Articles by ITALY
Mon, 09/17/2012 - 04:10
words by Carol KingItaly’s top design companies will be showing off their talents at the Colour Your Life exhibition in London this autumn.Open to the…
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 05:11
words by Carol KingThe bronze sculptures of Italian artists including Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Benvenuto Cellini, and Umberto Boccioni will be on…
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:16
words by Carol KingAccording to the British newspaper The Sun, Lady Gaga is looking to get married in Italy.The tabloid says that the pop star has inv…
Tue, 09/11/2012 - 04:33
words by Carol KingGeorge Clooney has denied stories in the Italian media that he is selling his mansion on the shores of Lake Como.The Hollywood acto…
Tue, 09/11/2012 - 04:15
words by Carol King
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s shock film ‘Pieta’ won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Kim’s movie divided critics…
Mon, 09/10/2012 - 10:40
words by Carol KingItaly finished 13th in the medal table at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Athletes took home nine gold, eight silver and 11 bronz…
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 09:11
Italy’s most famous fictional character hit the big screen in Venice with the world premiere of Naples-born director Enzo D’Alò’s animation Pinocchio.…
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 04:36
words by Carol KingCarmine Abate has won the prestigious Campiello Premio for his novel La collina del vento.The book tells the story of what happens…
Wed, 09/05/2012 - 05:04
words by Carol KingA man has been arrested after firing shots where the popular Italian TV series Commissario Montalbano (Inspector Montalbano) is fil…
Tue, 09/04/2012 - 03:34
words by Carol KingItalians are set to take to the streets on Sunday, 9th September in the English town of Bedford in protest at the closure of the lo…
Mon, 09/03/2012 - 10:46
The sixth edition of the World Urban Forum (WUF), the world's preeminent conference on cities and urban issues, officially opens today in Naples at th…
Thu, 08/23/2012 - 05:09
Earlier this month, we reported on the terrible wildfires raging across Italy destroying forests, nature preserves, fields and causing the death of th…
Sat, 08/11/2012 - 03:51
Oscar winner, Italian special-effects maestro Carlo Rambaldi, famous for creating the title character in the film E.T., died last Friday at the age of…
Thu, 08/09/2012 - 05:26
Over 30 fires raged in Italian forests and fields on Monday and continue to worry authorities and local citizens in various parts of the country.The…
Fri, 07/13/2012 - 06:21
The Fondaco dei Tedeschi, a historic Venetian building situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge, originally the headquarters of the city's…
Fri, 06/29/2012 - 05:57
words by Mark T. CollinsonFor the second most successful team in world football, qualification for the European Championships in 2012 was far from a f…
Thu, 06/14/2012 - 09:34
Through the 10th of August, Rome invites the best street artists, writers, and wall painters from around Italy to create their work live in Piazzale d…
Thu, 06/14/2012 - 09:18
A tornado with winds up to 140kph stuck Venice on Monday. Through it missed the city centre, several islands near the Adriatic Sea sustained significa…
Tue, 05/29/2012 - 10:02
Earlier, this morning, at 9.30 a.m. a strong 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Northern Italy again causing the death of 15 people. The earthquake's epicen…
Tue, 05/29/2012 - 04:15
Placido Rizzotto, a union representative, was buried last Thursday in an Italian state funeral taking place near Palermo in the town of Corleone, more…