Easier Italian visas for investors, employees, professionals and researchers moving to the country
by Alessandro Martinelli and Antonio Tomassini The new Italian Budget Law provides a series of incentives related to the entry and residence visas for those intending to invest in Italy, as well as an improvement of the tax regime for employees transferring their residence in Italy, increasing the country's fiscal appeal and extending the...
Letizia Moratti ha incontrato il Board di AmCham
Lunedì 10 dicembre 2012 la Dott.ssa Letizia Moratti, in qualità di Presidente dell'Associazione Friends of San Patrignano, ha incontrato i membri del Board of Directors di AmCham per presentare il progetto "Barrique, la terza vita del legno". Si tratta di un road show negli Stati Uniti, con un calendario che include oltre 100 iniziative tra manife...
Da Bari a Napoli, Roma e Pisa, Italiani di Frontiera lancia nelle Università il Silicon Valley Study Tour
Storie di talento, ospiti e idee d'ispirazione: un piccolo assaggio di Silicon Valley in alcune università italiane, fra personaggi e storie d'innovazione e una prospettiva concreta: partire il prossimo anno alla scoperta della culla mondiale dell'innovazione con il Silicon Valley Study Tour (nel video due giovani rimasti in California dopo un rece...
5 Italy Travel Trends for 2014
Here are five Italy travel trends to keep in mind when booking your trip to Italy in 2014:1. The Pope Francis Effect: Rome is the place to be these days. Tourism was up 5% in the Eternal City in 2013 with a total of 12.6 million tourists visiting Rome in 2013. At least half of these visitors showed up to see the new Pope Francis and tourism offici...
Accolto dal Governo un Odg della deputata Fucsia FitzGerald Nissoli (PI) sul coinvolgimento dell’associazionismo italiano all’estero nella promozione del made in Italy
Oggi, nell'ambito del dibattito sugli ordini del giorno sulla "Conversione in legge del decreto-legge 12 settembre 2014, n. 133, recante misure urgenti per l'apertura dei cantieri, la realizzazione delle opere pubbliche, la digitalizzazione del Paese, la semplificazione burocratica, l'emergenza del dissesto idrogeologico e per la ripresa delle atti...
Lo startupper con la passione della moda che fonda l’impero di e-commerce Yoox
Un tranquillo ragazzo di provincia nato a Ravenna ha costruito la Amazon del mondo della moda. Federico Marchetti, 45 anni, "The Geek of Chic" – come l'ha incoronato The New Yorker in un lungo profilo – è il fondatore di YOOX, uno dei pochi giganti Internet nati in Europa: vende moda online a clienti in 100 Paesi (456 milioni di euro di fatturato 2...
Art cops make biggest-ever seizure of looted works
Italian art police on Wednesday made their biggest-ever single seizure of looted works, more than 5,000 archaeological finds including Ancient Greek statues, amphorae, vases and drinking cups. The finest piece was a 6th-century BC Corinthian kylix with black figures showing the myth of Theseus, the hero who slew the minotaur. The haul was...
Welcome Armonia Italy, a new private equity fund focusing on Made in Italy
Financial services company GWM Group has set up a new private equity fund, Armonia Italy, to invest in "Made in Italy" businesses with an investment capacity of €700 million euro, putting itself at the top of the major Italian private equity funds in direct competition with Clessidra and Investindustrial. "We decided to launch this initiative in p...
Veneto’s aristocratic villas open their doors to drama, music, dance and food tasting
by Chiara Beghelli After the end of the Republic of Venice, conquered by Napoleon in 1797, luxurious villas owned by the city's wealthy aristocrats in the hinterland of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia fell into disrepair. It was not until the 1950s that an exhibition brought their dilapidated state of disrepair to national attent...
Visit a crumbling medieval town that’s slowly falling off a cliff
by Frank Carlson There is something oddly attractive about a place slated to disappear, and at first glance, Civita di Bagnoregio is just that: a charming medieval town in central Italy that, thanks to its geology, has been slowly crumbling for thousands of years. The Etruscans chose the site for its high ground in the 6th century B.C., b...
Why Don’t Italians Break Long Pasta Before Cooking It?
There is no physical of chemical change in breaking pasta. It does make it easier to cook, because you don't have spaghetti sticking out of your pot, but let me explain this from the double viewpoint of being both Italian and a cook. Is it just tradition? Definitely not. Pasta is a big part of Italian cuisine and one of the aspects we...
How Italy has become a leader for energy efficiency
When discussing about virtuous countries for energy efficiency standards, Germany and Japan are often quoted as examples of developed countries that have succeeded in upgrading industrial gear in an environmental-friendly way. However, the latest International Energy Efficiency Scorecard published by the nonprofit American Council for an E...