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 More than a hundred people have been evacuated due to a huge landslide which is tearing apart a village in Abruzzo, central Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20170223/landslide-tears-italian-village-apart-abruzzo-unstoppable Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:06:46 +0100 landslide-tears-italian-village-apart-abruzzo-unstoppable A horse's head isn't generally a good omen in Italy - or at least, not in Italy-based movie franchise The Godfather. But archaeologists at Rome's Colosseum were delighted to stumble across a medieval equine skull on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170119/archaeologists-just-found-a-medieval-horses-head-at-the-colossseum Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:44:16 +0100 archaeologists-just-found-a-medieval-horses-head-at-the-colossseum Three young people were injured, two seriously, on Tuesday night after a water taxi in Venice cut through the boat they were on. https://www.thelocal.it/20160817/three-injured-as-venice-water-taxi-slices-boat-in-two Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:18:29 +0200 three-injured-as-venice-water-taxi-slices-boat-in-two We all knew that a win for Brexit would create some measure of uncertainty but for those expats who have chosen to take full advantage of the European Union freedom of movement and make their home in Italy, the questions just keep mounting. https://www.thelocal.it/20160701/brexit Fri, 01 Jul 2016 09:00:55 +0200 brexit Pope Francis is putting up a Syrian refugee family from Damascus in a Vatican apartment, aides revealed on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150918/pope-francis-hosts-syrian-refugee-family Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:56:52 +0200 pope-francis-hosts-syrian-refugee-family A new film about Pope Pius XII has sparked controversy over claims the pontiff saved 800,000 Jews from the Nazis during the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.it/20150302/film-claims-italian-pope-saved-800000-jews Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:29:00 +0100 film-claims-italian-pope-saved-800000-jews Five thousand boxes of chocolate, stolen from the Swiss luxury chocolate maker Lindt & Sprüngli and valued at €1.5 million, have been found in a warehouse near Naples. https://www.thelocal.it/20141212/pilfered-lindt-chocolate-found-near-naples Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:24:00 +0100 pilfered-lindt-chocolate-found-near-naples A spokesman for the British royals, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, told The Local that the couple is not buying a property in Tuscany following reports in the Italian press. https://www.thelocal.it/20130813/william-and-kate-are-not-buying-an-italian-home Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:42:00 +0200 william-and-kate-are-not-buying-an-italian-home