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Book a flight to Italy immediately—a fountain flowing solely with red wine has appeared in the Abruzzo region, just east of Rome. Installed by a local vineyard, the fontana del vino can be found along the Cammino di San Tommaso, a popular pilgrimage route that runs between Rome and Ortona. And the joys don’t end there: Passersby can drink as much as they like. For free.
Italy will spend billions of euros to rebuild more than 60 central Italian towns destroyed in the devastating August earthquake. The plans were approved by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
American First Lady Michelle Obama is to host Italian Premier Matteo Renzi's wife Agnese Landini during an official trip to Washington next week, the White House said Friday.
Italian Nobel-prize-winning playwright Dario Fo has died at the age of 90, ANSA sources said on Thursday. Fo, who turned 90 in March, died in Milan's Sacco hospital. He was admitted to hospital a few days ago due to lung problems, sources said.
An Italian professor who has worked decades with the Korean language and culture was recognized by the South Korean government this week for her contributions to promoting Korea in her native country.
Premier Matteo Renzi on Wednesday accused the European Union of doing next to nothing to tackle the big challenges it faces. "As (German philosopher) Jurgen Habermas said, the responses of the EU seem characterised by frenetic immobility," Renzi told the Lower House. "After the Berlin, Brussels and Ventotene summits, where we had imagined a significant programme of reforms for the Bratislava summit, we realised that the frenetic immobilism led to little more than nothing. "A banal (concluding) document, the sum of many summaries, a list of good promises". Renzi said that the March European summit in Rome will be a crux moment for the EU's future. "The 27 States will meet in the Eternal City and they will try to imagine the future," Renzi told the Lower House. "It's a dividing moment. It's extremely important, crucial, decisive".
The Foreign Office in London has apologised for school forms in some districts that split Italians into three categories, the Italian Ambassador to Britain Pasquale Terracciano said on Wednesday. He added that the forms, which asked applicants to identify themselves as being of Italian, Neapolitan-Italian, or Sicilian-Italian origin, will be fixed.
Ninety masterpieces, nearly one for each year of his life, have been chosen to illustrate the genius of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso in a show opening October 15 at Verona's AMO museum in the Forti Palace.
Singer and song-writer Claudio Baglioni will perform on December 17 at a live benefit concert at the Vatican for the children of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, and the population of Valle del Tronto, an area devastated by the deadly August 24 earthquake in central Italy.
Pope Francis will appoint 17 new cardinals in November, including three from the U.S. and a number from the developing world, a move that reflects his goal of rebalancing the college of cardinals toward regions where Catholicism is growing fastest, as well as his preference for liberals over conservatives.