Think of Italy and you think of food. Pasta, pizza, wine, chocolate, cheese, prosciutto….the list goes on and on. Is there another country in the world that has such a wonderful and varied list of food associated with it?
Visit Italy and you will want…
Italian Power Company Enel said Friday, August 13, 2009 that it had started up a ground-breaking hydrogen-powered electricity plant that produces no greenhouse gases.
Enel said the 12 megawatt plant, at Fusina in Venice’s industrial zone of…
Finally, an affordable hotel in Venice, Italy. Hundreds of lucky travelers looking for a hotel in Venice found a great deal when they happened on a special Internet offer. A mistake on the Crowne Plaza Quarto D’Altino website offered a romantic four-star…
Chocolate Valley? Wow, how had I missed this on my trips to Italy? I was looking at books on Italy the other day and ran across a place called Chocolate Valley located 40 miles west of Florence, not far from Pisa. The area is so named because it is home to a large…
You walk into the Sermoneta glove store on the Via Veneto in Rome and see a beautiful pair of gloves. You just have to have them. Chances are if they are beige (beige) you will have no trouble telling the sales clerk which gloves you want to try on. But what if…
Venice, Italy known for the water that surrounds and runs through the city is turning to the tap for its drinking water. Tired of trash cans and canals filled with empty water bottles the city government is encouraging residents and tourists alike to start…
From the beaches of Venice to the historic ruins of Rome the Giro d’Italia is winding its way through Italy. Commonly known as “The Giro” the Giro d’Italia is Italy’s answer to France’s Tour de France.
This year the tour has the added excitement…
The town of Lucca, Italy is being accused of “culinary racism” for denying licenses to new non-Italian restaurants. Presumably, the foreign restaurants now operating will be allowed to stay. Lucca located just north of Pisa is trying to protect…
The Paper Moon is the ninth book in Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series. Montalbano is the food loving inspector from the Sicilian town of Vigàta.
Paper Moon finds Montalbano in his normal melancholy mood, this time worried about his seemingly…
The loss of life in the L’Aquila Italy earthquake is difficult to comprehend. When you think about the impact of the earthquake on survivor’s lives you have to wonder how they even start to rebuild their lives after the loss of their families, friends,…
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