The project is part of a broader collaboration with BKW Energy with which Zelestra has signed a 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) The agreement will also see the construction of the Bellomo project which will have an installed capacity of 9.5 MWdc Construction of the Ginosa project has created around 50 jobs It is scheduled to start operating in February 2026 the solar plant will avoid the emission of nearly 3,700 tons of CO2 per year “Italy is a key growth market for Zelestra and this project is an important step on our journey to help customers across the country with their decarbonisation ambitions” said Eliano Russo “The clean energy solutions that we co-create with our customers directly enhance the green economy by creating jobs and delivering new infrastructure that will support emissions reduction goals for decades to come.” Altenia is the main EPC contractor for Ginosa As a part of the Terna Energy Solutions Group customised solutions for every stage of the high and medium-voltage infrastructure lifecycle serving as a trusted partner for companies and investors in the energy sector Zelestra currently has approximately 30 projects under development in Italy and the company is aiming to triple its pipeline in the next two years Zelestra was named among the top 10 sellers of clean energy to corporate customers globally by BloombergNEF (BNEF) Zelestra Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker this time in the southern region of Apulia (Puglia) 7th October and resulted in floods across the western side of the province of Taranto and some coastal areas of the province of Matero The heavy rain led to dangerously high water levels in the Bradano and Lato rivers The towns of Ginosa and Marina di Ginosa were particularly badly affected Other towns that suffered include Castellaneta Flood water blocked roads in Bari and Castellaneta A bridge near to Ginosa is also believed to have collapsed under the force of flood waters Other bridges have been made unsafe by the flooding making transport around the affected area all but impossible Residents of the town of Marinella in Marina di Ginosa were evacuated after levels of the Bradano threatened their homes The same area suffered from severe flooding in March 20111 and emergency and rescue workers have been involved in helping with some evacuations and to rescue motorists who were trapped in their vehicles by the flood waters An uninhabited house in Ginosa Marina has been reported as completely destroyed in the floods Parts of Ginosa saw mud and debris washing through the streets The local media have reported that at least 2 people have died with between 2 and 4 more missing after flash floods struck in Ginosa This area of southern Italy is particularly vulnerable to flooding in autumn and spring time Previously floods also struck in parts of Taranto in September 2003 The city of Brindisi in Apulia has also suffered flooding and saw over 10cm of rain in 24 hours during the period from 7th to 8th October Many roads were impassable and much of the city’s streets were under water Sources: Meteo web; ; Il Quotidiano Italiano Photo Credit: You Reporter Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList Natuzzi has begun production of surgical masks responding to the appeal of the Puglia region to support the country against the pandemic A concrete example of flexibility and adaptability The appeal launched by the Coronavirus task force of the Puglia Region finds a response from Natuzzi as the firm converts its production facility at Ginosa (TA) into a workshop for the making of surgical masks In less than three weeks the company has passed the tests laid out in the guidelines of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità adapting machinery and skills to shift from the crafting of upholstery to the manufacture of masks (adding a machine for the final sanitization) We have made our know-how and productive force available at the service of an important cause,” says Pasquale Junior Natuzzi Chief Creative & Marketing Officer of the company The first production cycle of several thousand masks per day will be utilized for in-house needs while a part will be donated to hospitals and law enforcement personnel operating in the region The surgical masks produced by Natuzzi can filter out 99.7% of bacteria while allowing the user to breathe: they can be used by medical personnel and the population at large it is only natural that we have responded to fulfill an urgent need in the territory of our heritage and our operations with the energy that has allowed us to become a global brand.”     The largest diffusion magazine in the luxury & design world Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb First Trailer for “The Passion of the Christ 2: Resurrection” | Screenshot: YouTube/ KH StudioMel Gibson’s highly anticipated sequel to the blockbuster hit "The Passion of the Christ," titled “The Resurrection of the Christ,” is set to begin filming this summer Cinecittà Studios CEO Manuela Cacciamani announced to Il Sole 24 Ore that Gibson and Icon Productions plan to begin filming the sequel in August Filming will take place at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios the same location where the original film was shot with additional production in the Italian town of Matera and other historical sites including Ginosa Jim Caviezel will reprise his role as Jesus joined by Maia Morgenstern as Mary and Francesco De Vito as Peter Gibson will direct the film and co-wrote the script with "Braveheart" writer Randall Wallace Gibson described the upcoming film as “an acid trip,” adding that he has “never read anything like” the script He also mentioned plans to use de-aging techniques for Caviezel Gibson reflected on the opposition the first film faced I think if you ever hit on that subject matter He explained the film's core message: “The idea was that we're all responsible for this and that for all our ills and all the things in our fallen nature Gibson views the Gospels as “verifiable history,” citing extra-biblical accounts that affirm the existence of Jesus of Nazareth He emphasized the commitment of the apostles “Every single one of those guys died rather than deny their belief,” insisting that “nobody dies for a lie.” He acknowledged that the resurrection poses a significant challenge for many as it “requires the most faith and the most belief,” asserting “Who gets back up three days later after he gets murdered in public “The Passion of the Christ” has become the highest-grossing R-rated film in U.S earning $370.8 million against a $30 million budget and was nominated for three Academy Awards All rights reserved.Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited Italy can't allow beach clubs to keep control of the sandy shore until 2033 the European Union's top court ruled on Thursday The Court of Justice said that can't happen Beach concessions "cannot be renewed automatically" and must face "an impartial and transparent selection procedure," judges said in a ruling that sets out EU law for an Italian court handling a dispute between the country's competition authority and the town of Ginosa Beaches are a hot political issue in Italy, sparking clashes last year within the coalition government led by former Prime Minister Mario Draghi who had only wanted to extend the concessions until the end of 2023 must apply EU law and are required to "disapply conflicting national provisions." The Italian Competition and Markets Authority (AGCM) took the municipality of Ginosa to Puglia's Regional Administrative Court to annul a decision to extend local contracts While the regional court did rule that the move was incompatible with EU Directive 2006/123 on services in the internal market it called on the Court of Justice to verify the scope of the directive That regional court must now make final decisions in the case The case is C-348/22 Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (Municipality of Ginosa). “Discussions are continuing” between the two governments on the U.K. acquiring three sites, an official told POLITICO. U.S. and European officials are sparring in meetings of the International Energy Agency, which helps guide global investments and policies. He was unafraid to wade into politics, publicly feuding with U.S. President Donald Trump over immigration and rebuking U.S. Vice President JD Vance. For Emmanuel Macron, it wasn’t enough that Luc Rémont turned around France’s state-owned nuclear firm. He wanted a CEO who put French industry first and built local reactors faster. The jellyfish invasion has now reached the point where there may be little to do but find a way to live with huge numbers of them, scientists say. One researcher thinks the answer is to eat them, as Japanese and Chinese diners do. MARINA di GINOSA, Italy — As a small boat loaded with wet suits, lab equipment and empty coolers drifted into the warm turquoise sea, Stefano Piraino looked back at the sunbathers on the beach and explained why none of them set foot in the water. “They know the jellyfish are here,” said Piraino, a professor of zoology at the University of Salento. While tourists throughout Europe seek out Apulia, in Italy’s southeast, for its Baroque whitewashed cities and crystalline seas, swarms of jellyfish are also thronging to its waters. Climate change is making the waters warmer for longer, allowing the creatures to breed gelatinous generation after gelatinous generation. The jellyfish population explosion has blossomed for years but got a special boost since 2015 with the broadening of the Suez Canal, which opened up an aquatic superhighway for invasive species to the Mediterranean. The jellyfish invasion has now reached the point where there may be little to do but find a way to live with huge numbers of them, scientists like Piraino say. Jellyfish are still treated, literally, like trash. The European Commission’s research and innovation branch recently considered jellyfish blooms, along with aquatic debris and pollution, a form of litter that posed “huge and increasing problems in the oceans, seas and coasts.” The commission made funds available for researchers with innovative methods to clean the waters. Piraino and his team have answered the call. Convinced that climate change and overfishing will force Italians to adapt, as they once did to other foreign intruders, like the tomato, his team has launched the Go Jelly project, which roughly boils down to: If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em. The study, which officially gets underway in January, will attempt to show that the enormous and increasing jellyfish biomasses can be the inexhaustible Jell-O of the sea. While overfishing, warmer seas and pollution may wipe out ocean predators, they are allowing jellyfish to thrive — and reproduction comes easily enough to jellyfish. They can be self-reproducing hermaphrodites, clone themselves, lay up to 45,000 eggs a day, sprout from polyps, and split in two. When a power plant in Japan tried to solve its jellyfish problem with a grinder, they only exponentially increased their problem. “You can’t reduce their number,” said Piraino, adding that you can hope only to contain them. To protect bathers from stinging species, Piraino has led several European Union-funded jellyfish studies, set up a global jellyfish-spotting campaign and protected beaches from inedible poisonous jellyfish with jellyfish-proof netting. The problem is bigger than Italy. More than 30 million euros of tourism revenue is lost a year along Israel’s Mediterranean shore. In 2013, outbreaks of jellyfish forced the shutdown of a nuclear-power plant in Sweden. In the Irish Sea, they decimated salmon fisheries. In Sicily, where a young Piraino first came head to soft-bodied head with his life’s work (“it was not a positive first contact”), they have clogged fishing nets and colonized beaches. Piraino has plumbed the mysteries of the creature, more than half-a-billion years old, for its possible uses. Those include the potential to fight tumors, and also using collagen-heavy species as a source for more voluptuous lips. Antonella Leone is a researcher at Italy’s Institute of Sciences of Food Production, and since about two months ago, Piraino’s wife. At their wedding, the couple celebrated with a tiered cake dripping with confectionary jellyfish. A leader of the Go Jelly project, she thinks that Italians, with their zeal for locally sourced regional ingredients, might just find a taste for jellyfish. Others already have. The Japanese serve them sashimi style in strips with soy sauce, and the Chinese have eaten them for a millennium. In 2015, an EU regulation streamlined the application process for countries outside the bloc that wanted to market foods traditionally not eaten in Europe — like an Asian species of jellyfish — if they proved to pose no risk and had been consumed safely in that foreign country for more than 25 years. The law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, also removes bureaucratic impediments faced by European proponents of homegrown “novel foods,” including those who favor eating the Mediterranean jellyfish. But the Italian Health Ministry said that because no member state had a tradition of eating jellyfish, and because the local species appeared biologically distinct from their edible Asian cousins with different toxicity levels and variations in stinging cells, all the standard European research and safety-control tests needed to remain in force before a Mediterranean jellyfish could ever appear as a wild-caught delicacy in markets or on restaurant menus. It was for such research that Leone slipped on her diving fins. “Look, it’s enormous,” she said as she spotted one species, a pulsating violet-rimmed Rhizostoma pulmo — aka barrel jellyfish — drifting like a submerged plastic bag. She dived into the jellyfish-infested waters and returned with nets full of violet globules. On deck, Lorena Basso, another climate researcher who has a grant to study the sexual distribution of jellyfish, used a scalpel and scissors to separate the animal’s bell-shaped umbrella from its tentacles, which glistened in the sun like dripping, translucent cauliflower. “What she is doing now is taking the gonads of the jellyfish,” Piraino explained before calling out to his wife. “Antonella. Get me the one with the colored gonads.” Back on board, Leone patiently held a jellyfish above a jar, draining it of its stinging mucous, with gloved hands that seemed slimed by innumerous sneezes. “Would you like to taste it?” Piraino asked. Once at their headquarters in Lecce, Leone put on a lab coat and experimented with ways to conserve the jellyfish. She prepared to freeze-dry and vacuum-pack them and asked a colleague to pull a species from the barrel. He put his hand in but came up empty. The next morning, a restaurant near the university in Lecce became a test kitchen. As the defrosting jellyfish seemed to reanimate under the faucet’s running water, the restaurant’s chef asked if he should salt the boiling water. Leone told him it would not be necessary. He asked how to cut the tentacles from the cap. They boiled the first batch for a few minutes to remove its water and destroy its stinging cells. The chef, with a dubious, hesitant expression, sliced the boiled jellyfish, now cerebral in appearance with a deeper purple hue. Another cook then slid the slices through a flour batter and dropped them in a fryer. Once plated, they broke free of their casing and insolently stuck out like purple tongues. Piraino cut a piece that he said was full of protein and omega-3 fatty acids. “It’s great,” he said, as it slipped out of his hand. The chef marinated a piece in garlic and basil for the grill. He prepared another on a bed of arugula next to a sweet fig to balance out what everyone agreed was an intense saltiness. At the end of the tasting, there were several untouched specimens on the table. Leone packed the foodstuff of the globally warmed future into a jellyfish doggy bag. “It’s for my colleagues,” she said. “They are a little skeptical.” Stay secure and make sure you have the best reading experience possible by upgrading your browser! Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb, an Amazon company© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc. Storms and heavy rainfall have been affecting much of Italy over the last few days Forecasters say that there could well be further rainfall to come although things should be clamer (but colder) by Wednesday 4 December Meanwhile, Calabria, which was hit by severe flooding in late November is still suffering from the heavy rainfall roughs seas and storm surges along coastal regions Sea levels have risen to such an extent that 10 homes had to be evacuated The towns of Corigliano and Cariati have been badly affected and schools remain closed until Tuesday 3 December There have also been reports of some landslides in Crotone Sicily has seen over 100mm of rainfall in just 24 hours So far there have been only minor incidents of flooding Sources: TG Com24; Il Messaggero Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb, an Amazon company© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc. Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb 13 (UPI) -- A pair of Italian men fishing four miles offshore shared video of their "absurd" catch -- a boar swimming in the sea Andresini wrote the fishermen encountered the boar about four miles offshore from Ginosa The fisherman said he and his colleagues were eventually able to load the wild pig onto their boat and ferry it back to shore Andresini labeled the event an "absurd experience." Sign up for our daily Newsletter and stay up to date with all the latest news You are receiving this pop-up because this is the first time you are visiting our site You are using software which is blocking our advertisements (adblocker) we are relying on revenues from our banners So please disable your adblocker and reload the page to continue using this site.Thanks I usually produce different grades so I can stand out abroad as well but nothing is left," reports Tommaso Lella owner of a company in Ginosa (Taranto) hit by the storm on 10th July 2019 We are talking about 80 hectares of watermelons (seedless The Italian peninsula is being increasingly affected by extreme and violent weather events that are damaging the entire agricultural sector especially after similar problems in the past few months my varieties enable me to commercialize both early and late watermelons with a production calendar that reaches mid-September "Fruits look like they were hit by a hammer Of course there is produce that is still good but it is depreciated once it reaches pallets and many markets do not even collect it." "The thick vegetation protected the fruit in places While hailstones were not that big after all it was the strength of the wind that scared us It was similar to a tornado and damaged various structures." "Consumption has dropped over the past few days and the foreign markets are not sending orders in it needs to be valid and look good as well but it is useless now that the hail damaged everything."   FreshPublishers © 2005-2025 FreshPlaza.com This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that beach concessions should not be renewed automatically but must be subject to an impartial and transparent selection procedure concerning a beach in the municipality of Ginosa the CJEU ruled that in order to grant concessions for the occupation of State-owned maritime property EU Member States must apply a selection procedure for potential candidates when the number of spaces available for a particular activity is limited because of the scarcity of natural resources It also held that the authorisation must be granted for an appropriate limited duration and cannot be open to automatic renewal.  concessions for the occupation of State-owned maritime property The decision failed to comply with the principles of competition and freedom of establishment the Italian Competition and Markets Authority (AGCM) issued a reasoned opinion to the Municipality of Ginosa reminding it of the requirement for a prior public procurement procedure After the Municipality of Ginosa refused to comply with this opinion the AGCM brought an action before the Regional Administrative Court of Puglia for the annulment of the municipality’s decision The Regional Administrative Court found the national provisions to be incompatible with Directive 2006/123 on services in the internal market and decided that the EU directive should have been adopted unanimously rather than by a majority of the votes of the Council the Regional Administrative Court referred several questions to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling to ascertain how the directive ought to be applied the CJEU ruled that the obligation for Member States to apply an impartial and transparent selection procedure to potential candidates and the prohibition on automatic renewal of an authorisation granted for a given activity are laid down unconditionally and sufficiently precisely by the directive the national courts and the administrative authorities are under an obligation to apply them and also to disapply national rules which conflict with them This puts into question the recent extension of the concessions authorising operators to place deckchairs at Comino’s Blue Lagoon which are being renewed without a tender this year Despite previous assertions that a call for tenders would be issued Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo has confirmed that they will be renewed without a tender We use cookies to ensure users are given the best experience on our website We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze how you use this website and provide the content and advertisements that are relevant to you These cookies will only be stored in your browser with your prior consent You can choose to enable or disable some or all of these cookies but disabling some of them may affect your browsing experience Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences These cookies do not store any personally identifiable 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sprawling location where the original The Passion Of The Christ was filmed before its 2004 release The sequel will also be filmed on location in the ancient southern Italian town of Matera Other ancient Southern Italian rural filming locations for the movie include Ginosa Jim Caviezel believed to be returning to play Jesus Christ in The Resurrection Also likely to return are Maia Morgenstern ‘THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST 2’ will begin filming in August.Jim Caviezel will return as Jesus. pic.twitter.com/Y358lj0q4Y Related: Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion Of The Christ’ Sequel To Begin Filming In 2025 With Jim Caviezel Reprising Role as Jesus Christ Back in January, Gibson described this sequel as being “an acid trip.” He added that he has “never read anything like” the script which he wrote with his former Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace “The evangelical community considers The Passion the biggest movie ever out of Hollywood, and they kept telling us that they think a sequel will be even bigger,” Wallace told The Hollywood Reporter back in 2016.  “I always wanted to tell this story,” he continued and there’s a lot more story to tell.” Resurrection has been in the works for many years Gibson explained that the sequel is “not a linear narrative.” “I think in order to really tell the story properly you have to really start with the fall of the angels you’re in another realm,” Gibson continued at the time In response to his house being burned down, Mel Gibson says he feels God is preparing him to do something big. This is so inspiring. pic.twitter.com/BYPosP8fEE Related: Mel Gibson Finally Gives Timeline For Making ‘Passion Of The Christ’ Sequel, ‘Resurrection Of The Christ’ Gibson said that he was taking his time with the sequel “We’re talking about that,” Gibson told CP Entertainment at the time and it needs to be looked at because we don’t want to just do a simple rendering of it — you know and explore probably deeper meanings of what it’s about and Randall Wallace is up to the task,” he continued.  The Passion Of The Christ shocked everyone by becoming the largest-grossing independent film of all time it achieved a worldwide box office of nearly $612 million The Passion Of The Christ also received Oscar nominations for Best Cinematography Mel Gibson recently said he’s planning on filming the sequel to The Passion of Christ movie, starting perhaps this year, which will be about Jesus’ resurrection!!! pic.twitter.com/RkFjmiRQxM We’ve been waiting for a sequel for The Passion Of The Christ for far too long Here’s hoping that filming stays on schedule as we can’t wait to see The Resurrection Of The Christ when it finally comes out More About: The ancient olive tree has been nicknamed ‘The thinking tree‘ and is located in Ginosa, Puglia, Italy and it is evident how nature is giving us a new spectacle to admire it is enough to observe its trunk to recognize a face with a lot of eyes nose and mouth that seem to be carved on its bark To confirm that the decoration on the trunk of the olive tree with an almost human face is truly the work of nature a video was shot in the vicinity of the ancient tree © 2025 by Viaggiando Italia - Web Marketing Solutions P IVA 02583850694 - Tutti i diritti riservati © 2025 by Viaggiando Italia - Web Marketing Solutions P IVA 02583850694 - Tutti i diritti riservati.