This rail disaster occurred last night in Viareggio, a coastal town in central Italy not far from Genoa, and reports are coming in that up to 17 people may have been killed as a result of the derailment and subsequent explosion of a goods train carry...

If you did not know, Forza Italia was the Italian political party which proceeded what is now Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party.  Recently in Italy two convicted criminals have stated during court hearings that the Forza Italia party was the...

If you follow the Italian news, then you will know something of the amnesty designed to recoup the billions Italians have stashed out of the reach of Italy’s taxman in comfy offshore accounts. Said amnesty has, so far, seen some 80 billion Euros...

Italian music blog ChartItalia which follows the contemporary Italian music scene, recently published a list of the top 100 hits in Italy for 2009.  So what, I asked myself, was the top Italian music hit of 2009? Interestingly, for me anyway, it is...

This week’s Guess Where in Italy? photo quiz on BlogfromItaly.com features a photo courtesy of @pixiebisous, whose colourful image caught my little eye when she posted it on Twitter. Ninja obsessed Italophile @pixiebisous thinks that people,...

Legitimate Impediment is not, as one might expect, the name of the latest Hollywood blockbuster courtroom drama about to burst onto 3d screens in cinemas around the world near you.  Instead, it is the latest ruse by Italy’s colourful leader to get...