Three Tenors Christmas Concert - Winter Wonderland

Three Tenors Christmas Concert - Winter Wonderland

Three Tenors Christmas Music - Sleigh Ride

Three Tenors Christmas Music - Sleigh Ride

Christmas Music - Jingle Bells - Three Tenors

Jingle Bells - Three Tenors in Concert

Three Tenors Christmas Music - Let it Snow

Three Tenors Christmas Music - Let it Snow

Three Tenors Christmas Music: O Holy Night

Three Tenors Christmas Music: O Holy Night

Christmas Music - Feliz Navidad - Three Tenors

Christmas Music - Feliz Navidad - Three Tenors

Christmas Music: Three Tenors, Pavarotti Duets, Bocelli and more

Italian Christmas Music
Three Tenors, Bocelli, and various duets for your Christmas listening enjoyment.

Nino Lettieri Fashion Show: 2007 & 2009 FTL Moda

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Newly Discovered Leonardo Da Vinci woth $150 million

Leonardo Da Vinci's portrait of a beautiful lady may be considered like a facebook of photo today.

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Italy Right Now August 2009

Italy Right Now July 2009

Italy Right Now July 2009 by WebVisionItaly.com

Saltimbocca alla Romana - Veal Scaloppine with Prosciutto & Sage

Saltimbocca alla Romana Veal Scaloppine with Prosciutto di Parma & Sage finished with white wine sauce.




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Ancient Rome Art: Exclusive Tour of Priceless Artifacts on Bay of Naples

Ancient Rome: Exclusive Tour of Priceless Artifacts in Villa Arianna, Stabiae, on the Bay of Naples Italy. WebVisionItaly editors Ron and Deborah Del Sesto stop at Villa Arianna on their Campania travels around the Bay of Naples, Sorrentine Peninsula, and Amalfi coast. Here the ancient Roman frescoes, sculpture, and architecture is all in its original form preserved by ashes from Mt. Vesuvius on the last night in 79A.D when it buried the famous ancient Roman city Pompeii.

The blue, yellow, and gold pigments seen in the fresoces in Villa Arianna is unique and different in color from what is seen in Pompeii' ruins, which are famous for painting in colors of Pompeii red and black, colors common in the Villa Arianna frescoes. The amazing use of perspective in painting by the ancient Romans is seen in many of the fresco paintings that line the walls of Villa Arianna, and the use of pipes and plumbing for hot and cold water as well as toilets, demonstrates the ancient Roman lifestyle was "modern" with an emphasis on celebrating humanity, the culture of art, music, food, and spirituality. The lifestyle of the Bay of Naples at the time of Christ, as depicted in scenes in the fresco paintings on the walls of the villa,













was to say the least, luxurious by modern-day standards. Villa Arianna is an architectural marvel filled with paintings, sculptures, gardens, techniques used by ancient Romans here n these villas on the Bay of Naples not seen again until the Renaissance. A visit here to see the ancient Roman lifestyle would make any modern-day emperor jealous.

Stabiae and the villas full of priceless arts were the subject of a Smithsonian magazine article and the focus of a 2008 exhibit in Washington D.C., which included pieces of fresco, sculpture, and artifacts from ancient Stabiae. WebVisionItaly Bay of Naples Art Tour is the only Italy tour that escorts its guests to Villa San Marco and Villa Arianna in the ancient city of Stabiae to see priceless works of art.

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Who Spins a Better Pizza: Man or Machine? The Pizza Machine

Who Spins a Better Pizza: Man or Machine? The Pizza Machine

Click to see the Pizza Machine make a pizza in less than three minutes. Coming to a break room near you, will it put the local pizza chef master sponner our of business. Leave commens below.

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June Festivals in Italy - Italy Right Now - Umbria, Verona, Rome

June is festival Month in Italy's regions. The Giro d'Italia that seduced the country and Italy-lovers during May gives way to authentic festivals in Italy's towns.

If you are traveling in Italy during the first week of June be sure to plan around the June 2 holiday, the national holiday celebrating the Festa della Republica - Italy's birthday - is celebrated in all Italy's regions. Italy's trains to the spiaggia, the beach, from places like Florence, Bologna, Parma, Rome, Turin, and Milan to the beaches are full. Also, the highways are packed with cars full of the Italian vacationers dreaming of the Italian seacoast and Italy's beaches for a few days. So try to plan your Italy vacation or Italy train travel around this date.

Another one of Motorino Man's favorite festivals in Italy is the Feast of Corpus Christi. We like to be in Spello for the L'infiorata, which are flower mosaics that take days to create from local flowers and cover the streets, which flower mosaics are then walked on by the proccession on festival day.

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Gubbio-Umbria- I Ceri Candle Festival

Umbria, Gubbio May 15 is the candle festival - I Ceri. The beautiful medieval town draws thousands of visitors from all over the world to see the Ceri, candles, raised in the town square, after the saints Ubalo, Giorgio, Antonio Abate are fastened to the top, and then the race of three laps around the square begins. After the jump enjoy video of I Ceri Gubbio. Video >

Cinque Terre by Boat: Explore Liguria by Sea

Cinque Terre, Liguria Italy in spring is an excellent time to explore the rugged Ligurian coast between Genoa and Portovenere by boat. Arrive in these jewel sized ports along the Italian Riviera like the mariners have for 3000 years. The seaside hamlets of Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso al Mare are vestiges of life lived locally and seasonally - slowly. Enjoy the photogenic Ligurian coast by boat relaxing and smelling the pines that top off the the hills or by hiking the trails that connect the five towns giving it its name Cinque Terre.

To preserve this land, the government has declared the Cinque Terre a national park. For about $10 dollars per day visitors may hike the trail connecting all five towns, a trek that takes about five hours. If you opt to walk be careful on the trails. Wet trails are dangerous. Sunscreen etc. a must!

Outside the five towns up in the hills are the vineyards that fill the terraced gardens on mountain sides, which cut directly into the sea. These hills above the towns are famous for Ligurian white wine, made from the grapes that grow in the vineyards on the terraced slopes above the Ligurian sea, which fill the mountain sides. The Etruscans traded here with the ancient Chinese and ancient Egyptians, sharing advanced ideas and advanced cultures, adopting the best practises the Etruscans and Liguri people live in these hills what is today known as the Mediterranean lifestlye. For more video about Liguria checkout WebVisionItaly's Liguria channel.

Fiat Chrysler Latest News from MSM

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Fiat Chrylser - US and Canadian Unions Approve Deal

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(ANSA) Rome, April 22 - American and Canadian car unions have approved a deal between Chrysler and Fiat, paving the way for the deal to go through, an Italian car union leader told ANSA Wednesday.

''The accord with the US and Canadian unions has been reached...and with the federal government which has pledged, given everyone's readiness, to persuade the creditor banks to accept the deal,'' said Bruno Vitali of Fim-CISL.He said the deal was ''90% ready'' and might even be announced by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne later Wednesday.Vitali said he had had a long talk in Detroit earlier Wednesday with United Auto Workers leader Ron Gettelfienger.

President Barack Obama has given Chrysler until May 1 to strike a deal with Fiat in order to have access to further federal bail-out funds and avoid bankruptcy.The deal in part hinges on unions and lenders accepting stock in Chrysler in exchange for the debt owed to them.An accord draft leaked to the press indicated that unions would take a 20% stake in Chrysler, the same as Fiat's initial stake, as payment for half their pension fund.Marchionne is also asking unions to accept wage cuts to bring labor costs in line with those in other plants in the US producing foreign cars, in states where the unions have less power.The leaked draft also indicated that Marchionne would serve as CEO for both Fiat and Chrysler, while the US automaker would have an American chairman of the board.In this case, it is not clear what would happen to Chrysler's current CEO, Bob Nardelli.Marchionne has been credited for what Obama has described as Fiat's ''impressive'' turnaround in the last few years and the authoritative daily Financial Times last week likened him to a ''superhero'' in a ''Chrysler cliffhanger''.

According to the draft accord, if a partnership is created then Fiat, unions and a federally appointed trust would name a future seven-man Chrysler board.The federal trust would initially hold a significant stake in Chrysler, in exchange for the bail-out funds, including a 15% share which Fiat would receive in 5% instalments as it meets production milestones.Fiat is offering its cutting-edge green technology and platforms for small cars in exchange for as much as 35% of Chrysler but it is likely to be also given an option to acquire up to 49% or more, once the bail-out loans have been repaid.The Italian automaker is keen to strike a deal with Chrysler because it would have access to its plants and dealerships in order to allow it to return to the American market, initially with Alfa Romeo and the trendy Fiat 500 city car.Chrysler, in turn, would have access to Fiat's facilities in Europe and Latin America.

Best Cafe in Rome 2009: Tazza d'Oro and Sant'Eustachio Best Espresso in Rome

Who has best espresso in Rome? For years the caffes in Rome Tazza d'oro and Sant'Eustachio vie for the title of best espresso in Rome. No matter which you choose, neither Sant'Eustachio or Tazza d'Oro will disappoint.






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Rome Trattoria: Mimi e Coco, Piazza Navona Rome

Mimi e Coco Via del Governo Vecchio, 72 is a nice little caffe wine bar trattoria in Rome's centro storico open late with a good looking local Italian crowd for a glass of wine and a sandwich or salad just off of Piazza Navona. Mimi e Coco comes with a view of Pasquino the political mouthpiece and from Mimi e Coco there is nice view for people watching. Just blocks from Campo di' Fiori on the classic Roman street from La Dolce Vita Via del Governo Vecchio in Rome's centro storico. Below click to enjoy this video of Mimi e Coco caffe in the centro storico of Rome.



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Rome Trattoria: Ristorante Virginiae, Centro Storico Rome

Cucina Romana Virginiae is an authentic Roman trattoria near the Piazza Navona, off via del Governo Vecchio, on Via della Pace in Rome. Virginiae is a family-run Roman-style trattoria restaurant serving delicious home cooked authentic Roman lunch and dinner. Antipasto includes grilled vegetables, which I like to follow with Roman pasta like bucatini all'amatriciana or cacio e pepe, two pasta favorites when in Rome. After the pasta, when in Rome, try the veal with wine and sage, the veal scallopini or my favorite - veal saltimbocca, which is veal with prosciutto and sage topped with a white wine reduction. When in Rome's centro storico near the Piazza Navona take a break from the Bernini walking tour at ristorante Virginiae. Click for a map to Ristorante Virginiae.

Easter in Rome: Good Friday and Easter Celebration Rome Travel

Rome Good Friday and Easter celebrations include Via Cruces Friday from the Colosseum and Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square from St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican, in Rome.



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Italy Earthquake: Video by NBC News

Italy Earthquake Turns from Rescue to Recovery

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Rome Easter Celebration: Holy Week in Rome and Good Friday Traditions in Rome

Easter in Italy when the Spring flowers are in full bloom is a wonderful time to travel to Rome for Holy Week. Visit Rome and tour Rome's streets with WebVisionItaly's Rome Walking Maps, with Rome walking maps to the best trattoria in Rome's centro storico, map to shopping Rome fashion boutiques and even a walking tour of Bernini's Baroque Rome. Spring is a wonderful time to get out to walk and tour the Eternal City that is Rome.

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Easter in Italy: Easter Food Traditions in Italy

Easter in Italy is celebrated with all variety of traditional food like Easter bread made from cheese, sausage, and adorned with egg, spinach pies, artichokes, fava beans, while each region and city has its own Easter customs and traditions in Italy. Easter in Rome is celebrated with Roman soup made from beef and lamb thickened with egg, while Easter lamb in Rome is prepared with an egg and lemon sauce which is everyone's favorite. Easter in Naples is enjoyed with the family Pastia recipe, a baked macaroni pie. Easter in Sicily tradition food includes Riso Nero di Pasqua, black risooto made from choocolate. Visit WebVisionItaly.com for more video of Easter in Italy.

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Milan Fashion Week Women's Fall/Winter 2009/2010

Milan Fashion Week, which started last week February 25 and wraps up today March 4, 2009, in Milan is considered the king of the fashion weeks since Milano is considered the fashion capital of the world.

All the Italian designers who miss fashion week in New York and Paris are showing their new collections during Milan fashion Week.

Be on the look out for the following Italian designers showing their collections for the first time at Milan Fashion Week 2009: Alessia de Pasquale, Marta Forghieri, Antonio Romano, Alessia Xoccato, Carla Carini, Borsalino, Maryl's Joy, and Vinicio Pajaro.

Milan Fashion Week always brings out the Italian fashion designers we all know so well and love so much including Cucinelli who may have introduced a $50,000 suit in the wrong year, Armani, Blumarine, Bottega Veneta, Brioni, Cavalli, Dolce and Gabbana, Fendi, Ferragamo, Ferre, Gucci, La Perla, MaxMara, Missoni, Prada, Pucci, Tod's, Versace and many more.

After the jump video of Milan Fashion Week 2009/2010. More >

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Milan Fashion Week 2009/2010 - Blumarine's Anna Molinari

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Umbria Italy Travel

Italy Travel to Umbria with WebVisionItaly.com on the cashmere trail.

Arnaldi Caprai Cashmere and Luxury Goods Made in Italy

Arnaldi Caprai Cashmere, Lace, and Wine Luxury Goods Made in Italy

Italy Travel:Ristorante Maggiolini -Umbria Italy

Ristorante Maggiolini located in Trevi centro storico is an excellent place for lunch or dinner along Italy's cashmere road. For more Italy video click WebVisionItaly.com Ristorante Maggiolini.

Italy Travel: Italy Right Now March - Holiday Italy Travel

Italy Right Now March 2009 hosted by Deborah Del Sesto, producer WebVisionItaly.com.

March 8 is Festa della Donna - so don't forget to send your favorite woman - wife, mom, daughter, a mimosa flower. The deicate pink flower grows on the end of tree blooming mostly in India each Spring.

Easter comes late this year, April 12, so that extends Spring activites for your Italy holiday vacation.

Maritime republic of Venice March 25 is the Marriage of Venice Day so Chef Walter shows us how to cook Risotto of the Waves - Risotto al Unda.

St Joseph Day March 19 gives us an excuse to indulge and remember grandma's Zeppole, an authentic Italian St. Joseph Day tradition. Check out cooking channel for Chef Terranova of Johnson and Wales University Zeppole recipe to cook authentic Italian Zeppole.

Italy trvael in to Italy in March is always fun and exciting - for more ideas visit WebVisionItaly.com.

Venice Italy: Carnival, Prosecco, and Mystery

Italy Travel: Venice Carnival. Visit WebVisionItaly.com for more Video Carnevale Venezia 2009.

Italy Right Now - February 2009

Italy Right Now, February 2009 we go to Venice for Carnival (Carnevale), when Venice overflows with people wearing masks celebrating with parties before Lent. While in Veneto we travel to Verona on Fat Tuesday for the gnocchi festival. And of course St. Valentines, named after an Italian priest from 265 AD, who penned a love letter before being executed for his love. Engaged couples head to Naples . We go to San Remo for the music festival, one of the oldest and most important festivals for Italian singers. And finally, Milan Fashion Week 2009 for Women is in February, a must visit for fashionistas as Italy's famous brands put on fashion shows in Milan.

Italy Travel: How to Ski in Italy

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Venice Italy Travel: Venice Day Trip to Verona

Verona is only one hour and 30 minutes by train from Venice.

Verona is a wonderful day trip from Venice although longer than a Venice day trip to Vicenza, which is about one hour by train, or a Venice day trip to Padua, which is only 35 minutes by train from Venice. Venice is a magical city but with so many desitnations around Venice the traveler is wise to spend a few days around Venice to explore the Veneto region in Italy before moving on to Italy's other two of the big three, Florence and Rome. Below Isabella Dusi introduces WebVisionItaly.com viewers to Verona.

Venice Day Trip to Vicenza

Venice Day trip to Vicenza, in the region of Veneto with Isabella Dusi visit the birthplace of Andrea Palladio and today the third largest industrial city by export in Italy.

Vicenca is home to twenty three buildings by Palladio. The famous ones include:

• The three-dimensional stage a the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, designed for the Accademia degli Olimpico. Construction had started on this project when Palladio died in 1580.;
• Palazzo Thiene, which Palladio turned into a Palladio building although Palladio was not the original architect;
• The Basilica Palladiana, centrally located in Vicenza's Piazza dei Signori, of which Palladio himself that it might stand comparison with any similar work of antiquity;
• The Villa Capra (also known as "La Rotonda"), located just outside the downtown area;
• Palazzo Chiericati, home of Vicenza's museum;
• Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto;
• Palazzo Da Porto Breganze;
• Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello; and
  
• Villa Gazzotti Grimani, in the frazione Bertesina.

Click below for a video introduction to Vicenza and after the jump more video about Vicenza Italy and Andrea Palladio.

Venice Italy Travel: City of Merchants and Traders

Venice is a magical city in the region of Veneto Italy, whose people, the Venetians live in the sea among 400 islands. This city has always been a mercantile city. Piazza San Marco is the center of Venice and one of Europe's largest squares. A visit to Venice, one of Italy's maritime powerhouses, is to learn about how the context and physical location of Venice had everything to do with its rise to wealth and mercantilism. As Malcolm Gladwell recently wrote in outlines, so much of success is predicated on context, location, and timing. In Venice this is certainly the case.

By living literally in the sea Venetians spent time looking outward with an open mind toward what was to be discovered in the Mediterranean and in the case of Marco Polo as far away as China. While the church was running its crusades Marco Polo was trading with Arabs and Asians, bringing spices, silks, jewels, and of course pasta back to Venice in the 12th century. The merchants of Venice such as Murano Glass is another example of the Venetians taking best practices from around the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas and incorporating them into their glass making style and process to create something uniquely Venetian. At the same time continental Europeans were not equipped to invade a sea-land empire to steal the wealth giving Venice the time and space it need to grow into the world's richest city. Inevitably Venice's location and its efect on the Venetians led to the Venetian's success in commerce and trade with foreign cultures and people. Venice is another example from the Italic peninsula of how importing the best practises of the cultures they traded with and then putting a unique stamp leads to long term success and prosperity, much like the Romans, and the Etrucans before them who created the first United Nations and League of Nations in 500 BC, created their own wealth and success.

Italy Travel: Carnival Cento Italy

Italy travelers to the area of Cento, north of Bologna near Ferrara may enjoy Carnival inspired by Rio de Janiero. Italy travelers and locals are treated to Samba music and Samba dancing while the winning float from this festival in Italy is transported to Rio de Janiero where the winning float from this Italian town is transported to while the samba is imported to Italy from Brazil. This is the only Carnival in Italy for travelers to enjoy a little Brazil too. If your holiday in Italy happens around late January consider north of Bologna in Emilia Romagna for Italy travel.

Italy Recovers Stolen Art Dating to 16th Century

Italy police recover stolen masterpieces

By ARIEL DAVID – 23 hours ago

ROME (AP) — Italian police have recovered 10 masterpieces, including a painting attributed to an artist who worked on the Sistine Chapel, that were stolen in 2004 from an ancient religious complex in Rome, officials said Tuesday.

The most important among the recovered works is the "Sacred Family," depicting Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. The work has been attributed to 16th-century artist Parmigianino. However, Rome museum official Claudio Strinati later told reporters that it was more likely the work of Flemish master Hendrick van den Broeck, a friend of Parmigianino who also decorated the entrance of the Sistine Chapel, best known for the frescoes painted there by Michelangelo.
Strinati is an expert in 16th-century art.

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Italy Travel: Carnevale Ivrea, Piedmont Italy

Piedmont Italy is where you find the Ivrea Carnevale when traveling in Italy during Carnevale. This ornage throwing battle dates back 400 years to when the Feudal lords when bring the poor a few beans and the beans ould throw them out in the street.

Italy Travel - Epiphany Celebrations and Festivals in Rome, Florence and Venice

After the New Years holiday in Italy comes the Epiphany. Italians trade gifts to celebrate the day when the Magi gave their gifts to baby Jesus after following the stars. Peace to all.