The Salvino Wealth Management Team has hung out its own shingle, launching Performance Wealth in January. The independent registered investment advisor manages $2.2 billion in client assets and will operate out of offices in Hinsdale, Illinois; Naples, Florida; and San Diego. The team’s mission is to “create detailed financial plans and investment...

2020 will be remembered as the year we were made to change our lifestyle, restricted from the freedoms we have been used to. The year we have relied on nurses and doctors to save our lives from a war with a virus.  The Lazio region promoted the project ‘Diciamo insieme grazie’ in 2020. Twelve artists were each given a medical facility to create an...

The palio is a form of entertainment dating back to medieval times. Even today, competitions between the districts are celebrated in the folkloristic festivals of the towns of Italy. In addition to the Palio di Siena, the most famous, in our peninsula we find various events that bring us back to the traditional challenges of the past. In Italy the...

If you’re unfamiliar with the tale of Rome’s beginnings, it’s a powerful story with an underlying matriarchal theme. The legend is that Rhea Silva, a Vestal Virgin birthed twin sons named Romulus and Remus, and was soon forced to abandon them due to threats against their lives. Intercepted from the Tiber river by the god Tiberius, the twins were sa...

Gianluca Corona is a professional realist figurative painter. The detail in his works is so neat and clean, that they can easily be mistaken for photographs. When depicting food, his artwork whets appetites – see for yourself in the above photo gallery. One of the most popular contemporary Italian still-life painters, Corona stands out for its sens...

Netflix, the American media services provider, has underscored its strong links with Rome by choosing to open a base in the Via Veneto area of the capital. The Rome launch by the US streaming  giant was delayed by the covid-19 pandemic however it now plans to open in the Italian capital in the second half of 2021, according to Variety.

The divorce rate in Italy increased by 60% in 2020, according to Italy’s National Divorce Association. “The requests for separation have increased a lot, mainly due to forced coexistence,” the association’s president, family laywer Matteo Santini told Sky TG 24. “Forced coexistence” — that’s COVID-19, of course. In our strange reality, we react to...

Snaidero USA New York has re-opened its doors after completing a redesign of its 5,000-sq.-ft. showroom, the company announced. The project, initiated by company president Dario Snaidero, ushers in a new style of showrooms that spotlights products from all three of Snaidero’s collections, including luxury kitchens, baths, sideboards, closet systems...

Rome's reputation as an important street art capital continues to grow with new murals by important Italian and international street artists being added all the time. Most of the works are located in the suburbs, often far from the centre. Here is where to find the main street art projects and murals around the city. Esquilino Murals by Alice Pasqu...

When one thinks of Italian art there is a kind of uncontrollable brain switch that immediately brings to mind the likes of Michelangelo and other High Renaissance painters and sculptors who are still considered as some of the greatest artists of all time. As a tourist you imagine the ruins of the Coliseum and experiencing the wonderment of the Sist...