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by Katia Amore | Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:42

If Academy Award winner The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) made you long for a visit to Rome, we thought you might enjoy these pictures of the main…

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Best Italian Cities For Singles and for Finding Love, According to Facebook

by Anonymous (not verified) | Fri, 02/21/2014 - 01:30

In the spirit of San Valentino, the team at Facebook Data Science conducted a research last week - based on anonymized, aggregated data - to determine the best…

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Breathtaking View of Mount Vesuvius Leads Satellite Image Contest

by Anonymous (not verified) | Sun, 12/15/2013 - 05:00

An overhead view of Mount Vesuvius captured by satellite is currently leading DigitalGlobe's satellite image contest, with more than 5,700 "likes" from…

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Italians Around The World Film Daily Lives For Italy In A Day Movie

by Carol King | Thu, 10/24/2013 - 04:00

Italians around the globe can submit footage of their lives on 26 October 2013 to Italian TV’s RAI website for the ‘Italy In A Day’ social filmmaking project…

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Italian Pensioners Perform Donna Summer’s Hot Stuff To Attract Tourists

by Carol King | Mon, 10/14/2013 - 06:05

Residents, including pensioners, of Castrovalva in L’Aquila, Abruzzo have made a video of themselves performing Donna Summer’s ‘Hot Stuff’ in an effort to…

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Italian Mayor Orders WC Workers To Wear Traditional Costume

by Carol King | Tue, 08/27/2013 - 06:30

words by Carol King The mayor of the Sicilian town of Modica in the province of Ragusa has ordered workers in charge of public toilets to wear traditional…

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Kate Middleton Gets Cooking Lessons From Italian Housekeeper

by Carol King | Mon, 05/20/2013 - 17:06

words by Carol King The Duchess of Cambridge has been getting cookery lessons from her new Italian housekeeper, Antonella Fresolone, according to ‘US Weekly’.…

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Ortigia’s Jewish Ritual Baths

by Carol King | Thu, 12/06/2012 - 09:38

Siracusa in Sicily is usually associated with the Ancient Greeks and Romans, so I was surprised to find that it’s also home to the oldest Jewish ritual baths,…

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Cruising The Venetian Hinterland

by Heidi Fuller-love | Mon, 08/27/2012 - 09:25

'See Venice and die', the saying goes, but when I visited last summer I thought I'd die in the crush . Not eager to repeat the experience, this summer I joined…

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The Castle of Donnafugata

by Pat Eggleton | Fri, 09/03/2010 - 03:46

I can recommend no better day out in the Province of Ragusa than a visit to the Castello di Donnafugata. Those among you who love the Commissario Montalbano TV…