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Many expat friends tell me they are shocked whenever they bump into a southern Italian living in the north who speaks in a perfect northern dialect. They ask me: why do these people hide their original dialect? As an Italian, that’s no surprise to me. My mom is from Piedmont, while my dad has Sicilian […]
INTERCEPTED: Italian couple prevented from leaving Buenos Aires with baby born to surrogate Photo credit: CC/npo80 Two Italian males were arrested at Buenos Aires airport on October 25 as they tried to leave Argentina with a baby born to a “rent-a-womb” mother. Suspicions were first aroused on October 23 when an 18-year-old woman, whose identity […]
The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about. Source link
It was 2am when the parish priest, Giovanni Samorì, was woken by a phone call from the mayor of Traversara ordering him to start ringing the church bells. The traditional call now forms part of the civil protection procedure deployed by many Italian towns. Its aim: to warn residents of impending calamity. As torrential rain […]