Category: Culture & Living

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

  • Remembering the Battle of Montecassino

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    About an hour and a half south of Rome lies Montecassino, an enormous Benedictine monastery whose environs witnessed a very costly battle of World War II.

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    Melanie Renzulli
    Polish Cemetery at Montecassino

  • Marble Run: Shopping for Traditional Marbled Products in Italy

    Marble, either as a substance or a style, runs through three different artisan crafts that are famous in Italy.

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    Melanie Renzulli
    Murano Glass Shop

  • Comfort Me With Potatoes: A Tale of Two Tuber Dishes in Italy

    The potato is a vegetable that no one really associates with Italy but it features in two dishes that some consider comfort fo

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    Melanie Renzulli
    gnocchi

  • Help Tell the Story of Jewish Italy

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    CulturaItalia, a website operated by the Italian Culture Ministry, is seeking your help in its efforts to document the Jewish contributions to Italian society over the past 150 years. As one of its many initiatives to mark the anniversary of 150 years of Italian Unity, CulturaItalia has teamed up with with Judaica Europeana, a Europe-wide…

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    Melanie Renzulli