Santa Maria Antiqua: a pearl of art rediscovered in Rome
After thirty years of careful architectural renovations, the church of Santa Maria Antiqua – built in the 6th century inside the Roman Forum – re-opened to the public last March. One of the oldest churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Rome, it is an extraordinary example of Roman painting and Greek-Byzantine art from the Early Middle Ages.&...
The Baths of Diocletian won the Europa Nostra Award
The EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards was launched in 2002 by the European Commission. The Prize celebrates and promotes best practices related to heritage conservation, management, research, education and communication. In this way, it contributes to a stronger public recognition of cultural heritage as a strategic resource for...
Silicon Valley comes to Naples: Apple prepares to open Italian academy
San Giovanni a Teduccio, a downtrodden suburb of Naples, is a far cry from Silicon Valley. The crumbling apartment buildings, the walls covered in either graffiti or church death notices, and the ubiquitous clotheslines hung outside people's windows do not leave the impression that the neighbourhood is a centre for high technology. An...
Girl, 6, who was unable to urinate or drink becomes the first person in the world to have a kidney transplanted in place of her spleen
Italian doctors have achieved a world first by successful transplanting a kidney in the place of the spleen in a six-year-old girl. The child had been on dialysis since birth because of a rare kidney anomaly and a malformation of her abdominal blood vessels. The youngster, who was not named, had been unable to either urinate or drink, a state...
Ban lifted on Italian salami imports to U.S.
Rome, April 26 - A long-standing ban on the import of Italian salami to the United States due to Federal Drug Administration (FDA) rules against cured-pork meat imports will be lifted starting May 28, an announcement by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) said on Friday. "This is a momentous event - one of the most important fo...
Lakers pursuing Stefano Mancinelli?
Ballin Europe: At least three NBA teams are currently puursuing Italian star Sefano Mancinelli: the Toronto Raptors, who are seemingly interested in every European player that comes down the pike; the Los Angeles Lakers, especially with Lamar Odom still in free-agency limbo; and perhaps his most likely destination, the Portland Trail Blazers. &nbs...
Ancient skeletons dug up at Florence's Uffizi
Work to expand the Uffizi Gallery's exhibit space has unearthed an ancient cemetery with dozens of skeletons archaeologists say might have been victims of the plague or some other epidemic that swept through Florence during the 4th or 5th century. Archaeologists and art officials showed reporters Wednesday the excavation at the renowned mu...
Italia-USA: Ambasciata americana, 20/03 ''Self Made in Italy"
Self Made Italy Imprenditorialità come antidoto alla crisi: un sogno solo americano? Young Conference Center - Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d'America Ingresso Via Sallustiana, 49 – Roma Giovedì 20 marzo ore 16.30 L'obiettivo è promuovere un confronto sull'imprenditorialità e l'autoimprenditorialità in Italia, analizzando l'American dream e i suoi p...
L’Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia Phillips incontra gli imprenditori siciliani
Martedì 8 aprile, AmCham ha organizzato a Palermo, presso l'Hotel Excelsior Hilton, un Power Breakfast con Ospite d'Onore l'Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia John R. Phillips, alla sua prima visita ufficiale in Sicilia. All'evento sono intervenuti più di 30 imprenditori e professionisti siciliani, interessati a discutere ed approfon...
Legambiente: è Cala degli Infreschi la spiaggia più bella d'Italia.
È Cala degli Infreschi la spiaggia più bella d'Italia 2014. Il comune cilentano di Camerota vince per il secondo anno consecutivo "La più bella sei tu", il contest di Legambiente lanciato sul web per eleggere la spiaggia più bella dell'estate. È una spiaggia raggiungibile via mare o facendo trekking attraverso i sentieri immersi nella macc...
Naples: Less Garbage, Just As Much to Love
by Amanda Ruggeri The first time I visited Naples, I did not fall in love. I arrived at night, and the darkness of the streets intimidated me. So did the graffiti and the way trash erupted, Mt. Vesuvius–style, from the Dumpsters. I even felt intrigued, but a little anxious, by the loudness of a parade that passed down the Spaccanapoli made...
Ferrari spin-off ‘will preserve Italian heritage’
The rest of the new Ferrari shares will be distributed to group shareholders."I am delighted to have taken this additional step in the development of FCA," chairman John Elkann was quoted as saying in a company statement. "Coupled with the recent listing of FCA shares on the NYSE, the separation of Ferrari will preserve the cherished Italian herit...