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by Colleen Barry   An Italian company that built Coney Island's latest attractions and an amusement park in a never-activated nuclear plant in Germany on Wednesday unveiled plans to invest 80 million euros ($110 million) for a theme park in Venice.   Antonio Zamperla, whose company specializing in amusement park rides generates revenu...

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An insider knows that the best of Italy can be found in the small cities, hill towns, and villages where elements that we think of as quintessentially Italian abound: rich history, magnificent art, and fascinating architecture.   Join art historian Elaine Ruffolo, a lecturer for Syracuse University in Florence, in an exploration of four such...

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  WTI Magazine #20    2014 Mar, 7Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti   The art of glassmakers from Murano is famous all over the world, and everybody envy us for it. It is an art that goes back to many centuries and reached its excellence in XIX and XX centuries.     On this topic, the venetian "Fondazione Giorgio...

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In the past couple weeks alone, George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin celebrated their wedding weekend in Venice, accompanied by some of their best A-list pals, including Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, Anna Wintour, Bono of U2, Bill Murray, and Matt Damon. In a less opulent affair, Instagram photos told the tale of La...

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La ventritreesima edizione del Workshop di Venezia si è svolta venerdì 8 e sabato 9 giugno 2012 sull'isola di San Clemente.Sono intervenute personalità di rilievo quali Richard Burt (Amministratore delegato per l'Europa e l'Eurasia di McLarty Associates; già Assistente Segretario di Stato per gli Affari Europei e Canadesi); Mario Monti (Presidente...

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I borghi piacciono, e ci mancherebbe anche altro! Ne avevo proposti 5 nel precedente articoli sui borghi medievali da vedere almeno una volta nella vita, ma non sono bastati, i lettori (tra cui probabilmente anche tu), giustamente, ne hanno suggeriti altri e noi di 2night vogliamo dare voce ai suggerimenti che ci sono arrivati, proponendone altri 5...

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by Kerin O'Keefe   Some say no other beverage defines the Italian philosophy of la dolce vita, or the good life, quite like Prosecco. It's long been the aperitivo of choice for Italians up and down the peninsula, and it's now the most sold sparkler in the U.S.—and for good reason: It's refreshing, flavorful, light-bodied, (usually)...

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Well-known etiquette columnist and author Judith Martin comes to Washington College on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. for an on-stage conversation about an Italian city close to her heart, Venice. Martin will appear with her friend Eric Denker, the art scholar and collector who curated the current exhibition in the Kohl Gallery, "Reflections and Unde...

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Italian scientists created a tiny kidney dialysis machine to treat the smallest of babies, and used it to successfully treat a newborn with multiple organ failure. Existing dialysis machines are designed for adults and are adapted for newborns, but the researchers from San Bortolo Hospital in Vicenza said the modifications make them inaccurate. &...

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A new way to move around town, "democratic", eco-friendly and Made in Italy: the new Askoll electric bike eB1 and electric scooter eS1 are already in stores.   The sleek innovative vehicles, the first devoted to the electric mobility entirely designed and manufactured in Italy, stem from the collaboration between Emo design, the industrial d...

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