ItalyUpdate

After a particularly warm and sunny September, autumn officially arrives the first weekend of October and the region of Lazio abounds with celebrations of the new season.

Young Neapolitan cake designer Claudia Deb scored a hit at the recent Neapolitan Festival, held at the Italian Embassy in Prague, with her charming range of commestible costume jewellery.

The Mondo Contadino Festival in Valle del Chiesa, Trentino, focusses on aspects of traditional peasant life of the past in the mountain valleys of northern Italy. Visitors can follow an itinerary along the Rio Caino which takes them on a tour of discovery of ancient country trades and crafts.

 

The town of Monte San Giusto (Marche), which styles itself the Town of Smiles, is soon to launch the VII edition of its highly successful Clown & Clown Festival of clowning and volunteer work.

One sector of the Italian economy which has not suffered from the present recession is the luxury market, according to a spokesperson for the 2 nd edition of EXPO LUXE 2011, who claimed that the past year has seen an increase of 5% in the purchase by Italians of luxury goods and services.

Up till the 30 September 2011, the splendid medieval village of Santo Stefano di Sessanio in Abruzzo is hosting an exhibition of important art works lent by the Uffizi Galleries, Florence.

 

After some years of neglect, the splendid archaeological site of Herculaneum, buried along with Pompeii in the Etna eruption of 79 AD, is.....

The city of Cremona has inaugurated what is believed to be the biggest Sikh Temple in Europe.  

560 kms of medieval pilgrim routes covering the territories of Florence, Arezzo and Siena  have been documented online.

The Morsani Firework manufacturer of Rieti, Lazio, triumphed recently at Montreal, Canada, winning the Jupiter D'Or, the first prize in the worlds top pyrotechnic competition: L'International des Feux Loto-Quebec