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Five hundred years ago, on 14 January 1506, a large and beautifully intricate marble sculpture was discovered in a vineyard at the Terme di Tito on the Colle Oppio in Rome. The sculpture depicted the Trojan priest Laocoo...
Sitting on a Rome roof-terrace one early summer evening during cocktail hour, I overheard an American girl ask: Whats with those birds up there?
She pointed to the hundreds of swirling, darting, spiralling, lunging bird...
Assaulted by thousands gasping for air in summer and once by Roman emperors the coastline of the giant province of Rome, has nevertheless long been a dicey place, tinged with scandal.
Over the past few years whisper...
A summer of science
City Museum of Zoology, Via Ulisse Aldrovandi 18, tel. 0632609200, www.commune.roma.it/museozoologia.
Until 28 July.
Summer camp for children 5-11 years of age. Science workshops, laboratories a...
Everyone is, of course, familiar with the saying When in Rome, do as the Romans do. It is an oft-repeated phrase because, deep down, we know that the Italians have got so many things right. Forget the bureaucratic nightm...
Thousands of jubilant Italian fans welcomed home their World Cup heroes with open arms last night.
An estimated crowd of half a million lined the streets of Rome as the national football team paraded through the streets...
Italy are World Champions for the fourth time after a thrilling win over France. The Azzurri could not have claimed soccers World Cup in more dramatic fashion, winning 5-3 with their last kick in a penalty shoot-out in B...
Rome and the rest of Italy are holding their breath for tonights soccer World Cup final in Berlin. Streets and squares will be eerily deserted of Italians as the Azzurri play France for the most famous trophy in world sp...
It was an ecstatic night of celebrations for Italians everywhere, with the Azzurris 2-0 win over Germany in last nights semi final match.
In Rome there were 50,000 transfixed in front of Circo Massimos maxi screen, with...
Following the victory of Romano Prodis centre-left coalition in Aprils general election, his new government was sworn in on 17 May. The government comprises 102 people, including ministers with and without portfolio, dep...
It looked like a lop-sided pine cone except that instead of a cluster of leaf panels there was a clump of uneven stalks in pure silver, encrusted with tiny rain drops of glinting diamonds and pearls, fresh from final dus...
Many people in Rome were perplexed when the Islamic cultural centre of Italy was inaugurated 11 years ago. The idea of having Europes largest mosque in the very heart of Christendom was considered at best inopportune and...
For all you beach lovers looking to keep cool this summer here are nine possibilities all within the region of Lazio. Each beach on the list, ordered from north to south, offers either stabilimenti (private beaches with...
This is a shattering show beautifully represented. It is an incomparable record of the last throes of the 20th century. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is the father of modern photography. He was French, astute, civili...
British artist Marc Quinn has filled the Museo DArte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO) with skeletons, mutilated sculptures and genetically modified flowers for his first major exhibition at an Italian state museum. One of the...
As part of its 500 year celebrations, the Vatican Museums yesterday inaugurated the revamped Missionary Ethnological museum after five years of extensive renovation work.
The first section which is now open to the publi...
Next Sunday and Monday, 25 and 26 June, Italians will once again go to the polls, the third time in as many months for most of them. The first was for the parliamentary elections in April, then to vote for the city counc...
The Keats-Shelley House McDonalds Piazza di Spagna poetry prize 2006 is divided into two sections, English and Italian, and into three age groups. This year the 5-9 age group was given the themes Hurricane or Message in...
At the beginning of the 18th century and the first years of the 19th the herring gull was considered a rarity in Rome. So much so that it was worth noting the sighting of a single bird on the 7th of March 1912.
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lWork by women Egyptian artists Merfat Azmi (photographer), Sherine El-Saied (potter), Fairouz Samir (painter) and Heran Awad (sculptor) are on display at the Egyptian Academy in an exhibition entitled Female Creativity,...
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