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By Serena Perfetto Technology represents today a powerful tool for challenging the political nature of the chronicles of the past, the one we learn as truth at school. The history of "old Europe" is something that it is usually taken for granted. Unless we have the opportunity to explore it from a different perspective. This is what Diego Calaon i...

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This four-bedroom apartment occupies the top two floors of a four-story chalet just outside the resort town of Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomite mountains. The 2,800-square-foot home was renovated in 2000, and rustic wood beams — many salvaged from a 17th-century barn — floors and paneling lend it a traditional Alpine feel.   The apartment i...

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On Friday, October 28 at 2:30PM the Consulate General of Italy in New York (690 Park Avenue) will host a press conference for La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic.   The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, His Excellency Armando Varricchio, and the Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall, Mr. Clive Gillins...

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Villa Girasole – in Mezzavilla di Marcellise, only thirteen kilometers from Verona – is a rotating house designed in the 1930s by engineer Angelo Invernizzi.   Invernizzi wanted his home to embody the outlandish concept of a building that could turn to keep up with the sun, just like a sunflower. He probably got the idea from Filippo Tommaso...

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    Imagine living steps from the Grand Canal in Venice, or a charming abode in the center of Umbria. It can happen. For centuries, people from all over the world have dreamed of residing in Italy. The reasons are endless, everyone has their own unique way of falling in love with this country, and if you too are a self-declared 'Ital...

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Italian Cultural & Community CenterThursday, May 21, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (CDT)Houston, TX Join us for an amazing evening with Executive Chef Alberto Baffoni of Ristorante Mascalzone,as he leads us through a culinary tour of the Region of Veneto. The recipes will be demonstrated live for you to view, followed by an excl...

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by Porter Fox   The trip began years before we met, when Sara wrote a short story about the perfect marriage. It started like this: "____ and I are moving to Europe to paint and make love, right after he finishes his diamond floor. We will live in a gigantic home filled with magic and passion.   One of our favorite things to do in the...

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The area itself is a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site and has over 500 kilometres of pistes spread over four valleys: Alta Badia; Arabba; Val Gardena; and Val Di Fassa. One of the skiing highlights is a 42 kilometre loop of slopes around the Sellaronda which offers mouth-wateringly panoramic views of the valleys below. Just as well, as there are...

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Carnevale is one of the most colorful celebrations in the world. In Italy, we are serious about it. In the end, this is where it was born. We are all familiar with the Carnevale of Venice and that of Viareggio, as well as famous international renditions such as the Carnival in New Orleans, that in Rio and that in Notting Hill (London). In Ital...

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Bracelet, ring, necklace, earring, jewel, gem, pearl... these are the protagonists of some beautiful tales in Vicenza's Jewelry Museum. The word "jewel" itself has an interesting story to tell: some say it comes from the Latin 'gaudium', joy, others 'iocus', jest... two equally promising etymologies with a beautiful happy ending.   The curat...

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