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The wolves captured on camera. Photo: Oasi LIPU The wolf is the symbolic animal of Rome, a city founded by two brothers who were raised by a she-wolf - or so the legend goes. And now, for the first time in over 100 years, newly-bo wolves have been spotted living just outside the Italian capital. Hidden cameras in the Oasi LIPU Castel di Guido, a wildlife sanctuary spaing 180 hectar...

A screenshot from the advert. Photo: YouTubeA sex toy commercial is being run on Italian television for the first time, testing attitudes towards sex and women. The advert for the pleasuring device aired on satellite chaels Realtime, NOVE and DMAX for the first time in July but is now also being shown on terrestrial chaels Mediaset and La7, according to Corriere della Sera. The same report claims it's the first time an advert for a sex toy has been aired on national television. The 30-second clip showcases sex toys by mysecretcase.com. The company's website says the store was bo in 201...

Red wine flowing from a fountain, offering a refreshment at the end of a long walk... it sounds too good to be true, but on Sunday, a wine fountain was inaugurated in central Italy. Locally-produced wine will flow from the fountain in Abruzzo, the first of its kind, and it's accessible 24/7. The best part? It's completely free to help yourself to a glass. The fontana del vino is located in Caldari di Ortona, in Abruzzo, along a popular pilgrimage route, the Cammino di San Tommaso. Photo: Dora Sarchese Vineyard "The wine fountain is a welcome, the wine fountain is poetry," the Dora Sarchese vineyard wrote on its Facebook page. It noted that the fountain was not a place for "drunkards" or "lou...