La Gazzetta Italiana

A town toward the center of Sardinia was selling homes cheaper than a cup of coffee

March 2018
A historic hillside town toward the center of Sardinia was selling homes cheaper than a cup of coffee. In an effort to boost the shrinking population of the tiny town, Ollolai, a mini-metropolis which dates back thousands of years, was selling...


Facebook has added a fact-checking feature to articles appearing on the social media site

March 2018
Italy is the fifth country added to the short list of countries where Facebook has added a fact-checking feature to articles appearing on the social media site. Italian fact checkers Pagella Politica, who focus on political disinformation, have...


Italy's illegal, or black, economy is experiencing a great boom

March 2018
While Italy experienced a sure sign of an economic recovery last year, a new report states that Italy’s illegal, or black, economy is experiencing an even greater boom. Confcooperative, an organization representing Italian cooperatives, and Censis,...


Italy's Giuseppina Projetto is now the oldest living person in Europe

March 2018
Italy’s Giuseppina Projetto is now the oldest living person in Europe. Born in 1902 in Sardinia, “the grandmother of Italy” is the third-oldest person in the world today, after two Japanese women born in 1900 and 1901. The 115-year-old will turn...


Italy's Apocalypse

February 2018
For the first time in 60 years, Italy failed to reach the World Cup finals. And, the four-time world champions are being thrashed by the country’s media. Calling the let-down the “Apocalypse,” many of Italy’s newspapers blasted offensive headlines...


Learn Italian at WRHS Cleveland History Center

February 2018
Another session of Italian language classes is being offered at the Cleveland History Center in University Circle. The eight-week courses are taught by native speaker Serena Scaiola and are offered at $100 for members of the Western Reserve...


Italy in February

February 2018
February in Italy is a great time to spend most of your days indoors at museums, churches, shops, and the theatre. Budget-conscious travelers will love the prices of traveling to Italy during this off-season month. Typically, the weather is cold...


February 2018 Events

February 2018
Carnevale is one of Italy’s biggest winter festivals celebrated in the weeks before Lent. The final day of Carnevale is Martedi Grasso (Mardi Gras in French, meaning “Fat Tuesday”), the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Martedi...


An art exhibition closed after experts raised suspicions that the works were forgeries

February 2018
An art exhibition in Genoa’s Ducal Palace last March closed the following July after experts raised suspicions that the works were forgeries. And, art historians have concluded that 20 of the paintings were indeed fakes. The exhibition featured...


Police in Italy and Germany have conducted mafia raids

February 2018
Police in Italy and Germany have conducted mafia raids, arresting 169 people thus far. Assets worth over $59 million U.S. were seized in the anti-mafia swoop. The operation targeted the ‘Ndrangheta crime group who forced German restaurants to buy...


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