In this photo: a scene from Bicycle Thieves, a film by Vittorio de Sica. If you are going to hide in a building, it is a good idea to look at the sign on the front of it first; this could be the moral of the following story from ANSA: read more
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First check your building..
Custom Teaser: To conclude our series on romantic summer films set in Italy, we look at “September Affair”, a weepie from 1950, an era in which it was considered rather daring… Words by Pat Eggleton To conclude our series on romantic summer films set in Italy, we look at “September Affair”, a weepie from 1950, an era in which it was considered rather daring… read more
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Summer Romantic Film – Golden Oldie – "September affair"
Berlusconi’s government looks as though it is in trouble, but it is probable that Silvio Berlusconi would like nothing more than to go to the country. If he does manage to push Italy towards general elections, he will win again, because Italy’s left know zero about marketing
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Berlusconi Will Win Italy Again
A ferragosto row over the ownership of what is arguably the most famous statue in the world – Michelangelo’s “David” – has broken out between the Ministry of Culture and the City Council of Florence.
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The state versus the city of Florence
Two patients suffering from trachea cancer, a 31-year-old Czech woman and a 19-year-old British woman, received successful trachea [windpipe] transplants using their own stem cells in Italy during July.
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Two successful trachea transplants – and the doctor is bound for Stockholm
Custom Teaser: Marc Dalessio is a painter based in Florence who created his blog to share information and ideas about techniques and materials as well as to keep people updated about his paintings and exhibitions.
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Blog of the Week – Marc Dalessio
Custom Teaser: Marc Dalessio is a painter based in Florence who created his blog to share information and ideas about techniques and materials as well as to keep people updated about his paintings and exhibitions. Marc also teaches and has travelled to some interesting and unusual places to paint..
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Blog of the Week – Marc Dalessio
Italy is a curious mix of dark and light, of good, bad and ugly. Cagli, a small town in the Le Marche region of Italy, looks good and light. Here is a photograph of one of Cagli’s buildings. Pastel colours are everywhere in Italy. Pinks, greens, rusty and sandy browns. Sometimes, though, the colours go beyond pastel, such as in this photograph in which the colour of this Cagli building is predominantly orange
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Orange Cagli in Le Marche, Italy
It’s easy to be negative about Italy, and the country is receiving quite a lot of bad press at the moment, what with potentially repressive laws designed to restrict press freedom, and the odd scandal or three. All the furore leads to this question, possibly: Could Italy’s tarnished image be damaging the countries foreign direct investment prospects? The answer, according to the UNCTAD – the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development appears to be a big yes. In fact, in the UNCTAD’s World Investment Prospects Survey for the period 2009 to 2011, Italy does not even figure in the top 15 countries in terms of ‘The 15 most attractive economies for the location of FDI’ – page 65 of the UNCTAD survey, if you are interested (link to the survey below). The top five countries of the world which are most attractive to foreign direct investment are: China, the USA, India, Brazil and the Asian Federation. France sits at the bottom of the top 15, incidentally.
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Foreign Direct Investment – Italy Not in Top 15
Custom Teaser: Meet Sue Phillips, who moved to Pescia [Tuscany] with her husband and young family nearly a year ago.
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Sue’s story