... over the Saxon city centre from the top of the hill, about 350 m higher than the orderly grid of streets around the town hall and the Black Church. The old Italian-built cable car took me and a handful ...
... Lada stopped. In front were two young fellow, behind their old father and his brother. I made an attempt at small talk and when they discovered I was Italian, the uncle said one of his relatives lived ...
... customer paid a round to us all. The welcoming atmosphere, the man said, was a common trait in the hospitality culture and the traditional set of values of the Mediterranean – which as a northern Italian ...
... considered it as the product of sublime refinery. I stood watching it for a long time.
Baroque was the style that great Italian architects used to conquer the hearts of the Russian czars.
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... furrowed the waters and lost itself in this immensity. The embankment was practically desert apart from a beautiful young mother strolling her child. A squat building painted the colours of the Italian ...
... and I realised the talk was about Italian prisoners of war who were interned in this very place from March 1943 to June 1946. The column of imprisoned soldiers, driven by Soviet guards, arrived at Suzdal ...
I didn't have much time left in the afternoon I arrived in Moscow, but I couldn't possibly miss the date with my Italian friend. It was "make or break" on that day because she was there only until her ...
... traveller and an Italian weekender, for much longer than I expected when I left my boiling tea to cool. But regardless of the tea, the guy had broken the ice for a successful conversation in German that ...
... in fact a taxation – from all companies, but would have to earn their day in order to stay on the market. If they can.
Life has been running smoothly for the Italian Chambers since 1993 when they were ...
... translated into fluent Italian for the benefit of the audience. Each of the architects complacently reviewed brilliant accomplishments, but I exchanged an unconvinced look with my friend. From our down-to-earth ...
... leaves from the old man's stretched hand and greedily stuck them into its mouth. I broke the ice with a friendly remark, and the younger man asked about my nationality. When he learned I was Italian, a ...
... letting town life flow at an undisturbed pace. Just outside, a bridge over the Awash river spans the gorge. Built by the Italians, who in the late 1930's had the vast country criss-crossed by a network ...
We had barely driven a dozen kilometres and the countryside had returned to the archetypal rural landscape, Addis Ababa long forgotten after its last concrete buildings. My eyes were mesmerised by the ...
... very knowledgeable and came across as an inquisitive mind with a special interest in all things Italian. I was really impressed. We talked passionately while time wore on and eventually my appetite started ...
The other day I took part in a meeting in which local representatives met a foreign consultant charged to carry out an international project. As I expected, his speech had to be translated into Italian ...
... flinch from the duty. I sang an Italian pop song from the 60’s that a Chinese friend had once liked and I thought it might meet their taste. It was a success. But the best part was of course the Dong girls ...
... list of my readings got longer and longer, and as the years went by foreign titles outnumbered, and then practically replaced, those that had once been only Italian. Now by principle I read books in my ...
... spotted me and came up to talk. Something in his words sounded familiar, but the accent and the approximation of the language couldn’t convince me that he was really addressing me in Italian. After ...
... buildings lining the avenues. Some of them were reminiscent of the Italian architectural tradition, but I found these less impressive than others which broke with the classical lines and were more representative ...
An Italian proverb exhorts people to spend Christmas with their family but Easter with whoever they want. Backed by the sanction of popular wisdom, this is what I did this year.
I had international friends ...