Italy's biggest bank, San Paolo di Torino, disposed of its 109-branch Spanish operation at the end of last year.
In April last year they together acquired 5% of Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, Italy's biggest banking group, becoming part of a controlling group of shareholders.
Among them was apostle Peter, whose tomb lies beneath the monumental St Peter's Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro).
When her body was recovered from the Catacomb di San Callisto in 1599, it was apparently found to be miraculously preserved.
For more of Catherine, quite literally, visit the imposing, 13th-century Chiesa di San Domenico, just a few minutes west on Piazza San Domenico.
Staff from the town's botanical garden transform the piazza in front of the Basilica di San Frediano into a garden, with a different theme each year.
Rome has numerous other places where it is possible to explore underground, and perhaps nowhere sums up this multi-layered city more perfectly than St Clemente (Via di San Giovanni in Laterano).
The Wall Street Journal reported that the crypt of the Basilica di San Carlo al Corso in Rome has been turned into a night club to lure young people back to the Catholic church.
The majestic Basilica di San Marco and its grand Campanile bell tower that rises above Piazza San Marco, call to mind the golden age of the Republic of Venice, which ended in the early 18th Century.
In keeping with its island resort style, it offers a wide variety of half-day excursions that are best in class, with its private boats available for charters to explore other islands such as Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Burano and Murano, in a style and freedom much better than the commercial tours.
John Dory and caramelized fennel, green garlic, bouillabaisse jus, and black olive crostini enhanced by a full-bodied Feudi di San Gregorio 2007 Falanghina--I could go on (and we did, well into a third dessert), but suffice it to say that thanks to some thoughtful updating, the Mansion has reasserted itself among the Lone Star State's elite.
Adelson, typically, was consumed with things large and small: the precise replication of the Campanile di San Marco and the Bridge of Sighs, the tassels on the curtains, the question of whether it was cheaper to rent or buy cranes (he bought), the color of the canals (he ordered them drained and their surface repainted, for a more perfect blue).
Until 6 weeks ago if you wanted good prosciutto you had to seek out Prosciutto di Parma or San Daniele.
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While Prosciutto di Parma and its close Italian relative, Prosciutto San Daniele, are both excellent and both readily available in this country, lower quality domestic imitations of both are even more readily available.
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Continue towards Campo di Santa Maria del Giglio, an area just west of the Piazza San Marco, where Woody Allen stalked Julia Roberts in the light-hearted comedy Everyone Says I Love You, then turn north to the theatre Teatro La Fenice and the nearby Ponte Maria Callas bridge, dedicated to American-born Greek opera singer Maria Callas who debuted at the theatre in 1947.
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