It is interesting how the history and the myth of Alfa Romeo were formed and developed in a process of osmosis with the history of the Mille Miglia itself, a legendary race of 1600 kilometers, Brescia-Rome-Brescia, on the roads of a pre-industrial Italy that was still very backward in road infrastructure. Reaching the finish line […]
Once upon a time … even Rome, an ancient and multifaceted city, rich in history and traditions that by now, and especially in these times, have almost all been forgotten. It was a bright and luminous capital not only of Italy but also of cinema, fashion, sport, various elegant and social cultural events that the […]
It happened 70 years ago… The 159. Nothing to do with the sedan produced by Alfa Romeo from the 2005 to 2011, a direct descendant of the 156 which, differently of this one, despite taking up the beautiful lines designed by Walter de’ Silva, was enormously successful. However, perhaps to ennoble it commercially, was given […]
In memory of Cecè and Silvana Paladino Florio. In 1840 Vincenzo Florio Sr., at the height of splendor of the numerous and still profitable family’s enterprises, commissioned his Paduan friend, the architect Carlo Giachery, to create an elegant and modern residence near its “tonnara” called Arenella, between Capo Zafferano and the gardens of Villa Igiea, […]
November 1984. Eve of the 75th Alfa Romeo anniversary. Despite in Rome, in the area of the “political power”, between via Veneto, IRI/Finmeccanica seat, holding of the Alfa Romeo Group, and the nearby via Sallustiana, headquarters of the Ministry of the State Participations as well as in Turin, in Corso Agnelli, FIAT headquarters, already was […]
Enzo Ferrari always had a great passion, not only for journalism, which he had practiced in his youth, but also for the journalists themselves, often resulting in furious quarrels with them, which then, inevitably, ended up on friendly terms with a glass of Lambrusco and a plate of tortellini. In 1976 he published a book […]
1933. Alfa Romeo, as always in difficult, if not critical, economic conditions, was taken over by IRI (the Industrial Reconstruction Institute which brings together state-owned companies) at the behest of the Head of Government Mussolini, and Ugo Gobbato became General Manager. The new management decides to abandon the races, which are too expensive, […]
This is the title of an article dating back a few years ago that appeared in the Piccolo di Trieste newspaper. A great article on history and heroism, unfortunately forgotten, of our seamanship, but also of Italian genius and Alfa Romeo. “The Decima Mas had used it over seventy years ago in desperate and fearless […]
Sicily and the Targa Florio race, as Giovanni Agnelli remembers it. I have very beautiful memories of Sicily, old and new. Memories of a many places full of light, colors and scents, and refined people; I believe that no one in the world is a gentleman like a Sicilian gentleman; they are special people. And […]
November 23, 1919 only 100 years ago… The devastations and grief of the World War (1915-1918) certainly had not interrupted the feelings and passion that have always coursed through sports enthusiasts all over the world. It was the structure itself of the human soul to impose that after any type of trouble everything must pick […]