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Top international athletes converge in Rome for the 2019 edition of Italy’s annual track and field event.
The world’s fastest and strongest athletes will return to light up the Eternal City as the 39th Golden Gala Diamo...
Herculaneum is less well-known than Pompeii but in many ways it offers a more complete visitor experience.
One hot summer day in 79 AD, 300 terrified citizens of the seaside town of Herculaneum fled to the harbour in a...
An exhibition at the Colosseum traces the Roman empire's “last period of greatness” under the 40-year reign of the Severans.
A new exhibition at the Colosseum pays tribute to the Severans, Rome’s fourth and final dynast...
Mainly a defence against barbarians and invaders, Rome's Aurelian Walls were also a pragmatic part of daily life.
For most visitors, Rome’s museums mean paintings and statues, more statues, more paintings.
In this re...
The Rome Masters tennis tournament returns to the Foro Italico in May 2019.
Fashion, food and high-octane sport once again blend together under the late spring sunshine as the Italian Open tennis returns the Foro Italic...
When the highest notes arise from the deepest sighs: the tragic story of Italy's castrate singers.
“Alessandro Moreschi Angelo di Roma, Cantore nella Capella Sistina 1858-1922” reads a tomb on the upper level of Rome’s...
The Irish founder of St Isidore's College arrived in Rome 400 years ago.
Luke Wadding, an Irish Franciscan priest, arrived in Rome on 17 December 1618. He came as theological adviser to a royal delegation sent by Philip...
Rome will welcome the golf world's greatest team event, the Ryder Cup, for the first time as Italy begins to embrace the sport.
While Rome may be used to the glitz and glamour of major sporting events, it is now prepari...
The streets of Rome's EUR suburb host the second edition of Formula E
Rome has a prestigious history when it comes to drawing crowds to watch the thrills and spills of a race.
Gone might be the days of 300,000 Romans...
Architect Paolo Arsena, the driving force behind the Metrovia project, explains how it could change Rome's public transport network.
What is Metrovia?
It’s a solution to provide Rome with an integrated rail system of...
Italian connections to the infamous Washington landmark.
Until the break-in that occurred the night of 16 June 1972 in the offices of the Democratic National Committee, the Watergate was known primarily as a place of lu...
How Ireland's national sport has been embraced by Italians and international expats in Rome.
“It’s like a cross between rugby and soccer, with a little bit of basketball!”Gaelic football might not be the most well known...
The American Academy in Rome pays tribute to Milton Gendel.
Milton Gendel, who died on 11 October 2018, two months short of his 100th birthday, exerted an indelible impact on the cultural relations between Italy and the...
Former Rome mayor Ignazio Marino was instrumental in establishing the world's first dual international medical degree.Rome's Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) and the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia...
AS Roma seeks to carry the spirit of an “impossible dream” into the new season as the Rome club’s popularity soars off the field.Blessed with an impassioned support base and fuelled by a city rivalry among the most arden...
A history of Rome's trees, from primeval oaks to the toppling pines of today.
Italo Calvino wrote fancifully how once upon a time “A monkey could leave Rome and, swinging from tree to tree, reach Spain without touching...
A former salami factory in east Rome is a refuge for squatting migrants as well as being a precarious cathedral of street art.
Outside the museum an earthen path skirts a dangerous stretch of road – Via Prenestina – whe...
The ruined Excubitorium, an ancient barracks for Rome's fire brigade, serves as a memorial to the city’s first responders.
The trams rumbling along Viale Trastevere wake me. The bell announcing morning prayers at S. Cri...
Evviva S. Giuseppe! Each year local artisans and a religious order preserve the last remains of authentic Rome.
A group of men carry an altarpiece out of a church that stands between a hostel and a house. They are carry...
Rome inaugurates new art spaces while reorganising the management structure and role of existing museums.In mid-May a gleaming new art museum opened at Rome's long-abandoned health offices on Via Merulana, following a €5...
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