Italy came out tops as the most attractive tourist destination in the world, according to the latest poll commissioned by the Italian National Tourist Authority (ENIT) in 18 different countries, citing Italian quality of life, ingenuity and creativity.
The survey, carried out by the international research institute IPSOS, put Italy in the leading position as "the destination the majority of people would choose as a prize for a holiday abroad."
The Foundation Carla Fendi, the principal partner of the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, brought an exclusive touch to the Festival closing ceremony by assigning the Foundation's Prize for Science to 2013 Nobel Prize winners Peter Higgs and Francois Englert and to the Director General of the CERN Institute (European Centre for Nucleur Research) Fabiola Gianotti, for their contributions in the field of physics.
A new exploratory dig just outside the Colosseum perimeter turned up an unexpected cache. Archaeologists found over two hundred Roman coins dating from the 5th century DC along with a large number of perfectly preserved bronze dice.
The Italian post office has issued a commemorative stamp, commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Development, in honour of Carpenè-Malvolti, the founder of Prosecco, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.
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The annual Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, known for its avant-guard performances and ground-breaking presentations, has fulfilled expectations again this year with a new operatic hit – The Minotaur by Roman composer Silvia Colasanti.
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PIEDILUCO FESTIVAL
Piediluco (Terni, Umbria) greets the advent of summer with a week-long annual Festival centred on its lake. The opening evening, on the 30th June, was ushered in with the traditional solstice bonfire, accompanied by the historic night-time procession of boats decorated with flowers and garlands.
The people of the lake will be celebrating the new season all this week with music, dancing and feasting on the shore.
The Festival of Water lasts until the 8 July.
Info:www.festadelleacque.it - proloco.info@gmail.com
One of Italy's most acclaimed gastronomic delicacies, Prosciutto Toscano DOP, travels from Tuscany to New York this weekend (30 June-2 July 2018) to participate in the prestigious Fancy Food Show at the NY Javits Centre. This is the latest appointment in an energetic international promotional drive that has seen the Consortium in London (EAT Europe's Art of Taste) last November and Montreal, Canada, for SIAL Speciality Food Fair in June 2018.
If you are banking on living for over a century, Italy would appear to be the best place in Europe to reach the venerable status of Supercentenarian. According to the Italian National Statistics Institute ISTAT, there are currently 17,630 centenarians in the country, six of whom are verified as living supercentenarians – the title given to those who have topped their 110th birthday.
A scoop for the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo (Lombardy): the Mantegna Resurrection in their collection, hitherto believed to be a copy, has now been declared the original work of the great renaissance master, Andrea Mantegna.
Awards for the best locally produced balsamic vinegar will be announced on the 24 June 2018 during the traditional midsummer Palio di San Giovanni (Tournament of St. John) at the town of Spilamberto (Modena, Reggio Emilia). From the beginning of April, a team of professional tasters has been trying out hundreds of anonymous samples of traditional balsamic vinegar produced by small family-run businesses.
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