Put some Italian inspiration into your garden
by Marianne Binetti Northern Italy reminds me of Washington state — the snowcapped peaks of the Alps surround crystal-clear lakes and the mild climate allows for beautiful and diverse gardens. So I declare the lakes district of Italy the most beautiful place in the world for visiting show gardens. We recently returned from explori...
L'avanzata delle PMI negli States
Le ultime rilevazioni ISTAT sull'export italiano, segnalano come gli Stati Uniti rappresentano sempre di più un mercato di riferimento per le nostre PMI che registrano un aumento delle esportazioni pari al 37,2%. L'Italia è il terzo esportatore europeo negli States - preceduta da Germania e Regno Unito - ma diventa il primo Paese esportato...
Open gates for 380 Italian beauties Saturday and Sunday thanks to FAI
by Lorenzo Zanini Italy reveals its beauty and opens to the public the gates of some treasures that cannot be visited during the year. Saturday, March 19, and Sunday, March 20 the event is the 24th edition of the Spring Days of FAI, Italian Environment Fund. The menu of the initiative include over 900 extraordinary visits with voluntary co...
Santa Maria Antiqua: a pearl of art rediscovered in Rome
After thirty years of careful architectural renovations, the church of Santa Maria Antiqua – built in the 6th century inside the Roman Forum – re-opened to the public last March. One of the oldest churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Rome, it is an extraordinary example of Roman painting and Greek-Byzantine art from the Early Middle Ages.&...
The Baths of Diocletian won the Europa Nostra Award
The EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards was launched in 2002 by the European Commission. The Prize celebrates and promotes best practices related to heritage conservation, management, research, education and communication. In this way, it contributes to a stronger public recognition of cultural heritage as a strategic resource for...
Silicon Valley comes to Naples: Apple prepares to open Italian academy
San Giovanni a Teduccio, a downtrodden suburb of Naples, is a far cry from Silicon Valley. The crumbling apartment buildings, the walls covered in either graffiti or church death notices, and the ubiquitous clotheslines hung outside people's windows do not leave the impression that the neighbourhood is a centre for high technology. An...
Girl, 6, who was unable to urinate or drink becomes the first person in the world to have a kidney transplanted in place of her spleen
Italian doctors have achieved a world first by successful transplanting a kidney in the place of the spleen in a six-year-old girl. The child had been on dialysis since birth because of a rare kidney anomaly and a malformation of her abdominal blood vessels. The youngster, who was not named, had been unable to either urinate or drink, a state...
Ban lifted on Italian salami imports to U.S.
Rome, April 26 - A long-standing ban on the import of Italian salami to the United States due to Federal Drug Administration (FDA) rules against cured-pork meat imports will be lifted starting May 28, an announcement by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) said on Friday. "This is a momentous event - one of the most important fo...
Lakers pursuing Stefano Mancinelli?
Ballin Europe: At least three NBA teams are currently puursuing Italian star Sefano Mancinelli: the Toronto Raptors, who are seemingly interested in every European player that comes down the pike; the Los Angeles Lakers, especially with Lamar Odom still in free-agency limbo; and perhaps his most likely destination, the Portland Trail Blazers. &nbs...
Ancient skeletons dug up at Florence's Uffizi
Work to expand the Uffizi Gallery's exhibit space has unearthed an ancient cemetery with dozens of skeletons archaeologists say might have been victims of the plague or some other epidemic that swept through Florence during the 4th or 5th century. Archaeologists and art officials showed reporters Wednesday the excavation at the renowned mu...
Italia-USA: Ambasciata americana, 20/03 ''Self Made in Italy"
Self Made Italy Imprenditorialità come antidoto alla crisi: un sogno solo americano? Young Conference Center - Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d'America Ingresso Via Sallustiana, 49 – Roma Giovedì 20 marzo ore 16.30 L'obiettivo è promuovere un confronto sull'imprenditorialità e l'autoimprenditorialità in Italia, analizzando l'American dream e i suoi p...
L’Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia Phillips incontra gli imprenditori siciliani
Martedì 8 aprile, AmCham ha organizzato a Palermo, presso l'Hotel Excelsior Hilton, un Power Breakfast con Ospite d'Onore l'Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia John R. Phillips, alla sua prima visita ufficiale in Sicilia. All'evento sono intervenuti più di 30 imprenditori e professionisti siciliani, interessati a discutere ed approfon...