Anniversary

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by Silvia Donati | Fri, 01/03/2014 - 08:20
Sixty years ago,  on January 3, 1954, RAI – Italian Radio and Television – began its television broadcasts on a single channel, which would later become Rai…
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by Silvia Donati | Sat, 12/14/2013 - 04:00
A celebratory symphonic concert will be held tonight at Venice’s La Fenice Theater to commemorate the 10th anniversary of its reopening, after the 1996 fire…
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by Carol King | Mon, 09/09/2013 - 07:00
Above: "The Banquet in the Pine Forest" (1482/3) is the third painting in Sandro Botticelli's series "The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti", which illustrates…
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by Julie Burns | Mon, 08/19/2013 - 07:00
The silver screen story of Cleopatra – one of the world’s most colossal, controversial and extravagant films, and fatefully made at Rome’s Cinecittà studios -…
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by ITALY | Sun, 03/17/2013 - 07:56
Happy Birthday Italia!Today we celebrate the unification of Italy and remember "il Risorgimento" (The Resurgence), a 19th century political and social movement…
by Carol King | Mon, 01/14/2013 - 04:50
The island of Giglio in Tuscany held a memorial service on 13 January to mark the first-year anniversary of the cruise-ship disaster that killed 32 people.In…
by ITALY | Thu, 11/15/2012 - 08:51
words by Carol KingThe world’s favourite cartoon mouse is being honoured with an exhibition to mark the 80 years since his Italian debut. From 15 November to…
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by Magda Lauer | Mon, 09/03/2012 - 03:50
image courtesy of Acorn Montessori SchoolOn the 31st of August, we honored Maria Montessori's 142nd birth anniversary. Even google marked the date with a…