I’m a US citizen, but I lived and raised my daughter Rossella (now 22) in Italy for 17 years. I left Italy in 2008 while Ross was at boarding school in India, and subsequently separated from my Italian husband (we were already geographically apart – he did not follow me to the US). My daughter… Continue reading Viva la Mamma? Motherhood, Menopause & Culture
Category: Italy
Learn Italian in Song: Mamma & Papa’
Alex Britti Again, it could only happen in Italy: a pop/blues singer pens a love song to his parents. You might also like: Aggiungi un Posto a Tavola: Peccato Che Sia Peccato (ripresa)
Italian House Numbers
House numbers in Milan and many other cities are usually standard and boring, like this:Â . But sometimes you find interesting and unusual ones, so I’ve decided to collect them. You might also like: Watching Cricket in Sydney
Italian Fountains
Not every Italian town is famously picturesque, but, even in those that are not, the attentive observer can find a wealth of beautiful detail and decoration. (I’ve already mentioned the doorknockers.) So here’s a collection of heads on fountains from all over Italy (not necessarily dull ones). ^ These three are all in Chiavenna ^ Varenna.… Continue reading Italian Fountains
San Pellegrino: The Remains of the Grand Hotel
A relic of the heyday of San Pellegrino, the Grand Hotel was (quite literally) a watering place for the wealthy, in the early 1900s when health spas with natural mineral springs were all the rage. The hotel is an Art Nouveau treasure, built in 1905, but now sadly going to ruin, its fixtures gradually being auctioned… Continue reading San Pellegrino: The Remains of the Grand Hotel