The Peter Greenaway multimedia event in front of the original of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper now looks as though it will get the green light from Italy’s minister of culture Sandro Bondi. However the date, initially set for...

The Peter Greenaway multimedia event planned for 9 June in front of the original of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper has been put off again. This time it is the Lombardy region’s head of monuments and fine arts...

Milan is hosting its first environmental festival 5-11 June as the start of its preparations for the 2015 World Fair. The June festival will focus on the effect of global warming on the oceans (6 June), educational events for children (7-8...

World Press Photo. Photography and Journalism: the images awarded in 2008. 4-25 May 2008. The Carla Sozzani Gallery and the Museo di Roma in Trastevere host the Italian stops of the world tour of World Press Photo (WPP) 2008, an exhibition that...

Good news for Milan’s Malpensa airport. The airport’s management, SEA, and the German airline Lufthansa, have reached an agreement for a strategic partnership, signing a letter of intent that is to be followed by a series of enabling agreements. The accord,...

From 16-21 April designers and retail buyers from around the world convene in Milan for one of the design world’s biggest trade shows, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. The architects’ mission is to show, and the buyers’ mission is to seek,...

On Sunday 6 April Milan Expo Committee (MEC) is holding its first event to celebrate the city’s successful bid for Expo 2015. The parade starts from the Porta Venezia Bastioni at 14.00 and winds it way up to Piazza Argentina where...

Milan has won its bid to hold the Universal Exhibition, Expo 2015, with 86 votes to 65 for the only other candidate, Ismir in Turkey. The success of Milan’s bid has been welcomed all over Italy and will bring considerable economic...

The final vote to decide whether Expo 2015 will be held in Milan or in Izmir in Turkey will be held in Paris on 31 March. In a recent press conference the mayor of Milan, Letizia Morati, announced that she thought...

From 21-24 February the Fieramilano at Rho will be hosting the international tourism fair (Borsa Internazionale del Turismo), the biggest international event promoting Italian tourism. Here some 2,500 stallholders meet about 600 international delegations. According to BIT figures last year 61...