Across Italy, edicole votive - small roadside shrines - reflect centuries of devotion, local art, and everyday traditions woven into streets and landscapes ...
During Prohibition, Italian-American families in California kept wine traditions alive through home production, grape shipments, and legal loopholes ...
The Italian word “bocciolo” means bud, but also suggests youth and potential, linking botanical language with poetic ...
In Trapani, Good Friday is marked by the Processione dei Misteri, a centuries-old procession of sacred sculptures carried through the city for nearly 24 hours.
Long before WWII, American culture, technology, and migration were already shaping Italy. A new study traces these early transatlantic exchanges.
In Assisi, a rare public veneration of Saint Francis’ remains invites a closer look at a figure often simplified, revealing peace as discipline, not sentiment ...
A photography exhibition in Agrigento explores Andrea Camilleri’s life and Sicily through Angelo Pitrone’s black-and-white images ...
In the heart of San Francisco’s North Beach, where the aroma of fresh espresso drifts through the streets, lies a legendary ...
Another important landmark is the Church of San Giusto, dedicated to the village’s patron saint; the church has Romanesque ...
Eight centuries after his life, St. Francis of Assisi’s message of peace, dialogue, and respect for creation offers a powerful response to today’s conflicts ...
Most people would not put Sophia Loren and pickled eels in the same sentence. Yet in 1954, the beautiful actress, who had just begun her career a few years earlier at the age of 16, played a worker in ...
City twinning sounds like paperwork until you look at what actually happens between certain American and Italian cities: far from being random handshake agreements where two mayors smile for a photo ...