Giorgia: Pure Vocal Power, Italian Heart

Discover Giorgia Todrani’s life, from Rome and Sanremo to Come saprei, Gocce di memoria, global collaborations, X Factor and her 2025 comeback.

Discover Giorgia Todrani’s life, from Rome and Sanremo to Come saprei, Gocce di memoria, global collaborations, X Factor and her 2025 comeback.

Damiano David. The Night the World Learned His Name On May 22, 2021, the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam was already vibrating when four young Italians walked onto the Eurovision stage. Their song was called “Zitti e buoni,” and the title…

Franco Battiato. The Pop Star Who Asked the Wrong Questions In the early 1980s, Italian radio began broadcasting songs that behaved as though the normal rules of popular music had been suspended. Their refrains were immediate, their rhythms were bright,…

Fabrizio De André. The Day Genoa Understood What It Had Lost In January 1999, Genoa did not say goodbye to Fabrizio De André as it might have said goodbye to an ordinary celebrity. The city seemed to recognize that one…

Elisa. The Night a Private Voice Filled San Siro On June 18, 2025, Elisa walked onto the stage at Milan’s San Siro Stadium for the first stadium concert of her career. More than fifty thousand people had come to hear…

Gianna Nannini. The Summer When a Voice Broke Through the Screen In 1984, Italian television was still one of the great national stages. A song could enter a living room and, within weeks, become part of the language of an…

Eros Ramazzotti. The Night Rome Reached Radio City In 1990, Eros Ramazzotti walked onto the stage of Radio City Music Hall in New York carrying something that the international record business did not always consider easy to export: Italian pop…

A small car, a caravan and the new freedom of the European family holiday. Look carefully at the photograph. There is almost an entire generation inside it. A tiny automobile stands in front of old stone houses, pulling a caravan…

Historic Italian tanker truck. ### *Fiat 682, Fiat 690, OM Titano, Lancia Esadelta and the magnificent heavy trucks of 1960s Italy: machines that rebuilt a country, crossed deserts, powered industries and became part of the childhood memories of a generation.*…

Discover how Italian women made the automobile a tool of independence, from small Fiats to pioneering racers Maria Teresa de Filippis and Lella Lombardi.