Heritage

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Meli, Sicily’s most celebrated poet, who died of pneumonia on December 20, 1815. Prof. Giovanni Ruffino, director of the Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, in collaboration with Sicily’s …

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 …

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 …

Rome is a city famous for its fountains. The largest and most celebrated one is the Fountain of Trevi, so called because it is situated at the center of three converging streets (tre vie). Some say that the Trevi fountain …