Italian Home Design Startup Lovethesign Pulls In $4 Million Series A
by Steve O'Hear They say that the only thing guaranteed in life is death and taxes. But perhaps we should add VCs piling money into furniture and homewear e-commerce startups to the list, not least in Europe. Today it's the turn of Italian home design startup Lovethesign. The company has raised just over $4 million in Series A fun...
Three frescoes stolen from Pompeii more than 50 years ago retrieved by Italy
By Nick Squires A priceless collection of ancient Roman and other artefacts was returned to Italy on Wednesday after a trans-Atlantic investigation into stolen or looted treasures being sold to universities, museums and private collectors in the United States. The hoard included three fragments of first century AD frescoes from Pompeii, the ancie...
Top 25 Attractions & Things To Do In Italy
A motherland of artists and scientists that changed the shape of the world, home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites, and a kaleidoscope of bewitching vistas - Bella Italia! From the staggering antiquities of Rome and the alluring romance of Venice to the rolling hills of Tuscany and the cosmopolitan flair of Milan, the country is...
Energy giants Eni and Enel, or the Italy that can win abroad
by Celestina Dominelli The double success by Eni in Egypt and Enel in Brazil, through its subsidiary Enel Green Power, is good news for the Italian economy and demonstrates, once again, the capability of Italian companies to conquer strategic markets outside of national borders. But it is also an important indicator of the effectivene...
Unilever buys upmarket Italian ice cream brand Grom
by Vincenzo Chierchia Italian gelato once again serves as a role model in the world. Yesterday came the official announcement: the multinational group Unilever has chosen to invest in a company that in the past years has emerged for quality, innovation and strategy. Yes, it's Grom, an Italian gelato maker that has risen to success tha...
8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Pompeii
Here, Roman historian and archaeologist Dr Joanne Berry shares eight lesser-known Pompeii facts... 1) Pompeii is not frozen in time, nor is it a perfect time-capsule The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 caused vast damage – fires were started, rooftops were swept away, columns collapsed. Most of the inhabitants of the town escaped into t...
St. Pio Reliquary On the way to Rome for Jubilee
The remains of Saint Pio - known as Padre Pio of Pietrelcina - were taken from the church in San Giovanni Rotondo, Apulia, and started their journey to Rome. Pope Francis wanted the remains to be moved to Rome as part of the extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. The remains are set to arrive at the Capuchin church of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls later...
Perché Amazon ha comprato l’astigiana Nice, il cloud made in Italy che ha conquistato Bezos
di Giancarlo Donadio Amazon fa compre in Italia e acquista un'azienda di Asti, specializzata in soluzioni cloud. Nice, questo il suo nome, non è una startup. Fondata nel 1996 da Giuseppe Ugolotti, ingegnere informatico 70enne, ha una lista clienti da far invidia ai giganti del tech: Airbus, Audi, Bridgestone, Ferrari, Fiat, fino a...
Exports, Italy has the potential to make a €17.4% leap forward a €17.4% leap forward in the next two years
In the next two years, Made in Italy exports could increase by more than €10 billion for mechanical engineering, and by €7.4 billion for food, just moving the exports flow towards the ten most dynamic countries, without any further investment on product or process but just through the alignment of the foreign portfolio, according to a study. "And...
Prepping for the Palio of Siena
It's that time again. I'm going back to Italy, back to Siena, where I spent six weeks last year at a language school. I plan on continuing my intensive studies there but my first item of business is experiencing the Palio. This became a bucket list item last December. The Palio is the city's historic, traditional, crazy, wild horse race....
"Ostia Antica segreta: era più grande di Pompei"
Scoperta una parte di Ostia Antica fino ad oggi 'segreta', più grande di Pompei. Recenti indagini archeologiche svelano infatti che l'area era molto più vasta di quanto ritenuto. La Soprintendenza archeologica di Roma parla di "risultati eccezionali: nel I secolo a.C, il Tevere non chiudeva la città a nord, ma la divideva in due parti". To...
Restauro completato al Tempio di Portuno al Foro Boario di Roma, grazie ad American Express
E' il "trend" del momento: sponsorizzare la salvaguardia del patrimonio artistico dell'Italia. Ancora di più quello della Città Eterna, dove ogni elemento o scorcio è di per sé un capolavoro di inestimabile valore estetico e storico. Lo sa bene American Express che da tempo si pone in prima linea con attività che favoriscono il restauro di...