Articles by ITALY
Seventeen –year-old Luca Bono from Turin beat nineteen other finalists on Saturday to become the Champion Magician of Italy. The competition, held in…
Italian actor Elio Germano has won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in Daniele Luchetti’s “La Nostra Vita”. He shares the…
Spaghetti are plural in Italian and Italians are always very amused when English-speaking folk treat the word as a singular noun. If you want to say “…
Visits to museums and archaeological sites can be expensive in Italy, especially if you are in one of the main centres and want to see everything or a…
A proposal by Italy’s controversial Education Minister, Mariastella Gelmini, to extend the school summer holiday till 29th September has been greeted…
Erotic dancer Brigitta Kocsis, 27, was arrested yesterday in Montebelluna [Treviso, Veneto]. Kocsis, whose stage name is Brigitta Bulgari, is accused…
On Saturday 155 residents of the Swiss- Italian town of Porrentruy spent 14 hours at their local ice rink making the biggest tiramisù in the world. T…
Rome is Italy’s candidate for the 2020 Olympic Bid, it was announced this week, much to the disappointment of officials in Venice. Venice, in fact, w…
Advertising posters depicting Hitler in a pink uniform and wearing an armband with a red heart instead of a swastika have caused anger and outrage in…
This week Italy mourns the poet that Rai called its “last Marxist”, Edoardo Sanguineti, who died in hospital in Genoa on Tuesday. Sanguineti – poet,…
The cradle of the Renaissance is to become the “cradle of ice cream” from 28th – 31st May when the city of Florence hosts its first ice cream festival…
The Telegraph reports that negotiations are under way between the American ABC TV network, Mr Berlusconi’s Mediaset company and an unnamed British TV…
This is a tip for all you romantic souls out there.
Have you ever seen the initials TVB carved on a tree or as part of a graffito in Italy? You may h…
In yet another hit to the reputation of the city of Naples, news has emerged that certain bakeries and pizzerie may be using wood from stolen coffins…
Pictures by Germaine Stafford - Recipe courtesy of chef Stefano BocciaIf you don’t like clams, omit them from the recipe, double the amount of courget…
Two exhibitions which retrace the artistic lives of Medieval protagonists through painting and sculptural works of great merit, and which once again a…
With all the complex history, traditions and symbolism of an Italian wedding, even before we arrive at the drinks reception, I discovered that there a…
We'd heard so much about La Serenissima, we'd instantly jumped to the conclusion that it was too good to be true. Of course, people have a lot of mixe…
If Italian-Americans were offended by the stereotypes of “The Sopranos” and “Growing Up Gotti”, their anger was as nothing compared to the storm cause…
A 36-year-old metal worker from Ghana has named his son, born in 2005, after Silvio Berlusconi, Adnkronos reports. Anthony Boahene, who has lived in…