The province of Brescia has 205 distinct municipal cities. This great song by Dellino Farmer goes through all of them (names in red), some names are in Italian and some in dialect. Here is a […]
The mountains of Northern Italy possess some of the richest areas of prehistoric rock engravings to be found anywhere in Europe. Val Camonica (Al Camònega in the local dialect) is one of the largest of […]
Sayings in Bresciano normally come from bygone times. Suffering was part of everyday life like hard labor and trials. Yet, there is optimism in this saying as people that suffer normally become kinder to other […]
This old saying underlines one of the great traditions in Brescia. A meal is not complete unless a piece of cheese is consumed. The mouth is thus never tired and needs to eat more unless […]
The Celts/Gauls Cenomani, the men that walked from far (*keino-far,*men-walk), named Briccia the village where the Alps meets the big Po Valley. Briccia was a big village that had not yet seen big temples nor […]
In Italian “la Mèla” means the apple, but not to a bresciano. la Mèla (dialect, in Italian ‘il Mella”) is one the most important of few rivers that pass trough Valtrompia and the city of Brescia. “The […]
Ancient Wisdom from the land. When someone is so good that he can do anything. Given a chance he could even make feet to a fly. Now that is skill…
“Quand la fam l’e’ granda l’amur sel tra de banda” Although it’s always hard to find out where great popular wisdom comes from, it is pretty easy to image the origins of this particular saying. […]
Different population, ethnicities, and cultures have fought for their independence and rights to be free to be what they are. Braveheart is the story of the Scottish independence. We have El Coragius. Fabio Volo is […]
The Iron Age The Iron age had a drastic change on how people live. Iron is easier to find and it is thus less expensive than bronze. More tools can be built, new weapons forged, […]
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