Archive for the ‘News from Italy’ Category
Sunday, July 10th, 2016
It’s often more been common for British property hunters to descend on Italy in search of bargains.
But Sorgente, the Italian real estate conglomerate, is turning the tables as it eyes a string of “trophy” purchases in London.
It already has in its portfolio Rome’s Piazza Colonna, left, and New York’s Flatiron ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
Italy is Britons' top overseas choice for a new holiday craze – house-swapping.
Just under 3.5% of UK adults – an estimated 1.7 million – plan to take their vacations on the cheap this year – by agreeing to temporarily exchange homes with a family in a spot they would like ...
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Italy’s beautiful beaches are rightly recognised as among the most inviting in the world – indeed, this year no fewer than 113 shores and marinas were granted the prestigious blue flag award. But a leading Italian lifestyle magazine has gone a step ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Leaders of the world's 20 richest nations may have thought they had it tough when they had to turn up for April's G20 summit at London's ExCeL centre, swamped by a bleak grey sea of concrete in a desolate, windswept corner of the capital's Docklands district. Yet that will ...
Posted in Abruzzo, News from Italy | Comments Off on Italy to house G8 leaders in cop barracks
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
To help victims of the Italian earthquake, you can donate via the British Red Cross (phone 0845 054 7201) or their Italian equivalent (in Italian) Murder charges may be brought against constructors responsible for badly constructed buildings that collapsed in the Italian earthquake, investigators have revealed. ...
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