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67th Venice film festival, the programme

16 April, 2020
The 67th Venice International film festival organized by La Biennale di Venezia, will run 1st to 11th September 2010 at Venice Lido. This year the programme includes the following:Concorso Venezia 67-Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky (the festival’s opening movie)-La pecora…

Venice Film Festival: Ferzan Ozpetek's "Un giorno perfetto"

15 April, 2020
Closing off our coverage of the Venice Film Festival, we look at Ferzan Ozpetek’s “Un giorno perfetto”, or “A perfect day”, with Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Valerio Binasco, Nicole Grimaudo, Federico Costantini, Monica Guerritore, Angela Finocchiaro, Stefania Sandrelli, Christian Serritiello,…

Advance booking for the 2011 Venice Carnival

15 April, 2020
We’re just about round to celebrating Christmas in Italy, but if you want to go to the 2011 Carnevale in Venice, it looks like you’d best book now if you haven’t already. The Hotel Villa Margherita di Mira is offering…

Laura Pausini in New Year's Eve concert

15 April, 2020
The super successful Italian singer and leading Italian diva, Laura Pausini, will perform a New Year’s Eve concert at Olbia in Sardinia, receiving 400,000 euros for the evening, according to reports. She will perform on a 30 metre stage, equipped…

Italian Christmas recipes: homemade seafood pasta

11 April, 2020
This Italian Christmas recipe is used as part of the initial Christmas toast at the beginning of the meal, and is an Italian seafood, Christmas pasta recipe.The ingredients for four people are: 400 grams of tagliatelle, 300 grams of turbot…

Carnival in Italy: the festival of Carnevale di Tivoli

10 April, 2020
It’s nearly Carnevale in Italy where carnival time marks the start of the period of Lent, 40 days before Easter. Obviously the Venice Carnevale is the most famous, although for Italians, the Carnevale of Viareggio is also an important celebration.…

Easter in Tuscany: Lucca

10 April, 2020
Here’s a weekend package to spend Easter in Italy in Lucca, Tuscany. The San Luca Palace hotel is offering a three night’s stay from April 11 to 14 in a double room with breakfast for 360 euros a head.The package…

Summer in Italy: Brighisella festival

7 April, 2020
Every year the summer brings along an abundance of festivals here in Italy and with all those fairs and festivals for food, music and more you and your family are almost guaranteed an event to go to every weekend! Some…

Hot Italian fashion on the red carpet for Venice festival premiere

7 April, 2020
The 2009 Venice Film Festival opened with Roberto Cavalli designed frocks for Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian diva of this year’s festival, Elisabetta Gregoraci (accompanying Flavio Briatore) and Sandrine Bonnaire.Other Italian celebrities were also at the Lido, including Simona Ventura, Donatella…

Umbria winter jazz festival on show

7 April, 2020
The Umbria Jazz winter festival started yesterday and marks a few days of magic winter time in the region. Orvieto is hosting this year’s winter jazz festival, held until January 2nd, with two major events taking place. The first is…

Venice Carnival 2010

5 April, 2020
On New Year ‘s eve, more than 30,000 people gathered in Piazza san Marco to celebrate and this despite high water and foul weather. Now we all look forward to the Venice Carnival which will start with a spectacular show…

Pope John Paul II beatification in Rome: ticketing scam

3 April, 2020
Pilgrims to the Vatican and Rome for the beatification of Pope John Paul II on May 1st are being asked by Italian police to be careful of any ticketing schemes. They are emphasising that the beatification event is free, after…

Olive oil festival in Cetona, Tuscany

2 April, 2020
The Tuscan olive oil festival of Cetona, in Val di Chiana takes place this weekend from December 5 to 7 after many days of hard work to finish the olive harvest for this year. The extra virgin olive oil festival…

Bernardo Bertolucci to Receive Honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes

2 April, 2020
Bernardo Bertolucci will receive an honorary Palme d’or at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, This important award is given to a talented film director, whose work is authoritative but for some reason or other was snubbed by the jury (The…

Culinary tours, food festivals and wine tasting in Italy

2 April, 2020
There are many culinary tours of Italy that you can do, to enjoy the traditional Italian products in different regions, and today we give you a few names of companies that might help in planning your Italy by taste itinerary.…

Bari: Festival of Saint Nicholas

2 April, 2020
The month of May has marked one of the most famous religious festivals in southern Italy, that of San Nicola at Bari. San Nicola (or Saint Nicholas) is one of the most popular saints in the Christian faith, and the…