Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
“All the world loves a lover” but in Italy at the moment a pair of “lovers by correspondence” are inspiring curiosity rather than romantic sentiment:…
An unusual exhibition opens in Rome on Friday: The MondoPOP Gallery and Shop previews, on Friday evening, its exhibition “The Wall – 20 Years after it…
As pictures of the captured mafioso Domenico Raccuglia were beamed around the world on Sunday, Palermo’s élite Catturandi police – whose job is to cap…
Words by Pat EggletonA group in Wales, UK, is working to raise funds for a memorial to Welsh-Italian victims of the Arandora Star tragedy, in which a…
In a report released by the British Meteorological Office on Monday, scientists warned that climate change may soon make it impossible for Italy to gr…
Residents of the small town of Chioggia, in the Veneto region, have won a long battle for the right to use their nicknames legally. The town, which ha…
The Sanremo Song Festival, probably second only to Eurovision in the ranks of famous popular song competitions, is to allow entries in Italian dialect…
Have you ever accidentally damaged an item you’d borrowed? Are you familiar with that hollow feeling in your stomach as you gaze at the splintered gla…
The “funeral” for the city of Venice, which we wrote about on November 9th - "Funeral" to be held for Venice - took place on Saturday. A group of citi…
Italian tree surgery is coming to a hospital near you! Scientists at Italy’s Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologia dei Materiali Ceramici [ISTEC] have deve…
Whilst the ban on crucifixes in Italian schools imposed by the European Court of Human Rights – a ruling which Italy is appealing - has received a lot…
An enterprising Italian inventor has patented an automatic holy water dispenser for use in Catholic churches. Some parishes in northen Italy have alre…
For all of you who missed, got confused over, or just didn’t want to read the daily revelations, here is our guide to this sad affair: Who is Piero Ma…
Are you wondering about this season’s “must have” accessory?
Look no further for we have found it for you: it is the Dolce & Gabbana “Miss Sicily…
A 15-year-old girl, swept out to sea with the bus on which she was travelling, was killed yesterday as a mudslide hit the town of Casamicciola Terme,…
Why are young people [and some of their mothers] flocking to the small Tuscan town of Volterra?
Ah, romance is far from dead in the twenty-first cent…
An Italian couple from Civitavecchia discovered Raphael copies by a contemporary of the painter in their bedroom ... 37 years ago. Tarcisio de Paolis…
Venice could be a “ghost city” within 40 years if its population continues to decline at the current rate. The city, once the most prosperous in Eur…
Lorenzo Soare is a journalist who has been investigating the new sedative Letenox, manufactured by Marlow & Kurtz. So powerful is this drug that i…
A lot of women would like to shrink, but this particular lady has rather overdone it: Mont Blanc or Monte Bianco, Europe’s highest peak sometimes kno…