Apr 10th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
Wouldn't you know it, someone else happens to be taking that cheesy staged photo in the same spot that you're trying to take it. In fact, it's happening all over.
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Fact vs. Fiction: The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Apr 10th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
Wouldn't you know it, someone else happens to be taking that cheesy staged photo in the same spot that you're trying to take it. In fact, it's happening all over.
Next: Angkor Wat, Cambodia>>
[flickr images via harshlight and roberto_venturini] ...Luxury Travel: Ferragamo family launches limited edition collectibles at Lungarno Collection hotels
Mar 9th, 2012 at 3:00PM: The Italian hospitality group Lungarno Collection, owned in part by the Ferragamo family, is stepping up their branded offerings with a new collection of "Ferragamo Creations," Hotels magazine reports.
Limited-edition pieces will include bespoke items originally designed for celebrities, including ballet flats designed for Audrey Hepburn and the court shoes worn by Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like ...Cruising after the Concordia grounding: what you need to know
Mar 9th, 2012 at 11:00AM: When Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy, the world watched as what seemed to be a lazy traveler's easy road to adventure had thousands scrambling for their lives. Forget the bingo, shuffleboard and buffets; all of the sudden what was thought to be impossible unfolded before our eyes. The Concordia grounding was a clear example of just how wrong things can go when we travel, ...Now open: Francis Ford Coppola's new hotel in Italy
Mar 7th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
Francis Ford Coppola has been a hotelier for almost 20 years with properties in Belize, Guatemala and New Orleans. Now, the filmmaker and winemaker best known for his Godfather trilogy has finally opened a hotel in Italy. Palazzo Margherita, located in Coppola's ancestral home of Bernalda in the region of Basilicata, opened for business on March 1.
Set in a 19th century palazzo with ...Breaking: Fire breaks out on Costa ship near Seychelles islands
Feb 27th, 2012 at 12:30PM: A fire broke out today on Italian cruise ship Costa Allegra leaving it adrift off the Seychelles islands. The vessel was carrying 413 crew members and 636 passengers from 25 countries, including eight Americans.
Costa Cruises told Gadling "today at 10:39 CET a fire broke out on board Costa Allegra in the electric generator room. The shipboard fire-extinguishing system and emergency procedures ...Discovering Nonna Nina's Kitchen: minnow heaven on the Italian Riviera
Feb 27th, 2012 at 12:00PM: Just north of Portofino on the Italian Riveria, on the Genoa side of the Monte di Portofino Regional Park, is a perched hamlet called San Rocco di Camogli. This is the best place on earth to devour the marvelously flavorful minnows that come from the Gulf of Genoa, which the locals call rossetti - little red things. And little red things they are: about an inch long, thin as a thermometer, ...Italy's Battle of the Oranges
Feb 19th, 2012 at 12:00PM: Even before Filippo Prior rides into the ancient piazza on the back of a horse-drawn carriage, he feels the giddy adrenalin rush of battle and the unnerving fear that comes with the knowledge that he and his teammates are about to get pelted with hundreds of cold, hard oranges.
"You hear the roar of the crowd, people screaming before you enter the piazza," says Prior, a 21-year old member of ...Untouched Italy: Exploring Basilicata through a dream
Jan 27th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
While many people go to Italy to explore the wonderful cities of Rome, Florence, Venice, and Milan, there many off-the-radar areas also worth discovering. One of these regions is Basilicata, which Seattle, Washington, filmmaker Matthew Brown captures in this video. The project was part of a Digital Diary competition put on by the Italy Tourism Board, and ended up winning the Grand ...
Cascading changes likely for cruise travelers
Jan 23rd, 2012 at 2:30PM:
Changes are coming for cruise travelers even though exactly what happened to force Costa Concordia to ground off the coast of Italy has yet to be defined by forensic evidence. Playing out as everything from rumors to accusations and first-hand reports from passengers actually on the ship, media outlets have been working overtime reporting the story. Some accounts seem reasonable, some ...Lampedusa: Italy's loneliest off-season island
Jan 22nd, 2012 at 10:00AM:
Lampedusa is Italy's southernmost island. Geologically part of Africa, it sits about 70 miles from the Tunisian mainland and a good 125 miles from Sicily. If the island sounds familiar to you, that's probably because it's been in the news quite a bit recently.
In the wake of the Arab Spring, tens of thousands of migrants from Africa (first from Tunisia and Libya; later in the year from ...Cruise tragedy calls for increased focus on safety
Jan 17th, 2012 at 1:30PM: On the heels of the Costa Concordia cruise tragedy, where a once-proud ocean going vessel now lay on its side off the coast of Italy, calls for increased safety standards and procedures are being made. While history will remember the Concordia event as more of a near-miss than a Titanic-like disaster as tabloids might have us believe, most experts agree: this can't happen again.
As rescue ...London's Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opens Alberto Burri retrospective
Jan 15th, 2012 at 1:00PM: The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is one of London's best small art museums. Housed in an elegant Georgian mansion on a quiet street in the London borough of Islington, it has the best collection of modern Italian art in the city and perhaps the nation.
Its latest exhibition is Alberto Burri: Form and Matter, a retrospective of one of the leading Italian figures in modern art. Burri ...Get to know the real Milan, Italy, through Milan Dreaming
Jan 3rd, 2012 at 1:00PM:
While spending a few months living in Milan, Italy, New York-based filmmaker Francesco Paciocco decided he wanted to create a short film called "Milan Dreaming" that told the story of Milan through its essence, people, and places. The background music, "A Necessary End" by Saltillo, gives the video a slight sense of darkness as you see locals going about their everyday business. While the ...
Is the Colosseum crumbling?
Dec 31st, 2011 at 10:00AM: Economic instability, a change of government, and now this.
It looks like Italy's most famous landmark, the Colosseum, may be crumbling. The Culture Ministry has launched an investigation after eyewitnesses spotted bits of stone falling off the Roman ruin on two different occasions in recent days.
An Italian shoe company has promised to restore the Colosseum with an ambitious 25 million euro ...How to access free WiFi in Rome
Dec 29th, 2011 at 5:00PM: Anyone who has ever tried to access free WiFi in Rome probably won't be surprised by a recent Business Insider headline proclaiming that Italians Don't Care About the Internet.
According to a report released by ISTAT, Italy's official statistics bureau, only 54.5% of Italians have access to the Internet, and 26.7% of Italians think the Internet is "useless" and "uninteresting".
It follows, ...Chinese tourists chart a new European Grand Tour
Dec 24th, 2011 at 11:00AM: According to BBC Travel and the China Daily, approximately 70 million Chinese nationals traveled abroad in 2011, up from 10 million in 1999. A chunk of this new crop of Chinese tourists is traveling to Europe, but their itinerary veers a little off the trodden path.
BBC Travel outlined some of the historical highlights of the "new" European Grand Tour: cities like Trier, Germany, the birthplace ...Is the Romulus and Remus statue a copy from the Middle Ages?
Nov 22nd, 2011 at 2:00PM:
It's one of the most famous symbols of ancient Rome--the legendary Romulus and Remus suckling from a she-wolf. Legend has it the brothers were born to a Vestal Virgin who had been abducted by the war god Mars. Abandoned, they were raised by a she-wolf. As adults they fought each other. Romulus killed Remus and went on to build Rome. The statue graces Rome's Capitoline Museum and is photographed ...Photo of the day - St. Peter's and a puddle
Nov 17th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
When taking travel photos, we spend a lot of time looking for the right background. Whether it's capturing a candid portrait or framing the perfect landscape, it's not always easy to convey a beautiful scene in a photograph. Flickr user John Overmeyer used a humble puddle of rain to elevate this night shot of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Of course, flawless composition, lighting, and luck ...Tracing Twitter to 16th century Rome
Nov 17th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
The ugliest statue in Rome is not easy to find. Tucked away in an alley off of Piazza Navona, blending in to the unremarkable stone façades of the buildings behind him, Pasquino, a human-shaped stump of marble resting on a pedestal pasted with notes and cartoons, hides in plain sight from most tourists who saunter past on their way to this district's many renowned restaurants, bars, and ...Knocked up abroad: international travel with a baby
Nov 15th, 2011 at 10:30AM: This is the third in Knocked Up Abroad's guide to traveling with a baby. Before you go, see tips on planning travel and flying with a baby.
So you've decided to travel abroad with your new family addition, well done! You've chosen the best baby-friendly destination, packed light, and even survived the long flight. Now that you're on the ground, possibly recovering from jet lag and hopefully ...
