ROME -- Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, and president, Sergio Mattarella, publicly show their support for earthquake evacuees and fully enforce the restoration of damaged buildings of great cultural heritage.
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NORCIA -- As treasured monuments and churches have been destroyed by earthquakes, some commentators say the Italian Romanesque heritage is at risk of disappearing, leaving the Middle Ages as only a myth to be found in story books. From the Basilica of Norcia to churches at Preci, Amatrice and Bagnoregio, the damage done by earthquakes in central Italy leaves the country ever more fragile.
31 Oct 2016
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ROME -- ‘Ri-Tratti Portraits. Interconnections among paintings. Fragments for a gesamtkunstwerk’ is the latest exhibition by painter, sculptor and engraver Bruno Aller, curated by Daniela Fonti at ‘Honos Art’ gallery. As part of Rome Art Week, a live music event was held in the exhibition space Friday in celebration of contemporary art, and in an attempt to create a complete fusion of different art forms -- a total artwork.
31 Oct 2016
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MALMÖ -- Pope Francis has arrived in Sweden to participate in the ceremony of commemoration for the 500-year-anniversary of the Lutheran reform.
En route to Sweden, the head of the Roman Catholic Church told journalists, “This trip is important because it is an ecclesiastical trip, within the field of ecumenicalism. Your work will really help people to understand properly what this trip is about -- thank you.”
31 Oct 2016
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ROME -- The capital’s schools have been closed and two churches in the historic centre have been deemed unsafe by firefighters Monday, after carrying out inspections to them as a consequence of the magnitude 6.5 earthquake that hit central Italy.
Sunday morning’s 6.5 quake -- the strongest to hit Italy since the 1980 Naples quake killing thousands -- was felt even in the Italian capital, where it sparked fear and caused people to descend onto the streets of the Eternal City.
31 Oct 2016
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NORCIA -- The strongest earthquake tremor to hit the Bel Paese since 1980, measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, rippled through central Italy Sunday at 7:45 a.m., causing damage in Umbrian villages and destroying a 9th century basilica in the town of Umbria, seismologists and civil defence workers said. Norcia, a medieval cultural jewel in the Umbrian hills 30 km from Spoleto, seemed like a ghost town Sunday night after police closed the centre that was declared abn off-limits 'red zone' and many inhabitants were evacuated to hotels at Lake Trasimene or on the Adriatic coast.
30 Oct 2016
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ROME – Opening night arrived Friday for the ‘Teatro de Loto’ company to premier their interpretation of the dark tragedy ‘Re Lear’ (King Lear) in Teatro dell’Orologio of the Eternal City.
29 Oct 2016
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ROME -- Famous actor Roberto Benigni had his driving licence taken from him on his 64th birthday Thursday when he overtook on the wrong side of the road coming up to a set of traffic lights at Piazza Thorvaldsen, in front of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Italian capital.
The Italian national treasure and Oscar winner has to study once again, not Dante’s Divina Commedia, but instead a driving and road safety manual after going against Article 148 of the highway code.
28 Oct 2016
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BUDAPEST -- Hungary, the country that has constructed a wall between itself and Serbia, and announced a referendum to say ‘no’ to the distribution of migrants in the European Union, has “verbally attacked” Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi for “not complying with EU rules,” Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.
28 Oct 2016