Valentina Giordano Mario Giarda
A journalist between Novara and Milan
Interviewed in 2010, Mario Giarda was born in 1940 and has been a journalist of the national newspaper Corriere della Sera for many years.
He describes this experience and the one of commuting everyday back and forth to Milan in the early days of his job.
He describes Novara as it appears when he was a kid: silent, white streets against the landscape of rice puddies.
He also mentions Novara cuisine, which he feels too heavy, and its main dishes.
He also speaks about two Novara artists, Sebastiano Vassalli, a novel writer, and Guido Cantelli, an orchestra director.
Video table of contents
- Working as a journalist in Milan's Corriere della Sera
- Relationship between Novara and Milan
- Origin of the peasant family
- Alleys in the centre of Novara, and roads between the rice fields
- Proximity between town and countryside
- Cavour monument
- St. Agabio neighbourhood
- St. Agabio neighbourhood and the working class dignity
- Industries in Novara, yesterday and today
- I do not like paniscia
- Novarese dialect is a mix between Piedmontese and Lombard dialect
- Niece speaks a mixed dialect
- Gorgonzola cheese
- Rice on Sunday
- St. Gaudenzio, "mercant of snow" and chestnuts
- Novara described by Sebastinao Vassalli
- Porches and the character of the city
- Guido Cantelli
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Novara
District: NO
Altitude: 162m s.l.m.
Mario Giarda
Date of birth: 01-17-1949
City: Novara
School: University
Profession: Self-employed
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Percivalle
Video by: Luca Percivalle
Created: 22-12-2010
