Some news from Italy for your Sunday reading pleasure:
- Y’know what happens when you dig for anything in Italy? You find ancient cities. Seriously, this is just crazy cool – renovating a rugby stadium in Rome led to the discovery of a series of tombs.
- I’m thrilled to learn that Florence won the Conde Nast Readers’ Choice Award for best city in Europe – and even more excited to notice that two of the other finalists were also Italian cities (Rome and Venice)! Yay Italy!
- The winning ticket for that gigantic lottery jackpot – the largest in Italy’s history – was purchased in the town of Catania on the island of Sicily.
- It’s good to be the police in Italy – you get to zip up to speeding cars on the highway in a Lamborghini Gallardo.
- Couldn’t make it to Turin during the Olympics a few years back? No matter, the city still has plenty to keep you occupied today.
- Fast food in Italy doesn’t have to mean American-style mass-produced garbage. Milan’s Princi chain is a great example of super quick meals that are made with good ingredients and delicious (I loved Princi when I was in Milan).
- Prosecutors are seeking Italy’s toughest punishment – life in prison – for the trio on trial for the death of a British exchange student last year.
- DoubleTree is going to open its first hotel in Italy with the DoubleTree by Hilton Milan. Y’know, because Milan doesn’t have enough “upscale” hotels already. Or something.
- Two people died in a bus crash en route to a Champions League match between Juventus and Real Madrid last week.
- Italians love kids, so Italy is pretty family-travel-friendly – as evidenced by these 5 family-friendly attractions in Rome, as ranked by Venere.
- Are you in Rome this week? You might want to pop over to the final few days of the 3rd International Film Festival.
- Four Italian mafia bosses might be in jail for life, but they apparently aren’t ready to give up their luxurious lifestyle. They tried to bribe a guard to bring them “caviar, champagne, buffalo-milk mozzarella” and other delicacies.
- Want to permanently proclaim your love to the world in romantic Verona, setting for Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” without committing an act of vandalism and helping restore an old theatre at the same time? Then buy a “lovestone” to be placed on Juliet’s Terrace. I’m so going to buy one of these…
>> And you may have noticed a few changes to the website which were made late last week… I’ll be talking more about those changes soon, but if you haven’t clicked through your feedreader or email to the site itself lately, go check it out and let me know what you think!
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