Category: Culture & Living

Posts about culture in Italy. Festivals, religion, etiquette, language, and more.

  • Ancients Doing Modern Things

    Sed primum a me accipe selfie

  • Surf Italiano: Two Films About Surfing in Italy

    Watch the trailers of “Peninsula” and “Bella Vita,” two documentaries on surfing in Italy.

    Chris Del Moro surfing in Italy
  • The Roman Spring of Tennessee Williams

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    In the late winter/early spring of 1948, American playwright Tennessee Williams arrived in Rome in need of a change of scenery. Williams, of course, is known for his writing set in the American South, including “A Streetcar Named Desire” (written in 1947) and “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof” (1955), both of which earned him Pulitzer…

  • The Best Ever In-Depth Video of Siena’s Palio

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    Inspiration always seems to find me when I’m not looking and that is exactly what happened as I settled in to watch a few minutes of television last night. Lucky for me, I clicked over to Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports, a show on ESPN that puts sports into a cultural context. One of…