The reasons why Italian infrastructures are appreciated abroad
by Claudia Astarita Italian companies are cooperating with Spanish and Peruvian ones to build and expand Lima's subway network. Salini-Impregilo, AnsaldoBreda and Ansaldo Sts play a major role in the construction site and shine a new light on Italian expertise in the construction field. Thanks to its presence in the most difficult internat...
Religious tourism during 2014 - A record typically held by the Italians
Half a million pilgrims in St. Peter's Square; some 300,000 in the streets adjacent to the canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII – these are some of the details released by the Vatican City press, indicating that the measure of a mass phenomenon is resistant to any recession and that the charisma of Pope Francis is leading to an unp...
Forget pizza & pasta, Italy has lots of untapped opportunities for VCs
Over the past few years opportunities for venture capitalists in Italy have expanded to look like a delicious pizza with all the best investor-focused toppings. For instance, there's a rising tide of tech-orientated entrepreneurs, favorable legal reforms, tax incentives, a swelling pool of highly skilled technical talent and the emergence...
A maggio reazione dell'export nei mercati Extra-UE: Assocamerestero sui dati ISTAT
Buona ripresa a maggio per l'export italiano nei Paesi Extra-UE: nei dati destagionalizzati, le vendite al di fuori dell'Unione Europea registrano infatti la migliore performance da dicembre 2013 (+5,7% rispetto ad aprile, con un valore di 15,5 miliardi di euro), sebbene però nei primi cinque mesi dell'anno si registri un calo dell'1,6% su base ann...
Torna a casa con Expo Milano 2015: sul portale "Made of Italians" sconti e tariffe per gli Italiani all’estero
"Torna a casa, in Italia, con Expo Milano 2015". Questo lo slogan scelto per il portale madeofItalians.expo2015.org, che si rivolge agli italiani nel mondo. Il progetto, che ha già visto l'adesione delle diverse consulte regionali dell'emigrazione tra cui quella dell'Emilia-Romagna, mira a promuovere la prossima Esposizione Universale di Milan...
A theatrical masterpiece: Sabbioneta's Teatro all'antica
Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga – founder of the small "ideal city" of Sabbioneta, near Mantua – summoned Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) from Vicenza to ask him to build what would become the Teatro all'Antica; he had perhaps noticed Scamozzi thanks to the onstage scenery he had created earlier for the beautiful and famous Olympic Theater in his hometown....
Christo’s Floating Piers Will Let You Walk on Water in Italy
By adjoining 200,000 fabric-lined floatable components, Christo hopes to allow the residents of two mainland towns in Italy's Lombardy region to walk on water for a duration of two weeks in June 2016. If approved, the "Floating Piers" would connect both towns with the Lake Iseo islands via an extended, brightly colored fabric dock that would stretc...
10 Things Italians Do Better
Lets face it Italy and Italians do a lot of popular things and often better than almost anywhere on earth. All over the world it really is true that Everybody Loves Italian. Sport Cars like Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Bugati etcetra. Clothes and Fashion such as Versaci, Armani and an unending number of very high end clothing. We take our cl...
Italy’s Culture Ministry plans walking tour along the Appian Way, ancient Rome’s “Queen of Roads”
by Antonello Cherchi The art of walking is something that Italy plans to revive through the preservation and development of important roads in the country's history. First and foremost, the focus will be on the Appian Way, dubbed in the 1st century AD by Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius "Regina Viarum." The "queen of the roads"...
Guinness declares the longest baguette at 400 feet in Italy
A judge from Guinness World Records has certified a 122-meter-long (400-foot-long) baguette baked at the Milan Expo 2015 World's Fair as the longest in the world. Some 60 French and Italian bakers worked nearly seven hours Sunday to bake the French bread characterized by its soft middle and crusty exterior, methodically moving a specially desi...
Airbnb, three properties in Italy among the most desired ones
by Claudia Astarita Everybody knows Airbnb as the most famous website for listing, finding and renting a property. At the moment, the company can offer more than two million in over 34,000 cities located in 190 different countries. Recently, Airbnb released the top ten of its "most wanted" locations, and three Italian properties made the list...
Lemons and “flying farmers” preserve the Amalfi Coast
by Donata Marrazzo The lemon trees that populate the Amalfi Coast harbor a world unto itself: below and above the verdant treetops, a small crowd of agile farmers move like acrobats. They leap lightly from one to the other chestnutwood stakes sustaining the terraced lemon groves overhanging the sea: from pruning time to harvest, it is all a tightr...