Vatican City, formally State of the Vatican City, or Vatican City State, is a sovereign polis whose territory consists of a landlocked enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. The entire state is about 44 hectares and is considered a European microstate. It is the smallest independent nation in the world. Since it is governed [...]

The second year of RomeFilmFest has opened amid hopes that 15 world premieres, Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford will set the scene for a sequel to the city’s cinematic heyday.
Fourteen films are in competition, including Reservation Road, directed by Terry George, and Li Chun (And the Spring Comes), directed by Changwei Gu. Among the premieres [...]

San Marco Square is the heart of Venice. For over thousand years it has been the central point of the city. Nowadays, thousands of tourists visit the square every day, and almost all of them fall in love with this amazing place surrounded by outstanding works of architecture. The uniqueness of the square was emphasized [...]

Maybe no wine or tasty Italian desserts. No speaking dirty words. Abstinence from traditional pleasures. How do Italians prepare for 40 days of self-inflicted deprivation? Throw a party that lasts for weeks! From the Epiphany on January 6 to the beginning of Quaresima (Lent—derived from the Latin term Quadragesima, or “the forty days”), il Carnevale [...]

Premium Italian coffee company illycaffe Spa is teaming up with Coca-Cola Co. to introduce a new ready-to-drink coffee beverage, taking on Pepsi Cola and its venture with Starbucks.The joint venture combines illycaffe’s knowledge of the coffee business with Coca-Cola’s marketing experience and distribution channels.
The product will be based on illyfreddo, a cold coffee drink sold [...]

Walks Inside Venice are official Venice tour guides who offer customized and tailor made walking tours of Venice and the surrounding area. Their specialist itineraries are suitable for individual travelers or small groups.
Roberta, Sara and Cristina are also native Venetians with a background in art history, foreign languages and literature and have published books on [...]

The first time Enzo Ferrari witnessed a car racing event, he immediately knew what his life was destined to be. And even if his life-long works are very popular among car enthusiasts, never had he expected that his name would be one that is so coveted by everyone who’s anyone in today’s society.
Around the time [...]

Italy has upped arts funding 17% to a total Euros 441 million ($573 million) for 2007 in the first tangible sign of the center-left government’s more pro-arts stance compared with the days when Silvio Berlusconi ran the country.
Culture minister Francesco Rutelli has announced the boost for the single fund known as FUS, which includes film, [...]

“2007 can be defined as a favourable year for tourism”, stated Riccardo Strano, the Director of the ENIT office in the USA, while discussing the progress of the summer season for incoming from North America.
”We are registering a trend on the rise that is also the result of promotion that is coherent with proposed tourism [...]

Archaeological finds testify the presence of settlements on the Palatino hills, as early as the middle of the 8th Century BC. Little by little, the Roman community suffered change under the Sabina, Etruscan and Greek civilizations.
The legend of a sort around the foundation of Rome on the Palatino (753 BC legend of Romolo and [...]