January 14, 2011
by Anna Merulla /
Why you should visit and fall in love with the Italian Riviera? Here following are my 30 reasons and, which are yours? 1)The walking paths under the olive trees between the Cinque Terre: the best way to discover, enjoy and understand the beauty of this Five Villages is to visit them on foot. The panoramas
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December 10, 2010
by Anna Merulla /
Farinata is a simple and poor dish. The recipe is nothing more than chick pea flour, water, olive oil and salt, mixed together and baked on a big copper pan in a very hot oven. Just after it is cooked, it is roughly sliced into pieces, placed on plates and eaten. In the narrow alleys
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November 10, 2010
by Anna Merulla /
Genoese people historically were voyager such as Christopher Columbus, that loved to discover the world. They were merchants, that traded extensively with Europe and the Middle East. They were great bankers that financed many of the Spanish crown’s foreign endeavors from their counting houses in Seville. Their jobs sometimes implied to be away a long
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August 11, 2010
by Anna Merulla /
As I promised, I’m back to continue the modern list of the historical places that should not be missed when you visit Genoa’s medieval centre. If you haven’t read the I PART of this post yet, you can do it by clicking on the following link. Genoa’s Old Shops: a walk back in the time!
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February 12, 2010
by Anna Merulla /
This one is the oldest traditional ligurian dishes (this recipe is 2000 years old), and it was founded in Roman times. The soldiers to eat quickly and cheaply, they prepared a mix of chickpea flour and water which was cooked on the sun rays reflected from their shields (today, it is cooked on big copper
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