Palazzo Buonaccorsi a Macerata

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Un palazzo come il settecentesco Buonaccorsi, alle porte del centro storico, proprietà del Comune dal 1967 e sede dell’Accademia di Belle Arti fino al 1997. Oggi ospita il Museo della Carrozza (aperto a dicembre 2009) e la raccolta d’arte antica e moderna.

Il piano nobile propone la raccolta di arte antica attraverso un percorso ordinato cronologicamente, a partire dalle testimonianze artistiche quattrocentesche, tra cui l’opera più nota della collezione, la Madonna con bambino di Carlo Crivelli. Le sale ospitano altre opere di grande pregio, tra cui quelle di Giovanbattista Salvi, Michele Rocca detto il Parmigiano, Domenico Corvi, Alessandro Turchi l’Orbetto, Federico Zuccari e molti altri. […]

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Italy No. 1 on Americans’ Travel Wish List

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Try to ask which country outside of the U.S. would an American choose for a vacation and the answer will be Italy.According to a survey ran by popular airfare search engine Fly.com, the Bel Paese, always among the top destinations of the travel wish list, is the 2014 top vacation choice for Americans. Why do Americans love Italy? Reports from travelers to this land of high culture, wonderful art and colorful history say that there are plenty of reasons to make the journey, the least of which is probably the fact that Italy has the best food in the world as well as one of the world’s most beautiful languages and warmest people.

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'The Professor' Domenico Rancadore rearrested over links to Mafia - Telegraph

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Domenico Rancadoree, who evaded Italian authorities for 20 years, has been rearrested a month after winning a battle against extradition to his native ItalyMafia fugitive Domenico Rancadore, who last month avoided extradition to Italy has been re-arrested over his connections to the criminal gang.Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s extradition unit arrested the 65-year-old in Uxbridge, west London, on Friday, after they received a new European Arrest Warrant request from Italy.

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Pope says troubled Vatican Bank will remain open - Telegraph

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Pontiff says bank will “continue to serve with prudence and provide specialised financial services to the Catholic Church worldwide”Pope Francis has given his backing to the Vatican’s scandal-plagued bank, ending speculation that he might shut it down as part of his drive to clean up the Vatican’s murky finances.The decision, announced yesterday, follows a breakneck transparency drive at the bank, known by its Italian initials IOR (Istituto per le Opere di Religione), which has been accused in the past of offering banking services to mob bosses and tax dodgers.

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Silvio Berlusconi may face commuity service in care home over tax fraud - Telegraph

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Disagraced former Italian PM faces hearing to decide whether he gets nine months of house arrest or social service duties for his tax fraud convictionItalian probation officers have recommended that Silvio Berlusconi serves out his one-year sentence for tax fraud by working at a retirement home once a week.The 77-year-old former Italian prime minister was sentenced to four years last year for tax fraud at his Mediaset TV company, although the sentence was reduced to a year under an amnesty law. It also led to Berlusconi’s ejection from the Senate.

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Italy calls for EU help as it pulls 4000 migrants from sea in 48 hours - Telegraph

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Interior minister Angelino Alfano says Europe cannot wash its hands of an ‘increasingly glaring’ crisisItaly has rescued 4,000 migrants from boats trying to reach European shores in the past 48 hours, the country’s interior minister said on Wednesday, calling for EU help to cope with an “increasingly glaring” crisis.”The emergency is getting worse and there is no halt to the boats arriving,” Angelino Alfano told Italian public radio. “This issue is serious and Europe must take it in hand, immediately, because this is not a Mediterranean border but a European border.”

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Lage temperatuur vertraagt Italiaanse consumptie nieuwe aardappelen

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"Het leekt erop dat het nieuwe aardappelseizoen is begonnen, maar de consumptie is deze week wat vertraagd vanwege de lagere temperaturen", zeggen managers van Fratelli Torti. Het bedrijf importeert en verkoopt de nieuwe aardappel Bellini, uit Tunesië. "Het product ziet er goed uit en is zoals altijd erg lekker."

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