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Culture
by Silvia Donati | Mon, 10/14/2013 - 05:35
More than two thousand years after her death, the allure and mystery surrounding the last queen of Egypt remains very much alive. Now a major exhibition in…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Sat, 10/12/2013 - 05:00
[In the photo: the Certosa di San Martino in Naples]   90 cities around Italy will host the second annual FAI Marathon on Sunday, the only marathon where…
by Katia Amore | Sat, 10/12/2013 - 04:00
On Saturday, October the 12th, Italy celebrates Chocoday, a day dedicated to quality chocolate, and promoted by the organizers of Perugia's famous chocolate…
Food & Drink
by Anonymous (not verified) | Fri, 10/11/2013 - 05:09
Italian products are famous and loved across the world and carry with them a value as a brand that many want to exploit. In the latest such case, counterfeit…
Culture
by Carol King | Thu, 10/10/2013 - 11:30
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Codex on the Flight of Birds’, possibly one of the world’s most famous notebooks, is on show at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 10/10/2013 - 05:06
Italian conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti will lead the combined forces of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Sat, 10/05/2013 - 04:00
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 2007. Directed by Tim Burton The MoMA of New York is celebrating the work of Dante Ferretti - the award-…
by Katia Amore | Wed, 10/02/2013 - 09:49
Today Italy celebrates Italian grandparents with la Festa dei Nonni. Grandparents Day is a celebration introduced in Italy on the 31st of July 2005, to…
Culture
by Carol King | Tue, 10/01/2013 - 07:00
In the picture: "Judith Slaying Holofernes" (c. 1620) by Artemisia Gentileschi A round up of some of the exhibitions in the USA featuring Italian arts and…
Culture
by Katia Amore | Sat, 09/28/2013 - 05:10
On Saturday, September 28th, Italy will celebrate the European Heritage Days, a cultural event first conceived by the European Council in 1991 as a way to…