Traditions

Game Fair Italia celebrates its 25th event with a new location, the Fiera del Madonnino exhibition centre in Grosseto, in the heart of the Tuscan Maremma. While Game Fair was launched in England in 1950, by the Country Landowners Association, the …

Margie explains what a cameo is and takes us where artisans make it. A cameo is a piece of art, is a part of Italian history, something for the life, something that you can use but almost something that pointed …

There’s a certain something about listening to your favorite song under a starry sky on a warm summer night: open air music festivals are, for music lovers, the perfect chance to enjoy many different artists while taking in the beauty …

  The Pentecost’s Sunday in Rome becomes very special: indeed, in the Pantheon, now considered a basilica called S. Maria ad martyres, after the Sunday Mass, a tradition takes place.   In fact, rose petals are dropped through the circular …

The Greek colonization in South Italy left an immense cultural heritage: besides an influence on the language, traditions, and cuisine, there is also a relevant trace when it comes to art, in particular on the working of gold. This is …

Many things people do not know is how oaring a gondola. Our Italian Buddy explores this special tradition in Venice.  If you’re in Venice and you’re observing a gondola, you may be surprised by the peculiar oaring style: standing driver, …

Blue for a little boy or pink if it is a girl; white for weddings or red for graduation: while the colour changes according to the event in which they are offered to guests, the Italian confetti are today well …

Long before the romantic, peaceful “flower power” movement of the 1960s in which hippies decorated their cars and homes with flowers, cities in Italy were decorating their streets and alleyways with pretty, intricate flower petal designs. Since the 1600s, certain …

  The Pupazza Frascatana is a typical product of the town of Frascati: the word “pupazza” in Roman means doll but it also represents a reminiscence iconography of the goddess of abundance, with something extra: the third breast which does …

San Severo in Apulia region is famous for its festival held on the third Sunday of May. The so-called Festa del Soccorso, Festival of Help and Aid, it is held in honor of the patron saints of San Severo, the …