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This fall, we're inviting you to sip the wine of kings – you deserve it! From October 3 - 30, we're celebrating all things Barolo at Eataly Silicon Valley. Lauded as the "King of Wines and Wine of Kings," Barolo is made with 100% Nebbiolo grapes, a prized variety grown in certified areas in the northern region of Piemonte. Across the world, the com...

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Late autumn in the United States sends a wake-up call to intrepid hunters to get up at the crack of dawn, pack their shotguns or rifles and prowl designated fields and woods in search of deer, ducks and other game. In Italy at that time of year, a different breed of hunter sets forth. He’s unarmed, guided by moonlight instead of sunlight, and track...

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“Barolo en Primeur” is the International solidarity auction promoted by Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo Foundation and CRC Donare Foundation, together with the Protection Consortium Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe Dogliani, to be held this year on October 28th, in the setting of Grinzane Cavour Castle. Christie's, simultaneously with New York, will aucti...

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ARIES – The first sign of the zodiac, these rams love to be number one and aren’t afraid to dive into challenging situations, no matter how hard they may be. The same is true of MATERA, a city dug into a rocky outcrop in Basilicata whose challenges are (quite literally) as hard as stone. Annoyed by excessive details and needless nuances, Aries woul...

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Casale Monferrato is a quaint town of just over 30,000 in the Alessandria province of Piedmont. It is known as the main settlement in the Monferrato area of the region which is part, along with Langhe and Roero, of the UNESCO World Heritage. Casale is known for wine and good food, for its elegant old-Piemonte streets, and for that pleasantly sleepy...

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Nature as far as the eye can see, unique emotions and breathtaking beauty: the Gran Paradiso National Park is one of the most evocative and ancient Italian parks. Where is the Gran Paradiso National Park? The park is located between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont around the Gran Paradiso mountain range and borders the Vanoise National Park. It was f...

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Wine, with its prestige and added value, and with an increasingly pronounced propensity to export is, for some time now, the main product of Italian agribusiness. And it is not surprising, then, that among the agricultural lands of Italy, apart from rare exceptions such as the orchards and apple orchards of Alto Adige, it is the vineyards, in gener...

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In Turin's Piazza Castello, between the Teatro Regio and Palazzo Reale, under the porticoes of the Prefecture, there is a bronze medallion depicting Christopher Columbus, with the little finger of his right hand protracted outward.The relief was made by Dino Somà in 1923, (Villafalletto 1886- date and location of death unknown), in memory of the pa...

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If you’re planning a trip through Europe, don’t forget to consider these Italian villages. “To visit them is to participate in Italy’s beauty while helping keep these enchanting places alive,” says Fiorello Primi, president of the “Most Beautiful Villages in Italy” association (I Borghi più belli d’Italia). While you know Rome, Florence, or Milan,...

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Enzo Ferrari could be described as nothing more than the inspiration behind the project for the “little GP car”, and as stated in the specialised press, seeing what was done at Maserati it would have needed a 4- or 6- cylinder engine. At Alfa Romeo, the suggestion for the new racing car was taken on board, but was based on a more sophisticated stra...

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