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Genealogy Tours in Calabria

A sample of ancestry tour in Calabria from our selected incoming partner back to Genealogy tours in Italy Duration: 7 Days/6 Nights YOUR ANCESTORS’ VILLAGE Day 1 – Welcome to your Italian town Journey to your ancestors town. Discovering the old town: mother church, historical buildings, old streets, charming views, artisans at work,... [Read more]

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Clean, Vacuum and Chill

Saving the Sistine Chapel Visitors to the Sistine Chapel can expect to be cleaned, vacuumed and chilled before entering to see Michelangelo’s famous frescoes. The project, which the Vatican hopes to have completed by the end of this year, is one of several proposed by Antonio Paolucci, the director of the Vatican Museums. “Dust, heat, humidity... [Read more]

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Time Changes Everything (Almost) – Part II

Everyone has a story: tell us yours! stories@italianside.com Time Changes Everything (Almost) Part II – Matera 2011 by D. Hirsch(Part I is here) Because dreams do not come often to me, I took it as a significant omen that it was time for me to return to Matera when I had three dreams about it in about as many weeks. Thirty-two years had passed... [Read more]

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TV live streaming from Italy

A brand new service for you: live streaming from Italian TV here on ItalianSide.com TRM is the most important local TV station in Basilicata region. Programs are live from 7 am till 1 am (Italian Time) and TV broadcasts 24-hours a day. With this service, wherever you are in the world you will be able to watch local news and TV programs about Italy and... [Read more]

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Sardinian secrets for a long life

How would you like to live to 100 years old, still vibrant and healthy? Impossible? Not in Sardinia. Just ask the Melis family, who this year was declared the oldest living family in the world. The combined age of the nine siblings is an incredible 818 years! The Melis family is from Perdasdefogu, in the region of Ogliastra of southeastern Sardinia,... [Read more]

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ItalianSide stories: Time Changes Everything (Almost)

Everyone has a story: tell us yours! stories@italianside.com Time Changes Everything (Almost) Part I – Matera 1979 by D. Hirsch Fourteen years before it became a UNESCO World Heritage site, I visited Matera, deep in the heart of southern Italy. This was back in 1979 and I had just finished college. A friend and I packed our bags and headed... [Read more]

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From Australia to Italy: a 9000 mile journey to the roots

We just received this email from Bernadette: she contacted us from Australia to plan her trip to Italy to visit her Italian grandfathers hometown. After she returned home, she wrote us a nice email with some useful suggestions for tourists coming to Italy for genealogy research “Thank you for helping me to arrange my trip to Basilicata. It was... [Read more]

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ItalianSide 2013 calendars: a preview

Here at ItalianSide.com, we just finished our 2013 Italian regional calendars. A calendar for many Italian region (here you can see a preview of calendar of Abruzzo region). It’s a precious and original Christmas gift for everyone with Italian roots. A good way to remember every day our “bella Italia” and our loved ones. New calendars... [Read more]

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Art, fashion and Italian creativity

Stefano Ricci, the Italian fashion house, presents its new collection with a tribute to the extraordinary heritage of the most important museum of Italy: Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Through this publication, a fruit of the Florentine brand’s creativity and quality, an excellence of Italian fashion goes in search of its roots; and it finds... [Read more]

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“Alla salute !” a journey through Italian best regional wines.

Wine (“vino”) in Italy is not just a consumer good, but rather a cultural asset. It’s a companion of our country for thousands of years (Italy’s wine heritage dates back some 4,000 years): a symbol of quality of life and comfort. Multifarious climates and terrains favored vines of many different types and styles in the country:... [Read more]

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