News Archive: 2009: transport and infrastructure
03, 2009 November:
Ancient airport for Agrigento?
Plans for an airport near the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento were abandoned last year after protests about the amount of destruction of natural features that such a project would entail...
06, 2009 October:
World's best drives
The September edition of the National Geographic had a special on the world's 50 greatest drives and we were happy to see that the a drive along the Costiera Amalfitana was included in the list...
24, 2009 September:
Port of call
British cruisers have voted Venice their favourite port in the world in a new survey of the best cruise destinations...
21, 2009 September:
The Venice dentist
A group of dentists in the outskirts of Venice have founded the "Venice Dental Center" and are offering complete dental care packages...
08, 2009 September:
Love's Labour's Lost
August was one of the worst months on record for the Fiumicino airport in Rome. The baggage handling record of Alitalia is so bad that they are now under investigation and risk to have the right to handle baggage removed...
07, 2009 September:
Canal traffic
Venice may have no cars but it has plenty of boats and their number has been on the increase over the past years. So much so that the usually tranquil canals of Venice now at times resemble the more chaotic traffic of Rome or Milan...
26, 2009 August:
Two-ticket hoax
A story published in the Italian press about a woman, Anna Delluci, suing the budget airline EasyJet after check in staff told her she was "too fat" to board a flight has been revealed to be a hoax...
28, 2009 July:
Sat nav blunder
A Swedish couple eager to visit the beautiful island of Capri, an island off the coast of Naples, ended up in Carpi - a delightful but far less glamorous little town in the province of Modena and miles away from any sea...
21, 2009 July:
Waterworks
Venice's gondolas are a symbol of the city, attracting millions of tourists each year to its scenic waterways and now one woman has changed an age old tradition and become the first female to qualify as a fully fledged approved Venice gondolier...
01, 2009 July:
Life in the fast lane
Ferrari has opened its first factory store in Italy at McArthurGlen's Serraville Designer outlet near Milan...
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