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13 million euro stolen from the Ministery of State Schooling
ministero You may have thought that the mafia culture in Italy was a thing of the past, or something mythologized in America through films such as the Godfather, or more recently the television series The ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 13/03/2008 -
Horse heads and spooky phone calls: but this is not The Godfather film
The legendary film The Godfather will have forever immortalised the image of the mafia in the minds of people the world over. And the scene of the horse head probably brings shivers down the spine ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 24/04/2008 -
Who wants to be a millionaire (and wants everyone to know)?
agenzia_delle_entrate The debacle over the online publication of income and tax returns in Italy is not yet over, with Codacons, association for the protection of consumers, making a formal request of compensation to the tune ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 05/05/2008 -
Sardinia: reimbursement for luxury tax
costa_smeralda_1 The tax on luxury proposed by Renato Soru in Sardinia was big news in Italy and caused a stir for a couple of years. The tax was aimed at preserving the island through taxes ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 14/05/2008 -
Italian post office robbed with a coconut
noce cocco There are plenty of theatre gags around in which a thief holds up a bank, not with a revolver but a banana, or slapstick jokes of a similar theme. This time in Italy ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 04/06/2008 -
Pane Amore e Fantasia: from "Dolce Vita" to the Carabinieri of 2008
pane_amore_fantasia Pane amore e fantasia (Bread, love and fantasy) is a famous film from 1953 with Gina Lollobrigida and Vittorio De Sica. It's a romantic comedy about a girl, a carabiniere and his commander. Why ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 18/06/2008 -
Italy strange but true: armoured tank and scooter in accident
tank Anyone who's ever attempted driving in Italy knows that you take your life in your own hands. That is until the Italian drivers get out and then all hell breaks lose. Touring Italy on ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 14/10/2008 -
Win 400 million euros...or lose them? Italians and lotto
gioco azzardo milano According to the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, publishing news from Agipronews, Italians play hard at scratch and wins. So hard, in fact, we question whether the data is actually correct. For example, the ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 16/10/2008 -
Man fined for swimming in Trevi Fountain
Fontana di Trevi a Roma A 31-year-old man was recently fined for swimming in the Trevi Fountain in Rome. If he was attempting a reproduction of Anita Ekberg in the famous scene from "La Dolce ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 11/11/2008 -
Snow in Milan doesn't stop motorcyclists
I enjoyed the snow in Italy on the weekend, but I went skiing, not travelling to Milan on a motorcycle in the snow. This video was taken just after 7am today on the outskirts of ... Read moreFrom Blogdolcevita - 10/12/2008
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