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lThe American Academy in Rome starts the new academic year with a contemporary art exhibition entitled 3500cm2: Art by way of a poster, 20 Oct-2 Nov.
The 3500cm2 of the title refers to the surface area of a 50x70cm post...
The pundits will tell you the Rome of Pier Paolo Pasolini has vanished; Pasolini, the rebel poet, film-maker, novelist and Marxist intellectual from Bologna who discovered in Rome the one place in the world where his nat...
One of the best quips about retiring to Italy is Gracie Fields (about Capri): I was looking for somewhere like Blackpool only warmer. Umbria and Tuscany, the areas chosen by about 6,000 Britons of retirement age, arent...
Il Caminetto
Michelle Pellegrino
Il Caminetto opened in 1959 and it is the restaurant equivalent of a Chanel suit it never goes out of style.
Frequented by ragazzi alla moda, elegant elderly couples and well-kno...
Like many small towns in Lazio, Zagarolo possessed a splendid, if somewhat dilapidated, palace. In 1980 the town council had purchased the 16th-century Palazzo Rospigliosi, which had once been the country retreat of the...
Marilina Tuccinardi, the person responsible for children in the Rome city council social policies department, is in no doubt: The law is in the interests of the children and must be respected.
The law in question is a...
Domestic news in Italy over the summer is typically dominated by immigration issues and this summer has been no exception. While newspaper headlines told of the unfolding crisis in the Middle East, inside pages carried r...
He was so strong that once he got under a cow and lifted it up with his bare hands. He was very keen on wrestling as well: hed take us on three-to-one and throw the lot of us to the ground. And when he played soccer with...
lThe traditional Japanese form of theatre, kabuki, will be celebrated in an exhibition of over 40 prints at the Japanese Cultural Institute 9 Sept-18 Oct.
Widespread in popular Japanese culture from the 1600s onwards, k...
As soon as you arrive at Via Fracassini in the Flaminio district youll notice that things are done a little differently here. Brightly-dressed men and women are strewn all over the pavement, chatting in groups, pulling o...
Rome is full of fountains. There is one for almost every square in the historic centre, gushing, sprinkling and sparkling, to the delight of passers-by. Among them is the newly restored Turtle Fountain in Piazza Mattei n...
Readers will almost certainly remember where they were and what they were doing on Tuesday 11 September 2001.
The horror of the terrorist attacks against the United States, together with the fact that the modern media...
Ouzeri
Fiona Winward
Of the handful of Greek restaurants in Rome, the tiny ten-table Ouzeri is often touted as the best. Overshadowed by rowdier Trastevere restaurants around the corner, its easily missed watch ou...
In the wake of this summers terrorist alerts at British airports, the fatal bomb attacks in London (2005) and Madrid (2004), the daily reports of death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan and the crises in Iran and L...
This summers referee-fixing scandal centred around Turin giants Juventus threw Italian football into disarray and reinforced unpleasant stereotypes about Italy and corruption. But the furore also seemed to help the Azzur...
The Latin poet, Horace, wrote in rapturous terms of the country retreat in the valley of Ustica, which his millionaire patron, Maecenas, had given him: A shady valley, hidden amongst mountains... where the generous plum...
Stabbed twice in the back and once in the throat, a 24-year-old Roman student, Angelo Frammartino, was killed in the old city of Jerusalem in August. Ten days later Israeli police told the media that his self-confessed k...
Giant sardines floating mid-air over the lake in Villa Borghese, red giraffes stalking down Via Cavour and maverick Spanish hairdressers transforming hair into sculpture with feathers, stars, flowers and iron wires in Pi...
Throughout Italy, boys pull down their baseball caps, women flap open dainty fans and men whip out their handkerchiefs and mop their glowing faces.
The summer heat beats down mercilessly on Italy, particularly in the la...
Italy's most famous and successful club Juventus have been relegated to the second division of Italian football and docked 30 points following an investigation into match-fixing.
Fellow Serie A league sides Lazio and Fi...
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