Posted inItaly Roman Catholic Church Snakes Travel and Vacations A Statue Draped With Snakes? In Italy, It Happens Every Year. Held in a small, mountainous village, this festival has it all: snakes, charmers, religion, science. See for yourself — and try not to squirm. Posted by By Elisabetta Zavoli and Francesco Martinelli
Posted inCape Cobra Pilots Rudolf Erasmus Snakes South Africa A Cobra Appeared Mid-Flight. The Pilot’s Quick Thinking Saved Lives. The pilot made an emergency landing after feeling a Cape Cobra slither under his shirt while flying across South Africa. “I had a moment of stunned silence,” he said. Posted by By Derrick Bryson Taylor
Posted inBulgari SpA Buonamassa Stigliani, Fabrizio Fasel, Marion Jewels and Jewelry Rome (Italy) Shopping and Retail Snakes Watches and Clocks Bulgari’s Serpenti Turns 75 Iterations of the bracelet that coils itself around the wearer’s wrist have turned the popular motif into the Italian jewelry house’s best seller. Posted by By Kathleen Beckett