In a fiery new book described as a “pamphlet,” the authoritative archaeologist Salvatore Settis attacks Venice. For Settis, the beloved but troubled lagoon city has now become nothing more than a merchandise mall, in which there is just one inhabitant for every 600 tourists trotting through. Today, the local population had sunk to only 56,684 as of June 2014 whereas, in an almost terrifying contrast, the city has 6 million visitors annually.
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Much to the delight of epicureans and oenophiles, the Italian Trade Commission returned to NIAF's gala in Washington DC, to present the Italian Lifestyle Lounge featuring authentic Italian food and wine products, watches of modern design and contemporary music.
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A black and white photography show introduces viewers to another side of Hemingway, the traveler, and possibly the first citizen of the world. It focuses on the time Hemingway had spent in the Italian region of Veneto beginning in 1918.
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Getting to Know Amarone
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Are you bored with bunga-bunga? We’ll talk about the things that count, beginning with these days when kids go back to school, and proceed on to child care and—why not?—a bit of culture.
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Who doesn’t love Venice? Rarely you meet somebody who hasn’t been to the city built on water or who hasn’t bought a ceramic carnival mask, and you start wondering what it is that attracts so many people from all over the world to this magnificent lagoon. Venice is a city of canals and palaces, of water and land, of a bright past and a doubtful future. For thousands of years Venice was one of the strongest mercantile sea powers on the face of the earth. For years after the city has lived on the remaining splendor from those days but now the brilliance and influence of the past have been fading, leaving a town of tarnished glory.