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Volcanoes and Greek temples, Arab gardens and sparkling golden mosaics, turquoise sea and precious princely palaces, salt flats and windmills, the light and the scent of flowers … Sicily is a geography of the soul, a land of divine grace and beauty.
The division into social classes is a characteristic that has distinguished human societies from the earliest of times. One such class is the nobility, a term derived from the Latin nobilis, distinguished person, consisting of groups or families holding privileges and power. The nobility of ancient Rome is sometimes said to have been born with […]
Piedmont is a land of mountains, forming the border between Switzerland and France.
For centuries, the massive marble quarries above the Tuscan town of Carrara have yielded the raw material for the polished masterpieces of great Classical sculptors, not to mention the great Italian Masters like Michelangelo, Canova, and Bernini. Nowadays though, it seems that ABB 2, a 13-foot, zinc-alloy robotic arm, produced by the Italian company Robotor, […]
A rich an fertile land just south of Rome, the Campania Region is as remarkable for its historic sites, ten of which are on the UNESCO World Heritage List, as for its stunning natural scenery and wonderful wine and food. The Ancient Romans had selected the “Campania Felix” as their favored holiday resort, building countless […]
Barolo is one of the most prestigious, age-worthy, and collectible wines in the world. The magic starts first with Nebbiolo, the grape that goes into Barolo and Barbaresco, two of the world’s most revered and expensive wines in the world. Nebbiolo does not grow just anywhere, it must be cultivated in the Langhe hills in […]
Prosecco is a trademarked wine produced exclusively in selected parts of north-eastern Italy between the city of Venice and the Dolomites Mountains. Prosecco was originally the name of a grape and a place, but once the wine’s popularity grew, more clarification was needed to avoid just anyone using the name, and the prosecco grape was […]
Once upon a time, there was a King, the first of a dynasty of Dukes, the Lords of French Savoy who, after having elected Turin as the capital of their Duchy, brought there their wives, princesses related to the Kings of France and therefore owned by the Crown, as the “Sun King” Louis XIV said. […]
Rome lays claim to the oldest Jewish community in Europe, Roman Jews are neither Sephardi nor Askenazi because they arrived in Rome before the Diaspora, in the II century B.C. mainly as merchants hoping to establish business ties with the powerful Republic. Later more Jews were protected and encouraged to migrate to Rome by Pompey […]
Sicily is one of the most attractive islands in the Mediterranean Sea and has been a hub of migration routes for millennia. Jews are thought to have settled there at least as early as the 1st century, after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. Since 1492, Spain […]