The curious tale of a deconsecrated Church transformed into a breathtakingly beautiful office and then demolished

Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

A Thread 🧵 Location

San Paolo Converso sits on Corso Italia, right in the heart of Milan, a hidden gem among the city’s historic streets

One of the smallest yet most brilliant and delicious Italian 🇮🇹 inventions of all time

How the Moka works

A Thread 🧵 Henry Darcy, a French engineer and expert in hydraulics, is famous for Darcy’s law, formulated in 1856

It describes how fluid flows through a porous material depending on pressure differences, permeability, thickness, and viscosity

Italian armors in 1580 ✨

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This set of antique-style armor, made for both man and horse, is one of the most richly decorated pieces of armor from the 16th century

It belonged to Alessandro Farnese, son of Ottavio Farnese and Margherita of Parma, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Charles V

From Genoa to England

The ancient story of the Cross of Saint George

A flag of faith and power 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A Thead 🧵 Saint George, a Christian martyr of the early centuries, became legendary as a knight who slays a dragon

His cult spread widely after the Crusades, making him a protector for warriors, cities, and kingdoms

His cross became a sign of his heavenly patronage

Italy’s Full of Aces! 🇮🇹

A Thread 🧵 Italian 🇮🇹 Food

“The Lovers at Coldplay”
Oil on Canvas
Grok, 2025

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1. Van Gogh 2. Picasso

Viral, explosive, unstoppable💥

From memes to the dance of Summer 2025

The rise of “Aura Farming”

All the curiosities behind the trend that’s breaking the internet right now!

A Thread 🧵 The viral phenomenon of “Aura Farming” originated in Indonesia 🇮🇩, in the province of Riau, on the island of Sumatra, during the annual traditional Pacu Jalur race held on the Batang Kuantan River in the Kuantan Singingi region

Totally in love with this brilliant couple of tourists traveling around Italy 🇮🇹 and making original and hilarious videos!

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1. The Falling
2. The Colosseum

It’s summer 🔥

Time to celebrate one of the most explosive women’s garments ever:

The bikini, named after a nuke atoll for a reason!

A Thread 🧵 of the most iconic bikinis of all time

1. Salma Hayek
2. Brigitte Bardot

Italy’s 🇮🇹 most breathtaking gems, perfect for your summer escape

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1. Atrani, Campania

The most beautiful and photographed road curve in Italy

One of the most delicious desserts in the world

The quintessentially Italian Tiramisù 🇮🇹

A Thread 🧵 on its origin that will make your mouth water Tiramisù (or Tiramesù in the Treviso dialect) is the ultimate Italian dessert

There are countless variations, but its simple indulgence is what made it a global sensation

The Course of Empire 🏛️

One of the most striking painting cycles in art history

From Romantic and Roman aesthetics to a haunting prophecy of fortune’s reversal

A Thread 🧵 The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836

‼️The Bloodline of Genius

Leonardo da Vinci has 6 living heirs

A newly published book and a 30-year-long unprecedented study tracing Leonardo’s DNA

A Thread🧵 For over five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor

Now, an international team of researchers is closer than ever to unlocking the biological secrets behind his extraordinary genius

Stroll with me… A Thread 🧵

A glimpse of my Genoa, seen through my lens on a sunny, quiet Tuesday morning in May

Genoa, Italy 🇮🇹

1. A young dad and his two little ones 2. Piazza De Ferrari, the fountain ⛲️

🚨That time the Lion of Venice roared at the tycoon

A big protest against Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding is starting to take shape, led by Venetians, called “No Space for Bezos”

Let me tell you the story in a Thread 🧵

(Image AI by Grok) Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez: wedding in Venice between luxury hotel and yacht

But protests rise from citizens, environmentalists, and ecologists

The enthronement of Pope Leo XIV ✨

A ceremony steeped in symbols and meaning, forged over two millennia of Church history

A Thread 🧵 unveiling the most powerful rite in the world

Unfolding today before our eyes Because even in what is now a small State, the Pope is in some sense still a King 👑

That’s why it’s called an “enthronement”

The first Pope to be crowned was Nicholas I in 858

The last was Paul VI in 1963

‼️ Rome, today

The Jubilee of the Confraternities turned back Rome’s clock by 2,000 years

Spanish photographer Daniel Valencia gave us the most breathtaking shots of Catholic tradition meeting the Roman Empire

A Thread 🧵 1. ✨ The famous “Cachorro” of Sevilla

It happened exactly 1,700 years ago

An extraordinary moment in Catholic Church

The Council of Nicaea ✨

Remember this name

Pope Leo XIV may make it the site of his first apostolic journey

A Thread🧵 into the heart this history The Council of Nicaea was held in 325 AD in Nicaea, a city of the Eastern Roman Empire (today İznik, Turkey), convened by Emperor Constantine the Great to unify the Christian faith and put an end to doctrinal divisions threatening the unity of the empire

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“Holy Spirits”

The menu from Pope Leo XIV’s first dinner with the cardinals has surfaced

A Thread 🧵 on the excellent Italian wines chosen for the occasion 🥂 After the intense days of the conclave, on the evening of May 8th, a beautiful dinner was offered at Santa Marta to all the cardinals who had taken part in the election — a moment to celebrate the Habemus Papam and the beginning of the pontificate of Leo XIV ✨

Dear Americans 🇺🇸,

The Vatican is not a Democratic Republic

A Thread 🧵 meant to be ironic and light-hearted

Maybe with a hint of reflection too First of all, I speak as an Italian 🇮🇹

From the country that has given birth to about 220 of the 267 popes

“The Army of the Lions”

The thirteen Popes named Leo who preceded Robert Prevost as Leo XIV

A Thread 🧵 to understand the reason behind this name ✨ Leo I (Leo the Great) - 440–461

One of the greatest popes in history

Stopped Attila in 452, convincing him not to sack Rome

Strengthened papal authority, affirming the primacy of the bishop of Rome (Petrine Primacy)

Fought heresies and wrote the “Tome to Flavian”