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ANSA. Up to August 21st, Tourists can enjoy a moonlit tour of the ancient city of Pompeii. Eight different candle-lit routes cross the ancient town and give visitors an eerie insight into how people lived - and died there. The Moons of Pompeii is organized by the city of Pompeii with the archaeological office of Pompeii and Naples, and the Campania region with additional funding from the European Union. (Red the article)
YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR. In Jamestown, Pa., in rural Mercer County, a stately, red-roofed villa, inspired by those of the Tuscan countryside, is the home of Lago Winery where, reds and whites flow for hundreds of tourists every weekend. The winery includes a stage for live entertainment and an upstairs art gallery. And it will soon feature an oven for cooking wood-fired pizzas. (Read the article)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Just a couple of days after a long-awaited and necessary austerity plan aimed at balancing Italy's budget by 2013, criticism of the government over some parts of the decree has increased among unions, economists and business groups, paving the way for a possible general strike in coming weeks. (Read the article)
NEW YORK MAGAZINE. In Italy the law requires unhappy couples to sit through a three-year legal separation period before divorce proceedings can begin; if the breakup is less than amicable, the process can sometimes take up to ten years. So Italian "divorce tourists" are able to bypass their homeland's lengthy wait times by traveling to Romania. (Read the article)
LA REPUBBLICA. It could be his last show (at 41, the artist declared he wants a career change). The Guggenheim will showcase 130 works of art, coming from private and public collections, from November 4th to January 22nd. Cattelan, the most celebrated Italian living artist is a provocative figure and the show, curated by Nancy Spector aims to provoke by showcasing “All” his art.
ANSA. Originally, it may have related to a celebration of the middle of the summer and the end of the hard labor in the fields, later the Catholic Church celebrated August 15th to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Fact is nobody works on Ferragosto as Italians take it as a vacation day nobody can miss. This year things have changed. (Read the article)
LOS ANGELES TIMES. Famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is set to perform, on September 15th, a free concert in New York's Central Park, which will be filmed for a PBS special. Conducted by music director Alan Gilbert, the show will feature other great stars. The concert is inspired by Bocelli's father whose dream was to see his son perform in NYC. (Read the article)
IL MATTINO. The daughter of Italy's great comedian reacts to the mayor of Alassio's decision to remove the statue from an idyllic park because the actor was from the south. “I want it back and I want Naples, his hometown, to have it,” she said. “True, my dad wasn't from Liguria but Totò is international. I just came back from a retrospective in San Francisco where his movies were a real success.”
ANSA. It was yet another roller-coaster ride on the Milan stock exchange and other European markets today, but at the end of trading Milan posted the highest gains of the continent's main stock exchanges. (Read the article)
ANSA. Renaissance masterpieces, including Raphael's famous Marriage of the Virgin, have been saved by a water leak inside on of Italy's major fine arts institutions. The museum houses one of the most famous collections of paintings in Italy, specializing in paintings by artists from the northern regions of Veneto and Lombardy, and includes Andrea Mantegna’s Dead Christ and Giovanni Belli’s Pietà. (Read the article)