Limoni di Sorrento - Sorrento Lemons


The Lemon of Sorrento is a product that qualitatively distinguishes from the similar products thanks to the peculiar characteristics of preservability and aroma of the local variety. This last one, raised with the unique cultivation techniques used in the Sorrento Peninsula, that allow to exalt its specific qualities, has obtained the communitarian acknowledgment of Typical Geographic Mark (I.G.P.) that protects and expolits the exclusive and incomparable I.G.P. Lemon of Sorrento.








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Il Postino: The Postman (1994)


Il Postino: The Postman is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford.
The film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a relationship with a simple postman who learns to love poetry. It stars Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. 








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Sostiene Pereira - Pereira Maintains



Pereira Maintains (Italian: Sostiene Pereira) is a 1994 novel by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It is also known as Pereira Declares and Declares Pereira. Its story follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the fascist regime of Antonio Salazar. Antonio Tabucchi won the Premio Campiello, Viareggio Prize and Premio Scanno in 1994 for the novel. It was adapted into a film, also called Sostiene Pereira, in 1996.






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Gianni Bugno

Gianni Bugno was a versatile rider, able to do well in different types of races. He won numerous stages in the Tour de France, and the Milan – San Remo classic in 1990. In 1991 he won the Clรกsica de San Sebastiรกn, and in 1994 he won the Tour of Flanders.

Bugno's greatest success was the double victory in the World Championship. In 1991 he beat Steven Rooks of the Netherlands and Miguel Indurain of Spain, and in 1992 finished ahead of Laurent Jalabert of France and Dmitri Konyshev of Russia.




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Struffoli


Struffoli is a Neapolitan dish made of deep fried balls of dough about the size of marbles. Crunchy on the outside and light inside, struffoli are mixed with honey and other sweet ingredients. There are many different ways to dress them, but the traditional way is to mix them in honey with diavulilli (nonpareils sprinkles), cinnamon, and bits of orange rind. 







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Asti


Asti is a city and comune of about 75,000 inhabitants located in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy.
People have lived in and around what is now Asti since the Neolithic period.
Some sections of the ancient city walls remain on the North side of the city and in the late 20th-century building work uncovered a section of Roman wall in the center of the city.
One of the most famous events held in Asti is the famous Palio di Asti, in which all the old town wards, called "Rioni" and "Borghi" plus nearby towns compete in a bare-back horse race.
 The wine most famously associated with Asti worldwide is the sparkling Asti (DOCG).




View of Asti and the Collegiata di San Secondo - Antonio Bignoli 1857


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Vetro di Murano - Murano Glass



Murano glass is glass made on the Venetian island of Murano, which has specialized in fancy glasswares for centuries. Murano’s glassmakers led Europe for centuries, developing or refining many technologies including crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (aventurine), multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo), and imitation gemstones made of glass. Today, the artisans of Murano are still employing these centuries-old techniques, crafting everything from contemporary art glass and glass figurines to Murano glass chandeliers and wine stoppers, as well as tourist souvenirs.








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Romanzo Criminale (La Serie)


Romanzo Criminale - La Serie is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo
The series is set in about 1977-89 and follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Most of the characters use the Romanesco dialect.
As well as its internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services. The plotline is partially based on real events concerning the Banda della Magliana of the 1970s-90s.






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Museo Egizio


The Museo Egizio is a museum in Turin, Italy, specialising in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology. It houses the world's second largest collections of Egyptian antiquities after Cairo. The Museo delle Antichitร  Egizie is the only museum other than the Cairo Museum that is dedicated solely to Egyptian art and culture. Many international scholars, since the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs Jean-Franรงois Champollion, who came to Turin in 1824, spend much time pouring over the collections. It was Champollion who famously wrote, “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”.






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Italo Calvino
 

Italo Calvino,  (born October 15, 1923, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba—died September 19, 1985, Siena, Italy), Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century.





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Sara Simeoni

Sara Simeoni is a former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump.





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Pasta alla Norma (Pasta with Eggplants)


Pasta alla norma is a pasta dish in Sicilian cuisine from Catania, an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily. It's made with tomatoes, fried aubergine, grated ricotta salata cheese, and basil. It is supposedly named for the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini.



 


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