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. You can find here:
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information on Italy, with insights into the very soul of villages and towns and the great wealth of historical, cultural, artistic and natural beauties;
- documents, photos, genealogy records, archives, to help the descendants of Italians to get back to their roots through research;
- articles to rediscover the importance of the traditions that forebears kept as their special treasure in their quest for a better future.
Italian regions & provinces
Abruzzo | Basilicata | Calabria | Campania | Emilia-romagna | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Latium | Liguria | Lombardy | Marches | Molise | Piedmont | Puglia (Apulia) | Sardinia | Sicily | Tuscany | Trentino-Alto Adige | Umbria | Valle d'Aosta | Veneto
Italian Genealogy
A collection of records and indexes from archives, research, libraries and cemeteries, mostly Abruzzo, some from Molise and Lazio; a guide to research, and to Italian citizenship for descendants of Italiant emigrants, an archive of postings for Abruzzo and Molise since 1999.Abruzzo portal
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.
Let's Learn Italian
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.
Heritage ezine
Articles about research, genealogy, and the traditions that our forebears kept as their special treasure in their quest for a better future, and the great wealth of historical, cultural, artistic and natural beauties of Italy. 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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Viva la Pappa col Pomodoro
Rita Pavone's song of the 1960s, written by Oscar winners Lina Wertmüller and Nino Rota.
Everything will not be all right
Translation into English of the original Italian article of Dr. Gian Luca Garetti.
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
Instructions and secrets on making coffee with the old traditional flip coffee pot.
A Sicilian in Milan
A girl from Palermo in Milan: underground trains, traffic, language...
Garibaldi's Thousand
Names of the volunteers of the 1860 Expedition that led to the unification of Italy...
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...
Villa of Livia
Just outside Rome, a newly discovered Augustan residence...
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...