The Abruzzo Molise Heritage Society (AMHS) is pleased to announce our next general Society meeting program for Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Casa Italiana (595 ½ 3rd Street NW, Washington DC) at 1:00 pm. We will watch an amazing film entitled "Cuore Napoletano." If you have ever wondered about the origins of the famous Neapolitan songs, this...

  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Anna Stein      Translation by:   Celebrating Thanksgiving in the rural town of Castelnuovo, surrounded by a group of about sixty native Italians eating lasagna and parmesan crepes, my seven American friends and I were certainly in for a once-in-a-lifetime holiday experience. Despite being away fro...

Pubblico delle grandi occasioni per la sesta edizione del premio Dean Martin, ormai punto di riferimento per il percorso dei successi degli abruzzesi nel Mondo. Ancora una volta una formula azzeccata, quella messa in scena lo scorso 12 luglio dagli organizzatori e capeggiata da Germano D'Aurelio, infaticabile showman abruzzese che per l'occasione...

by Serena Perfetto   Blue for a little boy or pink if it is a girl; white for weddings or red for graduation: while the colour changes according to the event in which they are offered to guests, the Italian confetti are today well known worldwide as a symbol of good luck during important celebrations.   What was once only a sweet made...

Places like Castel del Monte in the province of L’Aquila – with steep alleys and cylindrical towers, crystallized almost a millennium ago – are irresistible for creative types with fantastic stories set in Italy’s Middle Ages.   Indeed, the small municipality inside Gran Sasso National Park has welcomed a number of cinema troupes, becoming t...

November 4, 7:00 pm — 8:00 pm. Westchester Italian Cultural Center - 24 Depot Square - Tuckahoe, New York In Italy's long and narrow peninsula, dense with cities and great monuments, Abruzzo and Molise stand out for their unspoiled natural beauty and wilderness. Home to four national and regional parks, Abruzzo has one-third of its land reserv...

Quasi cinque milioni sono gli italiani che attualmente vivono all' Estero e di questi moltissimi sono i giovani che cercano fortuna nelle Università straniere, particolarmente in quelle degli Stati Uniti e del Canada. Ma quali sono al momento le possibilità di cooperazione universitaria e di ricerca oltre oceano?   A questa e ad altre d...

Export is a winner in the Italian region Abruzzo: in 2014 exports grew by 2.9%, almost one percentage point faster than the Italian average (+2%), a study has revealed.   The research was carried out by Stefano Cianciotta, Fellow of Competere, the Italian innovation think thank, and commissioned by the Centro estero delle Camere di commercio...

Consegnato dalla UGL a Domenico "Dom" Serafini il "Moschettiere del Lavoro" 2013 – abruzzesi all'estero.   L'importante riconoscimento è stato consegnato oggi, a Pescara, al giornalista Domenico "Dom" Serafini. Per Geremia Mancini Segretario Confederale UGL " Abbiamo colto l'occasione della visita in Abruzzo di "Dom" Serafini per consegnargl...

The following list includes castles and historic buildings, which have all been beautifully restored and renovated into hotels, while retaining all the features of their original medieval or Renaissance architecture. Five of these castle hotels are located in Tuscany, the five others can be found in Umbria, Lombardy, Liguria and Lazio.  ...