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A new rail service will connect Rome with the Dolomites in Italy's northern Trentino-Alto Adige region in a move designed to promote ecological tourism among skiiers and tourists. The Treno delle Neve, or Snow Train, will depart from Rome's central Termini station at night and arrive just over 10 hours later in San Candido near the Austrian border....

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The final stage of the 106th edition of the Giro d'Italia, the cycling world's second-biggest annual stage race after the Tour de France, will conclude in Rome on 28 May 2023. Cyclists participating in the race - which will cover 3,485 km in 21 stages spread out over three weeks - will pass the finish line against the backdrop of the Colosseum. The...

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Margherita Cassano has been nominated as president of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation and is set to become the first woman in Italy to hold this position. Cassano, currently the deputy president of the Corte Suprema di Cassazione, was nominated unanimously on Tuesday by the committee of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), the judici...

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The National Italian American Foundation is pleased to announce its new partnership with Luiss Guido Carli, the number one private university in Italy. The partnership will award two full-tuition scholarships for Italian American students to study at the campus in Rome for the 2023-2024 academic year. The scholarships will be awarded to one student...

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Buonasera a tutti. Thank you, Rector Prencipe for your kind words of welcome. And thank you to your colleagues at Luiss, Vice President Severino and Prorector Marchetti. My warmest regards to Ambassador Zappia in Washington and to Foreign Minister Tajani and Secretary General Sequi. It is a testament to the excellence of Luiss University that such...

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While the Colosseum is perhaps the most famous Roman ruin in Rome today, it is not the only mostly-preserved Colosseum (or oval amphitheater) in the world. There is another Colosseum-like amphitheater in Tunisia. But there were plenty of entertainment venues in Rome to see and explore - the largest of which was the Circus Maximus (even larger than...

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Italy is organising two special golfing events in Rome and Milan this weekend in preparation for hosting the Ryder Cup later this year for the first time. The first event in the "Road to Rome 2023" programme, designed to let people discover golf and to promote the sport, will be held in Rome's Villa Borghese, on Via delle Magnolie, and in Milan's P...

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For the Spring 2023 Semester, the Lasallian Universities Center for Education in Rome, Italy will serve a record 22 college students; the most students since the program began five years ago. Most students are from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois while three students are from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York.  The students live in...

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In Italy, there are typical foods that have been lost to time, surviving only in some village festivals and unknown even a few miles away. There are foods that have become a heritage of humanity, such as pizza, and others that at some point go viral on social media, gaining followers all over the world. Cacio e pepe is one of the latter–a pasta dis...

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Underground tunnels, burial sites, places of worship, hiding spaces. Catacombs have been all that throughout their history. Many cities – the older the better, of course – have some sort of underground networks of passages and chambers, some more famous than others: we know well, in Italy, the catacombs of Palermo, but also the Bourbon tunnels unde...

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