La Gazzetta Italiana
Italy in April
April 2018
Spring in Italy is beautiful. Plenty of sunny days, many with balmy temperatures, offer visitors the chance to see the lovely fiori blooming across the country. Trees lining the city streets are budding and some large city parks open in April....
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
April 2018
Il Vaticano darà in prestito circa quaranta oggetti ecclesiastici al Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York per una mostra incentrata sull’impatto della religione cattolica sulla moda. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination...
April 2018 Events
April 2018
April 1 – Pasqua, Easter. Celebrations all over the country begin the week prior to Easter and continue through Easter Monday. While the days leading up to Easter include solemn processions and masses, Easter is a joyous celebration marked with...
Italian voters opted for anti-establishment parties in March's general election
April 2018
Italian voters opted for anti-establishment parties in March’s general election. In another blow to the European establishment, about half of the Italian electorate voted for populist parties once considered unconventional and extreme. In Italy’s...
Italy elected its first black senator in history
April 2018
Italy elected its first black senator in history. Toni Iwobi, a Nigerian immigrant, is a member of the anti-immigration Lega (League) party. Iwobi was elected in Brescia, Lombardy to the upper house of the country’s parliament. The far-right League...
Italian footballer Davide Astori died at the age of 31
April 2018
Italian footballer Davide Astori died at the age of 31 on March 4, 2018. The captain of Italy’s Fiorentina team likely died of cardiac arrest due to a slow heart rate, sources report. Fiorentina and Astori’s former club, Cagliari, announced they...
German discount supermarket Aldi opened its first locations in northern Italy
April 2018
German discount supermarket Aldi opened its first locations in northern Italy last month. Although the store gets its namesake from “Albrecht” and “Diskont,” the west German brothers who founded it, the store’s Italian marketing campaign sought out...
Pope Paul VI will soon be made a saint
April 2018
Pope Paul VI, who oversaw the sweeping “Vatican II” reforms of the Catholic Church in the 1960s, will soon be made a saint, the Vatican announced last month. The pope put Paul VI on the path of sainthood by beatifying him in October 2014. The Pope...
urkey fined an Italian citizen nearly 100,000 euros
April 2018
Turkey fined an Italian citizen nearly 100,000 euros for trying to illegally smuggle white truffles out of the country. The suspect was caught trying to cross the border to Bulgaria.
La Turchia ha multato un cittadino italiano di quasi 100.000...
Italian villa featured in the Oscar-winning film is on sale
April 2018
The Italian villa featured in the Oscar-winning film for Best Adapted Screenplay, “Call Me by Your Name,” is on the market for 1.5 million euros. The 17th century villa in Lombardy has 14 bedrooms and seven bathrooms and boasts stunning views of...