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One reason Sicilians tend to identify with Sicily first and Italy (a distant) second? Sicilian food. The same goes for Veneto in the north or Puglia in the south. Italy is a young country -- it only celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2011. Despite the successful export of the "Italian restaurant," the idea of a unified Italian cuis...

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  WTI Magazine #44    2014 October, 1Author : buonenotizie.it      Translation by:   Harvest time is approaching with great strides. Wine tourism in Italy is booming and is able to innovate with new proposals: for example, Salento is preparing to decline it with a smart formula, a new trip type, both useful to the tourist and the local area.  ...

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SUDESTIVAL 2013 is a Film Festival born in the South of Italy, in the Puglia region, in 2000. It represents the best of Italian independent cinema, offering premieres by young filmmakers who, thanks to this first exposure, have subsequently gained national and international recognition.

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  WTI Magazine #28    2014 May, 1Author : Sandra Tornberg      Translation by:   On March 28 the Italian Heritage Society and the Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan (FADM) sponsored the Michigan première of the film La Mia Strada ("My Road"), a beautiful feature-length documentary by Michael Angelo DiLauro.    

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The Italian American Museum at 155 Mulberry Street (corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) in Manhattan will host "Postcards of the Mezzogiorno: A Photographic Essay of Southern Italy in the Bari Area." Joseph M. Calisi, an International Transportation Photojournalist retraced places visited in his youth to capture the sun-splashed beauty of a regio...

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Living nativity scenes and pageants, in Italian "presepi viventi", are quite common in Italy. Living nativity scenes are usually presented for several days, thanks to the fact that many people in Italy enjoy wearing a costume and act out the parts of the nativity.   Considering that in many parts of Italy living nativity scenes have become a...

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  WTI Magazine #28    2014 May, 1Author : buonenotizie.it      Translation by:   Speaking of wine tourism, today, is tantamount to reinvent the wheel. As for wines, Italy is an extraordinary repository of wealth and mobilizes crowds of tourists every year. Yet there is always something new to discover: for example, the intelligent formula which...

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L'idea è nata un anno fa. «Ero in Puglia, mi serviva una fotografia di un evento che si stava svolgendo a Roma. Cercai su Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter e non trovai nulla». Enrico Scianaro, che oggi ha 27 anni, capisce che «non esiste uno strumento che permette di chiedere foto di un luogo di tuo interesse a gente che non conosci».  ...

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Ad agosto l'Associazione dei pugliesi del Sud California, presieduta da Mike Foschetti, ha celebrato dieci anni di attività. Una festa, con tanto di torta tricolore, nella famiglia allargata agli immigrati di prima come di quarta generazione, nella quale sono state consegnate due borse di studio per contribuire alla formazione accademica di due gio...

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"I don't like it when they call me the king of mozzarella. That title is loaded with pressure and responsibility," Giuseppe Argentieri says with a smile as he supervises the production of the day's batch of fresh burrata before shipping it to specialty stores all over the Boston area. Then, after swallowing a chunk of the white, chewy, still-warm...

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