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by Pete Martin | Fri, 11/02/2012 - 09:38
The posters that go up around towns and villages announcing the death of a loved one are a very public way of expressing grief, and of course inviting the…
by ITALY | Wed, 10/31/2012 - 07:47
words by Carol KingFashion designer Pierre Cardin is to build an 800-foot-tall skyscraper in the Veneto region that he hopes will help boost the economy in his…
Culture
by Gabi Logan | Mon, 10/01/2012 - 06:00
picture courtesy: umbria24.itA team of archaeologists have discovered two Etruscan pyramids during excavations of a wine cellar in Orvieto. At least five…
Culture
by Wynne Crombie | Wed, 09/05/2012 - 05:35
Our sandals stumbled over the 2000-year-old stones as we made our way down the mile-long Decumanus Maximus. My husband and I had set out to investigate Ostia…
Lifestyle
by Carol King | Tue, 09/04/2012 - 03:41
Tourists have been shocked to see coloured pigeons in St Mark’s Square, Venice while animal lovers were aghast. It was enough perhaps to make even Mary Poppins…
Culture
by Lyn Funnell | Wed, 08/29/2012 - 09:11
Talk about canals in Italy and, of course, Venice comes to mind. But hundreds of years before its construction was even started, the city of Ravenna, to the…
Lifestyle
by Gabi Logan | Fri, 08/24/2012 - 05:48
Italian Minister of Culture, Lorenzo Ornaghi, announced late last month that the long-awaited restoration of Rome's Colosseum, funded by billionaire Diego…
Culture
by Gabi Logan | Thu, 07/26/2012 - 05:03
Archaeologists working in the Archaeological Park of Selinunte, Sicily, one of the largest and most important Greek colonies on the island, have uncovered a…
by Gabi Logan | Tue, 07/24/2012 - 09:07
Through the 30th of September 2012, villa La Petraia in the Chianti mountains, is hosting three of Flemish painter Justus Utens birds-eye-view paintings of the…
Culture
by Gabi Logan | Tue, 07/24/2012 - 04:28
After compiling findings from the 2003 to 2009 archaeological dig under the Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles) in Pisa, scholars have published photos…