The extraction of truffles in Italy is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The art of truffle hunting involves 73.600 holders and practitioners in Italy, called tartufai, gathered in 45 associated groups in the National Federation of Italian Truffle Associations (FNATI), plus individual truffle hunters not gathered in associations for a total of about 44.600 units…
Coffee is good for people but also for Sicilian puppets

Caffè Morettino celebrates its centenary by financing the restoration of ancient puppets from the Antonio Pasqualino Museum and the digitization of the material heritage of the families of Sicilian puppeteers in serious difficulty due to the Lockdown. A special edition with the protagonists of…
Environment: San Marino prepares its Green Festival

Appointment at the end of September with events also in May and June. Sustainability, environment, landscape for a post-coronavirus "slow tourism". On the way for September with two intermediate stages: 21 May and 26, 27, 28 June before the final at the end of September. The San Marino Green Festival 2020 has started. The organization has discounted all the worries of the coronavirus and the contagions in…

Important and awaited recognition for the most exported wine in Italy. Country that boasts the largest number of sites recognized worldwide. The enthusiastic comments of Etile Carpenè and Gianluca Bisol two historic Prosecco companies. Now there you…
Unesco creative cities: Biella is a candidate

The candidacy of the Piedmontese city will be presented at the annual conference taking place in Fabriano until 15 June. Hospitality, culture, sustainability in a fruitful relationship between art, industry and territory. The antithesis of sovereignty. President Mattarella will be present today.
With Trenitalia to discover the Unesco heritage

From today, reaching 33 of the 54 UNESCO sites by train will be much easier thanks to Trenitalia regional trains and travel books created specifically to explain how to reach the chosen destinations. 'We don't just move Italy, but we bring…
Bernabè: "Art and a Martian story born by chance"

INTERVIEW with FRANCO BERNABE', president of the Rome Quadrennial and of Unesco Italy - "I fell into the world of art by chance, when they called me to the presidency of the Biennale because I was a manager out of the picture and needed a sign of...
Unesco, 20 new World Heritage Sites

There are 1.097 world heritage sites protected by UNESCO, a United Nations agency, and present in 167 countries around the world. Italy alone hosts 54 of them and this year the Piedmontese city of Ivrea has also been added to the list
Unesco is still betting on Southern Italy

There where history has left its mark and too many times men have failed to preserve it. In the interstices of nature, in the vestiges of remote events, now comes that great machine of consensus and of the image that is…
Neapolitan pizza is a Unesco heritage: this is how it was born

The international body has recognized that "the art of Neapolitan pizza makers deserves to be considered a cultural asset to be preserved and protected. Born three hundred years ago, here is a brief history of the food that is the symbol of Italy but which is widespread on a global level. How much do we consume ?…
Archeology and Food in the Legacy of Roman Parma

For the celebrations of the 2200th anniversary of the Parma Foundation, it presents an itinerary which, through archaeological finds, objects, environments, interactive and multimedia installations, retraces, from its origins to the present day, the millenary food culture of Parma, now a UNESCO heritage site.
Rome, "the city of pizza" for three days

From March 31st to April 2nd, over 40 of the best pizza makers in Italy meet in Rome, in the former barracks in via Guido Reni, to present 90 different pizza recipes in support of the UNESCO candidacy of Neapolitan pizza as…
Renzi on Unesco: "Absurd resolution"

The Premier rails against UNESCO's decision to adopt a resolution promoted by Arab countries which, according to Israel, denies the millennial bond of the Jews with the Old City - Renzi: "It is incomprehensible, unacceptable and wrong".