Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali Wins the 2014 Tour de France
Vincenzo Nibali emerged Sunday as the first Italian winner of the Tour de France in 16 years after a race defined by inclement weather and painful eliminations of other favorites. To some extent, Nibali benefited from the misfortunes of others. Chris Froome of Britain, the defending champion, quit early in the three-week race after three c...
Elezione Comites: la gatta frettolosa fece i gattini ciechi
by Fucsia Nissoli Il D.L. 109/2014 – A.C. 2598 "Proroga della partecipazione italiana a missioni internazionali", in discussione questi giorni in Parlamento, oltre a prevedere il riferimento alle missioni italiane di pace in corso nel mondo ed alcune iniziative di cooperazione allo sviluppo contiene un controverso articolo 10 teso a disciplinare l...
Rare book sells online for a whopping $191,00
By Carolyn Kellogg A are book sold via AbeBooks for $191,000, smashing all the online bookseller's records. The largest previous sale was for $65,000. The $191,000 book is "Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aene...
Uvet Increases USA Presence And Simplifies Access To Expo Services For Americans
Uvet has reached the US market. The tourism’s pole distribution channel, leader in Italy with a turnover of 2.2 billion euro, is extending its sales channels and tools to supply Expo tickets and tourist packages. The Group, led by Luca Patanè, has now uploaded the new website of Uvet USA www.uvetusa.com, its American Company based in Chicago, to di...
Italy celebrates Giro start without much hope for home win
By Gregor Brown Italy celebrates the start of its grand tour Saturday along the Mediterranean coast in Liguria, but in three weeks, when the race finishes in Milan, the odds favor another foreign winner. Sicilian Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) last won the race for Italy in 2013. Instead of returning in 2014, he aimed for, and won, the Tour...
Bocelli crashes wedding with Ave Maria rendition
A young entrepreneur and his new wife were left stunned when the world-renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli turned up and sang during their wedding service. Bocelli had not been invited to the wedding and did not know the couple. He was simply passing the church while on holiday in the Ligurian coastal village of Porto Venere, near the Cinqu...
Notaries publish a guide to help foreigners buy a home in Italy, ask for a loan, and much more...
by Emiliano Sgambato A new online guide has arrived to help the foreigners who want to buy a property in Italy. A simplified process, from purchase proposals to deeds, for those who are unfamiliar with Italian regulations. But the handbook "Living and doing business in Italy," translated in 13 languages (and that can be downloaded for...
Turin to host Italy’s first robotics trade fair in 2016
by Filomena Greco Italian automotive capital Turin will host Italy's first robotics show, in the spring of 2016. The robotics sector is worth half a billion euros in Italy, growing by more than 6% and with a great potential in the development of 4.0 manufacturing and in the transformation of Made in Italy enterprises. The robotics...
Nicole Orlando: record mondiali in Sudafrica
Già nella prima giornata infrange ben due record mondiali. È un buon inizio per Nicole Orlando, la biellese portacolori del Team Ability che, dopo aver ottenuto il miglior punteggio nel triathlon - lancio del peso, salto in lungo e corsa - e nei 100 metri, ha fatto altri due ori nella seconda giornata: il primo nel salto in lungo e il secondo nella...
Italian farmer creates massive works of art in fields for the Jubilee
The farmland Province of Verona Castagnaro, in the north of Italy, is now the exhibition space for a new kind of art. Italian land artist Dario Gambarin enjoys a challenge. Working freehand with just a tractor and plow, Gambarin has created a new piece of art in celebration of the Jubilee of Mercy, which begins on December 8th in Rome. ...
Un torinese fra i 10 giovani più influenti nell’arte
Il torinese Guglielmo Castelli, 28 anni, è stato indicato dalla rivista Forbes fra i primi dieci under 30 europei più influenti nell'arte. Un passato da illustratore di moda per Vogue, Castelli è oggi un pittore figurativo. È stato protagonista di mostre personali a Roma, Ginevra e Amsterdam. Formatosi alla Accademia Albertina di Tori...
Sofia Coppola's La Traviata to set Opera of Rome back on song
by Stephanie Kirchgaessner The American film director Sofia Coppola is to make her opera debut this year with a production of La Traviata, at the Opera of Rome – a star-studded coup for the beleaguered venue, which has long been overshadowed by La Scala in Milan. Coppola, the director of Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides...