December 8th: the official start of the holiday season in Italy
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team (Italy) The 8th December is an important Italian national holiday which kicks off the holiday season. The Immacolata…
The night between 12 and 13 of December. The night of Santa Lucia, the shortest night and the sweetest for children
Written by Erika Gerardini – JUMP Team (Italy) I was born in the North of Italy, precisely in Leno in the province of Brescia…
Harvesting the green gold of Calabria, Italy
By Sonia Simpatico JUMP team There is something unique in Calabria: its hills are covered by olive trees. Olive trees each 2 years are…
Charcoal Production in Calabria
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team (Italy) We can say that making charcoal is the mother of all modern crafts: for several millennia burning…
Roberto Giglio: The ghost whisperer from Badolato, Southern Italy
By Sonia Simpatico – JUMP Team (Italy) Each of the small historical centres located on the Ionian coast of Calabria has been affected by…
‘Catamisi’ & ‘Catamisicchj’: The weather report of Calabrian farmers
By Francesco Tirinato – JUMP Team The approach of the Christmas festivities evokes characteristic moments of a life that also belongs to the past.…
A Byzantine Gem: The Cattolica of Stilo
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team Greeks, Byzantines, Normans, Bourbons and more, have chosen over history this corner of the earth to settle. A…
A typical musical instrument of Calabria: the Zampogna
By Francesco Tirinato – JUMP Team The “Zampogna” is a musical wind instrument that is very widespread in southern Italy, particularly in Calabria, where…
The Citron from Calabria, a symbol between sacred and profane
By Francesca Politi – JUMP Team Was the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden really an apple? It might have been a citron,…
11 of November. In Calabria in San Martino every grape must become wine!
By Erika Gerardini – JUMP Team (Italy) 11 of November in Calabria region. At St Martin’s every must becomes wine! Today 11 of November…