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With the arrival of summer time, each town and city in Italy celebrates tradition and culture with countless feasts throughout the peninsula, where local food and popular customs become the heart of the festivity.   In California and in particular …

Esiste pianta o frutto più tipicamente italiano del limone? Se siete stati in Sicilia o in qualche altra zona del Sud Italia, avrete visto le distese sterminate di alberi dal profumo inconfondibile, e sentito quel profumo che inebria le lunghe …

Okay, there are so many reasons to visit Florence, Italy that you may already have plans to visit this year. If not, you may seriously want to consider a 2014 visit, because with all the stir surrounding Dan Brown’s last …

In collaboration with Luce Cinecittà, Rome, Centro Studi-Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini/Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to present a retrospective of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of …

As Italian immigrants arrived in the United States circa 1850s, (before Italy was officially a nation-state) one of the first neighborhoods that many settled in was a notorious ghetto called the Five Points.  The Five Points located in Lower Manhattan …

Prospect Street in La Jolla is squeezed with many restaurants vying for prominence.  Some have a west-facing view of the Pacific which may give them an edge, but only one has that “wow” look, with curb appeal reminiscent of a …

This year is shaping up to be a landmark one for Temecula Wine Country in its quest to not only be a recognized destination for excellent wines, but for big time music venues.  Concerts on the green have been stepped …

Even in a city of neighborhoods, San Diego’s Little Italy stands out. The influence of Italian culture and the strong bonds of community can still be felt today, carried on through the years from the first Italian immigrants to the …

Acque trasparenti, mare cristallino, spiagge incontaminate, litorali ghiaiosi e strabilianti calette, rendono le località balneari del Belpaese ineguagliabili. Dalla Sicilia alla Sardegna, dalla Puglia al Veneto, passando per Campania, Toscana e Emilia-Romagna, possiamo ammirare la top ten delle più belle …

When I think of Italy in the summer I think of two things.  The first: hoards of sweaty, rude tourists.  The second: le sagre.  For probably obvious reasons, I prefer to think about le sagre.   “Le sagre” are local …