Venice, Italy News

Historic Venice is approaching the dread status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000 - a largely symbolic threshold considered by some to signal the end of the city's viability.

VENICE is set to hold a symbolic funeral of itself today, as the population has fallen below the key figure of 60,000. The famous lagoon city's population has been dwindling over the past 50 years as locals are forced out by high rents and replaced by millions of tourists.

Actor Matt Damon arrives at the Excelsior Hotel seen during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 7, 2009 in Venice, Italy.

Gianfranco Fini is caught between Berlusconi's waywardness and unreconstructed racists within the Lega Nord "We must cleanse our streets of the black-skinned, the yellow-skinned, the Roma a I would have all the immigrants put on file, one by one.

Want to relive 18th-century Venice? If you visit Venice along with thousands of other tourists during Carnival, youa ll experience one of the worlda s irresistible attractions.

Maurice Steger is a recorder virtuoso who, on this CD of Venezia 1625 directs an ensemble of Early Music instruments , which were recently built to replicate masterpieces by seventeenth century instrument makers.

A weekly feature of readers' travel photos. Photo gallery More travel postcards Location: Venice, Italy Photographer: Lance Johnson, Bellevue Photographer's description: Taken from the Piazzetta San Marco at the opening of the Grand Canal and Church of San Giorgio Maggiore.

A great landscape painter recently introduced me to the work of early-20th-century artist Philip Alexius de Lszl , whom up until that point I was not aware of.

Italians reacted with outrage on Tuesday after a European court ruled that displaying crucifixes in the country's schools violated the principle of secular education.

Italy's education minister condemned the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights, saying that the Christian cross was a symbol of the country's Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity.

Mariastella Gelmini, a member of the conservative government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, argued that "no one, and certainly not an ideological European court, will succeed in erasing our identity," said

ITALY violates parents' right to educate their children along secular lines by displaying crucifixes in classrooms, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

Rome, November 2 - Venice Mayor Massimo Cacciari has announced his intention to quit politics altogether once his current mandate expires next year.

Canaletto was an anomaly, both of his time and apart from it. His fame derives from his elegant depictions of Venice, his hometown, yet his clientele was not, for the most part, Venetian.

In winter 2006, under the aegis of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from theIUAV University in Venice fanned out to subject the city of Venice, Italy to a process of forensic structural mapping.

This freelance opportunity is open for you to apply for today: Job Summary: Research Society and Politics in Venice, Italy 1600-1605. Description of project: Mounting production of Othello in NYC.

Venice is a city with a striking charm at any time of year. Its buildings, its canals and bridges make you believe that time has stopped, in this magical and surreal atmosphere.

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VENICE, Italy - In the middle of the Adriatic Sea, a new 10-story structure anchored to the seabed offers an energy alternative to countries seeking secure supplies of natural gas-but facing public resistance to building gas reception facilities along their coastlines.

Hilton Worldwide has today announced the signing of a franchise agreement with VENEZIA CAPITOL Srl to open a Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Venice, Italy.