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The Verdi Festival in Emilia-Romagna, renowned among opera-lovers around the world, has been nominated by the International Opera Awards for both the Best Festival and Best New Production. Winners will be announced on May 7, 2017.  This year’s Festival Verdi, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Arturo Toscanini’s birth, is scheduled during Emilia...

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In our journey to discover Italy in the 50 states, today we dive between the Delta Italians, our compatriots who with great effort and sacrifice settled in the wide area of the delta of the Mississippi River, which gives its name to the Magnolia State. The adventures of the Delta Italians described by Paul Canonici's books are intriguing and instru...

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If for you the word "walnut" calls to mind nothing but sundae toppings and salad dressings, then now is the time to expand your horizons. Like, right now. Rouse yourself to investigate the walnut liqueur called nocino. Why the rush? Deep winter is prime season for a dark delicacy that’s bottled in summer and traditionally released around Christmas;...

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Dopo una lunga esperienza di curatore, direttore e funzionario di sovraintendenza in varie città italiane (Parma, Piacenza, Modena, San Sepolcro) da due anni lei è il Senior Curator del J. Paul Getty di Los Angeles. Come mai?    «Direi un po’ per caso. Ero stato tra il 2011 e il 2012 Fellow al Metropolitan Museum a New York e questa esperienza ha i...

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The Guardian recently published an unusual list mentioning 10 of the best foodie experiences in Europe, offering tips on possible mouth-watering trips across Europe that would be worth savouring. Moving from Greece to Span, from France to Portugal, without bypassing northern European country, the British magazine found some space for an “Italian ex...

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James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Schlow will launch Via Emilia this week as the first installment in a new rotating series featuring local chefs cooking regional Italian cuisine at Eataly Boston. Schlow’s concept will feature dishes inspired by Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, and his menu will include seven antipasti (appetizers), three pasta...

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The city of Ferrara rises on the banks of the Po di Volano River, in the southern plain of Emilia. Over the centuries, this magnificent city has been able to maintain the great prestige it experienced during the era of the House of Este.

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The Ferrari LaFerrari hybrid supercar is being hand-built in an assembly hall on the Ferrari campus in Maranello, Italy, that is usually used to construct Formula 1 prototype racing cars. Given the amount of F1-derived technologies and materials used in LaFerrari, this seems entirely appropriate. By the time we visited the LaFerrari hall, on April...

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In Italia non è immune alla crisi dei consumi, ma all'estero la gelateria artigianale con il bollino del made in Italy acquista sempre più appeal. Cosa che contribuisce a spiegare i numeri da record di Sigep, il salone della gelateria, pasticceria e panificazione artigianale di Rimini prossimo allo svolgimento della 36esima edizione, prevista dal 1...

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  WTI Magazine #27    2014 Apr, 25Author : italia.it      Translation by:   Ferrara, in Emilia-Romagna, with its invaluable testimonies from the Renaissance, is one of 49 Italian sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List, inserted in 1995. The Po Delta Regional Park, a highly precious natural ecosystem, was inserted on the List in 1999 for being a u...

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