During the Italian Business Awards Gala 2025, a remarkable announcement captured the attention and admiration of those present: a major exhibition is about to transport Melbourne into the heart of ancient Rome.
A border city shaped by centuries of trade and shifting sovereignties, Trieste was at the centre of one of the most complex migration stories of post-war Italy. It’s a chapter that profoundly changed the city’s identity, yet for decades remained overlooked or misunderstood.
From November 7 to December 23 this year, Co.As.It.’s Museo Italiano will host the European Union’s travelling exhibition ‘Inside Pompeii: Origins of a European Way of Life – Photographs by Luigi Spina’.
The Commodus Passage, the name given to the corridor through which Roman emperors gained unseen access to the Imperial box in the Colosseum, has been opened to the public for the first time after a major restoration of its glistening marble walls.
A Greek shipwreck dating back to between the 6th and 5th centuries BC, lying at a depth of six meters, has been almost completely uncovered off the coast of Santa Maria del Focallo in Ispica, Sicily.
Google Trends data shows prosecco far ahead of every other Italian drink in Australian searches, with Australian labels among the top results, while amaro and limoncello climb and the Aperol spritz sits where it was in 2019.
Google Trends data shows Australian searches for tiramisu at their highest level yet, ingredients such as burrata and guanciale growing several times over since 2019, and risotto quietly sliding.
Italian cuisine was officially recognised just months ago as part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The honour is not only about recipes and ingredients, but about a way of living: gathering around the table, sharing stories and recognising one another through food.
The new sign is the first thing you notice. The colours have changed; the graphic mark has shifted. Alba now presents itself differently, and not by accident.
Quando si parla di qualità e uso esclusivo di ingredienti locali, genuini, Frank Panzera, al timone dell’azienda con la moglie Antonella e i figli Stephen e Dean, non ha dubbi.
Italo-australiana di seconda generazione nata a Melbourne da genitori calabresi, deve il suo successo come agente immobiliare alle proprie radici e dell’esempio ricevuto dalla famiglia.
