ROME- Cinema America in the tourist-packed and commercial Trastevere has been occupied by students, locals, social activists, and civic associations, after being abandoned for 15 years.

Italian lawyer Giandomenico De Tullio  presents the legal ins and outs of investing in off-plan properties in Italy.

MATERA — Few people in this heart of southern Italy speak English, slow time is the rule, from 3 to 5 pm over late lunch, life seems to stop. Public transport is lacking.

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ROME — Amid growing outrage over IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze’s wild spending on a sprawling villa on Rome’s posh via Appia Antica, IFAD acknowledged Sunday that its Ex