You read the book. You loved it or you hated it. You saw the film. You dug out the book to try and find the bits where artistic licence was let slip. Nope. But, really, can it have been twenty years since Frances Mayes bought Bramasole, near Cortona and fed the cravings of all those [...]
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ISTAT, the Italian national statistics bureau, have just published a report looking at ‘production in the construction sector’ for 2009 – a brief version, in English, may be viewed here (PDF).
It found that last year Italy’s construction market suffered its biggest decline since 1996, with a recorded fall of over 11% when compared with 2008.
The [...]
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