When the confetti starts a flying for Carnival in Venice today, organizers hope costumed party goers will make the folks at home jealous by posting photos, blog accounts and videos from the just-launched Wi-Fi network. Getting that access, though, may be a typically Italian test of patience: buy a user ID in person (€5 euros [...]
Aspiring Michelangelos will have to hold the charcoal: artist models have put back on their clothes to protest working conditions. In a note sent to news agency ANSA, unions representing these workers decry the “precariousness” of these jobs. Live artist models were once state employees but over the last eight years they’ve become freelance workers [...]
The Via Flaminia once brought nobles and notables to their pleasure palaces outside Rome. Today, though, it’s covered in palazzi and clogged with buses and scooters, a virtual version of the road can be visited thanks to researchers who digitalized 4.45 million acres of terrain. Hosted at the Museum of the Diocletian Baths, the virtual [...]
Despite protests, Italy’s first paid parking lot of love is open for business. Luna Parking, in Bagnolo Cremasco about 25 miles southeast of Milan, lies on a state road known for a florid prostitution business and vicinity to night clubs. It’s the latest in a series of al fresco havens for Italian lovers, many of [...]
