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Passengers travelling across Italy by train may face delays or cancellations this weekend as staff at state-owned railway operator Ferrovie dello Stato, which includes Trenitalia, Trenord and Trenitalia Tper, and private company Italo plan to strike for 24 hours – from 9pm on Saturday, November 23rd, to 9pm on Sunday, November 24th. The walkout was […]
Rio de Janeiro: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (local time) held a bilateral meeting with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Brazil. PM Modi stated that their discussions focused on strengthening ties in defence, security, trade, and technology. He remarked, “India-Italy friendship can greatly contribute to a […]
La Bella Vita is our regular look at the real culture of Italy – from language to cuisine, manners to art. This newsletter is published weekly and you can receive it directly to your inbox, by going to newsletter preferences in ‘My Account’ or following the instructions in the newsletter box below. One of the […]
Viewed from the top of the 2,255-metre-high Stelvio piste, the town of Bormio far below looks like a Christmas cake, with pine trees and church spires poking out of a snow-filled scene. The two are connected by a run which, with a vertical drop of 1,010 metres and gradients reaching 60%, is one of the […]
At this time of year, as the leaves turn brown and the forest floor is covered in chestnuts and mushrooms, Italian cuisine takes on a much heartier character. As a general rule, the regional dishes that hail from the northern, more mountainous part of the country are heavier and higher in calories. That’s because of […]
Though it may not be the first country that comes to mind when you think of winter cosiness, Italy tends to go all out for Christmas, producing markets that often rival those of neighbouring Switzerland and Austria. Whether you like sipping on mulled wine surrounded by snow-capped mountains, feasting on pretzels while marvelling at light […]
First introduced in 2014, Italy’s rent-to-buy (affitto con riscatto) scheme is something of a hybrid between renting and purchasing a property, intended to help prospective buyers secure a home without immediately needing full financing. It essentially allows you to rent a property for a set period of time (from three to ten years), with the […]
The three institutes were the only hospitals with consistently high ratings in eight clinical evaluation areas, including post-operative survival rates, hospital case volume and outcomes, and emergency response times, according to the report. Ospedale Careggi in Florence scored ‘high’ or ‘very high’ in all eight evaluation areas, whereas Humanitas and the Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria had ‘high’ […]
La Bella Vita is our regular look at the real culture of Italy – from language to cuisine, manners to art. This newsletter is published weekly and you can receive it directly to your inbox, by going to newsletter preferences in ‘My Account’ or following the instructions in the newsletter box below. As winter starts […]
Maria Sole Giardini was campaigning outside the Italian parliament in 2021 for surrogacy to be legalised when she encountered Giorgia Meloni. The current prime minister’s Brothers of Italy party, in opposition at the time, was frantically drumming up support for a bill to extend Italy’s outright ban on domestic surrogacy by making it a universal […]