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After a very challenging season, a handful of northern Italian olive oil producers struck gold at the 2022 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition. Producers demonstrated their resilience in the face of weather extremes. However, the ungenerous spring and summer led to significantly lower yields in most areas of northern Italy. “It has been a very compl...

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Valdo is the oldest winery to produce Prosecco in Italy’s famed Valdobbiadene, the home of that country’s celebrated sparkling wine. For nearly a century, the Bolla family has used its commitment to tradition, the region and the land to produce one of the most trusted labels in Prosecco. Matteo Bolla, Business Development Manager for Valdo USA, Inc...

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Venezia is a jewel the entire world envies us. And while there may be other cities that live on water, there isn’t a place on Earth quite like her. Venezia doesn’t only strike for her beauty and her history, but also for how strongly she remained connected with her past, a past that is lively, important, and central to the identity itself of the ci...

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For decades Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua has collaborated with iconic fashion designers, such as Valentino, Dior and Dolce & Gabbana. A venerable Venetian institution, the small family-run business inspired interior designers and decorators, including legendary Iris Apfel, who had furnished her New York apartment with Bevilacqua’s tiger- and-leopard-...

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If there is anything about Venice that natives and tourists agree on, it must be the fact that the city is a labyrinth. As natives, we used to often amuse ourselves, cruelly sending tourists to Sant’Elena, the very far end of the city, convinced that they will reach Punta della Dogana, at the opposite end of Bacino San Marco, where the Pinault Coll...

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The village of Soave, in the province of Verona, lies at the foot of the Lessini Mountains. The village looks like a pretty medieval town, from the top of which the majestic Scaligero Castle stands out. Heading towards the village, the first thing you will notice when you arrive will be the high and imposing walls. Soave, in fact, is one of the few...

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During the 19th century, Venice romanced American artists, collectors, and tourists with sparkling glass goblets. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth chronicles this seduction with the nationally touring exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magi...

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This Italian artist transformed barren, dry lands into an environmental statement as Northern Italy suffers its worst drought in 70 years. Italian artist Dario Gambarin used fields in Veneto, Italy, for his latest canvas. Gambarin carved “SAVE WATER” into the dry corn and wheat fields using a tractor, plow, and rotary harrow. Gambarin created two p...

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They say rose-coloured glasses are the best way to see the world, but have you ever tried them in gold? I have, and I’m not the first to look at life through a golden haze; man has sought out gold for time immemorial. Some have gone crazy in pursuit. Fool’s gold. They should have saved their sanity. For there is one place where golden lenses are no...

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The sales of farmhouses, farms, and, in general, independent housing units continue to race, which today represent 22% of acquisitions, especially in the wine territories, as reported by the latest data from the Tecnocasa Group. After the boom caused by the pandemic, which has pushed many to change their lifestyle, leave the city, and opt a life cl...

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