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Attracting up to 2,000 visitors a day, the Scala Santa, or Holy Stairway, adjacent to the basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano, is one of Rome
Every Thursday evening Rome-based maths teacher Andrew Marmion from Scotland organises an event called Extreme Language Exchange to foster communication between Italian and English speakers. The initiative is designed in...
Hindi cinema, commonly referred to as Bollywood, is currently enjoying a love-affair with Italy that started two years ago when the film Bachna Ae Haseeno (Beware, O Beautiful Ones) was released featuring scenes shot in...
In early December passengers leaving the metro at Tiburtina station in northeast Rome had a surprise. In addition to exiting directly into a tunnel leading to the railway station or, via a long underpass, onto the busy C...
The small town of S. Benedetto in Perilli in Abruzzo has some big ideas for post-earthquake reconstruction
The small Abruzzo town of S. Benedetto in Perilli is 900 m above sea level and 45 km from L
As a British citizen living abroad, my vote has a best-by date on it. After 15 years in Italy, I was disenfranchised; but now, thanks to a single-handed battle by an old soldier, I might get it back.
Harry Shindler arr...
How many of you can remember what you were doing on New Year
We can sometimes forget, or be surprised, that in this secular contemporary society, Rome is still a city where religion, or at least the Christian religion, matters. Perhaps it does not always matter in a real spiritual...
This beautiful and extraordinary exhibition will revolutionise our attitude towards the antique forever. Through the centuries Greek and Roman art has been leached by time, historical vicissitudes, natural disaster. Stat...
In any other country, the magnificent Reggia di Caserta, residence of the Bourbon kings of Naples, would be considered a
On 3 November 2009 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favour of Soila Lautsi in the Lautsi v. Italy case. The court, an international judicial body established in 1959 under the European Convention on Hum...
We can sometimes forget, or be surprised, that in this secular contemporary society, Rome is still a city where religion, or at least the Christian religion, matters. Perhaps it does not always matter in a real spiritual...
In Italy there are 2.6 million people1 (approximately five per cent of the population) who suffer from different and more or less severe forms of disability. Although a law on disability2 was passed 17 years ago ensuring...
On a sunny afternoon in Monterotondo, north of Rome, Estela (not her real name) will heave her elderly charge down a steep flight of stairs and onto the street outside. They may take a few slow steps together arm in arm...
Our third guide of the year,* The expat guide to Rome, published with this edition of Wanted in Rome, is not so much for people who already know Rome and who have established the necessary support mechanisms for living a...
Part Scottish, part Italian Paolo Nutini is coming to Rome in concert on 28 November. The 22-year-old, whose father
In early October the venue for the exhibition Non Angli sed Angeli: a Pilgrimage, a Mission at the Venerable English College (VEC) was still a work in progress. The entrance at Via di Monserrato 43 had just been given a...
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