Italy on the podium. Above all, this is what the Milan-Cortina Olympics revealed: an extremely high sporting level among ...

Associate Chorus Master Fabrizio Corona reveals the unseen work behind San Francisco Opera, from Italian diction to backstage conducting ...

From pizzoccheri in Valtellina to casunziei in Cortina, discover the traditional mountain cuisine travelers will encounter along the Milan-Cortina Olympic route ...

Enthusiasm tends to spread quickly, and there is usually at least one snow or ice discipline people can enjoy even without knowing the rules or scoring. What is clear, however, is that the ...

Sbadiglio means “yawn” in Italian. From medieval roots to everyday expressions, the word explains sleepiness, boredom and a contagious habit!

A newly digitized photo archive by Italian American photographer Pio Panieri documents everyday life in Roslyn, Washington ...

Italian bars are not bars in the American sense: they’re not for cocktails (unless you’re having aperitivo, of course), and ordering a martini at 10 a.m. will earn you a look usually reserved for ...

Giuseppe Verdi is one of Italy’s greatest composers, a symbol of national pride whose music has left an indelible mark on both the operatic tradition and Italian identity. Central to the opera’s ...

Domenico Modugno singing “Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu” at the Sanremo Festival in 1958 (Photo: Harry Pot / Anefo, Wikicommons/CC0) Another tune every Italian has in their heart is Gigliola Cinquetti’s Non ...

Just a few hundred meters off the Calabrian coast, opposite the town of Praia a Mare, lies the Isola di Dino, a small island that many Italians have heard of, but few have actually visited. With its ...

Every September, Calabria turns red. On balconies and along sunny walls, strings of peperoncini sway in the breeze, a sign that the harvest has begun and that kitchens across the region are getting ...

The main entrance of the MACRO museum, in Roma Testaccio, also known as the Museo del Mattatoio (Photo: Valerio Rosati/Dreamstime) Dedicated to contemporary art, the museum space was in fact once a ...