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Simply Italian, Season 1 Episode 1 of 4. New series on UK Channel 4. Michela Chiappa demonstrates how to create Italian family dishes, taking viewers through the basics of making dough, sauces, filled pasta and a few celebratory specials. She begins with a guide to preparing fresh pasta without gadgets, including linguine primavera and farfalle …

Now that the London Olympics have started you may want to take time and tune into the BBC’s Olympic TV Channels. Normally accessed via the ‘Red Button’ in the U.K., these channels are currently available in Italy with a little fine tuning. Firstly, you need to know how to find the Transponder Frequency (TP), so …

The opportunity to study in Italy just became a little easier. Last week Italy’s Education Ministry introduced the first bilingual website listing all university courses available in the country, in an attempt to open up Italian universities to international as well as local students. UniversItaly will enable students to browse, in English and Italian, the …

Quick Guide to Lake Orta, Piemonte… Fireworks, Serpents and Silence…in and around this tiny Italian Lake set in the scenic north of Italy at the foot of the Alps in Piedmont. What to see, what to do and where to go. Lake Orta, or Lago d’Orta in Italian, is a glacial lake in Piedmont, northern …

Italian Architect Renzo Piano’s Shard will be officially inaugurated with a light show across London tonight. The Shard is the tallest building in the EU and the 45th tallest in the world but unfortunately you can’t see Italy from the top. Piano, son of a Genoese building contractor, worked in Louis Kahn’s Philadelphia office before …