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As almost everyone knows, Rome is headquarters for the monolithic UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), but Italy also hosts several smaller intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) that address other issues of world...
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You may have noticed that recently some of our covers were designed by some especially arresting artists. Mary Wilsey, the editor, asked me to approach them. Trained as
A few years ago, most people would walk past the offices of Rome
For a few days in the middle of January Rome was without a city government. As work resumed after the long Christmas-New Year break the city's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, asked all his councillors to hand in their resignatio...
The Napoleonic Museum just round the corner from Piazza Navona is often overlooked by visitors to Rome. This is a pity because it is an authentic little jewel, situated on the ground floor of the palace of Count Pietro P...
Supermarket chains have been mushrooming throughout the city, selling products and foods from various parts of Italy and beyond. In a busy world, and during times of economic insecurity, the necessity for supermarkets is...
It is not only us who catch cold in the winter, January is also a bad time for governments in Italy. Romano Prodi
In AD 79, on 24 August, the Italian town of Pompeii, a prosperous settlement of perhaps 20,000 or 30,000 inhabitants, was the largest victim of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. A huge cloud of gases and ash, thrown up by...
The monumental Christmas tree that rises every year in the centre of St Peter
Afghanistan – a never-ending hell on earth, where thousands have died and scores of thousands have been wounded in only the latest years of struggle, and where you might think that no sane civilian would venture vo...
Busy preparing for the festivities, it is likely that many of us don
Busy preparing for the festivities, it is likely that many of us don
On a Saturday afternoon in November, when I harmlessly ventured forth to sample a gallery or two in my ancient papal neighbourhood in the heart of baroque Rome and related Trastevere, I found it absolutely teeming with r...
The Bondi decree to regulate salaries and terms of employment in Italy's opera houses has now become law and the country's opera companies are having to come to terms with it as they plan their future seasons.
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When we first started Wanted in Rome in the mid-1980s English-speaking expats were easy to identify and the city was a place where foreigners could lead a relatively cheap, leisurely and pleasant way of life. The English...
Formerly a school, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme was opened as a museum in 1998 to house the overspill of antiquities languishing in the store rooms of the Museo Nazionale Romano which is set inside the ruins of the Roman b...
Before even embarking on this discussion, we must clarify terms: expatriates (expats) are people residing out of their native land for a variety of reasons; expatriots are people alienated from their own countries for ot...
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