The Roman Question: Black and White Nobility

The division into social classes is a characteristic that has distinguished human societies from the earliest of times. One such class is the nobility, a term derived from the Latin nobilis, distinguished person, consisting of groups or families…

WONDERFUL PIEDMONT

Piedmont is a land of mountains, forming the border between Switzerland and France. The region’s name also refers to the mountainous landscape, as “pied” stands for foot and “mont” for mountain, describing perfectly its…

Sicily, an eternal spring

Volcanoes and Greek temples, Arab gardens and sparkling golden mosaics, turquoise sea and precious princely palaces, salt flats and windmills, the light and the scent of flowers ... Sicily is a geography of the soul, a land of divine grace and beauty.

The Jewish Community of Rome: the most ancient in the Diaspora world

Rome lays claim to the oldest Jewish community in Europe, Roman Jews are neither Sephardi nor Askenazi because they arrived in Rome before the Diaspora, in the II century B.C. mainly as merchants hoping to establish business ties with the powerful…

An ancient Jewish presence in Sicily: the Europe’s oldest “mikveh” of Siracusa

Sicily is one of the most attractive islands in the Mediterranean Sea and has been a hub of migration routes for millennia. Jews are thought to have settled there at least as early as the 1st century, after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction…

Tuscany and Italian Riviera:what else?

Is there anything that we can possibly say about two of the most iconic regions in Italy that you haven't already heard? Maybe not.  But we believe in “Repetita iuvant", or repeating does good, as the Latin saying goes. And so we gladly…

The ancient Jewish Community of Pitigliano, in Tuscany

In my long experience as a Tour Guide in Florence, I noticed that many American and European Jews are used to visit the Jewish part of town whenever they travel abroad; whether is Rome, Paris or Budapest, they go to synagogues, they seek out…

Five hidden gems at the Venice Ghetto

Today, no barrier or signpost marks where Venice ends and its ghetto begins, but linger long enough in the Campo di Ghetto Nuovo and you will feel the wall of the closing in. Established by decree of Doge Leonardo Lorendan on March 1516, the…

The Italian Riviera’s most famous sauce: Pesto “alla Genovese”

The Food in Liguria is wonderful, as are the wines. The first Pasta with Pesto recipe goes all the way back to the 1800s. This delicious sauce derives its name “Pesto” (translates from Italian as “crush”) from the fact that all the ingredients…

Veneto and la “Serenissima” Republic of Venice

In its heyday, the mighty Republic of Venice ruled a huge maritime empire which also included a good part of the northern Italian mainland, a region called "Veneto".  In the far north of the region, it's possible to experience an Alpine adventure…

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