ItalyUpdate

The Royal Palace of Turin, known as the Venaria Reale, is now the 6 th most visited sight in Italy, after the Colosseum, Pompeii, the Vatican Museums, the Uffizi and the Venice museum circuit. ....

Botticellis famous and enigmatic painting, known as The Birth of Spring has been given a new interpretation by leading Italo-American researcher Mirella Levi D'Ancona.

As part of the Italian Autumn exhibition, promoted by the Italian Embassy in Japan, the town of Genzano, near Rome, Lazio, laid out a floral carpet in the centre of Tokyo. ...

The Via Francigena del Sud (the Southern Francigena Route), part of the ancient route that took pilgrims from northern Europe down through Italy to Brindisi (Apulia) where they embarked for Jerusalem and the Holy Land, is to be inaugurated on Sunday, 4 th October 2009 at the medieval Cistercian Abbey of Fossanova near Latina (Lazio).

The latest edition to Italys best coffee bars, published by Italys leading gastronomic guide Gambero Rosso, has awarded the coveted first place to...

 Andrew Lloyd Webbers famous musical Cats is about to embark, for the first time, on a six-month Italian tour, with the poems from T.S. Eliots Old Possums Book of Practical Cats translated into Italian.....

The town of Assisi (Umbria region) is hosting the third edition of the International Equestrian Endurance Championship 2009, an event that tests the skill and stamina of riders and horses in a marathon of 160 kilometers, involving six different Umbrian municipalities.

A major exhibition entitled The Style of the Zar. Art and Fashion in Russia and Italy between the XIV th and XVIII th  centuriesâopened in Prato (Tuscany) on the 19 th September 2009 in the Museo del Tessuto (Fabric Museum)..... 

• Dedicated hikers can follow a series of interesting excursions through the tunnels under the Marmolada peaks of Col di Lana, Tofane, Cristallo and Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Trentino region of the Dolomites this autumn. ....

The town of Cervia (Emilia Romagna region) launches the 6 th edition of its European Street Market: Products and Tastes of Europe, on the 18 th September.