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Bird Watching in Emilia Romagna: the Po Delta Park

by ITALY | Fri, 06/03/2011 - 06:39

If you love bird watching then head to the Po Delta Park on the Emilia Romagna Riviera where the pastime is really taking off Just a few kilometres from…

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Driving Passion

by ITALY | Mon, 05/23/2011 - 09:16

The triangle that is Emilia Romagna is marked out by the River Po in the north and the Appenines in the south, its eastern coast stretching down the Adriatic.…

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Zeffirelli villa open for business

by Pat Eggleton | Fri, 07/30/2010 - 05:22

Franco Zeffirelli at his home in Positano during the 1980s. Photograph: Slim Aarons/Getty Images Film director Franco Zeffirelli’s former villa is now open…

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New high speed trains for Italy

by ITALY | Thu, 05/27/2010 - 06:37

Italy’s first private high speed train, the Italo Punto, was unveiled yesterday. The fleet, designed for the new Italian company NTV by Alstom, the French…

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Thinking pink in Milan

by Pat Eggleton | Tue, 11/24/2009 - 03:52

You are not hallucinating if you see enormous fuchsia pink snails whilst in Milan these days for the twelve plastic molluscs have been placed at strategic…

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Ferry to Bellagio

by Carla Passino | Tue, 07/29/2008 - 06:02

Lake Como glints like a polished sapphire under the summer sun. All around it, the emerald embrace of Alps and hills shelters the waters. As the ferry leaves…

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Train strike hits Italy again

by ITALY | Mon, 07/25/2005 - 12:04

(ANSA) - Italy will be hit by a 24-hour train strike starting at 9pm (local) Monday until the same hour on Tuesday, Service on some commuter and long-distance…