Riforme: Nissoli(PI)/Bocciato il tentativo di soppressione della Circoscrizione estero
"Oggi, durante l'esame del Ddl di riforma costituzionale in corso a Montecitorio, è stata scongiurata la soppressione della Circoscrizione estera, poiché gli emendamenti che ne prevedevano la cancellazione sono stati bocciati dal voto dell'Aula. Esprimo piena soddisfazione per questo gesto di attenzione che la maggioranza dei parlamentari ha avuto...
Villa Grock's surprising style
Villa Grock, in Imperia, is also known as Stone Circus because it once was home to the very popular "King of Clowns", Adrien Wettach. His colleague and fellow Swiss citizen, Dimitri (born Jacob Müller) once said: "All Grock needed, being the best of all, were a chair and a violin. He was an unparalleled pinnacle of our art". With such a meager set...
The “Made in Italy” food industry generates €14 bn of turnover. Rome asks for more protection
by Giorgio dell'Orefice In Italy, 273 food products are certified as PDO (protected designation of origin) and PGI (protected geographical indication). No other country in Europe can boast such a high number. Adding to 523 PDO and PGI wine labels and 39 geographical indications of spirits and alcoholic beverages other than wine, w...
Throwback Travel: Camogli, Italy
by Andrew Nelson Summer, 1939. The sun shines on beachgoers in Camogli, an anchovy-shaped fishing port located on the Italian Riveria just down shore from Genoa. Despite the sky, there's a dark cloud looming over the village's white-sand beaches. On September 1 of that year, Germany's invasion of Poland led Britain and France...
No prosciutto panic, please: Italian producers respond to WHO meat alarm
By Isla Binnie The home of Parma ham, trumpeting the benefits of a traditional Mediterranean diet, is urging consumers not to get into a prosciutto panic after a warning that processed meat can cause cancer. Italian food and farming groups responded indignantly to the World Health Organization (WHO) report that put cured meats, such a...
6 Movies To Help You Get To Know Famous Italian Men
by Carlotta Magnanini Sometimes it just takes a couple of hours—the duration of a movie—to understand how mysterious mechanisms work, in this case, we mean Italian. In the history of Italian cinema, both past and present (not much has changed anyway), there are a few movies that can offer us a real identikit to give us more insight into th...
Tuscania: Lazio’s lovely lavender gem
Founded by a legendary Trojan prince, occupied since Neolithic times and surrounded by fields of perfumed Lavender, Tuscania is the perfect hilltop spot to escape the summer heat of nearby Rome. Each July the village turns lilac as its annual Lavender Festival brings the countryside into the historic centre. If you've never ventured outside Rome, h...
New Etruscan tomb found in Vulci necropolis
Archaeologists working in the Etruscan necropolis of Vulci (near Viterbo) have discovered a tomb with the remains of a woman who was possibly a relative of a princess buried nearby. The excavation was led by the Archaeological Superintendency for the Metropolitan Area of Rome, the Province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria; in cooperation with the V...
L’emigrazione italiana di inizi ‘900 nel docu-film ‘America’
Debutta il 1° maggio al Teatro Delle Energie, di Grottammare (AP) il docu-musical "America", data che onora la festa del lavoro perché di questo parla lo spettacolo, evocando il grande fenomeno dell'emigrazione italiana di inizio Novecento, quando masse di lavoratori si spostarono per il mondo e soprattutto in America.
Speciale CGIE/ La relazione del Viceministro Archi apre la plenaria: il Governo conta sugli Italiani all'estero per uscire dalla crisi
di Raffaella Aronica Ha un passato da italiano all'estero e non solo nella sua veste di diplomatico. È nato in Belgio e cresciuto in Germania, dove il padre svolgeva servizio presso la nostra rappresentanza. E con questo "spirito" il vice ministro agli Affari Esteri Bruno Archi, che ha la delega per gli italiani nel mondo, ha partecipato a...
Why Italy Could Be Fertile Ground for Deal Makers
by Quentin Webb Overseas buyers should look again at Italy. It is hardly surprising that deal-making is slow east of the Alps. But Italian firms excel in fields from fashion to engineering. The country's parlous state is not an insurmountable obstacle to foreign investment. Foreigners just need to find ways to coax Italy's aging entreprene...
3° concorso "La tua idea per il Paese": Avrai tempo fino al 28 ottobre 2013 per presentare la tua idea
Con l'arrivo della calda estate si alzano le temperature anche in casa ItaliaCamp: più di 300 gli ideatori che, ad oggi, hanno già risposto alla nostra chiamata per gli Stati Uniti d'America caricando la propria idea sul nostro portale (clicca qui) e altrettanti sono i progetti in gestione da parte del nostro staff. Dalla concretezza di ta...