Italy Blog

Custom Teaser:  These croquettes are called supplì al telefono in Italian; ‘telephone style’ because when you split them open while they’re hot, the melted mozzarella centre forms a string between the two halves like an old fashioned telephone! Words by Germaine Stafford – Recipe by Marina Sassu Marina Sassu is a cordon bleu cook, has a Masters Degree in the Economic History of Rome, and is Roman to the very roots of her hair.

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Rice croquettes

In an unusual exhibition at Milan’s Triennale Design Museum, 800 objects which together represent life in Italy are on display.

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"The things we are" – 800 objects on display in Milan

Custom Teaser:  To conclude our series on romantic summer films set in Italy, we look at “September Affair”, a weepie from 1950, an era in which it was considered rather daring… Words by Pat Eggleton To conclude our series on romantic summer films set in Italy, we look at “September Affair”, a weepie from 1950, an era in which it was considered rather daring… read more

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Summer Romantic Film – Golden Oldie – "September affair"

Italian composer Ennio Morricone [81] is to receive the Polar Music Prize, regarded as the “Nobel Prize” of the music world, on 30th August in Stockholm.

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Polar Music Prize for Morricone

Robert De Niro is said to be in final talks regarding a starring role in the film “Manuale d’Amore 3”, reports “Variety”. The first two “Manuale d’Amore” films [2005 and 2007] were hugely successful at the Italian box office. The films, directed by Giovanni Veronesi, tell the stories of the stages in relationships in four “chapters” featuring different main characters

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De Niro returning to film in Italy

Former President of the Italian Republic Francesco Cossiga died in Rome yesterday at the age of 82.

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Former president Cossiga dies

Custom Teaser:  Eat your heart out Siena! Catherine Richards Golini finds that this town in Piedmont has its own palio and a whole lot more besides.. Words by Catherine Richards Golini – Images by Vittorio Ubertone Medieval pageantry, flag waving, beating drums, sumptuous costumes and horses galloping at breakneck speed around an Italian piazza can mean only one thing: a palio.

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Eight days in Asti

Custom Teaser:  If you are going to be in the Abruzzo region at the end of August and beginning of September, you will have the chance to see a very special event in Lanciano [Chieti Province]. From Sunday 29th August to Sunday 5th September the historic centre of the town will celebrate the medieval period when fairs were the hub of commerce and the centre of culture for many cities

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Week-long festival in Abruzzo: the Mastrogiurato in Lanciano

The small hill town of Montappone [ Marche ] has been a millinery centre since the seventeenth century and now it celebrates its art in an exhibition charting the history of the cinema through the hats worn by actors.

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Hats off to Montappone

An unusual exhibition at the Vittoriano Museum Complex [Victor Emmanuel Monument] in Rome pays tribute to Italy’s “art police” and some of the works they have recovered.

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Art show of stolen treasures