Custom Teaser: This week we are delighted to introduce Bonnie from Napoli Unplugged. If you are going to visit Naples, check out the Napoli Unplugged blog for a slice of everyday life in the city and the website for up-to-date tourist information. Words by Pat Eggleton This week we are delighted to introduce Bonnie from Napoli Unplugged
A giant advertising poster for Bulgari featuring the American actress Julianne Moore has been banned by the Mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni.
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Julianne Moore poster banned in Venice
Casual bathers between Torre Borraco and San Pietro in Bevagna on the Gulf of Taranto [Puglia] found the remains of a Roman cargo boat two hundred metres from the shore on Tuesday. They immediately alerted the authorities and now experts are examining the wreck.
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Bathers find Roman cargo boat
Italian composer Ennio Morricone [81] is to receive the Polar Music Prize, regarded as the “Nobel Prize” of the music world, on 30th August in Stockholm.
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Polar Music Prize for Morricone
In this photo: Trani’s Cathedral A concert by Elton John in Trani [Puglia] may be cancelled because the Roman Catholic Church objects to his sexuality .
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Elthon John concert may be cancelled
Custom Teaser: The night before you plan to make the salad, soak the mussels and clams in a bucket of cold water with the bay leaf and one half of the lemon…
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Warm seafood salad
An unemployed man from Friuli-Venezia Giulia placed an advertisement on the internet offering one of his kidneys in exchange for €100,000 or a job.
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My kidney for a job
Former President of the Italian Republic Francesco Cossiga died in Rome yesterday at the age of 82.
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Former president Cossiga dies
Custom Teaser: Eat your heart out Siena! Catherine Richards Golini finds that this town in Piedmont has its own palio and a whole lot more besides.. Words by Catherine Richards Golini – Images by Vittorio Ubertone Medieval pageantry, flag waving, beating drums, sumptuous costumes and horses galloping at breakneck speed around an Italian piazza can mean only one thing: a palio.
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Eight days in Asti
Custom Teaser: If you are going to be in the Abruzzo region at the end of August and beginning of September, you will have the chance to see a very special event in Lanciano [Chieti Province]. From Sunday 29th August to Sunday 5th September the historic centre of the town will celebrate the medieval period when fairs were the hub of commerce and the centre of culture for many cities
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Week-long festival in Abruzzo: the Mastrogiurato in Lanciano