Italy Blog

After a break, the Guess Where in Italy?

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Guess Where in Italy? – Part 9

Custom Teaser:  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.

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Patti Chiari – Of Knights and Chargers – Sicilan Style

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 since the seventeenth century. From 6th – 16th February the streets and squares of Rome will become a massive Carnival space, peopled with masked characters, musicians, actors, dancers and horseriders

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Rome revives its Carnival tradition

Italy has witnessed a fair number of gender scandals lately and now the name of its greatest artist may be added to the statistics.

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Does Da Vinci have the last laugh?

In this photo: Auschwitz, entrance. Source: German Federal Archive Today, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Army in 1945, is International Holocaust Memorial Day.

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A warning to future generations

Italy’s Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia helped prepare a McDonald’s sandwich yesterday at the fast food chain’s flagship restaurant near the Spanish Steps in Rome.

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Form a queue for the "McITALY"

On the streets of Milan in Italy hybrid cars, such as the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius are becoming common sights. The effects of ever rising fuel costs coupled with the introduction of the Ecopass pollution charging system certainly seem to have convinced more than a few of Milan’s motorists to go for a means of transport which is perhaps a little kinder to our environment. It is not just Milan’s private motorists who are going for hybrids and thus going green.  Then there is green luxury too

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Milan has Insight

The oldest working opera house in Europe, the San Carlo Theatre in Naples , is to reopen on Wednesday following a two-year restoration project involving three hundred workers and an expenditure of 67 million euros [£58 m / $94.5 m].

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The San Carlo – the hope of a city

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 yesterday at the age of 85.

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Death of an honest astrologer

Custom Teaser:  Unless the economy deteriorates dramatically, the Italian property market is likely to stabilize on 2009 levels, with top end homes performing well while those at the lower end experience a greater drop in prices and sale volumes … Words by Carla Passino Unless the economy deteriorates dramatically, the Italian property market is likely to stabilize on 2009 levels, with top end homes performing well while those at the lower end experience a greater drop in prices and sale volumes.

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Italy to see stable property market in 2010