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Italy’s LGBT community is in turmoil because of a great controversy a would-be law is causing. The DDL Zan (DDL stands for decree) is a bill which would create new categories of crime based on sexual and gender discrimination, adding to the already existing hate crimes punished by the Italian state. Alessandro Zan, the signatory of the law and an […]
If there’s something that strikes foreigners coming to Europe more, that surely is the huge glazed royal palaces that span across the continent’s most remarkable cities. Turin, a remarkable west of Milan, lays its foundation in Savoia’s Royal Palace, a Baroque style building that housed the Savoia dynasty. The dynasty ruled from 1561, heading only a Duchy based mostly in […]
As all the world knows Italy was the first western country to be harshly hit by the pandemic. It is now facing a challenge that could soon affect other nations: the vaccination of migrants. In the Boot that we call Italy there are roughly six million transient workers. As of yet there is no plan in pace to vaccinate this […]
Monarchy is often regarded as the old-fashioned setting of Disney stories, but where it is the current form of government there is no valiant prince or happy ending. In reality even kings fall into sin, like happened to former Spanish king Juan Carlos I, who, six years after his abdication was found guilty of bribery. He collected $78 million from […]
The beautiful Langhe landscape, part of Piedmont in Italy, is a prized destination of tourists from all over the world, who come here to walk through the hills shaped by centuries of growers’ activities, to eat great dishes like Plin pasta, but, mostly, to taste the incredible wine here produced from the local Nebbiolo grapes, the Barolo, Langhe’s most precious […]
Since the beginning of December, leading physicians throughout all the hospitals and retirement houses in Europe have convened meetings to plan the upcoming COVID vaccination campaign, which started in Europe on December 27. The first vaccine allowed to be inoculated is Pfizer, but on January 6th also Moderna will be allowed by the European Medicines Agency as the FDA did […]
Europe’s reaction to the autumnal second Covid wave has been different nation by nation, revealing the priorities and the weaknesses of each country. Today the most discussed field where these differences break out is about keeping or not schools open. Countries like Scandinavian nations, Ireland,UK, Germany or France have decided not to shut down classrooms, even if cases have increased […]
Uffizi’s Gallery in Florence is the most important museum in Italy and the 10th most visited museum globally, as it hosts the world’s finest Italian Renaissance art collection, which attracted over four million visitors in 2019. Amidst its greatest masterpieces, Uffizi exhibits The Birth of Venus (Botticelli, 1484-1486), Doni Tondo (Michelangelo, 1507), Annunciation (Leonardo, 1472-1475) and the biggest collection of […]
This is a question that may sound meaningless, but it is not so for Swedish (or Scandinavian as well) handling of the pandemic. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Sweden has not imposed any lockdown as well as any mandatory mask-wearing, which is why roughly 84.7% of people do not do it at all, according to the german site Statista. […]
Usually people thinking about Ancient Egypt (3150-50 BC) imagine wide deserts in Africa with giant pyramids and sphinxes, gods and mummies near the Nile, but there’s a big piece of Egypt in the city from where I write monthly for the Star-Revue, namely Turin, which is in the northwest portion of Italy. Here, 2000 miles away from Egypt, there’s a […]