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Telegraph.co.uk
April 13, 2018
Italy has too much history and beauty to bear on your own; you need support from Italians who want to look after you – and they are often such fun. .... close to restaurants, antique shops, botanic gardens and a Russian Orthodox church, Villa Antea is a friendly Italian-family concern, a lovely little find.
Travel+Leisure
April 13, 2018
Despite the show-stopping restaurant fodder, Venetian food isn't all about squid ink pasta: “It is a lot of seafood, which makes sense, but they use a lot of spice because of Venice's days as a trading city. Cardamom, cinnamon, saffron. It's quite unusual for Northern Italian food.” She says the best restaurant'sÃâà...
The Local Italy
April 13, 2018
The meeting was described as an "unprecedented initiative" by the Gruppo 25 Aprile which has long protested against Venice's overcrowding and organized the first meeting of the Mediterranean network. Representatives from similar organizations from Rhodes, Santorini, Dubrovnik, Corfu, and PaphosÃâà...
TAPinto.net
April 12, 2018
This trip will take travelers to a number of classic Italian destinations including Venice, Florence, Capri, Pompeii and Rome. The group will be traveling with Worldstrides, a premium student travel company that provides hotel rooms within city limits, as well as authentic Italian meals. Each city will include aÃâà...
Comicbook.com
April 12, 2018
Overwatch Daddy Jeff Kaplan took to the game's forums to reveal that the Venice escort map will be hitting PTR soon, within "a week or two." Rialto, which a central place in Venice, Italy, will soon be available for all after it is successfully tested in the Public Test Realms, and will be the latest map to yell atÃâà...
MyStatesman.com
April 12, 2018
To most people, the thought of spending three days dining on real Italian food would be an enviable experience. But I'm vegan, and I don't really like pasta, so I wasn't that jazzed about the possibility of eating only spaghetti for three days. But I wasn't going to pass up a chance to explore Venice with myÃâà...
Variety
April 11, 2018
ROME — Leading Italian film company Rai Cinema is producing new works by revered Russian auteurs Alexander Sokurov and Andrei ... sang with the Velvet Underground, won for best film in the 2017 Venice Film Festival's Horizons section and more recently scooped four prizes at Italy's David Awards.
Telegraph.co.uk
April 6, 2018
More than 125,000 visitors visited Venice on Easter Sunday and just under 100,000 on Easter Monday. This isn't the first time someone has suggested charging entry into the city. In 2014, Italy's undersecretary of culture, Ilaria Borletti, told the Telegraph. "Venice is slowly dying of tourism, suffocated byÃâà...
DBLTAP
April 5, 2018
Rialto is a district of Venice, Italy. Kaplan explained that "the team has been dying to do a map in Italy so this was a great opportunity!" ASDASD. Rialto will be playable during Overwatch Archives as a PVE map and take place during the night. Rialto will playable as a PVP map after some time on the PTRÃâà...
WIRED
April 5, 2018
“The idea is quite old,” said Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, a physical oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was among the panel of experts enlisted by the Italian government to come up with a solution. “We have evidence that Venetian engineers drafted mechanical contraptions toÃâà...
The Seattle Times
March 31, 2018
In this image taken on Tuesday, March 27, 2018, the building of Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, which hosts the first ever Casanova Museum on the 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, is seen, in Venice, Italy. He is... (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) MoreÃâà...
ARCHITECT Magazine
March 29, 2018
For the first time in its history, the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 will feature Pavilions of the Holy See representing the Vatican City. Curated by Francesco Dal Co, the concept takes the form of 10 temporary chapels, each designed by a different architect. Foster + Partners, in partnership with Tecno, willÃâà...
Femina
March 24, 2018
It's a well-known fact that Venetians have been in love with art, music and theatre for centuries, and Venice, one of its most beautiful cities, serves as a grand reminder. From taking gondola rides on Venice's signature waterways, feasting on cicheti (Venetian tapas) and sipping prosecco at canal-side bistrosÃâà...
The Sun
March 23, 2018
VENICE is one of the most popular destinations for tourists in the world – but residents are leaving Venice in their droves with just one resident living there permanently per 140 tourists. The city has plans to rid itself of huge tourist cruise ships by 2021, but a leading expert on Venice says that even more hasÃâà...
Atlas Obscura
March 23, 2018
The limb remained lost until the 1960s, when it was discovered during an archaeological excavation in Istanbul. The Venetians brought the rest of the statue—sans the broken foot—back with them to Venice, where it has guarded a corner of St. Mark's Basilica since the Middle Ages. The sculpture is among the large amountÃâà...
Art Newspaper
March 23, 2018
Venice is doomed, says, Salvatore Settis, unless there is a moral revival in Italy. He is a professor of archaeology who has been an advisor on cultural matters to the Italian government and was head of the Getty Center for the Arts and the Humanities in the 1990s. Italians know him from his eloquentÃâà...
New York Times
March 22, 2018
MILAN — In the prelude to the Italian elections this month, the far-right League party did not distinguish itself for rhetorical subtlety. ... Black-and-white photographs of the works displayed in situ — at the Venice Biennale and the now defunct Rome Quadriennale, as well as in private homes and artists'Ãâà...
The Local Italy
March 16, 2018
Further down the Adriatic Coast are one of the greater flamingo's favourite Italian nesting grounds: the Comacchio lagoons. The birds have been passing through these wetlands, the largest of their kind in Italy, for many years, though it was only in the past couple of decades that they started stopping in theÃâà...
Journal Of Commerce (blog)
March 9, 2018
OTTAWA — The National Gallery of Canada Foundation has announced next-step plans for its $3-million restoration of the Canada Pavilion in Venice, Italy. The heritage building is located in the Giardini di Castello, the traditional site of the International Art and Architecture Exhibitions of La Biennale diÃâà...
Los Alamos Daily Post
March 9, 2018
Livy Snyder of Los Alamos has been awarded the highly competitive Peggy Guggenheim Museum Internship in Venice, Italy for Fall 2018. The Peggy Guggenheim Internship Program engages students in the daily operations of a museum by engaging with staff members, educating public visitors andÃâà...
Santa Fe New Mexican
March 9, 2018
The Venice Baroque Orchestra is a major-league ensemble on the international period-instrument circuit, having made many acclaimed recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, and other leading classical labels. The group alights in New Mexico courtesy of the Los Alamos Concert Association,Ãâà...
The Cut
March 9, 2018
Schumer and Fischer appear to be hitting up all the big Italian tourist spots — Piazza San Marco in Venice, endless museums in Rome — and happily broadcasting their adventures on social media. They seem to be having a wonderful time, in a way that makes us sad that we weren't invited but also happyÃâà...
TMZ
March 8, 2018
Amy Schumer and her new hubby are enjoying some love, Italian style during their honeymoon ... or so you'd guess based on the shots of them taking a smoke break. Chris Fischer and Amy are honeymooning in Venice, and stepped out onto their balcony at the posh Gritti Palace. The grins on their faces,Ãâà...
The Local Italy
March 8, 2018
Italian filmmaker Asia Argento (C) and US actress Rose McGowan take part in an International Women's Day march in Rome. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/ ... In fact, this is such a popular tradition that in Mestre, Venice, shopkeepers and residents organized a vigil to try to protect a historic mimosa tree. The city'sÃâà...
AccuWeather.com
March 2, 2018
Weekly wrap-up: Rare snow covers Rome, Venice; Intense nor'easter strikes with fierce wind, rain and snow ... 28, 2018, the Santa Maria della Salute Basilica (Saint Mary of Health) on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy, is covered by a blanket of snow as freezing weather from a Siberian cold snapÃâà...
The Independent
March 1, 2018
The Colosseum, Naples' famous Piazza del Plebiscito and now the Rialto Bridge – the weather may be causing severe disruption to everyday life, but the snow is giving a different viewpoint on some of Italy's most iconic monuments. Venice is currently carpeted with snow, and these spellbinding photosÃâà...
Atlas Obscura
March 1, 2018
Located in the basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (known simply as the Frari church), the heart of Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova is enshrined in a monument that strangely differs from the many other tombs in the remarkable Gothic basilica.
The Independent
March 1, 2018
The Colosseum, Naples' famous Piazza del Plebiscito and now the Rialto Bridge – the weather may be causing severe disruption to everyday life, but the snow is giving a different viewpoint on some of Italy's most iconic monuments. Venice is currently carpeted with snow, and these spellbinding photosÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 1, 2018
Snow doesn't fall in Venice very often, but when it does the sight is quite spectacular, as captured by birds-eye drone footage taken by staff at the Bauer Palazzo hotel. The video shows some of Venice's most iconic sights, from Piazza San Marco across to Cannaregio and beyond, cloaked in snow. Today'sÃâà...
The Local Italy
March 1, 2018
As the 'Beast from the East' continues to sweep across Italy, parts of the country that rarely see snow are covered in a blanket of the white stuff. The result? These incredible photographs. Venice has experienced more than its fair share of extreme weather this year. First, a drought meant several canals wereÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 22, 2018
My medical experience (I'd been a nurse for 45 years) also made me wary of the prospect of negotiating Venice's bridges, a potential source of injury or worse. As a speaker of only basic Italian, I saved local emergency numbers in my phone and made sure I learned the words for “chest pain”, “doctor” andÃâà...
The Local Italy
February 19, 2018
It was a different story in Venice, where another extreme-right group, Forza Nuova, held a rally the same day. Around a thousand people gathered at Venice's central train station to protest an appearance by the leader of the neofascist party, Roberto Fiore. Police moved the FN rally to the other side of theÃâà...
New Zealand Herald
February 17, 2018
Off-season is the best, most relaxed time to visit the Queen of the Adriatic, as Sharon Stephenson discovers. The first thing I do in Venice is the first thing everyone does when they visit Venice — get hopelessly, ridiculously lost. In the snarl of ancient, cobbled alleyways, I blunder into dead ends and wateryÃâà...
Art Newspaper
December 31, 1999
Venice is doomed, says, Salvatore Settis, unless there is a moral revival in Italy. He is a professor of archaeology who has been an advisor on cultural matters to the Italian government and was head of the Getty Center for the Arts and the Humanities in the 1990s. Italians know him from his eloquentÃâà...
Colorado Springs Gazette
December 31, 1999
photo - A woman walks in a flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy A woman walks in a flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, Monday, March 12, 2018. High tides have flooded Venice, leading Venetians and tourists to don high boots and use wooden walkways to cross St. Mark's Square and otherÃâà...
Novinite.com
December 31, 1999
Heavy rains covered the northern regions of Italy, and in the southern regions there is warm weather unusual for the season. In the southern part of Italy there was a tornado. It affected the city of Caserta in the Campania region. The wind turned a truck, pulled out trees and destroyed roofs. Fortunately, thereÃâà...
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