Castel Hörtenberg Studio GDS It’s in the formal dining room that the magic of Castel Hörtenberg becomes apparent. Deep in the wine cellar, down two or three flights of stairs from the streets of Bolzano, Italy, the hotel’s fine dining restaurant, aptly called Le Segrete, is dramatic and moody. The marketers use the phrase ancient […]
Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena, Italy. He was 85. The cause was a brain hemorrhage, said Antonio Rinaldis, who wrote a 2023 book with Mr. Morandi about his life on the island. Unlike Daniel Defoe’s […]
Developed by the European Union and European Space Agency, with Italian participation, this constellation of 290 satellites is planned to come online by 2030 at a development cost of $10.5 billion. During the lengthy negotiations, Italy even managed to secure one of the three primary ground stations in the Abruzzo region of the country. The […]
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy has gone to Mar-a-Lago to visit President-elect Donald J. Trump for an informal meeting being held on Saturday, three people familiar with the trip said. The trip comes just a few days before Ms. Meloni is set to welcome President Biden in Rome for an official visit to Italy […]
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, has arrived in court ahead of a verdict in his trial for kidnap and dereliction of duty over his refusal to let a migrant rescue boat dock in Italy in 2019. Prosecutors in Sicily have asked judges to sentence him to six years in jail. Salvini, who’s leader of […]
Sergio Mattarella said Italy “can take care” of itself after Elon Musk criticized Italian judges who did not approve a government request to hold a group of migrants in Albania.
Getty Images The Roman archaeological site of Pompeii will limit the number of daily visitors to the site to 20,000 a day after a steep rise in visitors. A record high 36,000 tourists visited the site on the first Sunday of October, when entry was free, local media reported. The park’s management said on Friday […]
