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Newly restored house in Pompeii offers glimpse of elite life

January 13, 2023913 Views

The newly restored remains of an opulent house in Pompeii that likely belonged to two former slaves who became rich through the wine trade offer visitors an exceptional peek at details of domestic life in the doomed Roman city. The House of Vettii, Domus Vettiorum in Latin, was being formally unveiled after 20 years of restoration. Given fresh life were frescoes from the latest fashion in Pompeii wall decoration before the flourishing city was buried under the volcanic ash furiously spewing from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. A view of the impluvium, the rain water-catchment pool in the atrium of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, House of Vettii, in the Pompeii Archeological Park, near Naples, southern Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) The unveiling of the ...

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Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Rome partners with Rosenthal to light up Christmas

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December 21, 2022840 Views

This year, the Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Rome Hotel, a landmark new arrival on Rome’s luxury hospitality scene located in the heart of the city, is celebrating Christmas with the creation of a truly unique Christmas tree in collaboration with the renowned porcelain brand, Rosenthal and one of Rome’s leading design studios, Thesign Gallery. Standing tall in the newly opened Prisca lounge bar, the show stopping 5-meter tree doubles as an art installation as it is assembled from ceramic pieces by Rosenthal. Starting from December, an eye-catching 3D light show will illuminate the installation presented within a gigantic gift box and topped with festive ribbon to evoke the magic of the holidays. The spirit of Christmas continues within Anantara Palazzo Naiadi with festive décor curate...

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Artemisia Gentileschi’s 1616 nude to be digitally unveiled

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November 13, 2022474 Views

Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a long-censored nude painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most prominent women in the history of Italian art. Swirling veils and drapery were added to the “Allegory of Inclination” some 70 years after Gentileschi painted the life-size female nude, believed to be a self-portrait, in 1616. Restorer Elizabeth Wicks works on the "Allegory of Inclination", a 1616 work by Artemisia Gentileschi, in the Casa Buonarroti Museum, in Florence, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) The work to reveal the image as originally painted comes as Gentileschi’s contribution to Italian Baroque art is getting renewed attention in the #MeToo era, both for her artis...

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Bustling Venice delays charging tourists for daily visits

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November 12, 2022485 Views

Venice is delaying plans to introduce an entry fee for visitors because the city council has not yet fully approved the new admissions process, a spokesman for Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said on Friday. Tourism officials said in July that day-trippers would have to book their visit to the lagoon city online from Jan. 16 and pay between 3 and 10 euros ($3 and $10) for a pass in an effort to control crowd numbers. FILE PHOTO: Tourists ride on a gondola as the municipality prepares to charge them up to 10 Euros for entry into the lagoon city, in order to cut down the number of visitors, in Venice, Italy, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri But the mayor's spokesman said the city council had not yet approved the necessary regulations, meaning the start date would have to be put bac...

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Italy’s drought exposes ancient imperial bridge over Tiber

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August 26, 2022743 Views

Italy’s worst drought in 70 years has exposed the piers of an ancient bridge over the Tiber River once used by Roman emperors but which fell into disrepair by the third century. Two piers of Nero’s Bridge have been visible much of the summer near the Vittorio Emanuele bridge that traverses the river near the Vatican, a pile of moss-covered rocks where seagulls now sun themselves. The ruins of the ancient Roman Neronian bridge, emerge from the river bed of the Tiber river, in Rome, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) The bridge was built in the first century for Emperor Nero to reach his gardens near the Janiculum Hill near what is present-day St. Peter’s Square, said historian Anthony Majanlahti. The bridge was already falling apart by the third century, traffic was...

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Venice fines ‘imbecile’ tourists for surfing down the Grand Canal

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August 19, 2022378 Views

Two foreign tourists who sped down Venice's famous Grand Canal on motorised surf boards have been identified and fined, city authorities said. Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro called the culprits "imbeciles" after they were filmed on the waterway on Wednesday, and offered a restaurant dinner to anyone who could identify them. FILE PHOTO: Tourists ride on a gondola in Venice, Italy, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri It did not take local police long to track them down, fine them 1,500 euros ($1,528.05) each and confiscate their surf boards worth some 25,000 euros, a statement from Brugnaro's office said. The footage of the men surfing down the canal went viral on social media and helped the police to identify them, although the city authorities did not make public who they...

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Italy’s Lake Garda shrinks to near-historic low amid drought

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August 14, 2022243 Views

Italy’s worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the country’s largest lake, to near its lowest level ever recorded, exposing swaths of previously underwater rocks and warming the water to temperatures that approach the average in the Caribbean Sea. Tourists flocking to the popular northern lake Friday for the start of Italy’s key summer long weekend found a vastly different landscape than in past years. An expansive stretch of bleached rock extended far from the normal shoreline, ringing the southern Sirmione Peninsula with a yellow halo between the green hues of the water and the trees on the shore. People sunbath on the peninsula of Sirmione, on Garda lake, Italy, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) “We came last year, we liked it, and we came back this y...

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New Pompeii finds highlight middle-class life in doomed city

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August 6, 2022675 Views

A trunk with its lid left open. A wooden dishware closet, its shelves caved in. Three-legged accent tables topped by decorative bowls. These latest discoveries by archaeologists are enriching knowledge about middle-class lives in Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius’ furious eruption buried the ancient Roman city in volcanic debris. Pompeii’s archaeological park, one of Italy’s top tourist attractions, announced the recent finds on Saturday. Its director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said the excavation of rooms in a “domus,” or home, first unearthed in 2018 had revealed precious details about the domestic environment of ordinary citizens of the city, which was destroyed in 79 A.D. A picture provide by the Pompeii Archeological site press office, showing the latest discoveries in the ancient city ...

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Rising temperatures reawakening ‘placid’ Alpine glaciers

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July 5, 2022244 Views

Drone search resumes on Italian glacier after avalanche Glaciers in Europe's Alps are becoming more unstable and dangerous as rising temperatures linked to climate change are reawakening what were long seen as dormant, almost fossilised sheets of ice. Italy has been baking in an early summer heatwave and attention had been focused on the impact of drought on crops on the fertile Po Valley. Punta Rocca summit is seen after parts of the Marmolada glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps amid record temperatures, killing at least six people and injuring several, at Marmolada ridge, Italy, July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Borut Zivulovic Further north in the Dolomites, tragedy struck on Sunday when a glacier collapsed on the Marmolada, which at more than 3,300 metres is the highest peak in the ...

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Venice makes reservation and fee mandatory for day-trippers

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July 3, 2022905 Views

Starting in January, Venice will oblige day-trippers to make reservations and pay a fee to visit the historic lagoon city, in a bid to better manage visitors who often far outnumber residents in the historic center, clogging narrow streets and heavily-used foot bridges crossing the canals. Venice officials on Friday unveiled new rules for day-trippers, which go into effect on Jan. 16, 2023. Tourists who choose not to stay overnight in hotels or other lodgings will have to sign up online for the day they plan to come and pay a fee. These range from 3 to 10 euros ($3.15 to $10.50) per person, depending on advance booking and whether it’s peak season or the city is very crowded. FILE PHOTO: A tourist takes a selfie in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, Nov. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Luca...