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A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon the window sill,
Cocked his shining eye and said:
lWork by the late French artist Gilles Aillaud (1928-2005) goes on show at the French Academy at Villa Medici in Evasioni, the first big exhibition of the year, 8 Feb-8 April.
During his years in high school Aillaud su...
It was a very happy mayor Walter Veltroni who officially announced last November that Rome was to have its first public golf course, to be built on land conceded by the city. Less happy, but still upbeat, was Franco Chim...
Acque Albule
After coughing and snuffling through two winters in succession, my doctor said:
In Greek mythology the Medusa was a creature who was so frightful you could not look at her. If you did, she turned you to stone. Perseus, before he fell in love with Andromeda and freed her from her sea guardian, slew t...
We have finally made it. After months of planning, setbacks, delays and then more planning our new office is open, just opposite the Turtle Fountain in Piazza Mattei. The precise address is Via dei Falegnami 79; we form...
After making steady progress since joining the Six Nations rugby tournament in 2000, Italy
Every year around 25 January, Scots all over the world get together to partake in a convivial evening
Next time you buy bus tickets from your local edicola take a look around you. Among the assortment of DVDs, magazine freebies and football-related paraphernalia you will spot this year
The Vatican Museums are introducing price increases and major changes to the queuing system effective from 8 January 2007. The biggest change to the current system is that while at present visitors without guides can ent...
lThe Polish Cultural Institute in Rome presents around 90 works by the self-taught Polish artist Nikifor (1895-1968) in an exhibition entitled Nikifor, genio dell
Commuters are rushing down the escalators on this winter morning and some just manage to dart inside the metro before the warning beep and clanging of doors. Inside the train, noses are buried deep in newspapers, most of...
British planes swoop down out of a clear blue sky with utter surprise to strafe and bomb an isolated Italian medical unit camped around an oasis in the Libyan desert, smashing the unit
Vive la Peinture!!! Amitis Matisse. This exultant battle cry is sprawled over a postcard addressed to Monsieur P. Bonnard art peintre. Matisse jotted it down when he came out of a museum in Amsterdam on 13 August 1925. T...
Intimidation and violence lurk like a shadow in the background of an increasingly acrimonious tussle now building up between Romes city hall and its angry taxi drivers, who are up in arms over controversial council decis...
If you take Via Salaria out of the capital and turn left after Monterotondo onto the SP313 towards the heart of Sabina, the green and hilly countryside becomes more and more alluring. Up into Poggio Mirteto and towards P...
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