Culture

Culture
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 nominated “…
Culture
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
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 and a plastic…
Culture
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
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
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
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
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…
Culture
by Italy Magazine Staff | Thu, 01/05/2023 - 04:43
The funeral mass for the late Pope Benedict XVI began this morning at 9.30am at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. With current pontiff Pope Francis presiding…
Culture
by Italy Magazine Staff | Wed, 12/21/2022 - 12:24
Bergamo and Brescia — neighboring cities in Lombardy that were at the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic back in early 2020 — are on the brink of a major…