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Useful resources about life in Florence, Italy, focusing on the international community.
Admittedly, most English-language learners are concerned with the nuts and bolts of it. Until the 1990s, students of English in Italy based their language skills on a single unarguable certainty: the pen is on the table. Whose pen it was, what it was doing there and whether or not
Florence is home to many expats: those who have longed to live here, those who have found love and moved here, and those who have come to Florence and felt immediately at home here. Many people arrive here at a point in their lives when they seek to redefine themselves:
Those who have lived a significant portion of their lives abroad will admit it: most opinions are not personal-they are national. In Italy, they hold these truths to be self-evident: Sardinia should be seen in May and September. Pane con la mortadella is a snack that saves lives.
Florence is home to many expats: those who have longed to live here, those who have found love and moved here, and those who have come to Florence and felt immediately at home here. Many people arrive here at a point in their lives when they seek to redefine themselves:
Born in New York in 1951, Bill Viola is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading visual artists. Over the last 35 years, he has created video tapes, architectural ...
Some articles are born faster than others. The one you're reading now would not reveal itself until I'd cleaned every room in the house. In fact, it held out until I'd emptied all the heavy clothes from the closet and loaded them up into boxes labeled inverno.
In 1991, when Trine West was just 18, she left her hometown of Horsens, Denmark, to travel around Europe for a year. Her plan was to visit cities in the neighboring countries and get a taste of what the world has to offer. Her first destination was Florence, where she
In the 1960s, Italians stood beneath il boom economico as if it were a firecracker exploding over the Arno on the night of San Giovanni. Families started cultivating city living rather than soil, digging their heels into la modernità with the zeal of a lady selling soap on TV.
Little did Matt Reinecke know when he met Cristina in Trafalgar Square in London while sitting under Nelson's Column, that he would one day live in Italy. After they met, they spent only two days together in London before Matt returned to California and Cristina went home to Prato,
Originally from South Korea, Eun Young Park (Rei), lived in Japan and England for many years before ending up in Florence. When she was 10 years old, her father moved the family to Tokyo for five years. She was enrolled in Japanese schools and had to learn Japanese quickly in
English-speakers, with their obedient, pocket-dwelling language, are fascinated by it-the way Italians surround their speech with gesture, shaping the air between two people as if it were sand on which to build castles. Hands and arms often wave in the forefront, but those who want to know
At first glance, Striscia la notizia is fluff TV at its finest. Two ballerine who have yet to master the basics of ballo carry out their dance routines on top of the newscasters' table while the Gabibbo, a red-suited relative of Barney the Dinosaur, does his best to appear
I was in the COOP carrying a basket in one hand and steering a buggy (‘stroller’ to our American readers) with the other. Having already loaded the basket with heavy ...
Once upon a time, long, long ago, Italians hated the telephone and feared it. A greenish-gray contraption the color of the cold war, il telefono sat in the hallway of everyone's homes, banished from access to the ‘real' rooms. Way back then, a blundering state-owned company
Florence is home to many expats: those who have longed to live here, those who have found love and moved here, and those who have come to Florence and felt immediately at home here. Many people arrive here at a point in their lives when they seek to redefine themselves:
Lo and behold, that day has arrived. There you are minding your own expat business, when it finally happens and Italy becomes un discorso cellulare-an issue of the cells. It takes seven years, biologically speaking, for our cells to be completely renewed while the little buggers build us a
Florence is home to many expats: those who have longed to live here, those who have found love and moved here, and those who have come to Florence and felt immediately at home here. Many people arrive here at a point in their lives when they seek to redefine themselves:
