What a week! With our new sign, announcement of a new chef, and a food and wine tour, things are in full swing at Via Umbria.

Here’s what’s happening in the Italian media around the web!

The artist Christo is installing art that lets you walk on water on Lake Iseo in Italy. His project “The Floating Piers” will let you walk on floating golden cubes over the lake, and it scheduled to be ready in June.

The Italian post office goes private, the largest of a string of privatizations Matteo Renzi is planning to convince foreign investors that Italy is on the road to recovery.

You know what they say, fashion is a cycle. So Facist architecture is chic again? The fashion house Fendi sets up shop in an old Roman Facist government building.

Did you see our lunch at Il Molino? The Food and Wine tour is wrapping up tomorrow, but we have more photos for you, coming soon!

And Italian liquor, Cynar, goes high-proof with a new digestif that ups the ante to 70 proof. Just in time for the week-end!

Cheers!

–Via Umbria