Venice Italy Travel News
- The world continues to tune in to real Italian food Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:25PMIf you are lucky, you never have known a world without olive oil or a time when Parmesan cheese came only in green cans.
- Student travelers singing, dancing across Europe Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 9:09AMBy GLENDA CAUDLE Special Features Editor Devin danced, Peyton sang and everyone representing the Union City Rotary Club took part in a conga line and performed the “chicken dance” Monday night before leaving Switzerland and heading to Italy.
- Shakespeare Santa Cruz-bound? Grab a picnic basket Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 1:44AMWhether you prefer Romeo and Juliet or Petruchio and Kate, one thing is clear: William Shakespeare must have loved Italy, because he set more than a dozen of his most famous plays there.
- Students’ ‘amazing’ journey includes Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 8:10PMBy GLENDA CAUDLE Special Features Editor Unlike some unhappy past “guests” at the location, Devin Burnside was in no danger of losing his head to a hooded executioner at the Tower of London Thursday.
- Cy Twombly dies at 83; internationally renowned American artist Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 7:27PMCy Twombly, whose work blurred the boundaries of painting, drawing and handwritten poetry, was recognized with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg as one of the three most important American artists to emerge in the 1950s. Cy Twombly, an internationally renowned American artist whose lyrically evocative signature works blur the boundaries of painting, drawing and handwritten poetry, has died ...
- Al fresco feast: Two picnics of Verona Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 3:23PMWhether you prefer Romeo and Juliet or Petruchio and Kate, one thing is clear: William Shakespeare must have loved Italy, because he set more than a dozen of his most famous plays there.
- Deal watch: Costa Cruises puts Mediterranean on sale Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 2:08AMCosta Cruises is offering some seven-night voyages for as little as $429 per person.
- Despite changes, students arrive in London Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 1:57PMBy GLENDA CAUDLE Special Features Editor The most recent contact with the nine local high school students and the pair of adult chaperones traveling in Europe for 12 days, courtesy of Union City Rotary Club, came about 8 a.m. local time today.
- Travel agenda: Costa Favolosa named, Trump Panama opens Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 9:02AMThe Costa Favolosa is named in a glittering celebration in Trieste, Italy this weekend, honoring the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification. On July 6, all eyes will be looking up in Panama, as the new Trump Hotel & Tower, the tallest building in Latin America, opens its doors for the first time.
