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The Italian government recently came out with a long-term plan for the protection of Pompeii, after several important structures within the archaeological area suffered damage in 2010 and 2011. According to small group tours operator Olde Ipswich Tours, this is good news not only for history buffs but also for Italy tourism, which attracts over 2.5 million visitors on tours of Italy from the Pompeii archaeological site alone.
NEW YORK and FLORENCE, Italy, May 7, 2012, the global leader in the performing arts and lifestyle events management, and Tribeca Enterprises (TE), the parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in lower Manhattan in 2002, announced today Tribeca Firenze, which will bring world-class film premieres to the widely-anticipated Tuscan Sun Festival in Florence, Italy 11-18 June, founded by IMGA's Barrett Wissman in 2003. Legendary performer and 17-time Grammy winner Tony Bennett is the first major celebrity to confirm participation in Tribeca Firenze.
Unbeaten Juventus comfortably dispatched Cagliari 2-0 in Trieste and the title was assured when AC Milan, the only team who could catch them, lost 4-2 to bitter rivals Inter in a match which featured three penalties, a hat-trick for Diego Milito, two goals for Zlatan Ibrahimovic and yet another ghost goal.
ROME—A scattered group of anti-establishment parties, including an anti-euro movement run by a rabble-rousing comedian, have gained ground in Italy's local elections, preliminary results showed on Monday. It was the latest sign that voters across Europe are fed up with austerity measures and their leaders' response to the debt crisis.
The New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators is accepting applications for four $1,500 scholarships to be awarded to four current or future college students from New York on June 4 at its annual Legislative Conference Day in Albany. Applications are due by Friday, May 11.
Mondo Italiano partner, knew exactly what she wanted to do when she conceived of the restaurant — she longed to capture the flavor of the East Coast Italian American food that she had enjoyed during her childhood in Manhattan.
Campaigning for local elections on Sunday and Monday has been marked by a series of incidents that have highlighted the pervasive corruption hindering efforts to clean up the system in the sprawling Campania region around Naples.
"I was going home at lunchtime. It was raining quite heavily and a couple of people in covered motorcycle helmets pulled up, banged on my car window with a pistol butt and told me to stop campaigning and drop it," said Andrea De Chiara, a candidate in the election.
Fuzzy Levane, who as a high school and college star and as a coach and scout for the Knicks was a fixture of New York City basketball for a half-century, died on Monday in Irmo, S.C. He was 92. The cause was heart failure, his son Lawrence said.
America often is described as a melting pot of cultures. Dominic Di Frisco, senior consultant for Edelman and president emeritus of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, believes the nation should be more a mosaic, enabling individual cultures to honor the traditions of the past.
An investigation worthy of a Dan Brown novel has shed new light on the voyages of John Cabot, the Italian navigator and explorer, revealing that he may have had knowledge of European expeditions to the "New World" that predated Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.