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Zeffirelli villa open for business

Film director Franco Zeffirelli’s former villa is now open for business – as a hotel. The Villa Tre Ville, in Positano on the Amalfi Coast, was where Zeffirelli entertained guests such as Laurence Olivier, Maria Callas and Elizabeth Taylor...

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Julia Roberts gains weight in Italy

Julia Roberts gained 10 pounds in weight whilst filming “Eat, Pray, Love” in Italy, she tells the Daily Mail today...

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Canalis implicated in cocaine scandal

On what could be her wedding day, George Clooney’s Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis finds herself accused of involvement in a high-class prostitution ring which operated out of two Milan night clubs, the Telegraph and Corriere della Sera report.

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Now it's pink ricotta

Following the blue mozzarella scare, five packs containing boxes of ricotta have been confiscated by police in Sardinia ....

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D&G for the blues

They’ve dressed Madonna, Taylor Lautner and Kate Beckinsale. Now it’s the turn of Britain's Chelsea football team to be dressed by Dolce and Gabbana...

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Wedding photographer shot dead in accident

Wedding photographer Calogero Scimea was shot in the head as he was taking photographs of bride and groom Valentina Anitra [22] and Ignazio Licodia [25] prior to their wedding ceremony in Altofonte, near Palermo [Sicily] .

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Vatican city tightens clothing rules

Yesterday locals and tourists alike were surprised when Swiss Guards at the customs point marking the City of Rome’s boundary with the Vatican City began pulling aside people they regarded as scantily dressed...

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Milan Fashion Week will be special, says Mayor

The next Milan Fashion Week, which will run from September 22nd –28th, will be a show worthy of the city, Mayor Letizia Moratti has vowed.

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St Lawrence painting not by Caravaggio

Art experts who thought that a newly discovered painting of the Martyrdom of St Lawrence was by Caravaggio had their hopes dashed on Monday by the Director of the Vatican Museums, Antonio Paolucci.

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Heat affects tomato harvest

Tomato production in Italy is down by 25% because of the recent heatwave, reports the Independent. In what the Italian farming union Coldiretti calls a “tomato massacre”, the sudden high temperatures have caused the plants to become “stressed"...

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