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Already forgotten. It was 15 September 2009, five months and a few days after the catastrophic earthquake that hit L
The Non-Catholic Cemetery (commonly referred to as the Protestant cemetery) in Rome behind the Cestius pyramid at Porta S. Paolo has been described in rapturous terms by eminent visitors over the two-and-a-half centuries...
When the law giving immunity to prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the three other highest offices of state was overturned by the constitutional court in early October there was an almost universal rejection of the pos...
In the chapel of a small church in the Mugello, an area north of Florence that was favoured by the Medici, American artist/architect David T. Mayernik has been executing a cycle of paintings depicting the martyrdom of th...
In the chapel of a small church in the Mugello, an area north of Florence that was favoured by the Medici, American artist/architect David T. Mayernik has been executing a cycle of paintings depicting the martyrdom of th...
In its short life, the opposition Partito Democratico (PD) has not had an easy or successful run and, hardly two years old, it is again working hard to define its identity: left or centre, Catholic or secular or somewher...
This summer parliament gave its definitive backing to plans for Italy to resume nuclear power production 22 years after it was abolished following a referendum.
Under the terms of the so-called economic development law...
On 19 August singer-songwriter Emilio Rez, 24, was returning home on foot along Via Etruria in the S. Giovanni area of Rome. It was 03.00, but as he hurried along the street he was stopped by a man who asked him for dire...
There are few of us who have never wondered what relics lie beneath our feet and how the people lived who left them there. In just about any part of Italy, that curiosity is constantly fed by the visible remains of previ...
High summer is over in Abruzzo, autumn rain is setting in and a tough winter could be in store for the earthquake zones. Italy
If all goes to plan at the end of September the first batch of anti-seismic houses under construction near L
The foreign media have had only one Italian story for the last four months: Silvio Berlusconi
This is the first edition of Wanted in Rome to be published in August. When we first started 25 years ago it would never have occurred to us to publish at the height of summer. Our children were young and, like everyone...
In the past, August had the reputation of being one of the least enjoyable months on the Roman calendar. The sweltering heat and exodus of local residents to the seaside or the mountains brought the city to a halt. Today...
Lights out. Now finally the lights have been switched off on the G8 in L
With SPQR written on every manhole cover, it is fascinating to assume that under the ground Rome is teeming with statues. Who knows how many creamy-limbed nymphs, satyrs, gods, goddesses, muses
If Michelle Obama had managed to get away from her official lunch at the Campidoglio on 8 July to take an informal stroll into the centre of Rome she might have taken the short cut all locals know, down the steps from th...
When centurion Brutus Fabius Faber (alias Fabio Del Prete) and front line spearman Marcus (better known as Marco Ricci) buckle on their armour for their weekly training sessions in Roman warfare, they are adamant about o...
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