Marika shares her impressions and her bubbling enthusiasm for the Expo 2015 held in Milan until the October thirty-first of this year. We hope you get the chance to go!

This was Gianna Nannini's first hit song in 1979. The popular song with its provocative lyrics is aimed at an adult audience.

Laura presents her single Non ho mai smesso (I never stopped) in the middle of the Piazza Duomo (Cathedral Square) in Milan.

Cesare Cremonini sings about his Vespa (one of the earliest and best loved motor scooters).

Alex Britti is a very well-known Italian guitarist and singer. Here, he sings a very personal song, Oggi sono io (Today I'm me). The lyrics are straightforward and easy to grasp.

Strolling through Rome, we stop in front of the so-called statue of Pasquino, who, rebelling against the rigid regulations of the reigning pope, made the statue "speak" by using placards, registering his protest against the city.

Jovanotti sings about an eternal Saturday night, where people dance and have fun. When you think it's over, it starts up again... What he's really trying to say is open to interpretation.

Ferrari fans won't want to miss a stop at the Ferrari museum in Modena. Hear all about it from Antonio Ghini, director of the museum, and get a glimpse of the museum itself.

Melanzane alla Parmigiana, or La parmigiana di melanzane (Eggplant Parmesan) is a classic recipe from the Campania region. Marika shows us how to make it, one step at a time.

Marika prepares the eggplant slices by baking them in the oven—a much lighter way of preparing the eggplant layers than the traditional frying method.

It's time to check the eggplant in the oven. And what about the slices that were a bit too sottili (thin)? Will they have burned? Note that English mostly uses eggplant as a collective noun (in the singular) but Italian, unless referring specifically to a single eggplant, uses the plural le melanzane when referring to eggplant in general, and to the slices themselves.

We've finally reached the last part of this recipe. Now you can make this dish yourself. Don't forget to pre-heat the oven to two hundred and twenty or two hundred and forty degrees (428-464°F). If you happen to have any leftover afterwards, you can safely freeze it. Buon appetito!

TIM is Italy's state controlled mobile phone service. In this madcap ad, we're taken back to the time of Garibaldi, where the great unifier of Italy complains to his mother about her laundry skills. In order to avoid parolacce (dirty words), Garibaldi resorts to a euphemism, which even when translated won't make sense to many of us. What he means in caption 8 is "Like hell."

Paola Turci first sang "Bambini" at the 1989 Sanremo Festival. The song is an indictment of child exploitation and an atypical song for Sanremo. She's joined by Marina Rei in this video.

Dixi is a sweet little flying elephant who faces his adventures with optimism and innocence. It's party time.