News from italy
Pompeii Archaeologists have unearthed an exceptionally rare find
December 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Pompeii archaeologists said last month they have unearthed the remains of a "slave room" in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago. The little room with three beds, a ceramic pot and...
Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi won the Nobel Prize
November 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi of Rome's Sapienza University won the Nobel Prize for Physics along with Syukuro Manabe & Klaus Hasselmann. Parisi, 73, was born in Rome and won the prize for his research on complex systems. Parisi was...
Pope Francis signed for a more sustainable behavior
November 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Pope Francis and dozens of religious leaders have signed a joint appeal to governments to commit to ambitious targets at the upcoming UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow. The religious leaders also promised to do their own part to lead their...
A different way to see Tuscany
November 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Antonio Martini, an entrepreneur and head of the AM Turistic company, is offering visitors to Tuscany a different way to see the country. Martini and his staff are organizing trips that allow tourists to appreciate the territory from an aerial...
Plane crashed in Milan
November 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
A private plane crashed into an empty office block in the northern Italian city of Milan, killing all eight people on board. The plane, which was bound for the island of Sardinia, came down after taking off from Milan's Linate airport. The pilot...
Italy’s Green Pass
October 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italy’s Green Pass, a digital certificate showing that people have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from covid-19, and is required for dining indoors in restaurants, long-distance travel and a host of cultural and leisure activities in...
In future Venice can be visited only in turnstiles
October 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Booking to enter the city via an app, a tourist tax and turnstiles are all closer to becoming a reality in Venice, as its mayor announced last month further details about how authorities plan to make tourism in the city more sustainable. Venice has...
Pope Francis sent 15,000 Ice Creams
October 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Pope Francis sent 15,000 ice creams to prisoners to help them cool down during what has been one of the hottest summers on record in Italy. The ice creams were delivered to Rome’s two prisons, Regina Coeli in the center of the city and Rebibbia on...
Afghan Italian's embassy move to Doha
October 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italy plans to move its Afghan embassy to Doha, in Qatar, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said last month, the latest indication of Western diplomats setting up permanently outside Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover. The...