Archive for August, 2008
The Italian mining tragedy of Marcinelle
Posted in News from Italy29th August, 2008
It's a tragic story few even in Italy are seemingly aware of – on the night of 8 August 1956, 262 mainly Italian workers were killed in a mine collapse in Marcinelle, Belgium. Now the horror has been vividly brought back to life in La Catastrofa, a ...
Rome's new theme park
Posted in Lazio16th August, 2008
The Pantheon, St Peter’s Basilica and Square, the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps…Rome boasts an infinite number of attractions that highlight its centuries of unrivalled history, tradition and culture. It remains one of the major at...
Italy’s Alitalia crisis
Posted in Italy andNews from Italy14th August, 2008
The news gets little better for Italy’s ailing Alitalia. The Italian state airline saw the number of passengers it carried in the first half of 2008 fall 16 per cent compared with the same period in 2007. European airline chiefs point to the depress...
Soldiers patrol Italy’s streets
Posted in Italy6th August, 2008
Visitors to Italy have begun facing the sight of squaddies patrolling streets as 1,000 were deployed in major cities. It is the first step in a €25 million, six-month exercise that will see 3,000 troops used across Italy in anti-crime measures promi...