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A teenage Sofia Loren doing her first screen test, the dazzling costumes worn by Elizabeth Taylor as the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, a 19th-century Broadway in a New York before skyscrapers
On a sunny April morning in Rome, crowds are bustling past the fashionable shops on Via Nazionale. Few notice the side-entrance to St Paul
Agood part of Italy has spoken very loudly. The centre-left won resounding victories in key local elections in the cities of Milan and Naples and also in a host of other comuni.
Milan. After a very bitter and divisive c...
Milano is not a Google-friendly word. After several weeks reading Google Alerts for the word
When you drive north from Rome towards Terminillo, Amatrice or the Sabine hills, at about km 22 of Via Salaria you pass through Monterotondo Scalo (
City and provincial elections are supposed to be about street lighting, potholes and rubbish collection but they rarely are. They are always a thermometer for the national temperature and sometimes a lot more.
On 15 and...
Our second trip into the lesser known areas of Lazio takes us into the Monti Lepini, a straggling rocky chain of hills some 60 kms south of Rome between the Apennines and the Mediterranean.
For many centuries people b...
With a bit of luck, now that the fine weather is coming, you
Many of those who were in Rome for the funeral of Pope John Paul II six years ago may be hoping that his beatification on 1 May this year will prove to be a re-run of those emotional days surrounding his last hours, his...
Violence against women has made the headlines in Rome several times since the beginning of the year. The media gave considerable coverage to a number of rapes and attacks on women in the city’s streets (one involvi...
At the beginning of this exhibition you are offered large altarpieces, already ambitious, with a certain rhythm that is not fluid, gradually getting more agitated and finally lucidly engaged and grand. You cannot draw yo...
Consumers in Italy have often viewed organic wines with suspicion. Small organic wine producers have thrived anyway, but mainly by exporting to countries where there is more demand for their produce. It seems that the It...
Our trip starts 40km from Rome at the town of Palestrina, which can be reached along either the Via Casilina or the Via Prenestina. If you haven
Perhaps the future of original language films in Rome rests between the projector and those who place passion above profit
As a year of swingeing cuts to Italy’s culture and heritage budgets drew to a clos...
I wait for the last train from Termini on Friday night and a man, probably in his 60s but looking older, asks me if the train goes to Civitavecchia. Yes, I say, it's the last stop. We get on the train and he sits opposit...
On 17 March 1861, the new kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in Turin. It was the culmination of almost 50 years of struggles, some political, some revolutionary and some open war. Tomorrow
On which side are you in the great 17 March controversy? Will you be observing the newly declared public holiday or will you be at work as usual?
For people with Irish roots there is no controversy. 17 March is quite si...
Recently released figures from Japan’s ministry of foreign affairs reveal that 2,234 Japanese people live in Rome. While this number may be miniscule, Rome’s Japanese community contributes actively to the cit...
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