Lucy Gordan

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TREVISO'S RADICCHIO ROSSO: THE VENETO'S WINTER VEGETABLE

Dec 8, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

TREVISO'S RADICCHIO ROSSO: THE VENETO'S WINTER VEGETABLETreviso isn't a destination on a traveler's first itinerary to Italy, but only a half-hour train ride from La Serenissima it's definitely worth a day-trip especially enjoyable for medievalists, poets, and foodies. Originally named "Tarvisium, Treviso became a municipium in 89 BC after the Romans added Cisalpine Gaul to their dominions, but, revered in verse by Dante and Petrarch, its heyday and significant monuments date to the Middle Ages.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AT NEW YORK'S MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Dec 7, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

Traditionally every holiday season the Morgan Library displays Charles Dickens's only original manuscript of his novella A Christmas Carol. In drastic financial straits Dickens wrote the five "staves" or chapters of this iconic tale over six weeks at the end of 1843. That he was in a hurry to finish is clear from the 66-page manuscript's many revisions: detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions, and his scrawling handwriting.
PLANNING A PILGRIMAGE TO ITALY DURING 2025's HOLY YEAR

Oct 18, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

In 1300 Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the first ordinary Jubilee or Holy Year, with the Papal Bull, "Antiquorum Habet Fida Relatio." Since then, they have taken place either every 50 or every 25 years. 2025's Holy Year is the 27th. It will begin on Christmas Eve 2024 and last through Epiphany or January 6, 2026. If you still need to organize your pilgrimage to Rome, the Jubilee's principal venue, and to other religiously significant places elsewhere in Italy, here are three unbeatable websites.
“The Treasure of the Holy Land” on Display in Florence

Sep 12, 2024 | lavocedinewyork.com | Lucy Gordan

The 109 masterpieces on display until January 8, 2025 at the Marino Marini Museum in Florence, chronicle more than five centuries of sacred art commissioned by European Catholic courts–Spain, Portugal, Holy Roman Empire, Genoa, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the Kingdom of Naples, and mostly donated to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. They include jewels, ornaments, chalices, sacred vestments, codices, icons, and canopies.
Via Appia Antica: Directions, Sights, and Gastronomy

Sep 2, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

THE APPIAN WAY: DIRECTIONS, SIGHTS, and GASTRONOMYOn July 31 UNESCO proclaimed the Via Appia or Appian Way Italy's 60th World Heritage Site.
JEWISH ROME: EUROPE'S OLDEST COMMUNITY

Jul 6, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

Today, Rome's Jewish population counts some 15,000 people and a dozen Orthodox synagogues. The liturgy of the largest and ornate Il Tempio Maggiore follows the Orthodox Italki rite as practiced by Italian Jews since early Roman times. In fact, Jews have lived in Rome for more than 2,000 years, making it the oldest Jewish community in Europe.
Gelato Experiences in Rome and Elsewhere: An Appassionata’s Recommendations

Jun 25, 2024 | lavocedinewyork.com | Lucy Gordan

In spite of gelato’s popularity worldwide, Italy is the only country where the market share of handmade gelato versus the industrial one is over 55%. Today, more Italy’s 40,000 artisan gelaterie employ over 150,000 people, mostly Italians.
VISIT VENICE, BUT YOU MAY NEED TO REGISTER FIRST

Apr 18, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

On March 19 Sergio Mattarella, The President of Italy, inaugurated the new headquarters of the Foreign Press Association in what had been the Roman residence of former Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi. Some three weeks later the key speaker at the Foreign Press Association's first official press conference in its new home was Luigi Brugnaro, the Mayor of Venice. He came to explain to the world the new rules for tourists visiting La Serenissima.
Venice Issues New Rules for Tourists, or See Venice But Register First

Apr 16, 2024 | lavocedinewyork.com | Lucy Gordan

The key speaker at the Foreign Press Association’s first official press conference in its new home was Luigi Brugnaro, the Mayor of Venice. He came to explain to the world the new tax for tourists visiting La Serenissima “because, yes, Venice is in Italy, but she belongs to the world.”The plan to charge an entrance fee to day-trippers was first proposed in 2019, but never put into practice.
A Full Immersion in Escher’s Enigmatic Universe on View at Palazzo Bonaparte

Mar 27, 2024 | lavocedinewyork.com | Lucy Gordan

Rome’s Palazzo Bonaparte, is featuring “Escher”, the most comprehensive exhibition ever dedicated to this ingenious left-handed Dutch graphic artist (1898-1972). On view through May 5, the exhibit, a love story between Escher and southern Italy, was timed to mark the centenary of his first trip to Rome in 1923.