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Lifestyle
by Gabi Logan |
Italian Minister of Culture, Lorenzo Ornaghi, announced late last month that the long-awaited restoration of Rome's Colosseum, funded by billionaire Diego…
Travel
by Teresa Fisher |
Genoa does not yield up its charms easily, but to really know it is to love it. Teresa Fisher reports on a city of contrasts.Picture this: a small, compact…
Travel
by Anne Harrison |
The morning mists still swirled over the lagoon as the ferry approached Venice. At first all we could see were wooden channel markers (bricole) as they drifted…
by Gabi Logan |
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 Hugh Macindoe |
Only a few hundred metres from the back gate of the Boboli Gardens and the Costa San Giorgio will lead you to another wonderful, less crowded garden. The…
Culture
by Gabi Logan |
Abu Dhabi has announced plans to build the Palazzo Italia cultural centre and an Italian language school on its new cultural and residential island development…
Travel
by Gabi Logan |
words by Gabi LoganDespite the fact that it's muggy, searingly hot, and more crowded than a sports bar during the Euro Cup finals, summer is the most popular…
Culture
by Sandra Srivastava |
Bologna, the capital of the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy, has a population of approximately 390,000, including 80,000 university students. It is…
Culture
by Sandra Srivastava |
The elegant city of Parma, in Emilia-Romagna, is one of Italy’s most prosperous cities and has one of the world’s oldest universities. It is known as ‘the…
Travel
by Sandra Srivastava |
In 1995 the city of Ferrara was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site named ‘City of Ferrara’. In 1999 its designation was extended and renamed ‘Ferrara,…