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By Jennifer Edwards  Jessica Bailey left for Italy last week with the University of North Alabama Chamber Choir, but when the rest of the 30-member elite vocal ensemble returns to Florence next week, Bailey won't be on the plane. She will stay behind to prepare for the four-week Operafestival di Roma, a select opera festival in Rome. Bailey...

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by Claudia Baroncelli   Beyond monuments and churches, palaces and museums Italy also boasts many wonderful and ancient bridges where engineering truly meets nature. From the North to the South, Swide has rounded up some of the most enchanting and beautiful bridges across Italy.   There are some spots in Italy where you can truly feel...

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by Chris McHugh The Eastchester Italian American Citizens Club showed off its new look.   Les & Connie Vaccaro and Peter & Christine Telesco pitched in to help give the club an Amalfi Coast/Tuscan Vineyard feel with its new murals on the walls.   Read more   Source: http://bronxville.patch.com  

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The first bionic hand to let amputees physically "feel" what they are touching will be transplanted onto a human later this year. An Italian man who lost the lower section of his arm in an accident will have the hand attached, via electrodes clipped on to two of his main nerves, directly to his nervous system. Scientists say this should let him c...

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Abroad Scout is pleased to invite entries for the Film Spray International Festival, which will take place in Florence, Italy on May 15, 2015. It is not required to attend, but you are all welcome.   Students (especially those who have studied abroad in Italy) are invited to submit a short video between 30 and 90 seconds on this year's theme...

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Castiglione della Pescaia, in Tuscany, is the Italian seaside destination with the best tourist offering in terms of quality and environmental sustainability. The ranking is published every year by the "Blue Guide" of Legambiente (Italy's largest environmental group), in collaboration with the Italian Touring Club, which for 2015 awarded the T...

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di Flavia Gamberale Fraticelli   Anche gli italiani entrano nell'ambito mercato delle connected car. È tutto made in Italy il progetto Smart tyre, nato dalle menti di Arash Golamzadeh Nasrabadi, Alessandro Biondi, Alessio Balsini e Davide Calvaresi della scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa.   La loro startup, Wriggle Solutions, ha infa...

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Customers have dined at the award-winning Tuscan Kitchen restaurant (recently featured on the Food Network) and have sampled and shopped their way through Tuscan Market, the newest artisanal marketplace in New England which opened October 2012.

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Tuscany: For you does that magical name evoke wine? Art and museums? Magnificent landscapes? Classical literature? Romantic medieval hilltop towns? Or maybe all of the above... While nothing can compare to an evening spent in Toscana, on Friday, March 27, you'll find the next-best thing at the Italian Club as we explore the birthplace of the Italian...

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The Board of Directors of ILICA, Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance, is pleased to announce that they will award two 2012 scholarships for a month-long course in the Italian language at UNISTRASI, the University of Siena for Foreigners in Siena, Italy. Airfare, course expenses and housing will be covered by ILICA/UNISTRASI. The course will be...

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