A japanese couple who were conned into paying €695 for lunch in a Roman restaurant (including a &euro115 tip) have been offered a free compensatory holiday in Italy by the newly appointed Minister for Tourism Michela Brambilla. 35 year old Yasuyuki Yamada has, though, refused the offer, saying that it wouldn’t be fair on Italian […]
Every year in Rimini there’s a huge and interesting conference, run by the Catholic organisation Comunion & Liberation, which attracts international coverage and thousands of visitors. This year’s theme is ‘Knowledge is always an event’, and has attracted a number of high profile speakers including several members of the Italian government (including Minister for foreign […]
The mind boggles – but when the sun is out, and the warm winds are blowing up and down the coast, you need to take your mind off things and relax, and for some people that means going to Aquafan, one of the Adriatic Riviera’s many theme parks (there are so many that there’s a […]
Last year’s Cannes film festival spotlighted Italian cinema with two big films in competition, Paolo Sorrentino’s biopic of Giulio Andreotti Il Divo and the international hit adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s crime book Gomorrah . Two great films that have hadsome of the  international success they deserve. Every year, though, there are plenty of top-notch Italian films that […]
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