In viaggio. Ancora Roma per il Giubileo, in versione street food
L'ultimo percorso alla scoperta della Roma del Giubileo è all'insegna dello street, che si tratti di art o food (anche se nell'accezione ampia del termine). ColazioneLa suddivisione dei pasti quando si parla di street food può risultare inutile, ciò nonostante, per comodità, noi ve la proponiamo. Poi ognuno saprà regolarsi. Per la colazion...
Flos buys New York-based Lukas Lighting in US contract sector push
Giovanna Mancini Brescia-based Flos, one of the world's most famous brands in design and architectural lighting, has acquired New York firm Lukas Lighting, which specializes in custom projects, as it moves to expand its contract business in North America, said Flos CEO Piero Gandini. The deal affirms Flos' international developmen...
Tim Cook: "All'Europa serve più coraggio e sulle tasse pace con l'Italia"
di Riccardo Luna "Lei mi chiede se questo non sia il momento peggiore per venire a investire in Europa, con le continue liti politiche, il rischio di una stagnazione economica, le tensioni sui mercati finanziari. Ecco, le rispondo così: quando vado a Bruxelles respiro pesantezza, burocrazia, difficoltà, mentre qui in Italia c'è una meravig...
Italian cheese firm raises $6.5M in Parmesan-backed bonds
An Italian dairy cooperative has sold bonds backed by Parmesan cheese, the company said on Tuesday, a rare example of one of the country's plethora of small firms raising funding on capital markets. Three years of recession have choked bank lending and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government is trying to encourage firms to raise money elsew...
The Italian tradition of “Aperitivo”
Sipping a drink before dinner – i.e. having an "aperitivo" – is as much a well-established as an often neglected by international media Italian tradition. Italian excellent wines and spirits often occupy the front covers of magazines, but the delightful cocktails that are slowly tasted in so many bars and cafes around the peninsula seldom...
Driving like an Italian means living like an Italian – that is, at ease with a certain amount of uncertainty.
Piazza Venezia is not only the very heart of Rome, it is also the very centre of Italy. Literally, all roads in Italy do lead to Rome and are marked by their distance from the Campidoglio and the buzzing piazza beneath it. The piazza isn't as grand as Place de l'Étoile in Paris, but it may be more chaotic. Driving around it, over the slick...
Italian cinema receives worldwide attention
by Jeannine Guilyard The 13th edition of the Italian Screenings, the only annual marketplace event dedicated solely to Italian productions is underway in Bari, located in Italy's southern region of Puglia. Organized by Istituto Luce Cinecittà, 130 professionals from 30 countries are expected to attend. The purpose is to sell Italian films...
11 Things You Didn't Know About the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, with its equal helpings of beauty and folly, is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. But behind that famous tilt is a fascinating history including plundered loot, treacherous subsoil, hundreds of years of engineering missteps and one proud Italian dictator. If you've ever wondered how history's m...
Calcata, Italian town that lost Jesus’ foreskin
Imagine all the casinos of Vegas suddenly bolted shut. How would Siem Reap fair if Angkor Wat were not just down the road, and what would become of Niagara Falls (the city) without Niagara Falls (the falls)? Imagine, then, Calcata's dilemma when the parish priest, one day in 1983, announced that the foreskin of Jesus Christ, which he had kept in a...
A Palermo un incontro con gli imprenditori siciliani promosso da AmCham in collaborazione con Banca Nuova
Si è tenuto lo scorso 20 giugno a Palermo, presso la sede di Banca Nuova, l'incontro "Il mercato USA apre alle aziende siciliane. Strategie a confronto per vincere la crisi", promosso dal Chapter Sicilia di American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, coordinato da Pietro Viola. Quindici grandi aziende siciliane del settore agroalimentare si son...
High-altitude masquerades, parades, and music in spades
Carnival season does not belong to the Venetians alone: it is also a favorite pasttime in the charming nearby mountain villages of the same Region of Veneto. To escape the crowds of the Lagoon city, make your way to the Dolomite Mountains in Belluno Province, and get ready for mystery, fairytales and fun! Here are all the events February to March:...
Riunito Il Coordinamento Delle Consulte Regionali Emigrazione: Focus Su Expo 2015 - Banca Dati Associazioni – Partecipazione Sui Social Network
"La promozione dell'Expo del 2015 all'estero non può prescindere dalla forza e dal radicamento degli italiani nel mondo". Lo fa presente la coordinatrice nazionale delle Consulte regionali dell'emigrazione Silvia Bartolini, che ha riunito oggi a Bologna il Coordinamento con i rappresentanti delle regioni. La pensano così anche i vertici de...