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Most Romans have never even heard of an area of the city called Quartaccio, yet it is a dazzling little pocket-mirror of the problems facing nearly all the less well-off areas on the outskirts of Rome. It is also an exam...
Effective antitrust authorities are crucial to the working of all modern economies. But Italy, where competition is still a dirty word to many, needs them more than most.
Italy was a late starter in this field. The Ital...
Seriously considering letting your wardrobe have a spring fling or a summer affair? First, lets take a closer look at what this entails. Having a fling or an affair isnt long term and can actually be quite brief. You are...
There are spectacular panoramas at Guadagnolo (1,218 m), the highest village in Lazio. The narrow road up may not look particularly promising, but as you climb it leads past a series of villages and small towns Saracine...
The Palazzo del Quirinale will open to the public for ten days in May to show off the restoration of 17th century friezes that have hidden from view for over a century. The discoveries were made over the last seven years...
The Teatro Capranica has had a chequered career since its inauguration in 1679 within the magnificent Palazzo Capranica, a palace dating back to the fifteenth century and one of the few pre-Renaissance buildings of impor...
Rome hosts the biggest rubbish dump in Europe, claimed to be now nearly full to overflowing, the fulcrum of a rubbish crisis facing all of Italy today. Yet plans are afoot to exploit the unlovely tip further, with public...
Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-1479) is one of the most enigmatic of early Renaissance painters. He came out of nowhere. His life was short, his travels wrapped in mystery. That dear old gossip in Arezzo painter and biog...
Work by Romanian photographer Mihaela Marin is on show in the exhibition The Portrait of Dorian Gray at the Romanian Academy. 27 April-12 May.
The photographs were taken during a performance of Dragos Galgotius ballet...
In the south-east suburbs of Rome, past Anagnina, lies the eighth municipality of Roma delle Torri, or Rome of the towers so called because of the mediaeval towers which once characterised the landscape. Now what you se...
Franco Alfano (1876 -1954), the composer of this evenings attractive tragic fairytale, was a highly respected musical figure in Italy throughout the first half of the 20th century, composing operas, chamber works, ballet...
Barring major upsets, Romano Prodi will be Italys next prime minister; but the road to Palazzo Chigi will not be simple and it certainly will not be rapid. At best, he might be given a mandate by president Carlo Azeglio...
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Giulio Ciarrocca, a physicist and health consultant for various hospitals throughout Italy, first became interested in the English poet Edward Lear when he was a student at Imperial College, London, in 1964. Ciarrocca wa...
Italians are going to the cinema less than ever according to Italian research company Cinetel. Yet, ironically, aficionados of the silver screen in Rome have rarely had things as good. The Cinema Trevi (near the eponymou...
A random poll of Romans and foreigners living in Rome conducted during a week in mid-March mainly foresaw a close finish precluding a clear majority and strong government in this months general election.
A common denom...
Next week Italy will have a new parliament, and the polls have been putting Romano Prodis centre-left LUnione consistently ahead of prime minister Silvio Berlusconis Casa delle Libert (CDL). Since the campaign began in e...
While Romes grand museums tend to get all the publicity and the queues, the city has an abundance of smaller-scale exhibition spaces waiting to be explored. Size certainly isnt everything. Some more modest museums, such...
The Giornata FAI di Primavera, held on 25 and 26 March, began auspiciously with generous lashings of springtime sun bathing the Eternal City. The Giornata FAI is one weekend (and not, as the name confusingly suggests, on...
A year ago I could barely run for 20 minutes. Now I am enrolled in the 42 km Rome marathon on 26 March. I wanted to compete last April but a knee injury shattered my marathon hopes. I did the 5 km fun run instead, but se...
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