Matera European Capital of Culture 2019Between caverns and gullies, ascetics and ravinesFrom the Paleolithic to today, the Sassi di Matera have never been abandonedRock dwellings and churches, cultural excursions in a living park, an indelible World Heritage Site Living inside a rock, in a cave, knowing how to capture and retain the power of natural light, how to manage it, defend it and at the same time have security, …
Its diverse dialectic names demonstrate it is a food which is widespread throughout the country. Evocative of ancient stories often intertwined with poverty; poor element of a gastronomic tradition built around the peasant table where a piece of cheese and a herring or “chained” polenta with beans and vegetables gave it flavor and made it magical. Pulenta, polente, polenda, pulenda, pulenna, poenta, poulento, puluntu, pulienta, echtinga, carlon, fufu, porridge, …
We meet Domizio Pigna, from whom we try to extract an idea of the experiences that life has given him as president of a big cooperative, since 1997.
For a magazine like ours, which we wanted to call Italian Good Living, being “Italian” brings with it not only a long series of values but also responsibilities. It’s very important that our values are clear, the values of the so-called “Made in Italy”, because only by knowing them in depth, and also managing to give them a precise hierarchy, will it be possible to define a serious and …
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Dec 2020
Thank you from deep inside our hearts, our eyes and our minds. Thank you for more than 40 years: we have been doing this since FAI, the acronym for the Italian Heritage Fund, was created as an act of love and respect for Italy. It is a precious and irreplaceable non-profit institution, which has been recognised by the Italian state, which protects and enhances the incredible and unique historical, …
Leading a consortium that’s unique in the world The Consortium for the Protection of Grana Padano is a unique reality in the world: its brand represents 129 dairy producers and about 140 associates, for a total of 5 thousand stalls that produce milk, employing about 40 thousand workers in the entire sector. In terms of production, a vast and homogeneous area with a production of 34/35 million quintals of …
One of the largest collections of Sicilian carts in Sicily is on display in the Terrasini Regional Museum. These folkloristic masterpieces explode with the colors of the sun, oranges, lemons, sky and sea, the lava of Etna and the vitality of the people. It represented a “vehicle of cultural transmission” through the rich iconography of its representations, the work of several artisanal figures: the “cartwright”, the blacksmith, the sculptor, …
It is impossible not to “light up immensely” if you look out of the window of a room in the Santa Rosa Monastery, perched between the sky and the sea of Amalfi, and let your gaze wander in search of the horizon that is lost in the distance. Similarly, if you take a stroll in what used to be the nuns’ garden, you will believe that you are …
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Nov 2020
It is now clear that completely reorganising the corporate strategy was a real turning point and was destined to achieve results. We are talking about one of the realities that made up the history of Italian sparkling wines and which, over the years, had ended up entering a sort of stagnation from which it was difficult to escape. To bring about a change in the situation, a man who …
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Nov 2020
To get there, go up along the road lined with vineyards, olive trees and some cherry trees, which were once the main crops, and the air starts getting thin. Tenuta Le Cave is located on the eastern edge of the hills where Amarone is produced and where there was once a white marl quarry. A pleasant retreat or a base for culinary and cultural excursions, the wine relais is …