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Wouldn't you know it? The heat started to break our last night in Fidenza. It was the first really pleasant summer evening in weeks. W...

Last Saturday was a "Notte bianca" (white night) in Fidenza, meaning that the downtown stays open late and there's music or ot...

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Ever since I got to Fidenza I've been intending to get to a zumba class. I am a regular at Sunday morning zumba in El Cerrito; it's ...

Fidenza is not famous for much, but apparently one thing it's known for is the sound the locals give to the letter r. Americans, who g...

The same day that we visited Federico's dairy we also organized an afternoon outing to Ozzano Taro, a hamlet a half-hour away, to see th...

It is still punishingly hot here. Today's high is going to be 96 Fahrenheit, my phone says, and outside it already feels even worse than...

My friend Ornella, with whom I sometimes play piano-violin sonatas, recently moved to a sweet house in the countryside just a few minutes o...

Last spring, when we took the train to La Spezia,  Danny noticed the town of Pontremoli as we passed by and announced that we had to go back...

We are in the midst of a Europe-wide heat wave, yet another effect of global weather weirding. In Fidenza the temperature reached 101 de...

For a small town without much tourist business, Fidenza seems to have a lot going on. Here are a few of the local events we've attended ...