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An strong earthquake was reported in several regions of northern Italy at around 12:30 local time. The tremor was felt in Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Liguria. It was not immediately clear whether the quake had caused casualties or damage.
Read moreThere is a first case of a new coronavirus, also known as New Sars, in Italy. The patient is a 45 year old foreigner who lives in Italy, and he was recently in Jordan.
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Yesterday morning Don Alan Brennan, the american tourist 68 years old who stabbed the 21st of May in piazza Duomo in Florence among people, he left the hospital Santa Maria Nuova.
Read moreA 68-year-old American tourist, Don Alan Brennan according to the Italian website Firenze Post, was stabbed in Florence’s main square in front of the famed Duomo cathedral on Tuesday.
Read moreItalian film actor Carlo Monni, 70, has died. The Florentine character actor played Roberto Benigni’s sidekick toward the beginning of the Academy Award-winning comedian’s career in the late 1970’s.
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EU political and business leaders call for solidarity, political union in Europe Northern European countries must do more to support southern EU member states, Emma
Read moreFrom 7th to 12th May 2013 the Festival Of Europe returns to Florence, an occasion to reflect on future Europe, a laboratory of communication between the European Union and its citizens and a display of the Union’s activities and its member states. Follow the live streaming of the event.
Read moreSeven people were dead and two remained missing Wednesday after a container ship, The Jolly Nero, slammed into the control tower at the e port of Genoa during the night.
Read moreFrom 7th to 12th May 2013 the Festival Of Europe returns to Florence, an occasion to reflect on future Europe, a laboratory of communication between the European Union and its citizens and a display of the Union’s activities and its member states.
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Margaret Thatcher died at 87. Read the Margaret Thatcher’ speech at Anglo-Italian Summit in Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy, in 1986. After the international meeting she visited the Uffizi Gallery, the Corridio vasariano and Palazzo Vecchio.
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