Editorial

Legality closely linked to quality of life

Three months ago, Angelo Vassallo, the Mayor/fisherman was assassinated. Varese remembers him. It is an occasion to reflect on the state of our province.

Internet

Facebook for sportsmen and women created in Varese

Loving Sports is a social network to find people to play against in any sport, in any part of the world. The idea came to three young men from Varese, but they had to look for investments abroad.

Malpensa

Hospital for body packers opens. “This way, we can preserve their dignity”

These desperate people come from South America, carrying drugs in their bodies: from today, they will be held in a small jail/clinic in Terminal 2.

Milan

Piazza della Scala, I was there. Anyway, the protest was pacific.

A student tells us about her protest in front of the Milanese theatre on 7 December. And she explains her reasons as a student and as a person who wants to grow.

Letter

Open Letter to Roberto Saviano

Luca Marsico, provincial councillor writes to the famous writer and TV anchormen to reassert the engagement of Varese Province in the branch of waste management.

Varese

Thousands of people in Masnago to hear the visionaries of Medjugorje

We have to pray for those who have no faith; this is what the Virgin Mary is asking us to do,” said Mirijana and Marija, who, since 1981, have had visions of the Virgin. “We must love, not judge.”

Varese

Plaque dedicated to Giorgio Perlasca smeared with paint

The plaque dedicated to Perlasca, who distinguished himself by saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from extermination by the Nazis during World War II, is in Viale Aguggiari.

Books

‘Ndrangheta and the Northern League: a mafia informant’s confessions in a book

Gianluigi Nuzzi, one of the authors of the book “Metastasis” takes us into the part of Northern Italy tormented by the Mafia organisations.

TV

Swiss TV explain: “This is why you can’t see us”

Although Italian television can be seen in Canton Ticino, many people in Varese no longer receive the Swiss television signal. The network has been blocked for legal reasons, but future collaboration with this region has not been ruled out.

VARESE

Hundreds of children have decorated the “Smile Tree”

Many schools have taken part in the initiative carried out by “Il Ponte del Sorriso”- a solidarity project. In Monte Grappa Square, children decorated a fir tree, dedicated to the new maternal paediatric hospital, in the morning of Wednesday 1st December.

Cinema

Harry Potter likes the “Amaretti di Saronno”

A biscuit tin of the famous amaretti appears in one of the scenes of the first part of the final film of the magician’s saga: “the overseas excellence”.

Varese

King Midas, where rags become toys

Varese Province and the Canton Ticino have launched, in the Insubria region, a good idea that was first applied in Reggio Emilia. Workshops for children, where they can create toys from waste. It’s an old idea. What home-made toys do you remember?