Tag: Milan

• Tuesday, December 15th 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Long food queues in Italy's financial capital and richest city of the country

  

  Long queues have been forming outside food banks and help centers in Italy's financial capital Milan as the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus has deepened before Christmas.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:57 UTC

  Bocelli's Easter concert was the most watched classical music on YouTube

  

  Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's solo Easter concert in a deserted Milan cathedral has scored a record as the most-watched classical music concert on YouTube.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 12:14 UTC

  Tenor Bocelli performs “The Music for Hope” from Milan's Duomo

  

  Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performed a solo Easter concert from an empty Milan Cathedral streamed live to millions of people around the world in coronavirus lockdown. “The Music for Hope” performance, which was streamed on YouTube from Milan's Duomo cathedral, has been watched more than 22 million times so far.

• Saturday, March 7th 2020 - 06:23 UTC

  Irish women duo awarded architecture's most prestigious prize

  

  Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were awarded the Pritzker Prize, the first time a female duo has scooped architecture's most prestigious award. They gained international fame for their blocky, brutalism-inspired structures, which prioritize human interaction by pairing heavy materials like stark concrete with lookout points, meeting places, and spots to loiter.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  Ex Italian communist terrorist, protected in Brazil by Lula da Silva, admits four murders

  

  A former communist militant Cesare Battisti has admitted to four murders in Italy during the 1970s, according to local press. Battisti, 64, spent decades on the run and previously denied any involvement. He was arrested in Bolivia in January after living in Brazil, and later extradited to Italy.