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Practicalities

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Agrigento | No Comments »

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Aldo Moro

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Rome | No Comments »

Just around the corner from the turtle fountain, a little way up Via Caetani on the right, is a memorial to the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro , whose ... Read more..

Listings

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Bari | No Comments »

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Arrival and information

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Bari | No Comments »

Bari is a fairly compact city, running from the train station in the gridded new city down to the bulging old centre, the cittàvecchia , ... Read more..

The 1970s and 1980s

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »

In the 1970s the situation worsened: bankruptcies increased, inflation hit twenty percent, and unemployment rocketed. More extreme forms of unrest broke out, instigated in the first instance by the far ... Read more..

The postwar years

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »

A popular mandate declared Italy a republic in 1946, and Alcide de Gasperi's Democrazia Cristiana (DC) party formed a government. He remained in power until 1953, sustained by a succession ... Read more..