Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Fri, 11/12/2010 - 09:48
PhotoIn his home town - Catania - Vincenzo Bellini is as much remembered for the pasta dish named after his most famous heroine as for his music and t…
Fri, 11/12/2010 - 09:44
Words by Pat EggletonIn the week when the city of Catania announced that its administration does not have enough money to stage the second edition of…
Fri, 11/12/2010 - 07:01
Photo's source: La ZampaUnder a new scheme to be introduced by AIDAA [Italian Association for the Protection of Animals and the Environment] Italian c…
Fri, 11/12/2010 - 06:14
The world of cinema lost one of its greatest entrepreneurs on Wednesday with the death of 91-year-old producer Dino De Laurentiis.Agostino De Laurenti…
Thu, 11/11/2010 - 06:08
A 23-year-old woman has been saved from a life of sexual slavery in Messina [Sicily] because she managed to raise the alarm on the social networking s…
Thu, 11/11/2010 - 05:32
In this photo: the Italian flag as interpreted by Moschino - source: Style.itThere is a new exhibition in honour of 150 years of Italian unity at the…
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 04:53
Italian researchers led by Dr Emanuele Jannini of the University of L’Aquila have discovered that a healthy sex life can help men live longer. Howeve…
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 04:24
There are three months to go before the 61st edition of the Sanremo Song Festival [15th – 19th February 2011] but there has already been an argument a…
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 09:42
Words by Pat EggletonStill in Northern Italy, here are three more Christmas events for you to enjoy:Natale in Arena, Verona4th December 2010 – 23rd Ja…
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 06:22
Words by Pat Eggleton
In Italian we use the comma - which is a virgola, not a comma! – to indicate the decimal point.
So we write 1,5 instead of 1.5…
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 06:08
A new cable lift with two cable cars has been opened near the Pejo ski resort in Trentino-Alto Adige. The lift has two cable cars which can each carry…
Tue, 11/09/2010 - 05:51
Italian footballing hero Roberto Baggio is to receive the Nobel Peace Summit Award for his lifetime contribution to charitable work. He will receive…
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 04:56
Michael Seifert, a former Nazi corporal known to his friends as “Misha” but to many others as the “executioner of Bolzano”, died in hospital in Casert…
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 04:29
An unpleasant surprise greeted the custodians of the famous Pompeii site when they arrived at work at 7 am on Saturday, for the 2,000-year-old Schola…
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 03:49
Words by Pat EggletonOn an October day in a normally peaceful cemetery in the hills south of Palermo, a crowd of journalists gathers and an old women…
Thu, 11/04/2010 - 05:18
Words by Pat EggletonRetired FBI agent Steve Moore is so sure that Amanda Knox is innocent of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher that he l…
Thu, 11/04/2010 - 05:01
The fully restored Museo del Novecento [Museum of Twentieth Century Art] will be inaugurated in Milan on 18th November. Housed in the Palazzo Arengar…
Thu, 11/04/2010 - 04:45
Photograph by Adriano Migliorati/Caters NewsNational Geographic Daily News has published some amazing pictures of fearless goats scaling the Cingino D…
Wed, 11/03/2010 - 06:07
Words by Pat EggletonMartin and Ally moved from the Cotswolds, “the heart of England” to Lunigiana, “the jewel of Tuscany.” There, they fully renovate…
Wed, 11/03/2010 - 05:52
Photo courtesy of Piaggio. The famous three-wheeled “Ape” or “bee”, so beloved of Italian fruit and vegetable vendors, may soon become a vehicle of t…