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Over at the Italy Magazine Forums members have already embarked on a Grand Tour of Italy! Following an excellent suggestion from one of our moderators…
This year's Italian Women's Internationals is set to host 18 of the top 20 tennis players in the WTA circuit. The group of players competing in the Ma…
The pope's personal preacher railed on Friday against Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and the recently published Gospel of Judas, saying they amounted to a…
For the first time this April, visitors to Hadrian's Villa will be able to enjoy full-colour 3-D reconstructions of its glories as they stroll through…
Throughout Italy Good Friday was celebrated in small towns and the big metropolis with a variety of traditional processions. Pope Benedict XVI led Cat…
The Interior Ministry confirmed on Friday that the number of disputed ballots in Italy's knife-edge general election was around 5,000, far fewer than…
“If it rains on the palms, it won’t rain on the eggs,” says an old proverb describing the weather between Palm Sunday and Easter. Easter seas…
The has been a sharp increase ahead of Easter in the theft of lambs, especially baby lambs, which constitute the main dish on Italian holiday tables,…
Italian scientists are leading the way in creating cypress trees whose sweet scent no longer poses health problems in spring time. "We're part of a E…
The romantic Isle of Capri all but shut down on Thursday as islanders staged a protest over cuts in ferry service by the Caremar shipping line. The…
Former Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio on Tuesday denied judicial reports that he agreed to issue favourable reports of state accounts in retur…
Romano Prodi, who has claimed victory in Italy's general election, said on Wednesday that Premier Silvio Berlusconi would not be successful in his di…
The United States will not comment on the Italian election until a winner is officially declared, White House sources said here. "We are keeping a clo…
Three aides of Mafia superboss Bernardo Provenzano were arrested on Wednesday, a day after the elderly mob chieftain was caught in a farmhouse close t…
A huge fresco of the Last Supper has been found in an old convent in Siena. The fresco covers some 60 square metres of a wall in the refectory of the…
"It was absolutely fantastic to meet so many of you again at this year’s Dolce Vita show in Olympia. When you work remotely, as a few of us on the m…
Centre-left leader Romano Prodi urged his allies on Tuesday to start working together immediately to change the country, taking their election progra…
Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday disputed opposition chief Romano Prodi's claim to have won the Italian election. Breaking the silence he has m…
Hot on the heels of reports that the most wanted Mafia superboos, Bernardo Provenzano is alive yesterday came the new that Cosa Nostra's elusive super…
After a long and dramatic night Italy's general election result seem to give the House to the center left, with a majority of 314 seats against 277, a…