Words by Tara McLaughlin When people think of Abruzzo, they usually picture astounding National Parks and verdant countryside to rival that of anywhere else in Italy.
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Spotlight on Giulianova, Abruzzo
Have you always dreamed of buying a house on the Italian Lakes but your budget didn’t quite stretch to it? Now may be the right time to purchase.
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Como prices decrease for the first time in five years
The first museum of contemporary arts on a national level in Italy, the Maxxi Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome opened for a weekend preview on November 14th before its full opening to the public scheduled for spring 2010. In reality two museums – Maxxi Art and Maxxi Architecture – the complex will provide flexible urban space for both indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
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A new museum of contemporary arts
Most Italians seem to think that Minister Gianfranco Rotondi has, at the very least, been daydreaming and many have declared him mad, for he has had the temerity to suggest that the sacred long lunch break is not good for the country’s productivity.
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Is the minister out to lunch?
You are not hallucinating if you see enormous fuchsia pink snails whilst in Milan these days for the twelve plastic molluscs have been placed at strategic points around the city in order to encourage the Milanesi, who have famously frant
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Thinking pink in Milan
If you had to choose the rock star of the year on the basis of outrageous lifestyle, who would you vote for?
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And the winner is…
Image Podcast Language Podcast: Italian Audio – Chi ha inventato i Maccheroni? Text Teaser: Oretta Zanini de Vita attempts to unravel the threads of the history of Italy’s best-loved dish. Try reading and listening to the Italian version first then check with the English version
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Dual Language: Who invented Macaroni? – Chi ha inventato i Maccheroni?
If you want to minimise or extinguish your tax liability, engage an Italian tax advisor. Italy’s income tax advisors must be some of the best in the world and Italy’s tax advisors are real ‘value for money’ professionals too. Expert Italian tax advisors will have you declaring either nothing or next to nothing while you live in a ten bedroom mansion, employ a few Indian (Indians seem to be popular as domestic staff in Italy) servants and cruise the streets of Italy in a gleaming red Ferrari, when you are not cruising the Mediterranean in your luxury motor cruiser, that is. The activities of Italy’s effective tax advisors mean that every year something like 100 billion Euros never ends up in Italian state coffers.
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Tax Evasion in Italy
A private art collector who recently purchased a seventeenth-century box containing unidentified “artefacts” must have had a gruesome surprise when he opened it, for it contained a human tooth, a thumb and a middle finger, later authenticated as having belonged to none other than Galileo Galilei [1564 – 1642] who was condemned by the Vatican for claiming that the Earth moved around the Sun.
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Forget Van Gogh’s ear – it’s Galileo’s molar
Vatican researcher Dr Barbara Frale has claimed in a new book, La Sindone di Gesù Nazareno, that there is faint text on the Turin Shroud.
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Text found on Turin Shroud