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Italy’s Il Salviatino named best hotel in Europe
With scenic views, fine dining and spectacular history on offer, the readers of Condé Nast named the Il Salviatino in Fiesole-Florence, Italy the best hotel in Europe.
Foreigners in Italy are happier than Italians
Foreigners in Italy are much happier with their lives than Italians, according to figures published on Tuesday by Istat, the national statistics agency.
Inside Mussolini’s bunkers: Italy reopens one of the dictator’s Second World War shelters
A Roman villa’s wine cellar, which was converted into an air raid shelter for Benito Mussolini and the Italian dictator’s family, is opening its anti-gas, double steel doors to tourists.
Sordi foundation made sole heir of actor's fortune
The final will of Aurelia Sordi, sister of the late actor Alberto Sordi, was confirmed Thursday giving the entire estate to the foundation that is to manage a museum established in his name.
Domus Aurea reopens with crowdfunding
Emperor Nero's fabled Domus Aurea (Golden House) reopened Sunday after the latest in a string of closures to make it safe from collapse.
Deaths outstrip births in southern Italy in 2013
The number of deaths exceeded births in southern Italy in 2013, raising the spectre of a "demographic upheaval" with "unforeseeable consequences", the Association for the Industrial Development of Southern Italy (SVIMEZ) said in a report published Tuesday.
Matera: European Culture Capital 2019
Matera simply is one of the most unusual and memorable cities in Italy. Basilicata's favorite city was just picked as European Culture Capital 2019, beating some all time-favorites Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia-Assisi, Ravenna and Siena. The initiative is meant to highlight the richness and diversity of cultures in Europe, to celebrate the cultural features Europeans share, to increase European citizens’ sense of belonging to a common cultural area, and to foster the contribution of culture to the development of cities.
Politics & the Piazza
The Piazza as a political forum, from the empires to the contemporary democracies... passing through dictatorships.
Once Upon a Piazza
In 1970 in Settefrati, a small town in Lazio, the piazza was a meeting place for the town’s citizens, a shopping center, a playground, a resting spot, a political forum. And it still is...
Halloween all’italiana
In all the Italian regions in the days between October 31st and the day of Saint Martin (November 11th) there has been – from time immemorial – the folkloristic custom to celebrate the juxtaposition of life and death with numerous traditions
Elogio della gentilezza
Ricominciare dalla gentilezza, questa virtù che non costa nulla ma che porta in sé una tensione salvifica, una rendita di civiltà. Per combattere la volgarità che non risparmia i luoghi preposti a raccontare il sentimento alto e nobile della gentilezza, la scuola, la chiesa, la famiglia
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