Heritage

January 7 is the National Day of the Flag and this year Italy celebrates the 219th anniversary of the birth of the First Tricolore, was invented in the city of Reggio Emilia in 1797, as the flag of the Republic …

Wherever you go in Italy, it’s amazing to see how ancient donkey paths have been lovingly and beautifully maintained over the course of history. They are still used on a daily basis–a necessity, since most of the towns throughout Italy …

Rick Geary è un fumettista con l’anima di uno storico, uno di quegli artisti che con il passare degli anni non smette di amare l’arte per cui ha dedicato tutta la sua vita. E il suo lavoro artistico non smentisce …

Millions of Sicilians and Italians left for the “promised land” at the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th century. Today many have a yearning to return. On this Episode of “You, Me & Sicily” we travel to the …

The wheel has been around for at least 6000 years… from Mesopotamia in the Middle East all the way to central Europe. No one really knows when it was “invented”. Wheels move people, wood for making fires and the construction …

On 13 December, Italians celebrate Santa Lucia, a very important feast in the North as well as in Sicily. The name Lucia comes from Latin and means Lux (light): it dates back to the pagan celebration of winter solstice before …

In the first half of this two-part discussion, we left off with the question, “How did St. Nicholas become Santa Claus?” I must answer by first explaining that the custom of gift-giving, especially to children during the Christmas Season, is …

During the past ten years, Los Angeles-born rock guitarist, Dweezil Zappa (September 5, 1969), has put aside his own songwriting. Instead, perhaps also responding to a primordial impulse inscribed into his Sicilian DNA, he has been zealously honoring his father, …

Preservation and innovation: that’s the philosophy behind the work carried out by the brother-sister team at Antica Stamperia Artigiana Marchi, an artisan workshop in Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna dating to the 17th century. From the outside, it could easily pass for …

As announced by the Economic Developement Ministry and reported by Italian Press Agency, ANSA, a new project aimed at preserving the Hadrian’s Villa archaeological complex in Tivoli will use drones and satellite data to monitor the area around the UNESCO …