Italian Holidays

What Italians Do in August: Vacation, Ferragosto & the Great Summer Exodus

August in Italy is unlike any other time of year. While tourists pour into cities like Rome, Florence, and Venice ...

Italian Holidays

Moving to a new country has all sorts of novelties including a few new holidays to get used to. So ...

International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women

In 2009, Mexican artist Elina Chauvet introduced the powerful symbol of red shoes. Red shoes were initially intended as an ...

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Back to Reality: the “Rientro”

The holidays are over and everyone is returning to work, school or whatever they were doing before the break. In ...

Italian Holiday: Ferragosto, August 15

Ferragosto is a public holiday celebrated on 15 August in all of Italy. It originates from Feriae Augusti, the festival of emperor Augustus, who made ...

Italian Style Christmas

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And although you may be far from home, make the most of ...

Celebrating Halloween in Milan

Halloween, celebrated on October 31 every year, falls on a Monday this year. The following day, November 1stis All Saints ...

Have you met the Befana?

In Italy, January means epiphany and that means the Befana! (be’fa:na) which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. ...

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