The last stronghold of the Lazio coast holds a gastronomic treasure, the Tiella di Gaeta, made with octopuses and fantastic olives. (This Tiella is a hand sized pizza filled with favoured octopus). Gaeta is also the last promontory of the Aurunci Mountains, the rugged Mediterranean reliefs that reach the sea. Read more…
Two men from a different era but with common goals and a determination to be reckoned with. The story of Marcantonio Colonna, ruler of the town of Paliano in the Province of Frosinone and Benedetto Dei Giudici, famous constructor from Sonnino who took part in the creation of the Punta Read more…
A day to look back at the past. It felt fitting to visit NYC’s ‘Little Italy’ with my Town Ambassador Award, to go back to where it all started for many immigrants coming from all over Italy (and the world). A neighbourhood that has become a symbol of an everlasting Read more…
The Town Ambassador Award to Denise Dumont, Mark A. Tempesta and Daiana Magalhaes Dei Giudici, two Americans and one Australian who are changing Sonnino, a wonderful village above the Amaseno Valley and the Fossanova Abbey. Three different stories for three people moved by a single purpose: to rediscover their Italian Read more…
It’s true, I am Australian of Italian origin from a small town called Sonnino in the Lazio region. Don’t call me crazy but I seem to find a connection wherever I go; even in an exhibition in Perth about Italian noble families. The saying is valid about there being only Read more…
Every year, in the early afternoon of Ascension Day, the Sonninesi leave the town and head towards the borders of their territory beginning a long trek that ends at the first light of dawn the following day, after having crossed at night, by torchlight, the entire municipal perimeter. They are Read more…
“The brigand Gasbarrone (or Gasperone) is the best known of the bandits who tramped the countryside of southern Lazio in the first half of the nineteenth century,” wrote the scholar Elio Lodolini in 1951. “He saw prostrated at his feet princes and lords, rich brokers who exploited the poor Christs. Read more…
Most of us have all heard of the Via Francigena, the path travelled by pilgrims to visit the tomb of St. Peter’s in Rome starting from Canterbury in England, but still few know that the journey continued to Brindisi where the faithful embarked to sail to the Holy Land. This Read more…
