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When planning Italy vacations for next year, travel professionals’ eyes may be looking south, thanks to the selection of Matera as a European Capital of Culture for 2019 (along with Plovdiv, Bulgaria). It is the fourth Italian city so designated and the first since Genoa in 2004. The others were Bologna (2000) and Florence, the second-ever European...

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Brothers Alessandro and Giacomo Cavazza are on a mission to open the doors to beauty. Their “Beyond the Gates” project has invited people who love Italy to discover magnificent historical homes hidden past gates in well known (and little known) locations around the county. Thus they share magical places that have harbored treasures of art for centu...

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The Basilicata region of southern Italy is rich in traditions and know-how, but has struggled to market and export its goods. Hence the EU-backed "Mapping Basilicata" project. Some 100 firms from three sectors: food, fashion and furniture, participated in the project to boost the image of local products abroad. For "Mapping Basilicata", seven forei...

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E' stato inaugurato il primo volo diretto di Air Italy (partecipata da Qatar Airlines) da Milano Malpensa per Miami, che segue la programmazione già partita tra lo scalo intercontinentale lombardo e New York. Si completa così l’offerta della stagione estiva 2018 la nuova rete di collegamenti per il Nord America dopo l'apertura del servizio quotidia...

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Summer in Naples is simply magical! As Italy’s third largest city, there is never a shortage of entertaining activities to engage in. Naples has been inhabited since ancient times. This is reflected in the elegant architecture that dates back to the Greek and Roman empires. In addition, the city overlooks the beautiful Tyrrhenian Sea. Naples is a b...

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Italy. The mere mention of it evokes "oohs" and "ahs." Friends, family, even people you don't know, begin commenting about "la dolce vita" the food, wine, beauty, culture and its never boring population.  All these positive references sometimes take us off our guard.  While soaking up all the beauty Italy has to offer, we tend to forget we still ha...

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Each June, Florence Cathedral hosts a unique demonstration of nature's precision matched by human engineering: the passage of the midday sun through a gnomon set into the mighty dome. Unnoticed by visitors for most of the year, the Duomo's gnomon – a device that tells the time of day or year by the way the sun strikes it – comes into its own betwee...

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Da oggi, i passeggeri con passaporto statunitense in partenza dall'aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci potranno effettuare il controllo passaporti in circa 20 secondi, usufruendo dell'innovativo servizio degli E-gate. Grazie a un progetto realizzato da Aeroporti di Roma, dal Dipartimento P.S. - Direzione Centrale dell'Immigrazione e della Polizia delle Fro...

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Ad Aeroporti di Puglia arriva lo statunitense Alexander D’Orsogna, sarà lui il nuovo direttore commerciale della società. L’innesto di un manager di spessore internazionale come D’Orsogna – country manager per l’Italia della compagnia Vueling e con esperienza in Qatar Airways – è un passaggio fondamentale per raggiungere gli obiettivi che Adp si è...

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In a major step forward for the reincarnated Italian airline Air Italy, the airline flew its first ever flight in its new branding from its home base at Milan’s Malpensa Airport to New York’s JFK Airport. The joint venture between Alisarda, the controlling shareholder, and Qatar Airways aims to displace Alitalia, Italy’s current national carrier th...

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