Economy –Leading this week’s financial news is the IPO of the Italian payments group Nexi, “Europe’s largest,” with a group valuation of € 5.7 billion (12 Aprilin Financial Times – Italian payments group Nexi to sell €1.3bn shares in IPO*; New York Times – Italy’s Nexi Prices IPO, Valuing Group at 5.7 Billion Euros*).
Culture – Cultural articles concentrate on painting, with a review of the exhibition that Milan’s Palazzo Reale has dedicated to the “great painter ” Antonello da Messina (Financial Times, April 17 – Antonello: a virtuoso saved from obscurity*). L’Orient Le Jour, on the other hand, reports on the first Italian-Lebanese day dedicated to science, an event staged thanks to cooperation between the American University of Beirut and the University of Palermo (April 18 – Célébration de la première journéelibano-italienne de la science à l’AU). El País also devotes coverage to popular culture, with the first stage of the Sanremo Giovani World Tour 2019 in Barcelona (April 16 – El festival de San Remo aterriza en Barcelona).
Luxury & style – Numerous stories are dedicated to style. The New York Times reviews the best installations at Milans’s Design Week (April 16 – 13 Great Things We Saw at Milan’s Design Fair), while Die Zeit recounts the prospects of the “white gold of Carrara,” and the robots that will be able to work this marble in order to bring classic pieces back to life (April 15 – DerMarmor-Bot). El Mundo pays a visit to the new museum – with annexed customer services centre – of historic Italian vehicles by the FCA group, in Turin (April 11 – FCA Heritage HUB: corazón del automóvilitaliano). The Spanish daily also covers the restyling of the Giuletta, the model that “revolutionized” the Alfa Romeo brand (April 11 – El Alfa Romeo Giulietta se hace un ‘lifting’), while Le Monde remains in Turin to commemorate Marella Agnelli, “the last Queen of Italy” (April 12 – MarellaAgnelli, la dernièrereined’Italie*).
Tourism, wine, and food – In tourism, El País visits Rome with recommendations by Spanish actress Rebeca Sala (April 12 – En la Roma de los romanos), while Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports on the progress in the restoration project in Pompeii (April 17 – PompejisWende -“DerNotstandistbeendet”).And while Financial Times goes to Tuscany, suggesting – among the properties on sale for enjoying “spring colour“ – villa in Cavriglia in the province of Arezzo (April 12 – Hot property: homes for spring colour*), Der Standard stays in the region to recommend the traditional Easter lamb recipe: “agnello imbottonato” (April 16 – Agnelloarrosto: LammbratenmitOfenkartoffelnnachtoskanischer Art ).
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