The listing of obscure items on online auction site eBay is nothing new, but one Italian seller has gone a step further, putting a whole Alpine village up for sale.   The picturesque village of Calsazio, listed on eBay Italy, comes with a "Buy It Now" price tag of just 245,000 euros ($333,000). The village includes 14 homes, with a tota...

Fidia S.p.A. announces that the subsidiary Fidia Co. has signed a purchase contract for an industrial building of around 14,000 square feet, in Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA. The building will be assigned to host the new headquarters of the US subsidiary.   The building was purchased for an amount of $1,260,000.00. It has been determined t...

By Wayne Lawson   A rare thing happened this past August during the Mostly Mozart festival, at Lincoln Center. At the first of two performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, led by Gianandrea Noseda, the music director of Teatro Regio Torino, the audience broke into loud, spontaneous applause after every movement.   The bass soloist...

From the North to the South, Italy boasts an ancient tradition in making excellent artisanal chocolate and all the chocoholics amongst you will be glad to know that the so-called Bel Paese has plenty of shops where you can taste and buy the most high quality sweet products. If you are travelling to Italy and you are looking for some hints on where...

With its distinctive upturned boat shape, smooth creaminess, and perfect combination of chocolate and hazelnut, Gianduiotto is immediately recognizable. This chocolate and hazelnut culinary creation has been a favorite for 150 years now, and the sweet treat has not faltered in providing candy lovers everywhere with joy and delight.   The fam...

di Maria Chiara Voci   Fra i protagonisti assoluti, c'è innanzitutto il vermouth, da Carpano a Martini, dal Torino all'Anselmo fino al Cocchi. Poi, c'è la Cinzano e la Lavazza. Virando verso i dolci, ci sono la Caffarel e la Baratti & Milano, Pfatish e Peyrano o la Venchi Unica, l'azienda (un tempo a Torino e oggi in provincia) che ha ri...

"Ringrazio l'ambasciatore per aver scelto il Piemonte come luogo della sua prima visita ufficiale. Quello di oggi è stato un incontro molto positivo e concreto: siamo entrati subito in sintonia sulla possibilità nel concreto di sviluppare anche con gli Stati Uniti occasioni di incontro, per mettere a confronto i nostri due sistemi produttivi ed int...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., (GMCR) (NASDAQ: GMCR), a leader in specialty coffee and beverages with its innovative Keurig® brewing technology, and Luigi Lavazza SpA, the symbol of Italian coffee around the world, announced today that they have reached a multi-year agreement to bring the authenticity of Italy's favorite coffee, Lavazza®, to...

by Augusto Grandi The mountains ought to combine scenic beauty, pristine nature and human presence. The latter needs to be increasingly qualified in order to fight depopulation and, conversely, guarantee a better quality of life compared to the city.   According to Mariano Allocco, secretary of the Terre Alte Association ("terre alte" is th...

Si è tenuto il 30 ottobre 2013 presso il Townsend Hotel di Birmingham (MI) l'evento "Prospects for Mutual Growth in Italy and the US", organizzato dall'Italian American Alliance for Business and Technology (IABBT) sotto gli auspici del Console d'Italia a Detroit.Al centro dell'evento l'annuncio di una recentissima joint venture tra l'azienda italia...