Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Thu, 11/19/2009 - 04:08
“All the world loves a lover” but in Italy at the moment a pair of “lovers by correspondence” are inspiring curiosity rather than romantic sentiment:…
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 04:06
An unusual exhibition opens in Rome on Friday: The MondoPOP Gallery and Shop previews, on Friday evening, its exhibition “The Wall – 20 Years after it…
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 03:27
As pictures of the captured mafioso Domenico Raccuglia were beamed around the world on Sunday, Palermo’s élite Catturandi police – whose job is to cap…
Tue, 11/17/2009 - 07:19
Words by Pat EggletonA group in Wales, UK, is working to raise funds for a memorial to Welsh-Italian victims of the Arandora Star tragedy, in which a…
Tue, 11/17/2009 - 04:40
In a report released by the British Meteorological Office on Monday, scientists warned that climate change may soon make it impossible for Italy to gr…
Tue, 11/17/2009 - 04:25
Residents of the small town of Chioggia, in the Veneto region, have won a long battle for the right to use their nicknames legally. The town, which ha…
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 05:50
The Sanremo Song Festival, probably second only to Eurovision in the ranks of famous popular song competitions, is to allow entries in Italian dialect…
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 05:26
Have you ever accidentally damaged an item you’d borrowed? Are you familiar with that hollow feeling in your stomach as you gaze at the splintered gla…
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 04:41
The “funeral” for the city of Venice, which we wrote about on November 9th - "Funeral" to be held for Venice - took place on Saturday. A group of citi…
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 05:09
Italian tree surgery is coming to a hospital near you! Scientists at Italy’s Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologia dei Materiali Ceramici [ISTEC] have deve…
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 04:22
Whilst the ban on crucifixes in Italian schools imposed by the European Court of Human Rights – a ruling which Italy is appealing - has received a lot…
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 05:53
An enterprising Italian inventor has patented an automatic holy water dispenser for use in Catholic churches. Some parishes in northen Italy have alre…
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 03:50
For all of you who missed, got confused over, or just didn’t want to read the daily revelations, here is our guide to this sad affair: Who is Piero Ma…
Wed, 11/11/2009 - 04:54
Are you wondering about this season’s “must have” accessory?
Look no further for we have found it for you: it is the Dolce & Gabbana “Miss Sicily…
Wed, 11/11/2009 - 03:33
A 15-year-old girl, swept out to sea with the bus on which she was travelling, was killed yesterday as a mudslide hit the town of Casamicciola Terme,…
Tue, 11/10/2009 - 04:50
Why are young people [and some of their mothers] flocking to the small Tuscan town of Volterra?
Ah, romance is far from dead in the twenty-first cent…
Tue, 11/10/2009 - 04:07
An Italian couple from Civitavecchia discovered Raphael copies by a contemporary of the painter in their bedroom ... 37 years ago. Tarcisio de Paolis…
Mon, 11/09/2009 - 06:23
Venice could be a “ghost city” within 40 years if its population continues to decline at the current rate. The city, once the most prosperous in Eur…
Mon, 11/09/2009 - 06:03
Lorenzo Soare is a journalist who has been investigating the new sedative Letenox, manufactured by Marlow & Kurtz. So powerful is this drug that i…
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 05:50
A lot of women would like to shrink, but this particular lady has rather overdone it: Mont Blanc or Monte Bianco, Europe’s highest peak sometimes kno…