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Easter lunch in Italy is a celebration of the colors, scents and flavors of the new season, spring. While there are common dishes and ingredients, from north to south, such as lamb, boiled eggs,  savory pies, chocolate eggs and colomba, each Italian region has its own typical dishes or variations on Easter classics. Each region would need its own d...

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In an hidden place on the slopes of the Western Carnic Pre-Alps, a few kilometres away from Pordenone in Friuli Venezia Giulia, it is located the small village of Polcenigo. A hidden gem that shines of its own light. Considered Friuli's green jewel box, the enchanting village is surrounded by lush nature and surrounded by lots of water. Besides, th...

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Sabrina Baracetti, president of the Far East Film Festival, shares tips on the northeastern city’s unique cuisine and arts scenes, leafy piazzas and €1 aperitifs FoodWe are spoilt for eating out in Udine. Prices are reasonable, and Friulano cuisine is totally delicious. Don’t miss Al Vecchio Stallo, where I love the contrast of the two grizzled own...

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There is no doubt that contact with nature is good for the body and soul, and in Italy there are many places where you can regenerate and relax: the woods. With around 2 million hectares of wooded areas, the peninsula is home to a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna, with beech, chestnut, turkey oak, and spruce forests dominating. There are some w...

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The Fogolâr Furlan Nevada - Utah - Arizona provides connections to Friulians emigrants and their descendants residing in Nevada, Utah and Arizona with their land of origin, the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy. The aim is to connect people (Friulians, descendants and supporters), preserve the awareness of the Friulian identity, promote our...

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A path surrounded by magnificent vineyards will get you to the Borgo Conventi villa. The estate owes its name to a legend, according to which local feudatory Rizzardo di Strassoldo donated a plot of land to the Dominican Fathers who built a convent there. The current history of the winery, instead, dates back to 1975, when Gianni Vescovo started t...

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All eight Slovenian MEPs have weighed in to a ding-dong in a small town in northern Italy, calling on the European Commission to act to “protect traditions” after an Italian judge silenced a church’s bells. For some in Dolina, a town with a minority Slovene community close to Italy’s border with Slovenia, the bells of Sant’Ulderico church were esse...

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The eight-part Inspector Vivaldi Mysteries miniseries proves that a good mystery never loses its intrigue or goes out of style.  Seeing the characters talking on flip phones and dumb phones, and watching them research crimes on antiquated computers is a minor distraction but it is a dead giveaway that this isn’t a brand new production. In fact, now...

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“Fusion cuisine”—by which various elements of various Eastern and Western food cultures are combined in both artful and wacky ways—may seem a contemporary, if passé, culinary buzzword. But nowhere does the term make more sense than in the beautiful port city of Trieste and its surrounding region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in northeastern Italy, where...

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It's a trend that started in the third decade of the 21st century and that we hope will become a habit: opening museum deposits. If in Rotterdam (Netherlands) a deposit has become a museum itself, attracting visitors from all over the world with a new formula, in Italy it has been decided to move the works of art by sending them to their places of...

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