We follow couple Hayley and Andy on the emotional run up to their wedding day in Malcesine..
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The Venice Film Festival is the oldest in the world and its jury's decisions are often regarded as good indications of Oscar winners. This year 23 films will be in competition and Italian hopes rest on four very different films....
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Every even-numbered year in the medieval town of Marostica, near Vicenza [Veneto] visitors can watch a spectacular open-air chess game with a difference, for the “pieces” are human beings and horses, all dressed in medieval costume.
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A giant advertising poster for Bulgari featuring the American actress Julianne Moore has been banned by the Mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni.
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After 900 years of male domination, the 425-strong Ente Gondola of Venice has accepted its first female member and the feminine word “gondoliera” has entered the language...
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In Verona, home, of course, of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, a voluntary group of men and women answer over 5,000 letters a year addressed to Juliet. It is this group and a book of some of the collected letters that have inspired the film, “Letters to Juliet”.
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In our series about romantic films set in Italy, we’d like to remind you of a “golden oldie” today. This is the film in which Katherine Hepburn really did take a dive into the canal!
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In the second bout of controversy surrounding the Italian National Anthem in a week, Luca Zaia, the Northern League Governor of Veneto, has caused offence by apparently requesting that Verdi’s “Va, Pensiero” be played in its place....
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The city of Venice is selling off some of its historic palazzi in order to make ends meet, reports The Telegraph. Several of the palazzi for sale overlook the Grand Canal and are synonymous with our image of the “Serenissima”.
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An Austrian tourist was fined 1000 euros for buying a counterfeit “designer” bag in Jesolo [Veneto] on Saturday. The 65-year-old woman purchased the fake Louis Vuitton bag for 7 euros from an unlicenced Senagalese vendor on the beach and was then confronted by two police officers...
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