Mini Italy, Mini You!

A blog about Italy cannot do without talking about miniature Italy (Italia in Miniatura) located near Rimini in the region of Emilia Romagna. This is a very well established themepark that has been able to renew itself throughout the years offering a spectacular miniature version of the Italian peninsula. The themepark reproduces with loyal details the miniature version of the most famous spots of Italy including monuments, squares, and other landmarks that make you feel a giant when you walk through them. They are scaled down to a 1 to 25 ratio, therefore making them 25 times smaller than the original. Imagine the leaning Tower of Pisa, the...

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Rome Festivities

Rome has always been a city rich of events. Sometimes you can find traces of celebrations and festivities that go deep in the roots of Italian history of Rome and Italy. There are many religious celebrations, but not all are from the Roman Catholic tradition. For example the celebration of the Purim holiday is a Jewish festivity. The date of the celebration changes every year but is however included between the last days of February and the first ones of March. Romans have renamed the celebration the Carnival of the Jewish since the most visible part of the celebration is children going around dressed up like Ester and Mordechai, the liberators...

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Traveling Italy

Traveling is one of the most noble ways of growing up learning about the world and different cultures. Italy and is one of the most beautiful countries in the world and its cities are a true crown jewel. In order to understand the Italian world and its roots, we cannot avoid stopping and thinking about its past dreched with memories. S road, a church, a monument will tell the story of this country. If you observe these elements that will tell you will him living history behind their appearance. I hope you will follow me along this journey of daily discovery of Italy, its culture, people, folklore, culinary tradition, and of course cultu...

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