Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
A Roman barber who doesn’t like the Church and who is a card-carrying communist may be instrumental in the confirmation of the late Pope John Paul II…
In this photo: the Courthouse in Rome, Italy. Author is benoitnewton.Italy’s highest court, the Cassazione, ruled on Thursday that Italians cannot use…
Knights ride into a girl’s life in many guises and mine is a neighbour who appears about once a month carrying packs of mineral water. I cannot remem…
The cities of Rome and Venice will be twinned for the Carnival season this year with Rome reviving traditions that have not been seen in the city sinc…
Italy has witnessed a fair number of gender scandals lately and now the name of its greatest artist may be added to the statistics. Experts from the…
In this photo: Auschwitz, entrance. Source: German Federal ArchiveToday, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Army in…
Italy’s Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia helped prepare a McDonald’s sandwich yesterday at the fast food chain’s flagship restaurant near the Spanish St…
The oldest working opera house in Europe, the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, is to reopen on Wednesday following a two-year restoration project involvin…
Linda Wolf, the astrologer best-known for the daily horoscopes she gave at the end of Radio Rai2’s 07.30 news bulletin every morning, died in Rome y…
If you are in Florence or Milan this week, you still have a chance to catch these. Waxes by Gaetano ZumboThe Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence is…
It’s been a very long road home for Rocky, a five-year old German Shepherd dog who was stolen while on holiday with his owner when he was two. His ow…
Words by Pat EggletonI love Italy, and in particular, Sicily, with all my heart but if there is one thing that tries my “pazienza” here it is the wate…
British football hero David Beckham was just telling an Italian reporter how nice the people of Milan had been to him when all of a sudden his genital…
In this photo: Augustus of Prima Porta, statue of the emperor Augustus in Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome. Picture by Andreas Wahra.A priceless ancie…
Beppe Grillo, comedian, blogger, would-be politician, scourge of the Italian government and defender of free speech, is to tour Europe to “tell them w…
With the second lowest birth rate in Western Europe Italy may have fewer little babies than it would like but it has more than its share of big babies…
The fashion house Versace, in partnership with French company ModeLabs Group, is to introduce a mobile phone which will retail at over $5000. Upmark…
The most abused dish in Italian cuisine is without doubt tagliatelle alla bolognese, says Coldiretti, the Italian farming union. Dishes bearing this n…
“The most horrible news to come out of Italy since World War II” said the twitter feeds over the weekend, as the Italian government’s intention to for…
When it comes to television watching , the Italians are pipped at the post in Europe only by the British, who watch on average 28 hours of TV per pers…