Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
PhotoIn his home town - Catania - Vincenzo Bellini is as much remembered for the pasta dish named after his most famous heroine as for his music and t…
Words by Pat EggletonIn the week when the city of Catania announced that its administration does not have enough money to stage the second edition of…
Photo's source: La ZampaUnder a new scheme to be introduced by AIDAA [Italian Association for the Protection of Animals and the Environment] Italian c…
The world of cinema lost one of its greatest entrepreneurs on Wednesday with the death of 91-year-old producer Dino De Laurentiis.Agostino De Laurenti…
A 23-year-old woman has been saved from a life of sexual slavery in Messina [Sicily] because she managed to raise the alarm on the social networking s…
In this photo: the Italian flag as interpreted by Moschino - source: Style.itThere is a new exhibition in honour of 150 years of Italian unity at the…
Italian researchers led by Dr Emanuele Jannini of the University of L’Aquila have discovered that a healthy sex life can help men live longer. Howeve…
There are three months to go before the 61st edition of the Sanremo Song Festival [15th – 19th February 2011] but there has already been an argument a…
Words by Pat EggletonStill in Northern Italy, here are three more Christmas events for you to enjoy:Natale in Arena, Verona4th December 2010 – 23rd Ja…
Words by Pat Eggleton
In Italian we use the comma - which is a virgola, not a comma! – to indicate the decimal point.
So we write 1,5 instead of 1.5…
A new cable lift with two cable cars has been opened near the Pejo ski resort in Trentino-Alto Adige. The lift has two cable cars which can each carry…
Italian footballing hero Roberto Baggio is to receive the Nobel Peace Summit Award for his lifetime contribution to charitable work. He will receive…
Michael Seifert, a former Nazi corporal known to his friends as “Misha” but to many others as the “executioner of Bolzano”, died in hospital in Casert…
An unpleasant surprise greeted the custodians of the famous Pompeii site when they arrived at work at 7 am on Saturday, for the 2,000-year-old Schola…
Words by Pat EggletonOn an October day in a normally peaceful cemetery in the hills south of Palermo, a crowd of journalists gathers and an old women…
Words by Pat EggletonRetired FBI agent Steve Moore is so sure that Amanda Knox is innocent of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher that he l…
The fully restored Museo del Novecento [Museum of Twentieth Century Art] will be inaugurated in Milan on 18th November. Housed in the Palazzo Arengar…
Photograph by Adriano Migliorati/Caters NewsNational Geographic Daily News has published some amazing pictures of fearless goats scaling the Cingino D…
Words by Pat EggletonMartin and Ally moved from the Cotswolds, “the heart of England” to Lunigiana, “the jewel of Tuscany.” There, they fully renovate…
Photo courtesy of Piaggio. The famous three-wheeled “Ape” or “bee”, so beloved of Italian fruit and vegetable vendors, may soon become a vehicle of t…