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New route to Elba,
After 20 years, the port of Cavo on Elba Island again has service. With five runs a day until September, ferries will connect Cavo and Piombino. In the last two decades, ferries to Elba docked soley at Rio Marina and Portoferraio. …
Florence News
En travesti,
Uniting good food, fun and edgy cabaret, Tuscany's first drag restaurant, Bigodini, opened last June. Located in Torre del Lago, an area famous for its gay population, the restaurant is headed by Cesira Bigodini, a well-known cabaret artist from Milan. Enjoying …
Florence News
Youth working for youth
The provincial administration in Pisa is the first in Italy to hire an external group of consultants, aged 18 to 30, to help develop and advocate policies for local youth and children. ‘Our objective is to foster increased cooperation among local …
Florence News
Free meds for allergy sufferers
Tuscany is Italy's first region to offer free medication to those who suffer from persistent allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever. According to statistics, approximately 25 percent of Tuscans under 18 years and about 5 percent of adults in the …
Florence News
New supermarkets
Conad recently opened two new supermarkets in Florence's city centre that sell traditional Tuscan and Italian culinary delicacies. Located on the premises of two cinemas that have been closed for years, on via dei Bardi and largo Alinari, the supermarket chain …
Community News
Networking Tuscany
ToscanaIN events for English speakers
While small and navigable at first glance, Florence is a difficult city for meeting new people, let alone making work contacts. Everybody, it seems, already has his or her circles. This is what president and founder of FlorenceIN, Laura de Benedetto, …
Italy News
Check Your Tires
Free service offered on Italy highways this summer
To better educate motorists on road safety, especially in periods of increased traffic, like the summer months, the firm that manages Italy's highways, Autostrade per l'Italia, and Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli have teamed up for the Safe&Go program.
Every weekend until August …
Italy News
Italy nuts over Nutella
Supporters up in arms over draft law on EU labelling
Jars of Italy's favourite hazelnut spread have graced kitchen tables for over half a century. However, with growing concern over weight and rising levels of obesity, the Europe Union (EU) has decided to revamp food labelling laws in an effort to …
Italy News
Dancing With Jesus
Parish priest at the mixer in first Christian disco
Opened just in time for summer, Italy's first Christian disco is at Bagni San Pietro, a private seaside beach resort owned and managed by the Genoa diocese in the Ligurian seaside town of Arenzano. The DJ, Don Roberto Fiscer, is a …
Italy News
Skip the line
New app gives direct access to top tourist sites
As of July 1, visitors to Italy with an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch in hand can download a new application to buy tickets and the skip the lines for Italy's most popular monuments, museums and sights, including the Colosseum, Pompeii …
Italy News
Hands-On Leonardo
Vinci masterwork in bas relief for the visually impaired
Those who cannot see can now ‘read' the Last Supper with their hands. A bas relief version of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was made so that the visually impaired can also explore and admire the famed fresco. Sponsored by the Fondazione …
Italy News
Fines For Free Helmets
Bari promotes road safety
Riding scooters without a helmet is still customary in southern Italy. Following the success of their 2008 pilot program, the first of its kind in Italy, city officials in Bari have decided to give a helmet to anyone fined for failing …
Italy News
Good Samaritans
Just one month after the National Health Council approved the practice, Italy already counts 10 ‘good samaritan' volunteer organ donors. The donors are willing to anonymously donate organs that they can live without, like a kidney, to a person to whom …
Italy News
App for prayer
Io Prego, an electronic rosary app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, is selling well across Italy, with 13,000 sold on average in a month, 4,600 of which in Lombardy alone. Made and distributed by Eurodigital equipment, the rosaries allow …
Italy News
The World Cup at work
According to a survey conducted by Monster.it, one of the world's largest online recruitment websites, 33 percent of businesses in Italy did not allow workers to watch 2010 FIFA World Cup matches of the Italian national team during work hours. Almost …
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013