I was touched by the amazing floods in Venice last week. My wife (descended from Decollatura, Catanzaro, Calabria) said that the images of Venice in flood were like nothing she has ever seen in her lifetime.
The simple numbers are stunning - even for a city that floods regularly; driven by strong winds from the Adriatic, [...]

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Check out this story in the Italian media - too funny!
Cartolina recapitata dopo 29 anni: dalla Svizzera a Palermo i saluti di un’alunna alla sua prof

A now-retired high school language teacher in Palermo gets a postcard from one of her students…written in 1979.
Now that’s slick - 29 years to deliver a postcard from Switzerland to [...]

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I stumbled across this news item during the week, from ANSA.  Strange enough in its own right, but the political sub text caught my eye.
The Rome prosecutor’s office announced that a religious slander case will not proceed against Italian comic Sabina Guzzanti, who said at a rally that Pope Benedict XVI would “go to hell” and be [...]

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Looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa is no longer the ‘leaningest’ tower in Europe!
Retired geometrician Jacob van Dijk has measured the 118-foot church tower of Walfridus in the Dutch town of Bedum and believes that it is now leaning more than the Tower of Pisa.
Pisa’s 183-foot tower has undergone restoration works and now tilts [...]

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