Topic: Italy
ROME (Reuters) - Italian police and firemen have arrived at the Colosseum in Rome, after an anonymous telephone call triggered a bomb alert at the amphitheatre, the Ansa news agency reported.107468273&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report World News
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If you're heading to Paris, you'll stop in at the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, in Washington the Smithsonian is a must-see and the Vatican in Rome should be on every museum-lover's bucket list. With that ...
Authorities in Florence on Thursday asked the Louvre Museum to loan them Leonardo's closely-guarded Mona Lisa for an exhibit in 2013 -- 100 years since the last time the work was displayed in Italy.The appeal to France came from an Italian historical ...
National Art Museum of China director Fan Di'an unveiled a Chinese exhibition in Rome on Wednesday with 100 seminal works that help define the transition between ancient and modern Chinese art."At a time when Chinese and Western cultures came together, between the ...
ROME (Reuters) - Luxury shoemaker Tod's will fund the restoration of Rome's Colosseum with a 25 million euro ($34 million) sponsorship campaign, the biggest to rescue Italy's crumbling archaeological treasures with private money."I won't put Tod's shoes on the Colosseum," the company's ...
Getty Museum set to return Aphrodite statue, ending antiquities dispute with ItalyItaly's decade-old campaign to retrieve antiquities it says were illegally brought to California will end early next year.The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return to Sicily a fifth ...
An Italian luxury shoe tycoon on Thursday offered 25 million euros (33 million dollars) to restore the Colosseum and urged other businesses to do the same "quickly" to avoid the collapse of Italy's cultural heritage."We want to do something good for a ...
Cop window-shopping in NY spots ancient statue stolen decades ago from Italian museumTwo ancient statues stolen in the 1980s from Italian museums are now back home, thanks in part to a police art squad expert who spotted one of them in a ...
Cellini, resisting the efforts of his father to train him as a musician, was apprenticed as a metalworker in the studio of the Florentine goldsmith Andrea di Sandro Marcone. Cellini participated in the defense of Rome in 1527, during which, by his ...
Picasso en Provence Cote d' Azur" itinerary that some areas of southern France have created in celebration of the life of artist Pablo Picasso. It adds that included in the itinerary are themed stays and visits to museums and places of significance ...
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Italy Partial Solar Eclipse
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Greece Explosion
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Italy Alpine Skiing World Cup
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