British actor Reece Ritchie, starring in the Desert Dancer movie, which opened the Ischia's Global Film and Music Festival www.ischiaglobal last night. com, said that he would really like to make a film in Italy and that he had already begun to learn the local language.
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Repaint the old chest of drawers, repair a broken chair or make a lamp out of a can? All this and much more will soon become available to all residents of Milan: on January 29 a real workshop of unnecessary things will open there. This is a great idea and a great way out for those who can’t part with their favorite interior item or furniture, despite the fact that its life has long come to an end.
Caffeine helps preserve memories. People who consumed caffeine after viewing the images remembered them better after 24 hours. It has long been known that coffee is the best friend of students who have to study at night, as well as people who work for many hours in a row. A new study, published by Nature Neuroscience, found that caffeine (one or two cups of coffee per day) improves long-term memory.
In Los Angeles, at the 71st Golden Globe Award, the best films of the year were named. The names of the laureates in 25 nominations became known last night. The Best Foreign Film Award went to Italian director Paolo Sorrentino for his stunning film “Great Beauty” (“La grande bellezza”).
Twelve pictures praise the beauty of the last winners of the contest of the most charming representatives of the beautiful half of Italy "Miss Italy is constantly evolving, does not stop there, and celebrates its 75th anniversary with a sweep and enthusiasm," - so Patrizia Mirigliani, daughter of the famous founder of the competition who died in 2011
The new book of the Italian journalist Constanta Miriano caused an amazingly stormy and mixed reaction in the country. The publication was immediately titled by the local media as “homebuilding in Italian”. The book, entitled “Get Married and Be Submissive” (Sposati e sii sottomessa), was soon translated into Spanish, after which it simply “blew up” the whole of Europe.
Want to go on a journey into the world of ancient fears and myths? An exposition opens in Rome, combining for the first time sculptures of monsters and fantastic characters created at all times and from all kinds of materials. Unreasonable fears, the depths of the underworld, hidden threats, witchcraft, deadly temptations, a hidden world of water depths, gloomy abysses of darkness ... for centuries, our anxieties and fears have generated many monsters.
The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism provides a unique opportunity for residents and guests of the country to visit art and cultural sites for free on December 28, 2013. Moreover, as indicated on the official website of the Ministry, during the day all state museums will work until nightfall.
At the Conference of Ambassadors (Conferenza degli Ambasciatori) will be presented a project to simplify the procedure for entry into Italy of qualified specialists. Italian universities can not be called the most popular in the world. In the latest ranking of 400 different educational institutions in the world, published a few weeks ago in the Times Higher Education University Ranking, the Italian name first appears only at 221 positions.
Surprisingly, winter came even to Italy. By the standards of the Italians themselves, this year it is more than harsh. However, world-famous fashionistas are not discouraged by the inability to put on their favorite mini-dress. After all, fashion designers had foreseen such an option for the development of events and developed exquisite winter collections of clothes and accessories.
Bus stops have become an open-air art gallery in the Basso region of the Lazio region thanks to the initiative of Creative Tourism. If we recall the various elements of the urban landscape, not only in Italy, but also in any other country, canopies at bus stops cannot be called particularly attractive, at least from an aesthetic point of view.
An ancient tradition and a gesture of goodwill. The day of paid cup of coffee in Italy is celebrated on December 10. An ancient custom was born in the mid-nineteenth century. In Naples, for example, “suspended” (caffé sospeso) was called coffee, which was bought by the wealthier by the poorer citizens in bars. This was done, in accordance with the Neapolitan tradition, in order to provide even the most unsuccessful people the opportunity to appreciate the taste of real espresso.
In Rome, preparations for Christmas and the New Year are in full swing. In almost all the main squares, Christmas trees have already appeared. The last and most important, of course, will be the Christmas tree in the Vatican, work on which is in full swing. On Friday night, December 11, there are few tourists in the Vatican. St. Peter's Basilica closes at 18.
Project investor Diego Della Valle is furious. Five million out of the twenty-five allocated were eventually absorbed by increased VAT. Work on the restoration of the Coliseum and the strengthening of unreliable sections of the construction still began. Diego Della Valle, president of the company and creator of Tod's shoe brand, announced this to reporters at a press conference he organized, and did not hide his anger.
The president of the Slow Food movement (aka “Slow Food”) spoke on November 27 at the International Forum on Food Products and Principles (Forum Internazionale su Alimentazione e Nutrizione). The key idea of his speech was the statement: the townspeople should cease to be consumers, but become co-producers.
In just six months, the Fiat History Center website (Il Centro Storico Fiat) gained more “likes” than the Uffizi Gallery and the Vatican Museums combined. The Fiat History Center turned out to be the most popular museum in the vastness of the Facebook social network, both in terms of the number of subscribers (about 100 thousand) and the number of “people who talk about it” (more than 35 thousand).
49 Italian attractions are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. This means that for 2013 in Italy there are more objects from this list than in any other country in the world. However, as it turned out, historical and cultural monuments, although attracting crowds of tourists, do not bring the expected income to the treasury.