Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents – Patricia (née Bianchi) and Gary Tomei – were both Italian and had family that came to America from Tuscany and Sicily. While she was growing up, Marisa became enthralled with Broadway musicals and plays.   Her parents encouraged her to take up acting, and she sta...

Students from grade school to high school who want to get away to Italy this summer need travel no farther than Casa Italia in Stone Park. The Casa's Italian Language & Culture Summer Camp will introduce children ages 4 to 16 to the language and culture of Italy through drama, storytelling, arts and crafts, games, sports, dance, music, cuisine...

Paola Maria Savoia, native of Genoa (capital of Liguria, northwestern region of Italy), directly descends from the illegitimate branch of the aristocratic Savoia lineage, which was Italy's former Royal Family (until the introduction of the republic in 1946).   About five years ago, her family and she left Milan, Italy, for a voluntary exile...

The US sees Italy as a destination for its products, but direct investments are faltering, according to a Policy Paper from the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy (Amcham), EY and law firm Legance Avvocati Associati that will be presented in Rome this morning at an event attended by Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan.   The goal of the st...

The cloak of time that concealed them – not to mention the green grass that covered them – is gone at last, and the precious polychrome "fan-shaped" mosaics in [one of the] palaestrae of the Baths of Caracalla (Rome), dating back to the third century AD, have resumed their ancient luster thanks to the restoration work begun in 2015.   The pr...