A community portal about Italy with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Italy is a country located in Southern Europe, that comprises the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the...
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A community portal about Italy with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Italy is a country located in Southern Europe, that comprises the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is also called by Italians lo Stivale, or la Penisola . Italy shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italian territory, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland.
Visiting your friends or need a long weekend getaway to beautiful Soverato sits on the Italian Ionian sea in the Gulf of Squillace ? The area of Soverato offer important place to spend your vacationes with many turistic and archaelogical sites . Some of the most renowned tourist places to visit in the Calabrian Ionic coast is Soverato, Caminia, Copanello, the Archaeological Park of Scolacium, Certosa of Serra San Bruno, Cattolica of Stilo, Le Castella, Sila Piccola, the ruins of Rocceletta... Read Full Story
The Italian air force could face a near-term degradation of its capabilities - and these could include a cut to its combat and training aircraft fleets because of a rapid and dramatic contraction to its training, maintenance and operational funding. Air force deputy chief-of-staff Gen Giuseppe Bernadis says Rome's three-year defence budget law for 2009-11 "could have dramatic results on operational capabilities if additional funding, such as that approved in 2009 by the Parliament for out-of... Read Full Story
(Getty Images) more pics » If you think Italy is picturesque normally, wait until you see it covered in snow. The city of Milan got hit with a blanket of the white stuff today, and the results are molto bella . (Getty Images) more pics » Here's the Piazza Del Duomo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as people go about their business. (Getty Images) more pics » A streetcar rolls through a wintry scene in downtown Milan. The city typically only gets 4 days of snow per year, making this, Milan's... Read Full Story
The Boeing Company and AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, today signed a contract for the manufacture and support of 16 ICH-47F Chinook helicopters for the Italian Army. The contract makes Boeing the prime subcontractor to AgustaWestland for the new aircraft. The contract is worth approximately 900 million euros ($1.23 billion). Boeing will build the ICH-47F fuselage at its facility in Ridley Park, Pa. Prime contractor AgustaWestland will be responsible for design and systems... Read Full Story
Today there was the ceremony at Fincantieri’s Muggiano (La Spezia) shipyard to mark the handover to the Italian Navy of the frigate “Caio Duilio” which had been launched in October 2007 a Riva Trigoso. The handover follows intensive sea trials and there will be further testing of the communication, command and control systems so that the “Caio Duilio” may become fully operational. The key feature of the ceremony was the raising of the flag of the Italian Navy on the Duilio. Read more Read Full Story
Italy's defence ministry has ordered four ATR 72 maritime patrol aircraft from Alenia Aeronautica, with deliveries scheduled to commence to the nation's air force in 2012. To be equipped with Selex Galileo's ATOS mission system, which includes a Seaspray maritime search radar, electro-optical multi-sensor turret and datalink, the new aircraft will be flown by mixed crews from the air force and the Italian navy, says Alenia. The new type will augment the Italian air force's current maritime... Read Full Story
As expected, the Italian Air Force (ItAF) confirmed that it was forced to demand a contract extension for the leasing of the 15 LockMart's F-16ADF fighter aircraft equipping the 37th Wings at Trapani-Birgi, Sicily. The delays in the deliveries and in reaching the full operational capability of the Eurofighter Typhoon seems to leave no alternative, since still too less of these aircraft are in service with the ItAF to assume full responsibility of the national air defence. Therefore, Italy's... Read Full Story
“Buongiorno, buongiorno,” the head of the Italian Navy said Tuesday as he stepped onto the pier at the Naval Submarine Base. A chorus of “buongiorno” replies rose in response, since the Italians outnumbered the Americans in the crowd. The 27-man crew of the SMG Salvatore Todaro (S 526) and a group of Italian navy retirees, now living stateside, had gathered to welcome Chief of Naval Staff Adm. Paolo La Rosa to Groton. This spring, La Rosa decided to send the Todaro to the East Coast of the... Read Full Story
A few years ago I found myself in a small Italian town called San Remo. The only item I have to report from this visit is the fact that a local car dealership had giant posters of badgers in its windows and hanging from the ceiling. Curious. My limited acquaintance with la lingua italiana – the local peasants and shop stewards alike found my attempts to blend in invariably amusing – told me that tasso, the Italian for badger, is very close to tassa, the Italian for tax. The dealer was... Read Full Story
Lampioni con fonte di luce a led. Materiali: Alluminio Pannelli solari in silicio monocristallino da 40/80/100Watt Fonte luminosa : Proiettore a LED di potenza variabile (da 18w a 48w), con una potenza illuminante pari ad una lampada alogena di circa 500w. Tutte le lampade Pulsar montano led ad alto rendimento di ultima generazione (high power led) con una durata media di circa 100.000 ore. Il lampione piccolo (altezza 3,70 m) illumina l'area sottostante per circa 16 mq. Dimensioni: Solar... Read Full Story
