Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
If you are going to be in Pompeii [Campania] on Sunday and email the address at the end of this article before 4pm Italian time [3pm in the UK] today…
Italy marked Slow Living Day on Monday with free Tai Chi and yoga classes across the country, poetry competitions, free transport and by generally enc…
After modelling Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring / Summer 2010 Collection, singer, actress and alleged pasta-eater Madonna has now done a little designing…
Alda Merini, who died on 1st November last year, was one of Italy’s best loved poets and now her four daughters have created a new website in memory o…
Photo by AfpFifty or so town hall officials in Rome decided to protest against the slow bureaucratic process of the city’s 2010 budget by pulling thei…
The 2004 disappearance of Denise Pipitone in Sicily was so strange that she has been dubbed “Italy’s Madeleine McCann”. On 1st September 2004 Denise,…
A collection of 650 of the 50,000 messages of goodwill that Silvio Berlusconi received immediately after he was physically attacked on December 13th l…
The Liceo Keplero in Rome, an upper school specialising in scientific subjects, incurred the wrath of the Vatican last week after installing six condo…
If you are in or near Milan between now and next Sunday you have a chance to catch the last few days of an unusual exhibition at the Castello Sforzesc…
The Cassazione, Italy’s Supreme Court, ruled on Friday that it is illegal to claim that a woman is incapable of doing a job simply because she is a wo…
In this photo: Angelo IzzoJournalist Donatella Papi, 53 and Angelo Izzo, 52, who is serving two life sentences for the murder of three women, were ma…
Words by Pat EggletonA small town in Sicily at midday on Sunday: Mass has just finished, the chattering groups emerging from the little church on the…
In this photo: President Giorgio Napolitano - source: Presidency of the Italian RepublicAre you confused by recent events regarding the Regional elect…
The “supertomato"A team of researchers from Italy’s National Biomolecular Research Centre in Naples have created a “supertomato” to be called the “max…
If you are going to be in or near Siena this Saturday, you will have a chance to see a faithful reconstruction of the medieval market that used to tak…
On Monday 1st March thousands of British ex-pats living in Italy tried to tune in to Sky Italia’s channel 138 to find, instead of their favourite prog…
British student Meredith Kercher was killed without premeditation and in the absence of any feelings of rancour towards her on the part of the perpetr…
In this photo: Peruzzi Chapel in Santa Croce Church - Florence. Photo by GaspaResearchers in Florence using state-of-the-art techniques have been able…
Words by Pat EggletonOne of the shocks you can receive when you move house, even within in your own country, is that suddenly you are unknown to the p…
Andrea Bocelli was honoured with the 2402nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday.
The blind tenor, 51, looking delighted, knelt to feel his s…