Pronunciation

• In its native pronunciation, there is an accent on the ending "e." The word is commonly pronounced "voh-LAH-ray."
  
  

Popular Culture

• Because of the beautiful imagery the word evokes, "volare" is a popular name for restaurants, movies, art projects and other cultural outlets. Volare Restaurant in Chicago serves traditional Italian cuisine that has garnered favorable reviews by both locals and tourists, while car manufacturer Aston Martin recently launched a Volare sports-car concept.
  
  

'In the Blue Painted Blue'

• The Italian song "Nel blu dipinto di blu," or " In the Blue Painted Blue," is popularly referred to as "Volare." Performed by Italian legend Domenico Modugno, it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958. It is the only song that was originally released in Italy to reach No. 1 in the United States as of February 2010.
  
  

Volare Airlines

• Volare Airlines was a discount airline service based in Italy's Milan-Malpensa International Airport. It filed for bankruptcy and stopped operations in November 2004. The tickets to the cancelled flights were never returned or refunded to customers.
  
  

Misconceptions

• Although "volare" is a word in more than one language, it varies slightly in meaning. For example, in Spanish volare means "I flew" instead of " to fly."