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By Alessandra Stefani
4 January 2024

"Pirola Parola"

In the Venetian tradition, the Epiphany which occurs on January 6th, is celebrated with ornate fireworks and a huge bonfire created to “burn the witch” (brusare a vecia).  Our ancestors used this bonfire as a way of presaging the weather for the coming year, not unlike Groundhog Day in the United States.

This tradition has different names depending which part of the Veneto you are in.  In the countryside it may be called "Pirola Parola”; around Treviso it is called "Pan e Vin”; in the eastern Veneto, “Casera”; or any number of other strange names.

By Marcella Fiorese
4 May 2023

Amalfi Coast

The fascinating Amalfi Coast is one of the most beautiful and famous of all Italian locations, rich with small towns and villages and full of nature and wonderful views.

Here we have tasted the best lemons of our entire lives smiley They were so sweet and flavorful…

By Chiara Sgaravatti
15 December 2022

Michelangelo's secret room

Did you know that Michelangelo had a secret room inside Florence Cappelle Medicee?

It was just 2x7 meters with one window; here he have create a lot of drawings on his old works and new projects, all of them were discovered  in 1975 by Paolo del Poggetto during some refurbishment works.

The room was never been opened to the public, but from 2020 the world can see this amazing secret and the works that Michelangelo did during his prisonery for surviving at Medici's revenge.

By Silvia Pellizzon
23 March 2021

Cervara Benedictine Abbey - Liguria

Cervara combines reality with imagination, and history with legend; a rare concentrate of wonders similar to that kept in the Benedictine Abbey, is hard to find.

The structure includes the church of San Girolamo, a beautiful quadrangular cloister, a watchtower built to guard the area from attacks, a wonderful Italian monumental garden overlooking the sea and a beautiful botanical garden filled with the scents of Florentine lemon trees and Chinese mandarin oranges.

By Elena Minella
8 March 2020

Grotta Gigante di Sgonico

When you visit it, you can see the bigger natural room of a grotto, someone told that it can contain the entire St. Peter's Basilica!

This huge grotto (about 328 feet height, 557 lenght, 262 width) was discovered at the end of XIX age from Anton Federico Lindner.

It is magnificent not just for the room dimensions, but also for the size of its calcareous formation like Colonna Ruggero, its bigger stalagmite, 40 feet tall.

You can visit it all the year in Carso Triestino, North Italy.

By Silvia Pellizzon
30 April 2019

Discover Venice

Have you ever tried to lose your way through Venice?

Every corner has a story and every sculpture has something to tell you.

We spent an entire a day walking through this historical city, searching for those things that the normal tours don’t show you, and we found a lot of inspiration for new itineraries and walking tours.
You could see Venice with everybody else, but we can show you the little known corners of this city and its ancient history.

By Chiara “Chiaretta” Domenin
12 October 2018

Matera, European Capital of Culture 2019

Next year, after Florence, Bologna and Genoa, the title European Capital of Culture will be awarded once again to another Italian city, Matera, located in Basilicata in Southern Italy.  This city will have passed a selection process, which already had begun in 2012, by the European Commission in conjunction with the Italian government.

By Marcella Fiorese
7 December 2017

The Pizza Napoletana is now Unesco Intangible Heritage

During wednesday night, the Neapolitan Pizza is become Unesco Intangible Heritage, finally!

The petition for this acknowledgement started in 2014 with Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio during Napoli Pizza Village (the biggest people's festival in Europe).

During these years the creators of Napoli Pizza Village, have believed in this adventure and they have had a lot of unexpected satisfactions.

Claudio Sebillo and Alessandro Marinacci (creators of Napoli Pizza Village) hope to organized a huge party with all Naples for celebrate this historical event.

By Gloria Panzarin
19 September 2017

Sarmede "the fairy tale's town"

This is the 30th anniversary of this festival, there will be 80 events of street art and theatre from October 8th to February 11th.

"Le Fiere del Teatro" (theatre's fairs) will start the festival with a double appointment sunday 8 and 15 October; 50 companies from 20 different nations will performe for a total of 100 different shows each sunday, everywhere in the city!

By Elena Minella
11 September 2017

The Venice Glass Week

This is the year of the first Venice Glass Week edition; from 10th to 17th September there will be a total of 140 events regarding Venetian glass: university, furnaces, museums, foundations and much more.
There will be varied initiatives, the most free, like parties, exibitions, open fournaces or seminars; you can find the complete program in the website.
During this week you can see the glass world in all its aspects like Anamorphic Glass – Oliviero Zane: