FERRARI FOR THE MASSES
The Italo is Italy’s response to France’s TGV and Germany’s ICE. The nation’s first privatized high-speed train is designed by Ferrari. The dark Ferrari-red casing and stylish, comfortable interiors that seats 450 passagers outshines the TGV and speeds from Rome to Naples in an hour or to Milan in three. The Italo line owned by […]
ART ON FIRE
In the Italian city of Naples, the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum has launched a protest, Art War, against the Italian governments’ austerity cuts by burning works of art from around the world. The Art War began on April 17 and reportedly will continue until the cuts are revoked — three pieces a week. French artist […]
A ROMAN COLOSSEUM GETS $42 MILLION PRICE TAG
The Palazzo Orsini, a Renaissance palace built onto the top of the still-standing stone and marble shell of the anceint Roman theatre (the Theatre of Marcellus –dating from the 1st Century BC) which resembles a mini Coloseeum, is on the market for €32 million ($42 million). “Its asking price is thought to make it the […]
Italian island for sale
A tiny island only ten minutes by boat from San Marco Square in Venice, Italy is now on the market for EUR 28 million or USD 38.5 million. It has roughly 86,111 sq ft of both historical buildings and new construction space zoned for private residences as well as hotels and offices. San Spirito Island is […]