Culture

Monument to the Partisan, Arcevia, Le Marche

Beyond “Bella Ciao”: 4 Songs of the Italian Resistance

by Amy Gulick | Wed, 04/26/2023 - 06:20

The perennially popular Italian folk tune “Bella Ciao” has roots in 19th-century farm laborer protests in northern Italy, but this simple yet stirring hymn has…

Culture

Why This Year’s Italian Championship is About More Than Soccer

by Katherine Wilson | Thu, 04/20/2023 - 15:00

This spring, the city at the base of Vesuvius is ready to erupt. Abuzz with adrenaline and already spray-painted blue, Naples is anticipating a national…

Culture

Woman making traditional orecchiette pasta in Bari, Puglia

Italian Cuisine UNESCO Nomination is About Preserving Food Heritage, Not “Freezing” It

by Alexa Ahern | Thu, 03/30/2023 - 14:25

I think it’s safe to say no cuisine kindles such universal love quite like Italian food. When the Italian Ministries of Agriculture and Culture…

Culture

Meet the Art Historian Offering a Free Course on Michelangelo’s David to the Tallahassee Community

by Toni DeBella | Wed, 03/29/2023 - 14:07

Art historian, Yale-educated scholar and bestselling author Laura Morelli has said she avoids controversy like the plague. But when Tallahassee, Florida’s “…

Culture

May 1, 2022: the end of Ramadan at the El Fath mosque of Rome / Photo: Vincenzo Nuzzolese via Shutterstock

Ramadan, the Roman Way

by Miranda Mullings | Wed, 03/22/2023 - 08:00

The Arab alimentari El Zayat in Rome’s Marconi neighborhood has the familiar din of a minimarket in Cairo. Twinkling lights curtain the facade…

Culture

External view of the Auditorium Parco della Musica

What Will the Future Hold for Dubbing in Italy?

by Jessica Lionnel | Sat, 03/18/2023 - 03:30

Imagine you’re watching a key episode in your favorite series, on the edge of your seat, desperate to know what happens next. Now imagine all of the…

Culture

One Year After Russian Invasion, Ukrainians in Italy are Still Finding Their Footing

by Alexa Ahern | Wed, 03/01/2023 - 09:37

It was difficult for Yaryna Shendryk to hold back tears as she recounted fleeing with her three children from her home in Sumy, Ukraine, one year earlier,…

Culture

Città Alta neighborhood in Bergamo / ICoC handout photo

Hope and Renewal in Bergamo and Brescia — But for Whom?

by Laurence Connell | Wed, 02/22/2023 - 07:30

In early 2020, much of the world’s attention was focused on the northern Italian city of Bergamo as it became one of the first places outside China to…

Culture

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Events in Italy in 2023

by Italy Magazine Staff | Thu, 01/26/2023 - 03:15

International Holocaust Remembrance Day — Giorno della Memoria in Italian — is celebrated around the world on January 27, the date in 1945 on which the…

Travel

A Dentist, the Dalai Lama, and the Bizarre Backstory of the House of Tibet in Italy

by Phoebe Hunt | Thu, 01/19/2023 - 03:04

It’s 1982. Stefano Dallari, a young dentist from Reggio Emilia, has found himself on a training placement in Ladakh, northern India. He is researching a thesis…