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Carnival in Venice: Beauty, Sea and Vanity

Published on Sunday, 19 February 2017 11:48 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Italy, Tourism, Tradition, Travel

Carnival season in Venice has officially started The wonderfull city of Venice ia populated again by beautyful masks, strange beings and lots of events. The yearly special beauty contest: “The Best Masked Costume Contest”,...

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Italian farmer asks Barack and Michelle Obama after earthquake: Please buy our prosciutto!!!

Published on Friday, 4 November 2016 11:20 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition

After the terrible earthquake in Central Italy farmers are desperately asking for help. “Barack and Michelle Obama, please help us and buy our prosciutto” – this...

Italian tradition alive in Cortona, Tuscany: Flag wavers and archers

Published on Monday, 3 October 2016 09:31 Category: ByItaly News, Culture, Curiosities, Italy, Tourism, Tradition, Travel

What a surprise, when we came to of Cortona in Tuscany for a photography exhibition. We walked through the narrow streets of this beautyfull little town, which became famous...

Trading Italian Food for a mountain lion (with a cowboy)

Published on Monday, 18 July 2016 08:58 Category: ByItaly News, Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tourism, Travel

Trading Italian food for a mountain Lion on a wooden board

This is what happens when you travel with Italian Food in the US: You trade Italian Food for a Mountain Lion (on a wooden board) with a real cowboy....

ByItaly’s Italian Food on the road in the US

Published on Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:53 Category: ByItaly News, Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tourism, Travel

ByItaly with its Italian Food is coming to the US. Well, not exactly. But two the ByItaly team have decided it is time to travel the West Coast with...

Keeping an Italian musical tradition alive: The Brigata Pretolana

Published on Friday, 10 June 2016 06:10 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Italy, Tradition, Wine

Brigata Pretolana Italian folk music, Italy,Pretola

Italian Folk Music. Almost forgotten : The Brigata Pretolana. They were poor and used spoons, thimbles, pots and brick stones to make the music to accompany their songs: The “Brigata Pretolana”...

Infiorata di Spello – Art made out of flower petals

Published on Saturday, 28 May 2016 14:30 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Italy, Tourism, Tradition

Do you know the Infiorata di Spello ? The streets of the tiny Umbrian town Spello are paved with images made of flowers petals. On the occasion of the...

LONGEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD – in Naples of course

Published on Friday, 20 May 2016 20:17 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tradition

longest pizza in the world in naples napoli

A new Guiness world record: The longest pizza in the world ! Where ? In Naples – Napoli – of course. Where else? This is where the pizza was...

Firriato : A Sicilian family saga made of wine

Published on Friday, 20 May 2016 11:10 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Italy, Wine

Take two passionate Italians from Sicily, add the Sicilian sun, the lava soil and some wonderfull vines, then add years and years of hard work of a dedicated Sicilian family and...

It’s Sagra Time of the Year in Italy

Published on Monday, 16 May 2016 09:05 Category: Culture, Curiosities, Food, Italy, Tourism, Tradition, Travel, Wine

A new season has started in Italy: Sagra Season. “Sagras” are small food festivals where mostly small villages present their specialties from cherries like the “Sagra della Ciliegia” in San Martino...

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Carnival in Venice: Beauty, Sea and Vanity

Italian farmer asks Barack and Michelle Obama after earthquake: Please buy our prosciutto!!!

Italian tradition alive in Cortona, Tuscany: Flag wavers and archers

Trading Italian Food for a mountain lion (with a cowboy)

ByItaly’s Italian Food on the road in the US

Keeping an Italian musical tradition alive: The Brigata Pretolana

Infiorata di Spello – Art made out of flower petals

LONGEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD – in Naples of course

Firriato : A Sicilian family saga made of wine

It’s Sagra Time of the Year in Italy

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