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Two of Hollywood’s hottest stars have said arrivederci to the single life.
After five years together, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel tied the knot Friday in a top-secret ceremony at a posh seaside resort in the southern Italian city of Fasano.
In the wake of Europe’s financial crisis, Italy is still going strong. That, at least, is the message that the country would like to promulgate through “The Year of Italian Culture 2013,” a program of events around the United States that will be officially launched — and fully announced — in December.
Take a leisurely stroll through modern day Rome and it will be very difficult not to experience the famous Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s artistic influence. Bernini’s workmanship can be seen throughout the city, from the fountains in the Piazza Navona and the angels on the Ponte Sant’Angelo, to the angel statues set above the Cathedral Petri in Saint Peter’s Basilica.
BANNOCKBURN, Ill., Oct. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Barilla, the number one brand of pasta worldwide, announced the nationwide availability of its specialty Italian cookie line, Mulino Bianco by Barilla.
Adventures in house-hunting: a writer chronicles her attempt to find the perfect home in Italy.
Maybe it was the 5 million euro house. Maybe it was the swarms of cycling tours. Maybe it was just the sense that the gods had other plans for me. But whatever the reason, it was time to say arrivederci to the Val d’Orcia.
ROME – Military police officers in the northern Italian city of Piacenza announced Thursday that they had recovered the head of a more than 2,000-year-old Roman statue likely plundered from Italian soil.
WHAT did the tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the automobile company founder Enzo Ferrari have in common? For one thing, a hometown: the lovely city of Modena, 90 miles north of Florence, in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.
In May, the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy was shocked by two significant earthquakes, just 9 days apart. These leveled homes, damaged historic churches and buildings, and sent hundreds of thousands of wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano, “The King of Cheeses,” crashing to the ground from the high shelves on which they are aged for over a year.
Eataly, the bustling high-end food hall that Mario Batali, Joseph Bastianich, his mother, Lidia, and their partners opened in Manhattan more than two years ago, has reached an agreement to open its second United States store in Chicago, Mr. Bastianich said.
ROME — Marco Tirelli lived the life of an artist from an early age. He grew up surrounded by the children of visiting scholars and artists at the Swiss Institute in Rome, where his father was the manager. The family lived in an apartment in the Institute’s grand 19th-century Villa Maraini and, in view of his precocious talents as a draftsman, the aspiring artist was assigned a studio of his own there at the age of 15.