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It’s been a surprising off-the-radar but not out-of-the-box destination this summer: Ancona (pronounced AHN-coh-nah), an enchanting Italian seaside town in the picturesque Marche region on the Adriatic coast. Now, thanks to the availability of Ryanair flights between London Stansted and Ancona for £23, visitors looking for an alternative Italian br...

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Football (which we call American Football here in Italy, because for us, 'football' means what Americans call 'soccer') is a sport that, over the years, has carved out a niche following in Italy, with a modest-level league, fairly competitive teams, and a history filled with memorable moments. Football first came to Italy during World War II, when...

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  The world’s first hydrogen-powered cruise ship is Italian With summer arriving, Italy’s love for gelato keeps growing, with new flavors Italy’s history finds new life on TikTok Summer 2025 tourism forecast: foreign visitors outnumber Italians for the first time Italy’s Coast Guard: protecting the nation’s waters for 160 years Moving out later: ho...

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In the port of Ancona, in the beautiful Marche region, floats a pentagonal masterpiece with a surprising history. The "Mole Vanvitelliana" is an artificial island with five sides, built in 1733, a unique architectural work in its kind. This extraordinary building was designed by the famous architect Luigi Vanvitelli with a specific purpose: to serv...

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The Ancona Dolphins have announced the signing of veteran Italian-American running back Mike Gentili for the 2025 Italian Football League season. The Dolphins reached the IFL semifinals this past year after posting a 6-2 regular season record. The versatile 35-year-old, 5’10”, 215 pound native of Leominster, Massachusetts, was a key part of the Sch...

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A few steps from the central streets of Ancona, one of the most beautiful and unique places in Italy – at the base of the white cliffs of Conero, is Passetto, a gorgeous rocky beach that extends for about a kilometer. Rather surprisingly there are also more than 100 caves tucked into the rocky shore here. These caves were excavated in the late 1800...

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The Conero Rivera e Colli dell'Infinito is the ideal place if you are looking for an immersive experience among villages, sea and nature. The various resorts wind between the long coastline and the hinterland, revealing unique places to explore and experience in the round. The beaches, nature trails, and villages show the beauty of this vast territ...

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Quale sarà la Capitale italiana della cultura 2022? A chi passerà il testimone Parma, che, causa pandemia, terrà  in mano il titolo un anno in più del previsto? La corsa è vicina al traguardo: oggi e domani si tengono le audizioni delle 10 città finaliste e lunedì dovrebbe arrivare la decisione del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per...

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Marche is a hilly region in central Italy. The name of the region derives from the plural name of “marca”, originally referring to the medieval March of Ancona where the region at that time was a border or buffer zone between the Church and the Empire around 1100. Urbino, one of Marche’s major cities, was the birthplace of Raphael, as well as a maj...

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A 60-year-old Italian woman did just that during a procedure to remove a tumour from her left temporal lobe. The neurosurgeon at Ancona's Riuniti hospital said the two and a half hour procedure "went very well". His patient is said to have prepared 90 olives in the space of an hour. Awake brain surgery, as it is known, is used to treat some neurolo...

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