New Florence Opera House revives the theater as envisioned by the ancient Greeks
Today the New Florence Opera Theater will open its doors for an extraordinary public concert by Zubin Mehta. With its
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Author: Slow Italy
The most beautiful vintage cars meet for the Winter Marathon in Madonna di Campiglio
The most beautiful vintage cars will meet in Madonna di Campiglio for the 24th edition of the Winter Marathon in
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Living nativity scenes in Italy (Live Christmas crèches)
(updated december 2013) Many towns in Italy celebrate the centuries-old Italian tradition of Christmas crèches with traditional wooden or
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Presepe nel Pozzo, the underground nativity scene in Orvieto
The Presepe nel Pozzo of Orvieto is a wonderful animated nativity scene staged in an Etruscan cave located at the
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National Befana Feast in Urbania, Marche, from January 2 to 6
For five days the beautiful town of Urbania in the Marche region will celebrate the National Feast of the Befana,
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Wine bottles to promote reading
Short stories published in the form of tiny booklets attached to the back of wine bottles to promote reading… The
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Italian Christmas Food
(updated december 2013) Traditionally the day of the Vigilia (Christmas Eve) was a day of partial fast, during which no
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Italian lucky foods for the New Year
Lentils Italian custom has it that if you start the New Year by eating lentils, it will bring you
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Grecìa Salentina, a patch of Greece in Italy
Updated September 10, 2013 Photo: Martignano, Salento, Puglia, Italy. Grecìa Salentina (Salentinian Greece) is an area in the province of
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The fading art of transhumance
Transhumance is the seasonal rotation of herding between fixed summer and winter pastures in order to cope with seasonal
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