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Christmas in Valle D’Aosta: Cup of Friendship, Midnight Ski Parades and Christmas Markets
For Christmas this year, NIAF is highlighting a few of Christmas traditions from each of Italy’s 20 regions, that perhaps is carried on in your Italian American family or is a new tradition you’d like to start. Valle d’Aosta is the … Continue reading
Learn a Language, Join a Community
“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.” – Goethe In this week’s #NIAFblog, our guest blogger, Jenifer Landor – founder of Live and Learn Italian, an immersive, language-learning travel experience – offers an inside look into her company’s travel program, … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cooking, Culture, Europe, Family, Food, Heritage, History, International, Italian, Italian American, Italian Food, Italy, Writer
Tagged Abruzzo-Molise, Agnone, Cultural Immersion, Culture, Immersion, International Travel, Italian, Italian American, Italian Ancestor, Italian Ancestry, Italian City, Italian culture, Italian Heritage, Italian History, Italian Language, Italian Life, Italian town, Italy, Italy travel, Language, Language Immersion, Language Learning, Molise, Southern Italy, Tourism, Travel, Travel Blog, Travel Blogger, Traveler, traveling
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Finding Your Roots
Words cannot adequately describe the experience that our family had with Roots ’n Tours during our visit to Sicily. We had asked Rosario and his team to help us do some research on our family prior to our trip. Through … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Culture, Europe, Facts, Family, Food, Heritage, History, Italian, Italian American, Italian Food, Italy, Sicily, Tourist, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Ancestors, Ancestry, Famiglia, Family, Genealogy, Heritage, Home, I Am An Immigrant, Immigrant, immigrants, Italian American, Italian Americans, Italian Family, Italian Heritage, Italy, Sicily, Tour Company, Tourism, Travel, Travel Company, traveling
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The Carnival of Viareggio: Italy’s Annual Floating Theater
A special, featured blog by NIAF’s Board of Directors Member and Executive Vice President of Scholarships, Grants and Youth Activities, Robert V. Allegrini. It’s cold and dark, but – fortunately – hairless inside the left nostril of Hillary Clinton as … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Carnival, Culture, Documentary, Europe, Facts, Food, Heritage, History, International, Italian, Italian Food, Italy, Musician, song, Uncategorized, Venice
Tagged Carnevale, Carnevale di Viareggio, Carnival, Carnival of Viareggio, Fat Tuesday, Italian, Italy, Lent, Toscana, Travel, Tuscany, Viareggio
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Encounters: Learning Italian in Molise, a Hidden Gem
In this week’s #NIAFblog, our guest blogger, Jenifer Landor – founder of Live and Learn Italian – offers an inside look into a typical day on her company’s travel program, which focus on learning about Italian language and culture. First things first: learn how … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cooking, Culture, Europe, Facts, Family, Food, Heritage, History, International, Italian, Italian American, Italian Food, Italy, Tourist, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Agnone, Alto Molise, Blog, blogger, History, Italian, Italian American, Italian Blogger, Italian culture, Italian Food, Italian History, Italian Language, Italy, Language, Language Immersion, Language Learning, Learning, Molise, Travel, Travel Blog, Travel Program, Traveler, traveling
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The Legacy of Falcone and Borsellino
Yesterday, NIAF’s 2017 Voyage of Discovery (VOD) program – a group of Italian American college students brought to Italy by NIAF on an all-expenses-paid, two-week trip to rediscover their heritage – visited the Mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, as well … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Culture, Europe, Facts, Heritage, History, International, Italian, Italian American, Italy, National Italian American Foundation, NIAF, Sicily, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged American-Italian Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Mafia, college student, College Students, Cosa Nostra, Discrimination, Heritage, History, Italia, Italian, Italian American, Italian Heritage, Italian History, Italian Mafia, Mafia, Mob, Sicilia, Sicilian, Sicilian American, Sicily, student, Student Travel, Students, The Mob, Travel, VOD, VOD2017, Voyage of Discovery
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Book Review: The Girl from Venice
In need of a good beach read this summer? Check out Martin Cruz Smith’s novel, reviewed by NIAF in our Ambassador magazine. In Martin Cruz Smith’s most recent novel, the author makes a departure from his usual mystery writing and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Culture, Europe, Facts, Heritage, History, International, Italian, Italian American, Italy, National Italian American Foundation, NIAF, Travel, Venice, Writer
Tagged Adolf Hitler, Beach Read, Beach Reads, Benito Mussolini, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, European History, Fascism, Fascists, Fiction, Fisherman, German, German Occupation, Germans, Historic Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Hitler, Italian, Italian American, Italian History, Italian Resistance, Italian Resistance Movement, Italy, Lagoon, Love, Magazine, Martin Cruz Smith, Mussolini, Nazi, Nazis, Novel, Partigiani, Partigiano, Romance, Romance Novel, Salò, Simon & Schuster, Summer Books, Summer Reading, Travel, Venetian, Venezia, Venice, War, World War 2, World War II, World War II Fiction, World War II Novel, WWII
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