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The Miracle Of Camp 60 - Part 1

Thursday 23rd February is the 70th anniversary of the arrival in Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, of around 1,200 Italian POWs....

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Closed The Italian Pavilion at Auschwitz

The Italian Memorial, designed in the late 60s as a synthesis of art and history, should have been removed and replaced by last October because...

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Vinci: Birthplace of a Genius

On the 15th of April 1452 in the hills of Tuscany, Italy, a peasant girl named Caterina gave birth to an illegitimate son in a small town called Vinci...

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New Pompeii Collapse Revives Debate Over Site

A column at the House of Loreius Tiburtinus is the latest piece of Pompeii to crumble.

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Naples to Ring in New Year with Financial Crisis Firework

The erratic explosion of O'spred is meant to mimic Italy's up-and-down financial markets.

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Evidence of 'Earliest Europeans' Found in Italy

A baby molar found in Puglia dates back 45,000 years.

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Frankenstein, Frogs and Signor Galvani

In the great city of Bologna, hidden away in a tiny piazza behind the church of San Petronio, is a statue of Galvani, an 18th century physicist. What, you might wonder, has this scientist got to do with Gothic horror stories?

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Remembering the Italian Victims of 9/11

The inconsistencies and mystery surrounding Italian victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks has left many searching for answers a decade later.

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New Italian Sites Added to UNESCO World Heritage List

"The Longobards, Places of Power" sites gain protection from the United Nation's cultural heritage body.

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Volterra A.D. 1398 - Back to the...Medioevo

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Having a scholar in your family can be very boring but sometimes very useful...

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