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Long free to enter, Rome's iconic Pantheon will start charging visitors to enter this week. These facts might convince you the €2 ticket is worth it. As Italy's Ministry of Culture announced last year, from May 2nd the Pantheon will introduce an entry fee to help cover the costs of maintaining the ancient building which, with more than 7 million vi...

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Both food and fame are in Giada De Laurentiis's family history. Long before she became a star on the Food Network, beginning in 2002 — she has had nine shows, including “Giada in Italy” — her grandfather, Dino De Laurentiis, produced Federico Fellini’s 1954 drama “La Strada” and the 1973 “Serpico,” starring Al Pacino, and also owned an early Eataly...

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Tucked away in the north-west, Gran Paradiso National Park offers a tangible sense of wilderness. Incorporating the valleys around the eponymous 4,061m peak, it has spectacular hiking trails but not the hordes that plague Italy’s prolific Alpine destinations. This is the country’s oldest national park, created in 1922 after Vittorio Emanuele II gav...

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Experts believe there is a new 'Pompeii' under Rome's Oppian Hill, near to the Colosseum, Eleonora Ronchetti of the capital's superintendency said on Monday. "We believe that there could be a new Pompeii under the Oppian Hill, as in many other parts of Rome, but at the moment there do not seem to be the conditions to proceed with an excavation," Ro...

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Italy has a great tradition of quality cinema, and its contemporary film production must be supported as it is an integral part of the promotion of 'Brand Italy' throughout the world. The Italian film industry also has a positive direct and indirect economic and tourist effect and enhances the image of Italy abroad. "Fare cinema" is part of a conce...

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L'appartamento a due passi dal Colosseo, quello a 100 metri dalle spiagge di Ragusa, oppure la villa di lusso che affaccia sul lago di Como. I viaggiatori che cercano una vacanza italiana da sogno, a portata delle loro tasche, quest'anno avranno l'imbarazzo della scelta. Sono ben cinque, su trenta, le case vacanze della penisola premiate nella clas...

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Bebe Vio si è fermata a Roma e si è seduta tra i banchi della John Cabot University per conseguire il titolo di laureata di primo livello in studi umanistici. La campionessa paralimpica di scherma, esempio di grinta e determinazione, l'aveva annunciato a dicembre e ha mantenuto la promessa. Rimane vivo, però, il suo sogno più grande, ossia quello d...

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Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo just outside Rome have come up with a technique for managing chronic pain using light, according to an article published in Nature Communications on Tuesday. The research team led by Paul Heppenstall has developed a light-sensitive chemical that selectively binds to a s...

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L’AMERICA VISTA DALL’ITALIA. Rassegna, promossa dal CSC - Cineteca Nazionale, a cura di Luca Martera al cinema Trevi dal 15 al 24 maggio 2018. «Se Hollywood rappresenta da oltre un secolo gli italiani e gli italo-americani attraverso le "4 M" di mamma, mandolino, mafia e macaroni, altrettanto si può dire del cinema italiano che ha raccontato e rapp...

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I turned 62 last month. But as I licked my way across Rome, I felt the same as I did when I first came to Italy and had my first gelato in front of the Duomo in Milan. I was 22. I’m firmly convinced if I keep eating gelato in Rome I’ll be young forever. Like everything else in Italy, gelato is all natural, as pure as the olives in olive oil and gra...

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