Sheila Stokes talked to us in Italian about the countryside and the villages of Piedmont, a region well known to her but that is little visited by English tourists.

Giovanni gave an extremely interesting and well received, illustrated talk in Italian about the rise of the Italian Cinema industry at the time of World War II, its decline during the 1970s and the present day renaissance.  Accompanied by illustrations [...]

Annamaria Baker and Gabriella McGhee hosted a fun evening encouraging members to talk in Italian with a light-hearted quiz involving history, geography, music and cooking.  The evening started with an invitation to members to try out some Italian tongue-twisters and [...]

An unusual, almost secret, tour through a Rome in which everything is there to be discovered. This city conceals stories great and small in which the main characters are animals. We walked through alleys and squares to discover some of [...]

James looked at the development of the Medici family during the 15th and 16th centuries and how they managed to survive two periods in exile from Florence and then establish themselves as hereditary rulers for another two hundred years. He [...]

Rossella talked in Italian about Turin and the changes that have taken place over the centuries to this beautiful, royal city. Turin evolved from a centre of the Roman Empire to the place of residence of kings and the capital [...]

Changes in living patterns in provincial Italy particularly in the Marche from 1970 to 2007

How many languages are spoken in Italy? How spoken Latin degenerated to the point of becoming a beautiful new language? Why only two per cent of Italians were speaking Italian at the time of the creation of the Italian state [...]

A wonderful illustrated tour of this beautiful medieval city.