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di Ruggiero Corcella   Uno studio congiunto tra Unità operativa complessa di Neurochirurgia dell'Istituto Gaslini di Genova e CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center di Montreal ha individuato nuovi geni responsabili della spina bifida. I risultati della ricerca sono stati pubblicati dalla rivista scientifica internazionale Journal of Medica...

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The church of Saint Peter in Portovenere, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, juts out from a rock spur onto the Gulf of Poets, an area that was dear to great artists such as George Sand, David Herbert Lawrence, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.   After his visit here, Lord Byron wrote a poem that begins, "There is a pleasure in the pathless wood...

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Study in Italy is happy to announce that the annual Course of Professional Development for Teachers of Italian, now in its 8th year, will be held in Genoa, Italy from June 29 to July 10, 2015.   The course is comprised of 50 hours of instruction: 40 hours of lesson (Monday thru Friday 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) and 10 hours in four afternoon ha...

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By now an internationally-known event, VinidAmare beckons wine connoisseurs and apasionados to the Region of Liguria to take part in its ever-growing annual programme. It is thus that Camogli hosts Wines to Love/Wines from the Sea for the 11th time, this year from May 23rd-25th. Amidst the town's charming port lined by characteristic pastel houses...

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by Morena Pivetti   Containers boom for La Spezia Port Authority, one of the Ligurian ports, in the first four months of 2015. La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), the number one terminal operator, has scored a 20% increase in container traffic over the same period of last year.   Between January and April, LSCT has managed more than...

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  WTI Magazine #53    2015 February, 6Author : italia.it      Translation by:   As the name says, a "house museum" is a habitation or palazzo that has been transformed into a museum. It could have been the abode of illustrious gentlemen, or of common citizens, site of familiar intimacy or a center of power: that which renders a house museum exce...

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Rex, il mito e la memoria. Il 16 agosto 1933 il transatlantico italiano REX, dopo 4 giorni, 13 ore e 58 minuti di traversata atlantica entra nel porto di New York conquistando il Nastro Azzurro.Ad ottan'anni dalla conquista dell'ambito riconoscimento, CISEI dedica il proprio calendario alla nave passeggeri costruita nei cantieri navali genoves...

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di Antonella Finucci   Se volete vivere un sogno dentro atmosfere da favola, se volete perdervi in mezzo alle viuzze di pittoreschi borghi medievali o, ancora, se volete sentirvi re e regine per un giorno, seguiteci: abbiamo selezionato per voi i 20 castelli più belli d'Italia.   Arroccate su maestose montagne, immerse in scenari natu...

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An Italian company has developed a plan to restore the dialpidated USS Williamsburg, once the presidential yacht of Harry S Truman. Green Yachts, based in Genoa, Italy, displayed the concept in a Dec. 20 spread on the website of SuperYacht Times.   "The proposal is to transform the Williamsburg into a moden yacht while keeping intact he...

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Un collegamento via Skype con il Metropolitan Opera di New York aprirà stasera la quattro-giorni di festa per la 63^ Sagra del Pesce presentata nei giorni scorsi in Liguria e in programma domenica a Camogli, con la distribuzione di tre tonnellate di frittura nel maxi-padellone del Guiness dei Primati di 26 quintali e quattro metri di diametro. &nb...

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