Venice, August 30 – An English sailing ship which sank 154 years ago as it tried to enter the Venetian lagoon was pulled out of the water on Thursday and will now be cleaned and studied by experts.
The Margareth, 30 metres long and originally weighing 150 tonnes, was carrying a cargo of coal to Venice [...]

Venice braced on Tuesday
for its annual dose of cinema glamour and razzamatazz amid
the final preparations for this year’s edition of the world’s
oldest film festival.
Carpenters bashed at the ceremonial backdrops, opening
night fireworks were carefully put in place and life-size
models of winged golden lions waited to be positioned on the
red carpet at the famed Lido.
Among the Hollywood [...]

An association promoting wine tourism in Tuscany has asked to raise the level above which drivers will be found guilty of operating under the influence of intoxicating substances.
A limit of 0.5% of alcohol in the blood went into effect earlier this month in the aftermath of a sharp increase in fatal, alcohol-related road accidents.According to [...]

Naples, August 24 – Grimaldi Ferry Lines has allocated 240 million for purchase of six new ferries from China, a company statement said Friday.
Finnlines, Grimaldi’s parent company, commissioned the ships from China’s Jinling Shipyard.
This latest commission is part of Grimaldi’s plan to add 36 new ships to its fleet over the next five years. Grimaldi [...]

Genoa, August 10 – Cats, dogs and other animals here on Italy’s northwest coast now have new beach to frolic away from the summer heat. Genoa’s beach for animals opened Friday near in the suburb of Vesima, just past the Jauna municipal beaches. It is the first public beach in the region for pets. There [...]

Italians get distracted when they go on holiday and in the space of one month lose some 18
million euros on the beach, according to a recent study. Drawn up by the Eta Meta Research roup, the study found that 71% of the beach personnel quizzed confirmed that many of their clients had reported losing their [...]

A group of investors led by Italy’s former constitutional court president Antonio Baldassarre is interested in acquiring Alitalia which has been put up for privatisation, the airline said Tuesday.
Baldassarre called the airline on behalf of the group to express an interest, Alitalia said, adding that Italian stock exchange rules required it to publish a statement.
The [...]