Italian police found in Naples a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Savior of the World (“Salvator Mundi”) , which is the most expensive painting in the world. This was reported on January 19 by CNN.
As the likelihood of earlier election causes the left-wing governing coalition to despair, the League’s leader Matteo Salvini was summoned to his first hearing in a trial intended to make him ineligible to run again for office for years. This follows the same sinister pattern as was done with Silvio Berlusconi when he was the uncontested leader of the ‘centre-right’ bloc.
Though the Rome regime believes much of Italy remains under strict coronavirus restrictions, restaurants and bars have opened their doors in protest. Customers drank, ate, sang, and in one viral video, apparently booted the police back out the door.
Massive protests and outbreaks of civil disobedience are breaking out throughout Europe. Pro-government mainstream media as did their counterparts in totalitarian regimes pretend there is public support for repression.
For weeks, the left-wing coalition in Rome quarrels over the use of the European Union Recovery Fund. Hence, the fund of which Italy is supposed to be the main beneficiary has become a new reason for tensions after months of disputes.
The 94-year-old Italian from the town of Alto Reno Terme felt so lonely on Christmas that he called the carabinieri.
The northern Italian region of Valle d’Aosta has defied coronavirus restrictions imposed by the central government, instead declaring itself a ‘yellow zone’ and reopening restaurants, bars, shops, and businesses.
The old city of Segovia, about 90 km north of Madrid, is best known for its aqueduct, but this historic city is full of architectural curiosities, such as the ornamental façades and geometric textures on the walls of many of the houses, the strangest of which is Casa de los Picos, or the “House of Peaks”. The façade of this house is covered entirely by granite blocks carved into pyramid-shaped reliefs. There are more than six hundred pyramids jutting out of the walls giving the impression of a giant cheese grater.
Once, while at the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome, I tried to give lectures, but one woman constantly blinded me with a camera flash, which prevented me from concentrating on my notes. I said that while I was working, they should stop working, because of the division of labour. The woman turned off her camera but clearly felt pained.
Spain and much of the Western regions of the European Union are being rocked by violence, with anti-lockdown protesters clashing with police in multiple cities, including Madrid and Barcelona, Paris, Warsaw and other great cities over the state and regional governments’ move to toughen Covid-19 restrictions.
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