My story

Suffering makes you kinder

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 […]

Ancient Wisdom

Cheese at last…

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 […]

Dialect

The great Brescia river: La Mela

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 […]