Italian Memories

- Discover Italy and Italian culture -

Hello, I'm Valentina Chirico

Welcome to "Italian Memories", a semi-serious guide to my culture and my homeland.
Italy - traditional and intimate - written by an expat archaeologist and writer in Birmingham, UK.

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A local celebration for Saint Pantaleone, my version

July 27, 2020

Valentina Chirico

If I was in Italy, I would be surrounded by flashing lights and lively loud music in Vallo - my home town - for its patron Saint celebration. If life had....

Any luck? Try this lucky water: acqua di San Giovanni

June 24, 2020

Valentina Chirico

Italy never stops to surprise me, Facebook and my contacts were sources of this new discovery: l'acqua di San Giovanni. A watery solution for instant luck... here's how to!

The Republican girl and fresh starts

June 3, 2020

Valentina Chirico

The Republic Day celebrates a Country born from a free collective choice and embodied by a fresh female face. She has no name and appears recurrently every...

Happy dies natalis, Roma! 21st April: Rome's birthday

April 21, 2020

Valentina Chirico

Happy birthday, Rome! Today, 21st April, is Roma's foundation anniversay...

I invite you to my Italian Easter lunch. What's on the traditional menù for Pasqua (and Pasquetta)

April 12, 2020

Valentina Chirico

Italians have a particular relationship with Easter (Pasqua and Pasquetta - Easter Monday) built around the table with the family...

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