Tag: Italy

Italy: holidays, events, national customs Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date but are based on the location of Easter. Easter takes place on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the beginning of spring. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which ends…

The city of Venice, located in Italyis unique in the world. The city, which is largely built on stilts, is known worldwide for its historic city center with many waterways. A gondola cruise through Venice is considered by many to be one of the most romantic trips you can make. The operators make good use…

Pozza di Fassa, Trentino Alto Adige (Italy) The ski resort of Pozza di Fassa is located in the center of the Val di Fassa at an altitude of 1320 m. The valley extends among the Dolomites to the northeastern outskirts of the province of Trentino. Pozza di Fassa, along with other resorts in the valley,…

Industry. – In the early seventies, when the raw materials crisis arose, the Italy it had achieved high rates of industrial growth, based on the development of basic industries, hired as poles to increase the production of semi-finished and finished products. The result of this policy, which the whole Western world had followed since the…

According to allcountrylist.com, Italy entered the struggle at a difficult time for the Entente and on the toughest front. With the heroism of his soldiers, with the sacrifice of 680,000 lives, he had to make up for the insufficiency of armament and the lack of a true military tradition. Nor did he always find understanding and recognition…

The impossibility of remaining neutral was soon evident. “No people, on the altar of fidelity to a treaty, will ever be able to sacrifice the reasons for their existence” had already said Bismarck. If the governments of Vienna and Berlin had long been convinced that they could not count on Italian intervention in their war for the…

In the second half of March 1914 Giolitti left power to Antonio Salandra, an enlightened conservative, who, according to most, had to touch a short ministerial life. His predecessor would return as soon as the international concerns had been resolved, the economic and financial difficulties deriving from the Libyan war had been resolved and the renewed…

Giordano Bruno and Paolo Sarpi: philosophical thought, political and scientific thought. The fruits of the Renaissance ripened. A period full of men like this, this between the ‘500 and the’ 600; men linked by spiritual kinship, men of a civilization, of a nation, capable of increasing its ideal heritage and cementing its unitary life. We still remember Tommaso Campanella…

And if with the Angevins, then with Ferdinand the Catholic, there had been some loosening of brakes, now Philip II returned to being firm and combative, he forbade Tridentine decrees from being published, he stood up to fiscal and judicial requests: as in Spain, so in Italian possessions. Savoy, Genoa, Lucca, Venice reacted; indeed, Venice engaged in…

All this gives a good light to this phase of Italian life, which follows the wars of dominance and conquest. For many Italian states, it is a phase of industrious youth, of enlightened constructive activity; also for the Spanish government in its Italian provinces, it is the best time. Sicilian historians consider the time of Philip II to…

Therefore, before embarking on the crusade to which he was obliged, Frederick turned to the north, where he was not lacking partisans and supporters: the Ghibellines. In short, he resumed the policy of Barbarossa of his ancestor and of Henry his father. And like Barbarossa and Enrico, again he found himself facing the Holy See: first Pope…

According to themeparktour.com, crowned king in Germany, Frederick went down to Italy in 1220. And he seemed to be doing everything under the inspiration of the curia, for the purposes that it proposed. He gave dozens of diplomas to Italian bishops who went to solicit him beyond the Alps; he proceeded trained and counseled by a large cohort…

According to thefreegeography.com, settlement of a German dynasty in southern Italy, the same one that for three generations had, besides the kingdom of Germany, also the kingdom of Italy and the empire, with a lot of good will to get its hands on the lands of the Church; vast violation of ecclesiastical liberties in the cities,…

In the 2018 political elections, the center-right coalition, composed of Forza Italia, Lega, Fratelli d’Italia and Noi con Italia, obtained a total of about 37% of the votes, with the Lega as the first party in the coalition, the center-left about 22% of the votes with the PD around 19% and the 5-star Movement over…

In 2009, according to mysteryaround.com, the process of merging the center-right formations was completed in the confluence of Alleanza Nazionale and Forza Italia in the Popolo della Libertà party (PdL). The primary object of the government action was the measures to deal with the fallout at national level of the global economic and financial crisis,…

The year 2000 remains marked by an atmosphere of bitter tensions. The stark contrast between the two center-right and center-left political camps generates a systematic conflict, devoid of the possibility of confrontation and meeting between the parties, except for a few rare occasions in foreign policy. The weakening of the center left is confirmed in…

In short, a resumption of unrest and wars in the peninsula, following both the political resurgence of France and the new Bourbon-Habsburg struggles, which are now one of their fields in Italy, as well as the formation of a valid subalpine state, which seeks in the active participation in those struggles its defense and its…

But what a return! With the pontiff, bands of foreign mercenaries who sacked Cesena and blood. And many French, to whom public opinion, especially in the State of the Church which already had a swarm of it around its neck, rectors, vicars, officials of all kinds, was extremely averse. Worse still: in 1372, that pontiff had led and…

According to itypeauto.com, Cola also conceived the relations between Italy and the empire in a new way. For some time, as it was claimed that the empire derives from God, but was conferred “by the authority of the senate and the Roman people” and the Bolognese and Italian jurists saw the first and essential source of…

In the absence of the popes, the seeds of the lordship were also developing within the State of the Church, present wherever they were the life of common and powerful families more or less mixed with the life of the communes. The papal legates, including Bertrando del Poggetto, could do little to prevent this development. And it…

They go searched, that is, besides the mentioned Levi (which the famous Christ Stopped at Eboli has done worthily follow the clock, Words are stones, etc.), In Alberto Moravia, which especially in the stories, short or long as Disobedience has shown that it is able to push deep into that psychological analysis which elsewhere, in the novels proper (Il conformista, La boredom,…

According to itypetravel.com, the most significant change that the literary panorama of the last decade presents compared to the previous one concerns poetry. The hermeticism which at the time, while showing that it was close to exhausting its cycle, nevertheless held the field, has now yielded to the experiences or experiments of the young poetic…