HeyJaredItaly Untold
The Italy guidebooks don't tell you about. We unpack how Italians really live, think, eat, and argue.
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Portaluppi: The Man who built Milan while laughing at it (opens the original)
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Vogue World Milan - The hands were in costume. (opens the original)
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Milan, Tuesday, September 22, half past three in the afternoon. I am on my motorbike, leaving the WeWork on via San Marco for a client’s office in a side street off Corso di Porta Romana, a few hundred metres from the Torre Velasca. I know this ride by heart. Brera to Porta Romana means cutting across the centre, past the Duomo, the way you pass the monuments of your own town without looking at them<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3mJV!,f
Sarà perché ti amo — Ricchi e Poveri (opens the original)
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Milan, San Siro, a few minutes before kickoff. The stadium DJ, Simo J, puts on a record from 1981 while the Milan line-up is read out. The announcement is a formality. In a ground that holds 75,000 the crowd has taken the song over by the first chorus, and at the title line the Curva Sud adds two letters: ti amo becomes tifiamo. Simo J told Champions Journal that the song has opened home games for well over a decade, and that people stop him in the street to ask him to play it more.The song is S
Italy is the only Country that still swears at God & Co (opens the original)
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Bologna. December 13, 2020. The Stadio Dall’Ara is empty. It is the Covid winter, the season played behind closed doors, and every stadium in Italy sounds like this. No drums, no chants. You can hear the ball being struck. You can hear the goalkeepers arranging their walls.Midway through the first half Bryan Cristante, a Roma midfielder filling in at centre-back, turns the ball into his own net. Roma are three goals up and it will change nothing. Cristante says what Italians say. The standard fo
Mafia is a mountain of s**t (opens the original)
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At 17:58 on 23 May 1992, on the A29 outside Palermo, roughly five hundred kilos of explosive went off under the road.It had been packed into a drainage tunnel beneath the asphalt near the Capaci exit and was set off by remote control. Giovanni Falcone had landed at Punta Raisi twenty minutes earlier, coming back from Rome as he did most weekends, and he was driving the second of three armoured Fiat Cromas. The first car was thrown clear across the opposite carriageway and landed in an olive grov
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