A copy of Michelangelo’s statue of David will be the symbol of the Italian Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015, pavilion chief Diana Bracco said Wednesday in a meeting in Florence, Italy.
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The official mascot of Expo 2015 will be sketched by Disney
The official mascot of Expo Milano 2015 will be sketched by Disney Italia. The news has been announced this afternoon in New York by Expo Milano 2015 CEO Giuseppe Sala during his mission in the US.
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Turkish tourist fined 160 euros for defacing the Old Bridge in Florence
A tourist was forced to clean nail polish off Florence’s Ponte Vecchio Wednesday after she was spotted by municipal police writing names on the historic bridge.
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Parish priest and Clerk honoured as war heroes
A parish priest and a clerk were honoured Tuesday in Florence by Jerusalem’s Shoah institute for their efforts to help a young Jewish family escape Nazi-Fascist soldiers in 1943.
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Knox, Sollecito retrial starts on Monday in Florence
The first hearing in the new appeals trial of former American student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, which sees the two being retried on murder charges for the death of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, opens on Monday in Florence, with a verdict expected by Christmas.
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Costa Concordia, the parbuckling operation has been completed
At 4 am Cet the parbuckling operation has been successfully completed. The wreck is now upright and resting safely on the specially built artificial sea bed, at a depth of approximately 30 meters.
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Costa Concordia salvage: wach the 8 hours long operation
Follow developments as the Costa Concordia, thanks to RT RUSSIA watch cameras.
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Costa Concordia, the parbuckling project
The Concordia wreck removal is an extremely complex technical engineering feat – considered the biggest salvage ever attempted on a ship of its size – with the deployment of the finest international expertise, state-of-the-art technology and unprecedented financial resources.
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La Pietra Dialogues, read the new season debates
LPD convenes some of the world’s foremost scholars, policy makers, practitioners, business leaders, public intellectuals and artists whose ideas and work have made a significant cultural or intellectual contribution to global society and the revival of the spirit of humanism for which Florence is known.
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An American tourist broke a finger off a 500-year-old statue in a Florence museum. He is an emergency-room surgeon in Connecticut and he was arrested in front of his family after accidentally snapping the finger of a statue when he touched it.
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