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by Eric Millman | Fri, 10/11/2024 - 07:20
In old-town Syracuse, Sicily, at the corner of Via della Giudecca and Via del Crocefisso — “Ghetto” and “Crucifix” streets, respectively — an all but forgotten…
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by Eric Millman | Fri, 09/27/2024 - 04:00
This week marks a full century since the actor Marcello Mastroianni entered our world. Now, nearly 30 years on since he exited, it remains quasi-illegal to…
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by Alex Sakalis | Tue, 09/03/2024 - 04:15
Practically every aspect of Pablo Picasso’s life and art has already been picked apart. But his brief sojourn in Italy in 1917, when the artist was 35, remains…
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by Toni DeBella | Fri, 08/23/2024 - 14:11
The Venetian gondola is an Italian icon — and the gondoliers who pilot them have one of the most recognizable professions in the world.  Since 1094, the…
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by Alexa Ahern | Thu, 08/08/2024 - 06:50
If you’ve watched any Italian athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics in recent days, you may have noticed a recurring thread: The color blue. Unlike…
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by Toni DeBella | Thu, 07/25/2024 - 04:37
Via Appia is a 2,300-year-old autostrada.  Its innovation was unmatched in ancient Rome, and it opened up the gateway to migration and commerce. The road was…
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by Toni DeBella | Fri, 06/14/2024 - 12:40
Florence’s Bargello Museum reopened its Maiolica Room and Islamic Hall to the public earlier this week after a nine-month reconfiguration. The Maiolica Room,…
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by Laurence Connell | Sun, 06/09/2024 - 08:45
In October of last year, after featuring in a 4-0 victory against Malta, then-20-year-old Destiny Udogie described making his first appearance for Italy’s…
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by Giulia Riva | Fri, 05/24/2024 - 02:45
Of all the revitalization efforts happening across Italy’s endangered rural villages — some hyper-local, others more widespread throughout the nation — the…
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by Jessica Lionnel | Sat, 05/11/2024 - 08:00
For the 10,000 residents of Salemi, a frozen-in-time town in the Sicilian province of Trapani, being neighborly is the rule of the day. An hour’s drive from…