The Last Jeweler on the Ponte Vecchio
More than 16 million tourists descend on this city of 360,000 each year, most making a beeline for the ancient Ponte Vecchio to memorialize their visit with a cellphone held on a selfie wand. As a ready-made postcard, the view of the Arno River from the bridge's midpoint would seem hard to top. And yet, as with so much else in Florence, anothe...
U.S top for foreign investment in Italy
Rome, December 17 - The United States has the highest number of companies and employees in Italy, followed by France and Germany, Istat said Monday. The US had 2,282 firms and more than 257,000 workers in 2010, the statistics agency said, compared to 1,800 and 247,425 for French multinationals and 1,974 and 166,868 for German ones.
The Yoox mastermind tells all
Entrepreneurship is probably difficult to acquire. But some men are just born with the gift. With ideas like milking wildebeest in Africa to how to fit a camera in a phone, Federico Marchetti, CEO and founder of the Yoox group, always knew he was meant to be an entrepreneur. It was just a matter of which direction to take. "I realised I wo...
Italian Confidence Undimmed by Statistics
THE Italian economy has been a laggard for years. In the final quarter of 2013, it registered scant growth of just 0.3 percent at an annual rate, and that was a great improvement. Before that, it had shrunk for nine consecutive quarters. The economy remains smaller than it was 14 years ago. Unemployment has climbed to nearly 13 percent, tw...
A Roma la riunione del Comitato organizzatore degli Stati Generali delle associazioni italiane nel mondo
Mercoledì scorso presso la Domus Mariae a Roma si è riunito il Comitato organizzatore degli Stati Generali delle associazioni italiane nel mondo. Composto – ad oggi – da Acli, Filef, Istituto Fernando Santi, Migrantes, Ucemi e Unaie (comitato promotore), Anfe, Aitef, Cser, Uim, Abruzzesi nel mondo, Faes, Lucchesi nel mondo, Pugliesi nel mo...
Rome ready to welcome “The Innovation Week”
From September the 28th to October the 5th, Rome will be embedded by an all-encompassing debate on innovation, "with topics ranging from Open Hardware to Social Innovation and Democracy, from City Makers in the Collaborative Economy to Open Data and Impact Finance". Experts and leaders in innovation, including coders, hackers, and financer...
The 10 Hottest Maseratis Of All Time
100 years ago this week, the four Maserati brothers opened a small automotive repair shop in the heart of Bologna, Italy. In the decades since, the Maserati brand has experienced its fair share of trials and tribulations, ranging from War to bankruptcy, from incompetent ownership to quality control problems. Through it all, Maserati has ne...
Italy approves €6bn plan to boost broadband networks
Italy faces growing pressure to strengthen its telecommunications infrastructure and digital sector to help improve the performance of an economy that has been in virtual stagnation for two decades. "We are creating a plan to give our country the digital infrastructure, the digital highways like any other European country," Industry Minister Feder...
500km of pistes, fresh seafood at the top of the mountain and breathtaking views of the Sellaronda: Why the Italian Dolomites are this season's must-visit European ski destination
The area itself is a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site and has over 500 kilometres of pistes spread over four valleys: Alta Badia; Arabba; Val Gardena; and Val Di Fassa. One of the skiing highlights is a 42 kilometre loop of slopes around the Sellaronda which offers mouth-wateringly panoramic views of the valleys below. Just as well, as there are...
La mano artificiale in 3D, un successo del made in Italy
di Marzio Bartoloni È tutta made in Italy, usa la stampa 3D, e nei primi test sull'uomo funziona bene, tanto che la sua commercializzazione nel mercato italiano e in quello internazionale è prevista già per il 2017. È la mano artificiale, tra le prime al mondo, frutto della ricerca d'avanguardia sulla robotica dell'Iit, l'Is...
Storia del mio bisnonno emigrato in America nel 1906
di Federica Seneghini Lasciò l'Europa il 25 agosto 1906. Viaggiò in terza classe, come la maggior parte delle circa 1500 persone a bordo della nave. La traversata avrebbe dovuto durare sei giorni. Ci mise poco di più. E il 1° settembre, con appena due giorni di ritardo, arrivò a New York. Con la valigia in mano e i piedi che ancor...
Enchanting inspirations: The 10 muses of Italian cinema
by Jonathan Bazzi Infatuations, incandescent passions, intellectual exchanges and life-long associations with fetishised actresses or those who were conceptual or writing partners: the history of cinema is full of female figures who embodied the role of the muse for directors (and not only male directors). The muse was historicall...