Gianluca was born and raised in Turin, but his surname is typical of the Vicenza area where his great-grandfather came from before moving to Saluzzo, in Piedmont. There he met his great-grandmother and finally moved to Turin in the 1910s. Since adolescence, he has understood the beauty of traveling and has always had what he
Today many Brazilians have roots that branch out into a puzzle of distant countries, cultures, languages, and traditions, the result of migration that has affected the country since the late 1800s. Camila is from Domingos Martins, a small town in the state of Espírito Santo founded by the German community where even today the architecture,
Laura probably charted her path to discovering antiquity before actually realising it. After high school, her curiosity drove her to learn Italian to study Art History with an American university, where she won a six months scholarship that represented her first solo trip at the discovery of a context totally different from her own. Her
Mountains, deserts, cross-land plateaus, breathtaking landscapes, historical infrastructures, the people. This is all what Muzammal loves the most about his country, Pakistan, which has visited far and wide. Muzammal was born in Hafisabad, but grew up in Lahore also known as the city of colleges for the number of international standards universities it has which
Heidi is from São Paulo, Brazil, but her name could take you back to your childhood when you were watching the 1974 Japanese animated series set in the Swiss Alps. A series that Heidi’s mum liked so much to decide to name her daughter after its main character. Similarly, also her surname comes from overseas
There must be no better way to be welcomed in a city, than a signal at its entrance that says “smile, you are in Lucknow!”. A city in the north of India known for centuries to be very welcoming and friendly with guests. And for Vikas, the city has one of the best street foods
Loris is from Shkodër, a small town in Albania, but if you heard her speaking, you would never guess that she has only been living in Italy for two years. Although Italian television channels are very popular there, they are neither translated nor subtitled and, after a while, people start to understand Italian and even
Mohammed, better known as Adel by his Italian friends and colleagues, hails from Sabsevar, a north-eastern city of Iran, the place where his passion for physics began. He studied Electronic and Nuclear Engineering to then decide to specialize in the field with a PhD in Nuclear Physics. This was a co-tutorship between the Hakim Sabzevar
Michela has always been fascinated by physics, but it was after discovering special relativity and electromagnetism during her senior year of high school that she said to herself, “ok, this is interesting, I want to learn more”. She decided to pursue her university studies in physics, and to all those who were sceptical about possible
According to Diego, the best experiences in life are those lived and shared with others, which is why he believes that both Dante and Don Quixote both set out alone on their respective journeys through Hell and La Mancha, only to retrace their steps and decide to face them in company. Originally from Pereira, the
