Alfa Romeo and the Mille Miglia… a history in common
It is interesting how the history and the myth of Alfa Romeo were formed and developed in a process of osmosis with the history of the Mille Miglia itself, a legendary race of 1600 kilometers, Brescia-Rome-Brescia, on the roads of a pre-industrial Italy that was still very backward in road infrastructure. Reaching the finish line […]
The Circuit of Castel Fusano
formerly the Circuit of the Empire
Once upon a time … even Rome, an ancient and multifaceted city, rich in history and traditions that by now, and especially in these times, have almost all been forgotten. It was a bright and luminous capital not only of Italy but also of cinema, fashion, sport, various elegant and social cultural events that the […]
Alfa Romeo 158/159
World Champion in 1950 and 1951
It happened 70 years ago… The 159. Nothing to do with the sedan produced by Alfa Romeo from the 2005 to 2011, a direct descendant of the 156 which, differently of this one, despite taking up the beautiful lines designed by Walter de’ Silva, was enormously successful. However, perhaps to ennoble it commercially, was given […]
Once upon a time Alfa Romeo
November 1984. Eve of the 75th Alfa Romeo anniversary. Despite in Rome, in the area of the “political power”, between via Veneto, IRI/Finmeccanica seat, holding of the Alfa Romeo Group, and the nearby via Sallustiana, headquarters of the Ministry of the State Participations as well as in Turin, in Corso Agnelli, FIAT headquarters, already was […]
Cerda … once upon a time
The age of Florios in the Sicily of “gattopardi”. A fascinating 100-year-old story of men and engines, those of the Targa Florio.
Those Quattro Pizzi at Arenella
In memory of Cecè and Silvana Paladino Florio. In 1840 Vincenzo Florio Sr., at the height of splendor of the numerous and still profitable family’s enterprises, commissioned his Paduan friend, the architect Carlo Giachery, to create an elegant and modern residence near its “tonnara” called Arenella, between Capo Zafferano and the gardens of Villa Igiea, […]
Right you are (If you think so)
Sicily and the Targa Florio race, as Giovanni Agnelli remembers it. I have very beautiful memories of Sicily, old and new. Memories of a many places full of light, colors and scents, and refined people; I believe that no one in the world is a gentleman like a Sicilian gentleman; they are special people. And […]
