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Visiting Italy by train is a lovely way to discover uncharted places. But it can be and more unique if you travel along old and out-of-the-way routes, with old-fashioned trains. It's a new kind of "slow tourism," perfect to enjoy the treasures of Italy more deeply.   The Italian Ministry of Culture has just signed a partnerhsip with Ferrovie...

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di Roberto Zanni, Gente d'Italia   Il primo albergo di Atlantic City fu realizzato nel 1853. Poi nel tempo è diventata 'the Gambling Capital of the East Coast', la capital del gioco d'azzardo dell'Est, che attualmente ha dodici casinò e che nel 2011 ha avuto 28,5 milioni di visitatori con 3,3 miliardi di dollari buttati sui tavoli verdi. Il...

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Friday, October 30th, 6:30 P.M. - Italian American Museum - 155 Mulberry Street (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) - New York, NY 10013. The Italian American museum presents: Palio. A Documentary Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NGAIKMtvxY - Directed and Written by Cosima Spender, Produced and W...

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di Enza Antenos e Luca Tontodonati   All'Università per Stranieri di Siena si è appena concluso il Convegno Internazionale AATI 2015. L'American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI, Associazione Americana degli insegnanti di Italiano) si riunisce annualmente per mettere a confronto metodologie di insegnamento e nuove ricerche in italian...

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by Leila Firusbakht   The Cathedral of Siena is, without a doubt, one of the most spectacular buildings that you can visit in Tuscany, but its real treasure is actually the one that's normally kept out of sight, and you're walking all over it! The entire floor of Siena's Cathedral is in fact one of the most incredible works of art of al...

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Date: Tuesday, July 07, 2015. Hours: 6:00 p.m. Site: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611. In collaboration with: Co-presented by the Italian Cultural Institute and the University of Chicago Press, with the support of ItalCultura.   "Siena, City of Secrets" (University of Chicago Press, 20...

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Six Italian cities (Cagliari, Lecce, Matera, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena) short-listed for European Capital of Culture 2019. The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong European dimension.   The European City of...

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Under an agreement between the University of Pennsylvania and the University for Foreigners in Siena, Italy, the CILS (Certificate of Italian as a Foreign Language) has been activated at the University of Pennsylvania. The official CILS Diploma, issued by the University for Foreigners in Siena, certifies your knowledge of Italian, is valid through...

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An insider knows that the best of Italy can be found in the small cities, hill towns, and villages where elements that we think of as quintessentially Italian abound: rich history, magnificent art, and fascinating architecture.   Join art historian Elaine Ruffolo, a lecturer for Syracuse University in Florence, in an exploration of four such...

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Iris Origo was a 22-year-old newlywed Anglo-American heiress — as rich, brilliant and innocent as a Henry James heroine — when she and her husband, an Italian nobleman, decided to buy La Foce.   "Treeless and shrubless but for some tufts of broom," Origo wrote in October 1923 of her first view of the rundown 3,500-acre estate southeast of Si...

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