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Lucky for those of us who speak English as our native language, most menus in restaurants in Italy will have plenty of things that look completely familiar from the Italian restaurants you’ve eaten in back home. We all know what spaghetti, ravioli, lasagna, ragu and cappuccino mean. I always used to tell my…
The charm of this city nestled between the mountains and the sea, fragmented between past and present, a crossroads of different peoples and cultures (it is no coincidence that the medieval name of Genoa is Janua, "door" in Latin), has attracted the attention of writers, poets and…
The islands of the archipelago, whose substrata consist of limescale alternating with portoro, the rare black marble with characteristic yellow veining, represent the natural continuation of Porto Venere promontory: over 9,000 years ago, they formed a unit.
Several sites in the Park territory bear…
1.- Levanto: searching for a new identity.
In order to understand the present day Levanto, we must behave like we do with the people we love: learn its story, give a historical depth to the landscape of today and learn about the vocations and the identities that have followed one another in time.
We can…
The cheesecake is prepared during the Easter period typically in the regions of central Italy. The original recipe has been published on my blog in Italian Il Mondo dei Dolci as a result of my several years of residence in that European country. I have published more than 5,000 recipes in it so…
The operational phase of the digitalization process is about to kick off, in collaboration with Emc and Dedanext: about 40 million pages will be photographed at very high resolution and archived in a format suitable to both conservation and consultation.
Over 80,000 manuscripts with about 40 million pages:…
Muggia is situated on a peninsula facing north-east with typical hilly sloping towards the sea: from the western foothills you can enjoy the show (rare in Italy) sunset on the Adriatic Sea. Muggia is a tissue in a tissue: a comma in the enclave Trieste, quotation marks already in itself. A question mark, a…
The Hanbury Gardens are located on the promontory of the Mortola on the Ligurian coast, a few kilometers from the French border.
They occupy an area of 18 hectares, including in the town of Ventimiglia Mortola, in the province of Imperia.
The land is sloping from the hills to the sea, as is…
Three proposals for trekking routes for those who love walking in nature and discovering new landscapes. To visit and learn about the Santerno Valley, Imola is the ideal base. Continuing towards Tuscany, the urban landscape gives way to nature along the banks of the river up to the Vena del Gesso…
Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is in an almost constant state of activity.
The fertile volcanic soils support extensive agriculture, with vineyards and orchards spread across the lower slopes of the mountain and the broad Plain of Catania to the south. Due to its history…