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Campania may be best known for its splendid Amalfi Coast resorts, archaeological sites like Pompeii and Herculaneum, and scrumptious rustic cooking, but it is also home to two of the most magnificent residences in Europe, the Royal Palace of Naples and the Royal Palace of Caserta. Naples was an independent kingdom from the 13th through 19th centuri...

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Le storie belle e di successo a volte esistono. Anche in Italia e anche se difficilmente se ne sente parlare. E questa è sicuramente una storia importante da raccontare. Perché il nostro Paese è pieno di cervelli in fuga, ma per fortuna ogni tanto qualcuno di questi cervelli ha anche l’opportunità di ritornare in patria. È quanto è accaduto ad un g...

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Italy is putting on display a 1st century marble head that an American museum returned after learning it was stolen during World War II from a southern Italian museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio acquired the sculpture depicting Roman Emperor Tiberius’ son Drusus in 2012.  Major Massimo Maresca of Italy’s national paramilitary police art sq...

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Hello, We are doing a North American casting search for the HBO limited series, MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, based on the first book of the acclaimed Elena Ferrante Neapolitan series. The first season will cover the entirety of the first book. Saverio Costanza is directing the adaptation. Need native/fluent speakers in the Neapolitan dialect and classic It...

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Sorrento, Amalfi, Capri: which is the true birthplace of Italy’s most famous liqueur, limoncello? We may never know for sure as there are different stories about the origins of limoncello. What we know is that limoncello has been around for at least 100 years; it is said that, at the beginning of the 20th century, it was customary for the wealthies...

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Hollywood si mobilita per Ischia. Grazie alla potenza comunicativa dei social network, alcuni importanti registi, attori e produttori hollywoodiani, ospiti da anni di una kermesse internazionale come l'Ischia Global Film & Music Fest e, come tali, buoni conoscitori dell'isola verde, hanno voluto far sentire la propria vicinanza alla popolazione col...

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The new featured exhibition at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) highlights Pompeii, an ancient Roman city near modern Naples, in Italy. Having opened this summer, POMPEII: THE EXHIBITION has been giving visitors the opportunity to explore scenes from the city as it was in 79 A.D., experience the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a unique...

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An Italian family of five was “reborn” after all three children buried in the rubble of their home by a 4.0-magnitude quake were pulled to safety Tuesday in a painstaking 16-hour rescue operation on the popular Mediterranean resort island of Ischia. The Toscano family’s happy ending brought cheers from the dozens of firefighters who worked through...

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An earthquake rattled the Italian resort island of Ischia at the peak of tourist season Monday night, killing at least one person and trapping a half dozen others under collapsed homes. Police said all but one of the people known to be trapped were responding to rescuers and were expected to be extracted alive, including three children. One person,...

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Pittsfield, Massachusetts hosted a delegation from its Italian sister city on Friday in an effort to renew an international dialogue on tourism. It’s the 31st anniversary of the partnership between Pittsfield and Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy. Mayor Linda Tyer welcomed the Cava de’ Tirreni delegation on Friday at city hall. Mayor Vincenzo Servalli greete...

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