News Archive: 2010

17, 2010 February:

Landslides in Calabria and Sicily

Torrential rain in the South has left the small town of Maierato, in Vibo Valentia Province, Calabria, "like a ghost town", Ansa reports. 300 residents were evacuated yesterday after a whole section of hillside broke off and came hurtling down onto the town and this morning the Mayor, Sergio Rizzo, took the decision to evacuate the rest of the town's 2,300 residents. They have been moved to a police college and various sports halls in the Province...

Tourists flock to remains of the day

By dawn on Monday at least 2,000 people were queuing outside Padua's Basilica di Sant'Antonio for the first display of the saint's remains since 1981. The remains have been resting in the Basilica's San Giacomo Chapel during restoration work on the Cappella Dell'Arca and were being transferred back to this part of the Basilica...

Are Northern Italians more intelligent?

Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster [UK], is no stranger to controversy, having argued that differences in intelligence are linked to race and gender. Now he has upset the Italians, claiming that the South of Italy is less developed than the North because its inhabitants are less intelligent...

16, 2010 February:

The art of love

The Mayor of Verona, Flavio Tosi, has given up his campaign to keep the Casa di Giulietta [Juliet's House] supposedly the home of the Capulets in Shakespeare's most famous love tragedy, free of graffiti...

05, 2010 February:

iMussolini switched off

The iMussolini, an iphone application featuring over 120 of Benito Mussolini's speeches in text or audio form or in film clips, has been withdrawn from sale by its creator a fortnight after its launch...

New water museum in Siena

If you have ever visited Siena, you may have wondered why the city has so many fountains...

02, 2010 February:

Escape to Italy at La Dolce Vita

Discover fantastic Italian wine, food, property and design at a four day show in London in March...

29, 2010 January:

Rome revives carnival

The cities of Rome and Venice will be twinned for the Carnival season this year with Rome reviving traditions that have not been seen in the city since the seventeenth century...

Mona Lisa scandal

Italy has witnessed a fair number of gender scandals lately and now the name of its greatest artist may be added to the statistics...

27, 2010 January:

Oldest opera house reopens

The oldest working opera house in Europe, the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, is to reopen on Wednesday following a two-year restoration project involving three hundred workers and an expenditure of £58 million...

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