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Renting a car in the country can be terrifying (like when F1 wannabes creep on your bumper) but also liberating, says Christina Lynch, author of The Italian Party (St. Martin’s Press), who spent four years living in (and driving around) Tuscany researching the novel. Here’s her advice for safely navigating the autostradas.
A paper asked its readers if anyone recognised the boys in my photo. Many people claimed to be relatives, hoping to make some money.
ROME — When the Egyptian Museum in the northern Italian city of Turin began offering two-for-one admissions for Arabic speakers last month, the offer seemed innocuous enough.
After all, the artifacts in the museum, one of the largest collections outside Cairo, originated in Egypt, which is now the world’s largest Arab country.
But in Italy’s heated campaign before national elections on March 4, nothing, it seems, is ever so straightforward. That is especially so if the issue touches even tangentially on immigration.
The Brothers of Italy, a small but vocal far-right party that is a member of the coalition headed by Silvio Berlusconi, took offense at the offer for “discriminating against Italians” and staged a protest on Friday.
The last time Silvio Berlusconi led a national campaign, he was a 76-year-old self-styled rake fighting off charges of having sex with a minor. He never missed a chance to boast of his prowess with women.
Italy’s Arianna Fontana won a dramatic Olympic women’s 500 meters race on Tuesday after a photo finish with home favorite Choi Minjeong who was later disqualified.
Italy is home to many spectacular spring carnivals, from masks and extravagant costumes in Venice to political satire in Viareggio. But one of the most unusual festivals takes place in a small town in northwestern Italy, where thousands gather each February to wage war... with oranges.
The leader of Italy’s anti-immigrant League party has been accused of cultivating “dangerous connections” to the Kremlin and to discredited political figures from southern Italy.
When Giorgia Meloni was searching for a location to launch her campaign for Italy’s general election, she chose the city of Latina, founded by the fascist regime in 1932. The leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy was accompanied by one of her party’s candidates: Rachele Mussolini, grand-daughter of the dictator Benito Mussolini.
The heel of Italy seems to be tip-toeing into stardom. Some have even gone down the ‘Puglia is the new Tuscany’ route, which is misleading.
Initially expected to replace Tim Sherwood at Tottenham in 2014, Allegri would later take charge at Juventus following Antonio Conte's shock resignation. The rest, they say, is history.