GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Easyjet is adding three new cities in southern Europe to its 2012 summer flight schedule: Catania, Sicily in Italy, Athens, Greece and Venice, Italy.
The first will be at least twice a week and the other two three times a week, starting 18 April 2012.
EuroCity in Ticino (©2011 CFF)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – EuroCity trains between Geneva and Milan will take a few minutes longer during the coming week, the CFF rail company warns, and passengers will have to change at Domodossola, effective today, Wednesday 13 July.
Regular maintenance work showed up repairs that are needed to the inclined trains axles on some of the EuroCity trains and the work is expected to last until at least the start of next week.
The slightly damaged axles are not a security risk, the CFF says, but if left alone more costly repairs will be needed in the future. The cause of the damage has not yet been determined.
EuroCity direct trains between Geneva and Venice are not affected and will continue to use the ETR610 inclined rails.
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The latest Swiss stamp is one of the most unlikely pieces of art created by Thomas Hirschhorn in recent years. The Swiss-born artist, who is based in Paris, is known for his larger than life room-size installations, but to celebrate Switzerland’s part in the Venice Biennale, an international art exhibition held every two years, Hirschhorn agreed to do a tiny-size creation.
The postage stamp shows a torn bit of cardboard, a throwback to Hirschhorn’s earlier days, the post office says in issuing the stamp: “His miniature work is a universal declaration of love for art. The statement ‘Art is Resistance’ summarizes Hirschhorn’s artistic position in a single sentence – an individual contribution which blends into the overall image of the stamp. In designing this stamp as a piece of torn cardboard, Hirschhorn drew inspiration from his earlier works: as an unknown artist in the 1980s, he wrote on cardboard signs and placed them in house doorways or under windscreen wipers.”
The one franc stamp went on sale Thursday 5 May.
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Cisalpino II, July 2009
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A Cisalpino II train made its maiden Geneva-Venice voyage Thursday October 1, leaving Geneva’s Cointrin Airport at 07:33 and bringing back its first passengers from Venice at 16:20. The trains have been running on the Geneva-Milan stretch since July, on a test basis, and with the positive track record of the tests, the company has moved to putting the sleek passenger trains into service as part of the regular timetable.
Cisalpino will operate the trains until 13 December, when the parent Swiss and Italian companies, CFF and Trenitalia, will operate the Swiss-Italian service.
Title: Exhibit: Fellini dreams of Venice
Location: Morges, Vaud
Link out: Click here
Description: At the Alexis Furel museum a collection of never before published photographs and posters by the Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini.
The museum is open only from Wednesday to Sunday from 14:00 to 18:00 only.
Start Date: 26 Mar 2009
End Date: 02 Aug 2009
