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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Traditions & Ancient Crafts
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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Rome’s Capitoline She-wolf called a fake
On Monday, the German weekly Der Spiegel brought an old academic discussion back into the spotlight by questioning the origin
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Venice and Egypt Exhibition
Why is Venice the only European city that had its own name in Arabic? The unique, thousand-year old, relationship between
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The earliest European lived in Italy
A baby molar, which was first discovered in 1964 in the Grotta del Cavallo in Apulia, has now been confirmed
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