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Silver medalists Stefano Oppo and Gabriel Soares

A Brief History of Azzurro, Italian Athletes’ Preferred Shade of Blue

by Alexa Ahern | Thu, 08/08/2024 - 06:50

If you’ve watched any Italian athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics in recent days, you may have noticed a recurring thread: The color blue. Unlike…

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Via Appia Named 60th UNESCO World Heritage Site in Italy

by Toni DeBella | Thu, 07/25/2024 - 04:37

Via Appia is a 2,300-year-old autostrada. Its innovation was unmatched in ancient Rome, and it opened up the gateway to migration and commerce. The…

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Why It’s Time to Put the Bargello Museum Back on Your Florence List

by Toni DeBella | Fri, 06/14/2024 - 12:40

Florence’s Bargello Museum reopened its Maiolica Room and Islamic Hall to the public earlier this week after a nine-month reconfiguration. The Maiolica Room,…

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Azzurri teammates celebrate after Davide Frattesi's goal

Italy is Increasingly Multicultural. So Why Isn’t its National Soccer Team?

by Laurence Connell | Sun, 06/09/2024 - 08:45

In October of last year, after featuring in a 4-0 victory against Malta, then-20-year-old Destiny Udogie described making his first appearance for Italy’s…

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Forget One Euro Homes. It’s Street Art Festivals’ Turn To Revive Italian Villages.

by Giulia Riva | Fri, 05/24/2024 - 02:45

Of all the revitalization efforts happening across Italy’s endangered rural villages — some hyper-local, others more widespread throughout the nation — the…

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Turin Who? This Small Sicilian Town Still Proudly Calls Itself the First Capital of Italy

by Jessica Lionnel | Sat, 05/11/2024 - 08:00

For the 10,000 residents of Salemi, a frozen-in-time town in the Sicilian province of Trapani, being neighborly is the rule of the day. An hour’s drive from…

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Updated Medici gems room at La Specola, Florence

What’s New at 5 Natural History and Science Museums in Italy

by Toni DeBella | Thu, 04/25/2024 - 15:00

Your typical natural history museum in Italy once skewed more “dim vault where old stuff gathers dust” than “state-of-the-art science hub.” But the country’s…

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Bologna Celebrates 150 Years of Guglielmo Marconi and His Global Legacy

by Alex Sakalis | Thu, 04/18/2024 - 14:00

150 years ago next week, one of the world’s most influential people, often described as the inventor of radio, was born in Bologna. Guglielmo Marconi altered…

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Why You Should Visit This Quirky Painted Egg Museum in Umbria

by Toni DeBella | Wed, 03/27/2024 - 15:00

Ed., March 27, 2024: This article was originally published in 2023 and has been updated to reflect this year’s dates and themes. Easter eggs aren’t just child…

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Getting to Know Italy’s Rohrwacher Sisters and Their Road to “La Chimera”

by Lucy McCabe | Fri, 03/15/2024 - 10:00

The Rohrwacher sisters — director Alice and actress Alba — are already A-listers in contemporary Italian cinema, but look poised to raise their profiles across…