La Befana, an Italian legendOrigins of the Befana

We all know about the three "Magi" who brought gifts to the Baby Jesus in Bethlehem. However, hardly anyone knows the little-told story of Artaban, the...
Sylvester was the 33rd pope of the Roman Church. It would seem that he died on 31 December, 335, and united a lengthy ministry in one of the most disjointed...
Knowing how to handle Christmas 2020 is a feat of acrobatics: on one hand, there’s an obsession with the safety measures that greatly deprive us...
To this day, my mother-in-law still talks about the tacchinella and my Mum about the tortellini served in salty broth. Flying during the festive season...
The MiaDi Project began in 2015 with one simple yet important goal: giving back. Two sets of parents had experienced months of fear and despondency together...
Cross the Piave, but before you reach the Livenza. They might be waterways with different capacities, but they are no less part of the geography of northeastern...
Christmas is just around the corner. Almost all the Christmas decorations go up on 8 December, the day of the Immaculate Conception, according to tradition,...
You can find them all over Tuscany. There’s almost 200 of them and there’s even one in Piedmont. Most of them are in Florence, especially nestled...