https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed On January 18th Italy marks the second anniversary of a major avalanche in Pescara, Abruzzo which engulfed a luxury hotel and killed 29 people. https://www.thelocal.it/20190118/italy-commemorates Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:54:32 +0100 italy-commemorates The Umbrian town of Norcia on Monday commemorated the year anniversary of a 6.5-magnitude earthquake which left much of its centre destroyed. https://www.thelocal.it/20171030/one-year-on-norcia-remembers-powerful-earthquake Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:48:54 +0100 one-year-on-norcia-remembers-powerful-earthquake Shakespeare was fascinated by Italy - but how did he come to know so much about it? And was he actually an Italian? https://www.thelocal.it/20160422/shakespeare-and-italy-italian-bard-400-anniversary-death-verona-venice-rome-caesar-romeo-juliet-padua-mantua-taming-shrew-gentlemen-merchant-venice Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:48:12 +0200 shakespeare-and-italy-italian-bard-400-anniversary-death-verona-venice-rome-caesar-romeo-juliet-padua-mantua-taming-shrew-gentlemen-merchant-venice To mark his second anniversary as premier, which falls on Monday, the Twitter-loving 41-year-old has posted a slideshow on his Facebook page vaunting his achievements since seizing power in an internal putsch inside his centre-left Democratic Party (PD). https://www.thelocal.it/20160221/italy-clouds-mar-renzis-second-anniversary Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:09:07 +0100 italy-clouds-mar-renzis-second-anniversary Pope Francis marked the second anniversary of his election on Friday by giving an interview in which he says he would like to be able to pop out for a pizza. https://www.thelocal.it/20150313/pope-craves-anonymity-to-eat-pizza Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:47:25 +0100 pope-craves-anonymity-to-eat-pizza A year after more than 360 Africans perished on a burning, sinking ship off Lampedusa there is no end in sight to the stream of migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean, or the political row over how to stop them recurring. https://www.thelocal.it/20141002/no-end-in-sight-to-tide-of-migrant-tragedies Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:15:00 +0200 no-end-in-sight-to-tide-of-migrant-tragedies A series of events have been announced to mark the 2,000th anniversary this month of the death of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor - an event that gave the month of August its name. https://www.thelocal.it/20140806/romes-powerful-emperor Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:35:00 +0200 romes-powerful-emperor Gladiators, horsemen and women with flowers in their hair brought history alive Monday at Rome's Circus Maximus where thousands gathered to celebrate the Eternal City's 2,767th birthday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140422/gladiators-and-horsemen-fete-romes-birthday Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:48:42 +0200 gladiators-and-horsemen-fete-romes-birthday