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Places

Apulia’s Ruvo Cathedral: where beauty never ages

The Milan Historic House Museums Network: history and art at the heart of the city

The green glory of the La Cutura Botanical Garden

Open Villas in Brianza: don’t miss your chance

Fall gardens, Italian wonders

The mysteries of Osimo’s underground world

Torri del Benaco, Garda’s pearl

The Remo Brindisi House Museum and an artist’s dream

Colorful villages, like palettes facing the sea

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Crafts

Italian Stories: Martina, lacemaker in Burano

Italian Stories: Agata, the ceramist from Caltagirone

Italian Stories: Iacopo, the interior decorator

Lanificio Leo: one hundred and fifty years of creativity

The real wrought iron

Buongiorno Ceramica! A long weekend for Italian ceramics

Sicilian carts in Mario Cuccia’s photographs

Lorenzo Villoresi’s philosophy and perfumes

Paper restorers Giovanna and Bianca

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Arts

Greetings from 18th-century Rome

Guttuso’s realism and restlessness

Torriti’s splendid mosaics in Santa Maria Maggiore

Rembrandt Bugatti’s passion and talent

Bruno Rovesti, painter and poet, showcased in Gualtieri

#ADAYINITALY, a trip to Italy through Instagram’s lens

Zandomeneghi, an Italian painter in Paris – soon in Padua

Cavallini’s mosaics in Santa Maria in Trastevere

Filippo De Pisis: the eternal spirit of still lifes

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Icons

Grillo, a revolutionary phone

At the seaside with Marcello Dudovich

Zagato’s Fiat-Abarth 1000 “Record Monza”

The Fiat 8V Elaborata Zagato, the American bet

Giovanni Patrone’s Italian ocean liners

Mitelli, the artist who dreamed of the alphabet

Mazzucotelli, and love for wrought iron

The Fronzoni ’64 Series: minimalism and the Renaissance

Antonio Schiratti’s fantastic calligraphy

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Flavors

The “Giovanni Mucci” Confetti Museum in Andria

The Forgotten Fruits Festival and Kiarostami’s mulberry fruits

Podere Cadassa, reign of his majesty the culatello

Romeo Viganotti’s chocolate factory: sweet temptations from Genoa

Enjoy the country life in Milan!

Bar Cattaruzza, a cappuccino on Molo Audace

Pasticceria Taverna e Tarnuzzer in Vercelli: sweetness from the Kingdom of Italy

Italian hazelnuts: the great history of a small nut

Casa del Prosciutto in Vicchio: the art of cooking

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Traditions

Lucca’s Luminara, a procession towards the Holy Face

The real Venice of the Historical Regatta

The Machine of Saint Rose, a tower of light in Viterbo

The Palio dell’Argentario, where the winds race

Calcio fiorentino, a noble and ancient sport

Vogalonga: Venice rows against the waves

The Runaway Madonna in Sulmona

Sparks fly from folk traditions: the “fracchie” of San Marco in Lamis

The Torciata in Pitigliano: the fire of tradition in a beautiful medieval town

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