ItalyHeritage: Keep in Touch with your Roots

Wherever they went in the world, Italians brought along a cultural background of thousands years of history, art, traditions, music, cuisine. It is the mission of their descendants to keep the great heritage of Italy alive, and our mission to help offering:
- insights into the very soul of Italian cities, towns and villages and the great wealth of historical, cultural, artistic and natural beauties;
- genealogy research, records, documents, archives, to help the descendants of Italians to get back to their roots through research;
- articles and videos, to rediscover the importance of the traditions that forebears kept as their special treasure in their quest for a better future.
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Online since 1997 as Abruzzo 2000, this section offers insight into the culture, history, traditions, art, towns and villages in the Abruzzi region; also guestbook archive, news archive, itineraries, events, a shop.
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Improve your Italian language: a beginner's Italian course, literature, video recipes to learn Italian while cooking, excerpts from movies and documentaries, with parallel English translation for a full immersion in true Italian-speaking situational contexts.
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Great Italians
A section devoted to all the Italians that honored their origins wherever their vision and destiny brought them. Recent Additions: Frank Capra |
Arturo Toscanini | Franco Zeffirelli | Giacomo Puccini | Luisa Spagnoli | Primo Carnera | Giuseppe (Joe) Petrosino
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San Nicola di Bari
The festivities for San Nicola in Bari in early December.
PDF English report about the characteristics of COVID-19 patients dying in Italy, based on available data on Dec 2nd, 2020.

Everything will not be all right
English Translation of Dr. Gian Luca Garetti's original Italian article.

San Valentino
How a martyr from Terni became the protector of romantic love.

Emigrants' Bulletins
List of Italians of unknown origin born, married or deceased abroad.

Befana of the policeman
A tradition of the 1950s re-enacted in modern times.

Neapolitan pot
Secrets on making coffee with the traditional flip coffee pot.

Garibaldi's Thousand
Names of the volunteers of the 1860 Expedition...

Primavera
The cryptic Botticelli's Primavera...

Was the Bard Italian?
The fascinating Crollalanza - Shakespeare theory...

Camicia Rossa
An 1865 Garibaldini song full of courage and sadness...

Mythical Vespa
Patented in 1946, an icon of Italian life...

Smart Food Diet
30 foods to live long and healthy...

Preferisco il Paradiso
A 2010 TV movie on St. Filippo Neri, who devoted himself to street kids...

Pasta e Patate
A simple, "poor" recipe of Southern Italian cuisine, for which every "nonna" had her special secrets...