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Virtual reality transforms the graphic war scenes on Trajan's Column in Rome.
Rome’s most impressive novelties tend to be ancient, emerging after millennia from below ground. Viewable after a descent of two or three sto...
A guide to Rome's best venues for all genres of live contemporary music, from rock to jazz.
With the exceptions of Monti, Testaccio and S. Lorenzo, which are reached easily by public transport, the key to finding the...
Over the centuries Rome has inspired numerous English-language poets.
Lovers of English poetry must often wonder what Keats would have made of Rome had he lived. But he died in terrible agony only three months after his...
Art as a Voice for Women by Natasha Hughes, senior IB art student, aged 18, at St Stephen's School, Rome.
“I believe in equality. And I believe there is no difference between a man and a woman. I even believe that a wom...
Rome's Venerable English College celebrates three significant anniversaries.
A discreet brass nameplate on the inner entrance door at Via di Monserrato 45, a stone’s throw from the offices of Wanted in Rome in the heart...
The new owners of the Italo high-speed rail service could give Italy's Trenitalia an uncomfortable ride as rail services open up to European Union competition.
While Italian politicians were busy campaigning for the g...
The ebb and flow of Rome's natural world is documented in an exhibition at the city's Zoology Museum.
When a family of wolves was filmed on the green fringes of Rome last September – signifying a return to the capital a...
Once the shame of Italy, Matera is now the pride of Europe.
The city of Matera, former capital of the Basilicata region in southern Italy known for its sassi or cave dwellings, has recently received much-deserved recogn...
Polls point to hung parliament after 4 March vote.
By Laura Clarke.
On 4 March Italians go to the polls to elect their new parliament, as well as the regional councils in Lazio and Lombardia. The parliamentary e...
Panic, collision, the silence of an empty road
By Anna Johnson, Year 11, St George's British International SchoolWe don’t decide what it is that we remember. From the thousands of finely interconnected events building u...
By Andy Devane.
The artistic legacy of Teatro dell'Opera di Roma is brought to life in a sumptuous exhibition at Palazzo Braschi in Rome
When he became sovrintendente of Rome's opera house in 2013, Carlo Fuortes was “a...
A new home for Rome's American Catholic community is also a happy outcome for the Irish Augustinians.
By Andy Devane
On 23 September a removal team hauled 28 wooden pews out of the church of S. Susanna alle Terme di...
American artists chose Rome over Paris in the immediate postwar yearsBy Peter Benson MillerAfter world war two, Rome lured several American artists whose work became more abstract as they assimilated into the city’s crea...
Wanted in Rome continues to expand in print and digital media
By Marco Venturini
Since March 1985 our goal has been to help and inform the expat community in Rome, and in Italy. Our mission is, and has been over the la...
By Mary Wilsey.
Tourists are spending less time and money in Rome
“There is one point which cannot be sufficiently impressed upon those who wish to take away more than a surface impression of Rome; it is neve...
An insider’s view on the disappearance of a once important industrial neighbourhood.
Piazza Testaccio is an elegant square with clean benches, pruned trees and a white fountain. On this chilly Saturday evening, a teen...
Our guide to the civil documents required when registering births and deaths in Italy.Life is filled with joys and sorrows, the happiness of a birth and the deep sadness on the death of a loved one. The last thing one n...
Residency and citizenship for non-Europeans in Italy: How to obtain a visa and permesso di soggiorno in Italy.Whether seeking the sites, culture and flavours of Italy or broadening working and business opportunities, app...
Generations of travellers on their Grand Tour have passed through the region of northern Lazio known as Etruria, briefly contemplating the abundant remnants of Etruscan civilization and Renaissance marvels before mo...
St Stephen's School: A selection of work from Moira Egan's Creative Writing Classes, 2016-17.**Winner of the 2017 Keats-Shelley House Poetry Prize**Cristina Rizzo (grade 11)Mud after Wilfred Owen
Spleens are thr...
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