The Best Hotels in Italy are in Sorrento and Umbria
In order to help tourists planning a trip to Italy, Trivago.it, one of the world's largest hotel search website, has recently released the new rankings related to hotels online reputations.Among Italian regions, the best one for hospitality standards is Umbria, while among cities Sorrento gained the gold. While Umbria was followed by other...
World War II history tour highlights US campaign in Italy
The personalities, battlefields and invasion locations of Italy come to life during Alpventures WW II "Battleground Italy" Tour. The sites of the battles and amphibious invasions aren't as widely known as the US battles in France and in the Pacific during WW II, but they were equally as ferocious and important in the final outcome of the w...
New MA in Food Studies at The American University of Rome
by Maria Grazia Quieti Dear friends and colleagues, I am pleased to announce that we have a new US-accredited MA in Food Studies at The American University of Rome starting in the fall of 2015. The M.A. has a duration of 15 months; it consists of 36 credits (30 for course work and 6 for the thesis). The M.A. is intended for stude...
Samsung to donate €600,000 to the Gallerie dell’Accademia to bring new Venetian treasures to light
by Barbara Ganz Samsung and Venetian Heritage Foundation will provide €600,000 for the construction of the "Nuovi Grandi Gallerie" (New Large Galleries) at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. The new galleries will be located in the ground floor of the Accademia building and will showcase artwork that has never been exhibited to the pub...
Grain Muscle, an Italian vegetable meat to be presented at Expo 2015
Instead of the Riace Bronzes, Calabria will send the "vegetal" Muscle to Expo 2015 as its landmark and regional pride. Enzo Marascio – Italian, 64 years old from a small village in Calabria – has invented a vegetable meat-like product that can make the difference in a lot of fields. Named "Grain Muscle", this brilliant innovation, not...
Cresce La Voglia Del Made In Italy, Le Ricerche Google Segnano Un +22% Negli Ultimi 3 Anni
Il marchio Italia ha visto crescere le ricerche su Google, negli ultimi tre anni, del 22%, restando un punto di forza nel Mondo, sinonimo di creatività, qualità e bellezza. Lo rileva il rapporto Italia - Geografie del nuovo "made in Italy" di Fondazione Symbola, Unioncamere e Fondazione Edison, presentato, oggi, a Treia (Macerata) nella sessio...
Sangiovese by many other names could taste as savory
Americans love to visit Italy, especially Tuscany, and one of the reasons is the grape called sangiovese. Best known when made into the red wine called Chianti, it is called "the defining grape of Italy." It has been both the region's boon and its bane. Infinitely malleable, it is so familiar to centuries of Italian growers that they...
36 Hours in Bologna, Italy
by Evan Rail Scrappy, scruffy Bologna could easily coast on its history, if not just on its culinary history. Home to one of the world's oldest universities, this northern Italian city has contributed dozens of classic recipes and foods to the repertory of Italian cooking, including tortellini, tagliatelle and mortadella — the cold cut who...
Colosseum features in logo of Rome bid for 2024 Olympics
A design of the Colosseum in the colors of the Italian flag has been chosen as the logo of Rome's bid for the 2024 Olympics. The logo was presented Monday at a ceremony in the Italian capital in front of 2,500 schoolchildren, as well as current and former Italian Olympic champions. The logo features the Colosseum fading into a running tra...
The Ara Pacis: Roma sub specie aeternitatis
The Ara Pacis Augustae ("Altar of Augustean Peace") in Rome is a marble monument that the Senate had built in honor of the Roman goddess of peace, Pax, only a handful of years after Augustus had returned from his successes in Hispania and Gaul in 13 BC. The beautiful altar was meant to celebrate what seemed like the beginning of an endless time of...
Transatlantici: il design italiano che attraversava l’oceano
Di Daniela Tanzj e Andrea Bentivegna Le trentuno persone che quel 4 giugno salirono a bordo della motonave Sicilia non si rendevano certamente conto di essere solo i primi ad avventurarsi in quella traversata che di lì a poco avrebbero tentato diversi milioni di emigranti diretti sull'altra sponda dell'oceano. Quel piccolo bastimento impiegò ben...
Clean energy an ever growing business, renewables account for 35% of Italian market
by Elena Comelli Clean energy is a fast-growing market which offers a lot of room to new companies, despite competition from low oil prices. At a global level, renewable energy sources in 2015 reached a new record, with over €290 billion invested globally (up 21% on 2014), more than double the €130 billion invested in fossil fuels. In...