Verona is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Veneto Italy. The Arena built around 30 AD is a well preserved Roman amphitheatre that dominates the Piazza Bra’. The spectacular Piazza Bra’ acts as a...
Putting confiscated Mafia property to good use, the Italian government is re-allocating property once owned by the Mafia in Palermo Italy into use by producing pasta, olive oil, wine, honey and other products,...
If you are not an Opera fan and have never been to the opera, discover the passion, drama and atmosphere of the Opera Festival in Verona Italy. The performances are held in the 2000 year old Arena di Verona,...
Giampaolo Pazzini Success " Only three months into Giampaolo Pazzini’s winter switch from Fiorentina to Sampdoria, most Calciofans can claim that the move has proven to be quite the success story. The 24-year old has settled well into his new surroundings and blossomed...
Update: April 10, 2009 "www.romepost.it EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY h. 17:29LOOTERS TO FACE FAST-TRACK TRIAL(ANSA) - L'Aquila, April 10 - Four Romanians caught looting a home in the town of San Panfilo d'Ocre, not far from the Abruzzo capital of L'Aquila on Friday will face a...
It was a long interminable rumbling. You wake up unexpectedly at 3:30 in the morning, even my daughter, who usually waits to the last possible moment to get up for school. Moments of fear and my mind quickly races to L’Aquila where I work, where since last December we lived...
The hours pass as they try to save as many survivors as possibile from the terrible earthquake that hit Abruzzo last night. Marco Gentile lives near Aquila and is one of tens of thousands of people who have had to leave their homes during these last hours. He tells...
Passano le ore, e si cerca di salvare il maggior numero di sopravvissuti al tremendo terremoto che stanotte ha colpito l’Abruzzo. Marco Gentile abita nei pressi dell’Aquila, ed è uno delle decine di migliaia di sfollati che in queste ore hanno dovuto abbandonare la...
Traditional Italian food of Easter typically includes: capretto o agnello al forno (roast lamb), cacioffi fritti (fried artichokes), pizza rustica (a pie stuffed with ricotta, sausage and hard boiled eggs), la...
La Chitarra (pronounced key-tahr-rah) is a pasta maker believed to have been invented in Chieti, Abruzzi Italy around the 1800’s. No one seems to know who invented it and until recently pasta made with the...
Everything in Italy has a story and this is no different. Ciacchiere means to chat in Italian. Because I never stopped talking as a kid, my grandmother would always say to me “chiacchiere, chiacchiere,...