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Medieval 'wine windows' are having another moment in Italy
To keep a safe distance from their customers, some enterprising merchants in Italy have revived a Black Death tradition: wine windows. VinePair: In Florence, the need for bars and restaurants to serve...
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Venice flood barrier system keeps city streets dry
A flood barrier system in Venice, Italy has proven successful in keeping high tide water out of the streets. The system has been 17 years in the making at a cost of $7B+. CNN: Saturday was the first...
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Italian police use a Lamborghini to deliver a donated kidney 300 miles in two...
Apparently the Italian police own a Lamborghini, and recently they used it to transport a kidney to a new donor — screaming down the highway at an average 145 miles per hour. They made it from Rome to...
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Italian man skipped work while collecting paycheck for 15 years
A man working at the hospital in Catanzaro, Italy, skipped work for 15 years, collecting his paycheck all the while. He pocketed the equivalent of $650,000 over the period and is among numerous people...
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Archaeologists unearth 2000-year-old marble head of Augustus Caesar
The 2,000-year-old head of Rome's first emperor, Augustus Caesar, was recently uncovered by archaeologists in Isernia, Italy. Francesco Giancola made the remarkable discovery during restoration on a...
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41 tourists who stole sand from Sardinian beaches were fined up to $3,600 each
It's against the law to remove sand from the beaches of Sardinia. Tourists who either ignored the law or didn't know about it are paying the price. Customs police recently issued fines to 41 people who...
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Jerk snatches winning game ticket from old lady
Imagine an older lady in Naples, Italy, playing a "scratch and win" card and believing she had won. She goes to the shop with elated expectation where she purchased it to present it to the kindly...
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Barefoot string quartet—floating on a giant violin—performs Vivaldi in Venice
What an incredible project! I came across this giant violin-boat while scrolling through TikTok and had to know more. This is what I learned, via Reuters: Music lovers in Venice were treated to a...
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Spectacular images of Italian town unintentionally shaped like a person
Centuripe is an Italian town in the hills near Enna, Sicily. It appears to be quite stunning on the ground but truly extraordinary from the air thanks to its topology and layout combined with a...
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Wax Italia: Digging for 45s in Florence and Rome
This summer, I got invited to emcee a wedding reception in Italy for an old friend from art school and his fiancee. I was honored to be part of their union and especially stoked for the chance to get...
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Cheese, Worms and Angels: Menocchio the Heretic
Carlos Ginzburg first published The Cheese and the Worms [Amazon] in Italian in 1976, and then in English four years later. It has now been published in more that 100 languages, marking a reference for...
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There is a beautiful antique doll Hospital in Rome
Ospedale delle Bambole is an antique doll hospital in Rome. It's located near the Piazza del Popolo in a cobblestone alley. The store window features an array of doll parts, and the inside of the...
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Far right wins Italian election for first time since World War II; next Prime...
Giorgia Melonia is to become Italy's first far right leader since the last one ended up swinging by his feet from a gas station canopy in the Piazzale Loreto. Though her party won only 26% of the vote,...
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An Italian town is paying people more than $30k to move in
Everyone has a dream city that they would love to make their primary residence. Whether it's due to climate (political or the actual weather) or an infatuation with the culture, we've all been...
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Birthplace of pizza puts the kibosh on Domino's
In 2015, Domino's tried to take a bite of the pizza market in pizza's birthplace. They attempted to introduce Italy to US-style pizza with toppings like pineapple and barbecue chicken and hoped to open...
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Today is Liberation Day in Italy
April 25 is a national holiday in Italy commemorating the 1945 liberation of Italy from the Nazi-fascist government that held the country during World War II (Wikipedia article here). Apparently, the...
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Mount Etna has its first major eruption in 30 years, and footage is...
Mount Etna enjoyed its first major eruption in 30 years on Sunday, and footage of the busy volcano's spewing and flowing orange lava against the black and white billowing smoke is stunning. (See video...
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Ordinary cyclist cheered on after accidentally taking active Giro d'Italia...
@eurosport When you accidentally join the Giro d'Italia 😅 (via 53x11podcast/TW) ♬ original sound – Eurosport Italy's big multi-week cycling race, the Giro d'Italia, is underway and an everyday cyclist...
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An old Italian tradition of conjuring fictional streets helps homeless people...
According to an article in Atlas Obscura (link here), Italy has had some form of citizen registry since 1864, and then a census after World War II, whereby one's citizenship, and therefore one's access...
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Famously corrupt Italian Prime Minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi...
Silvio Berlusconi–who led three Italian governments in the 1990s and 2000s, was found guilty of fraud and ensnarled in an endless series of scandals, including paying a 17-year-old girl for sex in a...
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