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Music has always saved me. It was always there. In my car with a cd, or listening to a radio or a concert. It was there in difficult times and even in beautiful moments. It was like a warm blanket under which I could take shelter and free my thoughts. I always thought the music was a beauty. The one that envelops our…

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Two blue velvet curtains. Many columns placed around the oval hall and the seats of the same velvet but red. A wooden stage and a rare atmosphere, vaguely steeped in old-fashioned perfumes, intriguing meetings, and happy moments. I have not lived the golden years of the Kursaal. This place was born long time before me.…

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Everybody has a story to tell. Have you ever thought about it? It’s natural for almost all of us. You meet a friend and you tell your story, whatever it is: love, friendship, fun, experience, work. Your stories, as mine, are a treasure, something that no one would never know, except for the chance you give us to…

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Ancient libraries always had a very special charme for me. I had the chance to inherit a quite huge collection of books from my uncle. When I was a child, I used to spend hours just looking at those dusty volumes, peeping inside and try to figure out why that book was written and why my uncle decided to buy it. Old…

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It could seem obvious. If you have always lived in a place and your family roots are there, you should know your town. But this is barely never an assumption. Most of the times you know the places you always go to: your borough, your office, the bar you eat your breakfast, the shops you see along the road from your…

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A tiny town, quiet enough to taste its slow rhythm, but very alive and full of history. Forli, founded by the romans as a military “castrum” and a point of control on the via Emilia (Emilia Romagna main road), had its major historical highlight in the medieval period. Mercuriale, the first abbot, founded the abbey…

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Someone call them the ladies of Sangiovese: women who grew up with the culture of wine in their blood and took the heritage of this centennial history of Romagna from their grandfather and fathers. But this is not the case of Noelia Ricci: a lovely lady, daughter of Mr. Giuseppe Ricci, a local entrepreneur in love with…

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So Old? That’s was my first thought when I saw the Saffi Square Portocoes decorated with some original banners, showing the milestones of the the 800 years of this beautiful place. As a matter of fact, is one of the hugest squares in Italy, maybe because before becoming what it is now, it was just a country yard,…