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Summer is a fantastic time for festivals and traditional events in Italy. Here are five of the best. The Siena Palio, 2nd JulyHeld every year on July…
Confetti are not tiny dots of coloured paper but the sugar-coated almonds that Italians give you before weddings, Christenings and graduations. The…
Minister for Legislative Simplification Roberto Calderoli has angered Italy’s World Cup footballers by suggesting that they should decline possible bo…
If you are going to be in Rome between now and 22nd June you have a chance to attend the International Literature Festival at the Basilica di Massenzi…
An Austrian tourist was fined 1000 euros for buying a counterfeit “designer” bag in Jesolo [Veneto] on Saturday. The 65-year-old woman purchased the…
Around one thousand people turned out, many of them dressed in mourning, for a funeral procession with a difference in Florence yesterday. The occasio…
Rome said goodbye to a great friend of the lost and abandoned on Tuesday. Don Mario Picchi, who died last Saturday at the age of 80, was a priest who…
A hotel made entirely of rubbish has opened in the centre of Rome. The Save the Beach Hotel is an environmental project sponsored by the beer brand Co…
The Lombardy region is to offer pregnant women who are in financial difficulty 4,500 euros to keep their babies. Governor of Lombardy Roberto Formigo…
Amanda Knox, who is accused of slander against the Italian police, appeared at a preliminary hearing in Perugia on Tuesday. Knox had claimed that she…
Music festivals take place throughout Italy in summer and , if you’ve never listened to music under the stars on a balmy summer’s evening or sat, entr…
Here are some of those nasty words that can catch us out:
Noioso doesn’t mean “noisy”. It means boring.
Annoiato doesn’t mean “annoyed”. It means bor…
If you are going to be in Rome between now and 4th July you may meet some unusual temporary citizens, for the capital’s streets and squares are playin…
The Associated Press reports that the identification tags of a US soldier wounded in Italy during World War II have been found by a retired police in…
Some of Italy’s tourists, reports La Repubblica, quoting a survey to be published in the magazine “Vie del Gusto”, show a lack of respect for their su…
Silvio Berlusconi’s detractors have often compared him to Mussolini but on Thursday Italy’s colourful Premier indirectly made the comparison whilst de…
A work by the mysterious British street artist Banksy in Naples has been covered with graffiti and completely ruined. The work, a Banksy interpretat…
Today sees the release, on radio and on digital platforms in Italy, of the single “Donna d’Onna” [“Woman of Onna”] a song written by singer Gianna Nan…
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 Fr…
Health officials in Treviso [ Veneto] have launched a shock poster campaign featuring an image of a foetus in a cocktail glass in an attempt to discou…