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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...
On 10 December immigrants in Rome will go to the polls for the second time to elect their representatives to the city government. In total 155,547 people are eligible to vote in the elections (see box), which will see 41...
It is difficult quite to appreciate today the excitement in Rome, and soon in the whole of Europe, when, on 14 January 1506, Felice de Fredi came across the sculptural group known as the Laocon in his vineyard by the Ter...
Hidden in the packed programme of the recent international film festival in Rome was Il Mondo Addosso (The weight of the world) by young Sicilian director Costanza Quatriglio. Shot in Rome from November 2005 to March 200...
Why do so many Romans have nice teeth? Why do they laugh at a well-timed quip in such a carefree way? The answer lies in the hills and mountains around them, guardians of the springs that provide them with the water they...
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If youve ever had a craving you cant seem to tame, it could be Ethiopian fare youre hankering after. Hidden on a side street off Via del Pigneto, theres a quain...
There is a cave in Iraq with wall paintings dating from 50,000 years ago. Saffron has been identified as one of the pigments used in the paintings. The Sumerians used saffron for its medicinal properties. The spice was w...
lThe legacy of late American photographer Henry Clarke comes to the American Academy in Rome 16 Nov-16 Dec in the guise of 59 portrait and fashion shots taken from the 1950s until his death in 1998.
Former fashion acce...
The legend of Tristan and Isolde originates in mediaeval Celtic cultures, probably Scottish, but there are early versions in Wales and Ireland, although the familiar story is the French 12th-century reworking. Wagner tak...
Two gigs at the English Theatre in Rome (8-9 November) form part of Ince's first international tour, and give us a chance to see the man who's claimed the 2006 outstanding achievement in comedy award from Time Out, Londo...
The turmoil started on 11 September this year, when Europes fifth biggest telecommunications company Telecom Italia announced it intended to split its fixed line and mobile phone segments into separate businesses. This w...
Via Settevene-Palo is a beautiful road that leads from the Cassia Bis to the village of Trevignano Romano (population 5,000) on the shores of Lake Bracciano north of Rome. Hundreds of tall plane trees line both sides of...
September marked the official start to autumn, although this year the weather was so unseasonably hot that there was little incentive to think about a change of clothes and colours. But now the clocks have gone back and...
Astronomists on the warpath and their industrial enemies signed an armed truce on 21 October in a mutual deal to clean up the ever-dirtier skies over the cities of Italy. To the fury of the sky-watchers, some 30 per cent...
In the central district of Parioli, not far from the bustling chaos of city life, there is a place where the only sound you will hear is the stomping of heavy horses hooves and the distant clacks of wooden mallets hittin...
Luggage takes too long to arrive (about 45 minutes at Fiumicino airport), passport formalities are slow (only two channels for immigration at Ciampino), taxi drivers are quarrelsome and still manage to rip off their pass...
The laptop computer is the essential accessory for travelling professionals and students alike. To accommodate such portable technology, big city bars, cafs and libraries have begun offering complimentary WiFi, or wirele...
An almost secret corridor now links the remains of the very oldest Rome ever exposed in public and the spectacular horizons of the Rome of today. It is a connection between the Campidoglio the first hill of ancient Rome...
In June of this year, over 1,000 people were detained and 85 charged in one of the biggest cases of insurance fraud in Italian history. The scam involved simulating car accidents through falsified documents in order to f...
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