Summer is the season of travels and holidays, but also sales time! And there could be no better reminder of your trip to Tuscany than a visit to The Mall, where, from the 7th of July, you can buy great brand products at hugely discounted prices: up to 50% off the usual [...]
Started on Sunday 13th June and valid until 11th December 2010, Trenitalia’ (Italian Railways) summer schedule is rich in improvements as far as High Speed services are concerned, in response to customers’ requirements and market demand.
The Italian “Arrows”, High Speed “Frecciarossa” and “Frecciargento” trains, on which more than 8 million passengers have already travelled between [...]
(ANSA) - May 28 - A cow dressed as a Roman centurion and another wearing the colours of the AS Roma soccer team are among life-size models popping up in Rome’s streets and piazzas for the capital’s first CowParade exhibition.
Herds of the fibreglass cows have been positioned around the city for the now world famous [...]
(ANSA) - Rome, May 12 - Rome is to get its first skyscraper. The 28-floor, 120-metre-high apartment building is set to rise over the Fascist-era EUR district on the southern outskirts of the city, where several other prestige projects including a residential tower by Renzo Piano and a ‘Nuvola’ (Cloud) conference centre by Massimilano Fuksas [...]
The 150 year celebrations started this May 6th and will conclude next year 2011 with 150 years of the Kingdom of Italy. Even Ferrari has created a special logo which appears as from today on the F10s of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso: the three stripes of the Italian flag placed over the dates 1861>2011 [...]
ANSA) - Pompeii, May 5 - This year’s sound-and-light tours at Pompeii promise to be the most spectacular yet. The show will be even more atmospheric, with a great potential for attracting thousands of visitors
Among the novelties of the night-time event, which has been dubbed Pompeii Moons, will be a visit to the so-called Fugitives [...]
(ANSA) - Florence, April 15 - The Uffizi gallery in Florence has become the first Italian museum to go on iPod, iPad and iPhone. A virtual tour of the museum and close-ups of 33 masterpieces including Botticelli’s Venus, Leonardo’s Annunciation, Raphael’s Madonna del Cardellino, Michelangelo’s Tondo Doni and Caravaggio’s Medusa went on the Apple platform [...]
The Turin Shroud, believed to have been the burial cloth of Christ, went on display in Turin Cathedral on Saturday evening and can be viewed until 23rd May .Over two million people are expected to travel to Turin to see it and 1.5 million of these have already reserved their tickets [...]
ANSA) - Pisa, March 25 - Thousands of Pisans and tourists gathered in this Tuscan city on Thursday to be among the first in the world to welcome in 2011. Under a centuries-old custom dating back to the Middle Ages, the New Year in Pisa traditionally begins on March [...]
ANSA) - Rome, - Sophia Loren is playing her late mother in a new TV film to thank her for the hardship she endured to help give her daughter “a fairy-tale life”, the screen legend said Wednesday.
Loren, 75, broke down in tears several times as she talked about La Mia Casa E’ Piena di Specchi [...]
