Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure - the first of 2009!
For the 6th year in a row, Italy is the most-visited international destination for American travelers, according to the US Tour Operators Association.
Rome’s Colosseum will once again host gladiator battles for the first time in 2,000 years. But don’t freak out too much, they’ll be acting. Think of it as Roman dinner theatre, probably without the dinner part.
Lest you think Pisa is the only Italian city with a leaning tower, you need only look around the skyline of Venice …
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Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
For the first time in ten years, Italy is poised to surpass France and become the world’s largest producer of wine. If that’s not an excuse to drink more Italian wine, I don’t know what is.
In a less-coveted competition, Italy leads European countries in the number of illegal immigrants who arrive by sea.
Some women in Naples, tired of having to deal with the injuries that their lovers get from playing with firecrackers, have started a committee that’s declaring the men will have a simple …
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Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
Okay, we all remember those seriously hot pictures of Italy’s World Cup winning soccer players in their Dolce & Gabbana underwear, right? Well, for this year’s D&G skivvies ads, they’ve chosen five guys from Italy’s rugby team. This may mean I have to learn something about rugby.
Cash-strapped Italians have another way to make an extra few euro now that a right-wing political party in Italy has launched a campaign wherein they’ll give €1500 to any parents who name a child after either fascist dictator Benito Mussolini or …
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Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
By now, everyone’s probably heard about the Italy PM’s stupid remark about the US President-elect being “young, handsome, and suntanned” - well, apparently Berlusconi and Obama had a “cordial” conversation recently where they didn’t discuss that comment. More interesting to me in that article is Berlusconi’s continued assertion - every single bloody time he says something stupid - that people just don’t understand his sense of humor. (I’d like to get my hands on a copy of the Berlusconi gaffe list that Corriere della Sera evidently collected. Reminds me of …
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Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
Have you checked out the new WhyGo Italy? The new name and look of the Italy Travel Guide is just over a week old now - what do you think? Browse around and let me know!
Okay, so the Italian woman who was accused of talking on the phone while driving in Rome turned out not to be, so her fine was canceled… But does it worry anyone else that the woman is a deaf-mute and she’s got a driver’s license in the first place?
A Catholic Bishop in …
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Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
My friend Sara over at Ms. Adventures in Italy is this year’s host for the Euro-centric prizes for the fifth annual Menu for Hope - and you Italophiles out there should go take a look at some of the Italy prizes you could bid on. Menu for Hope is a fundraiser for the World Food Program, and each raffle ticket you buy costs only $10. Seriously, if you like food at all, you’ll want to check out the prizes - there are prizes for other regions of the world, too, …
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Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
The recent flooding in Venice caused the city’s mayor to urge people to stay indoors - but many Venetians seem to think this is all in a day’s work when you live in a city built on water.
Of course, the Venice floods also apparently served as an invitation for promotional stunts - like the one where a Dutch wakeboarder (sponsored by Red Bull) surfed his way across St. Mark’s Square.
Hotels in Venice are luring tourists back to the city despite the floods with cut …
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Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
I’m proud to say that yours truly was the featured interview on Wandering Educators last week, talking about WhyGo Italy and why I love all things Italian. You can read the whole interview - plus see some of my Italy photos - over at the WE site.
Seems that a group of players for the Catania team in Italy dropped trou in the middle of their weekend match against Torino in order to block the Torino keeper’s view of the free kick that was being taken. It worked, …
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Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
Oh, my - next time I’m in Rome, I think I’m going to have to pay a visit to the National Museum of Pasta Foods. I mean, what other country but Italy would have a pasta museum? I ask you.
I mentioned earlier in the week that Google Street View Italy is up and running, but it’s only in a few locations at the moment - so to satisfy your need to see other parts of Italy in real-time, here are some webcams from around Italy.
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The murder of 21-year-old British exchange student Meredith Kercher shocked the university town of Perugia, not to mention all of Italy, last year. As of yesterday, the first defendant accused of her killing was convicted.
Rudy Guede, a 21-year-old joint citizen of Italy and Ivory Coast, maintains his innocence despite acknowledging that he was in the apartment Kercher shared with co-defendant Amanda Knox on the night Kercher was murdered. Guede was sentenced to 30 years in prison, though prosecutors had requested a life sentence. Knox, a 21-year-old exchange student from Seattle, and her 24-year-old ex-Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were indicted …
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