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La Festa dei Santi Posted by Serena on Apr 28, 2015
Ormai da alcuni mesi faccio la tessitrice nell’associazione Antiche Arti e Mestieri della Lunigiana, organizzata dalla Pro Loco di Pontremoli. Quest’anno siamo stati invitati insieme ad altri gruppi storici a fare gli animatori alla Festa dei Santi di Capalle. Capalle è un paese del comune di Campi Bisenzio vicino a Firenze ed è pieno zeppo…
La Festa della Liberazione Posted by Serena on Apr 27, 2015
On the 25th of April 1945, Torino and Milano, Northern Italy’s two biggest cities, were liberated from German occupation by Italian Partisans and the Allies forces. On the 28th of April Benito Mussolini was executed by the Partisans and by the 1st of May all of northern Italy had been liberated, thereby putting an end…
Understanding Directions in Italian Posted by Geoff on Mar 23, 2015
Last week I published an article about Asking For Directions. The article itself was fairly basic, and probably not much different from what you might expect to find in a typical Italian phrase book. But now comes the real challenge … making sense of the reply! To that end I’m going to provide you with…
Una Canzone per tutti i Papà Posted by Serena on Mar 19, 2015
Oggi, il 19 marzo, è la Festa del Papà. Per celebrare questa festa ho scelto una canzone che parla di un papà, un papà vero. Il titolo della canzone è Viaggio Con Te ed è scritta dalla cantante Laura Pausini. Il padre di Laura Pausini è stato un musicista di piano bar e ha sempre incoraggiato ed aiutato Laura a diventare…
Spaghetti alla Carbonara Posted by Serena on Mar 17, 2015
There are several classic Italian pasta based dishes that have become well know throughout the world. One of these I described in my recent post la pasta all’Amatriciana. Another famous, but often misinterpreted, Italian pasta dish is gli spaghetti alla Carbonara. Origins: There are many stories about the origins of this dish. The most credible…
Asking For Directions – Part One Posted by Geoff on Mar 16, 2015
When I was in my early twenties I spent 3 months travelling by foot, bus, train, and facendo l’autostop (hitch hiking) around the UK and mainland Europe. At that time I was pretty much monolingual, and yet I managed to successfully navigate myself through at least ten non-English speaking countries without too many problems, before…
Neroli and Nerola Posted by Serena on Mar 11, 2015
When I was a child we use to spend our summer holidays in a little village near Roma called Montorio Romano. To get to the village we had to go past Nerola, a small town on the old Roman road known as the via Salaria. Outside Nerola, at the 47 kilometre ‘milestone’, there was an isolated…