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Tuscany honours late poet
Barberino val di
Pesa is the first municipality in Italy to name its new public
library after Alda Merini, the much-celebrated ‘poetess of the
Navigli,' who passed away last November in her native Milan. ‘We
decided to name out new library after Merini because we, …
Tuscany News
Pisa claims another first
In July, a team of
surgeons at the University of Pisa's medical school made history
with Europe's first robotically assisted kidney transplant. Another
team of physicians there has again made international headlines-this
time for the world's first successful robotically assisted pancreas
transplant. On September 27, using …
Italy News
Pompeii in peril
Domus collapses following heavy rains
Despite being
declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997, the ancient Roman city
of Pompeii has been in a chronic state of neglect ever since. This
neglect and poor maintenance is the culprit behind the collapse of an
ancient domus on November 6, authorities …
Italy News
Trash clash
New garbage emergency as locals continue to protest
Neapolitans
are reliving the same bleak situation of almost three years ago:
tonnes of rotting garbage lining city streets and the surrounding
province. The trash situation exploded in late October when local
officials declared a state of emergency in the southern Italian
region of Campania.
The situation, …
Italy News
Art+fashion,
Baldassari 'blurs' two mediums in Milan
American
conceptual artist John Baldessari's art-inspired creations are the
focus of a novel installation, The Giacometti Variations, on exhibit
at the Prada Foundation in Milan until December 26.
The installation features
nine monumental mannequins inspired by Swiss artist Alberto
Giacometti's iconic sculptures, dressed in colourful clothing and
accessories …
Italy News
Wifi to be liberalised
By next year, Italy
will allow public wifi access to the Internet, says Interior minister
Roberto Maroni. The new legislation, highly criticized for
restricting wifi connections for security reasons and, as a
consequence, blocking the process of modernization in Italy, ‘allows
us to lift restrictions ... …
Italy News
Spring elections?
Political stability
continues to be at risk following recent statements by Italian prime
minister Silvio Berlusconi's former ally and House speaker,
Gianfranco Fini. A founder of Berlusconi's People of Freedom (Pdl)
party, Fini broke with the Pdl last July to launch his own party, the
Future …
Italy News
Brown bagging on the rise
Eating lunch at
restaurants and bars on workdays has long been the custom in Italy.
However, recent statistics reveal that the price of lunch has
skyrocketed over the years. Prices are up 116 percent since 2001 and
8 percent since last year, according to the …
Italy News
Greening Italy
Over 100,000
buildings in Italy now feature a photovoltaic system, according to a
survey conducted by Gruppo Immobiliare.it through its website,
NuoveConstruzioni.it. The survey also showed that the region with the
most buildings using solar-panel systems is Lombardy, with 15,000,
though the southern region of Puglia …
Italy News
Organic at high altitudes
Lettuce, chicory,
arugula, tomatoes, beans, zucchini and cabbage-grown on the roof. A
condominium in Turin's San Salvario neighbourhood is the first in
the city to feature a rooftop vegetable garden where residents can
grow their own organic foods. Located on via Goito, the novel rooftop
garden …
Italy News
Sacred art sold
Seventy items went on the
auction block in a fundraising effort to support church programs in
Milan that aid the poor. Among the items in the lot were ancient
books and sacred artworks, ranging from sculpture to paintings and
engravings, that had been donated to …
Sport News
VIOLA Corner
Frey and Montolivo out The Fiorentina is experiencing difficulties with many players out with injuries. This week, two more players joined them on the bench: goalkeeper Sebastien Frey and midfielder Riccardo Montolivo. Frey has a knee ligament injury that will most likely keep him off the …Sport News
Rink opens in Prato
Gliding into winter
Ice skating will be
available for all ages this winter at the Omniacenter in Prato. Omnia
on Ice, the new ice rink, is 20 meters long and 12 wide and will be
open seven days a week rain or shine: the rink also features …
Sport News
Just for kids
Isolotto opens new playground
A new
children's play area has opened in the heart of Isolotto. On
November 8, Tuscany's health superintendent Stefania Saccardi and
president of Florence's Quartiere 4, Joseph D'Eugenio, opened the
renovated space on viale dei Bambini, adjacent to the Baracche Verdi
senior center.
‘We are very
pleased that the …
Sport News
Feed the scrum
Learn rugby in Florence
Interested in
playing rugby? Learn the game from some of Florence and Italy's
best players. Officials from the Firenze Rugby 1931 and ASSI Giglio
Rosso recently announced a new rugby school, to be located at the
Firenze Rugby 1931 headquarters on viale Michelangelo.
The school will …
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