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Ever since I was a young girl I have attended weddings and witnessed families get into huge debt and spend months preparing for the event, says Jole Rotello, a communications and marketing consultant who lives in Marino,...
The winter sports season is well underway and usually continues until April. Italians traditionally take time off work and school in mid-February for what is known as a settimana bianca. Clearly, the higher you go, the m...
How deep is it? The question was shouted from a railing overlooking a Roman forum near Piazza Venezia in January this year.
A young archaeologist in a bush-hat stepped out of the shallow well with a tape measure.
Nine...
Ever since I was a young girl I have attended weddings and witnessed families get into huge debt and spend months preparing for the event, says Jole Rotello, a communications and marketing consultant who lives in Marino,...
A huge, fat, spearmint-blue house currently sits in the courtyard of the Museo dArte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), which is exhibiting work by installation artists Erwin Wurm and Leandro Erlich. Puffy, life-size and spread...
Hiring a stranger to provide live-in childcare seldom involves a cheerful song-and-dance Mary Poppins style. Instead, the very idea can provoke a hypothetical nightmare reminiscent of a lurid scene from the film The Hand...
Thistledown is almost too heavy as metaphor for the lightness of this little piece, but in its day the charming arias and pantomime-like plot earned it enormous success. Sidney Jones, the composer, had a long career at t...
Overshadowed by the citys grander monuments and obscured by dense canopies of plane trees, Romes bridges are frequently overlooked. However, early settlements on the Tiber burgeoned around an obvious bridging-point at th...
When Adam Bourne could not find a shop providing the equipment he needed for his martial arts pastime, he saw only one solution: to set up on his own. Now the Academy Shop Roma in Prati not only sells every item imaginab...
The true origins of Lanuvio may be lost in the fascinating mists of myth and time but it is almost certain that, together with Ariccia, it is the oldest inhabited centre of the fertile volcanically-formed Alban Hills or...
l Photographs by Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) from a private collection in the USA will be on show at the American Academy in Rome, 7 Feb-31 March.
Woodman was a body artist of the 1970s, completing her studies at the...
In the 1960s, when I first began to live in Rome, all the avant-garde galleries were clustered around Piazza del Popolo. It was where the younger artists had their studios, it was where they hung out, at the cafs Rosati,...
At night, Romes jobless immigrants and refugees sleep on strips of cardboard in public gardens, huddled in doorways, in carriages on railway sidings or, if lucky, on the back-seats of unlocked parked cars.
But where do...
The unique blend of the comic, the dramatic and the tragic, the rapidity of the action and music, the sublimeness and variety of that music, allied to the absolute fascination of the protagonist for both men and women, m...
Walking up the stairs of the slightly dilapidated S. Eusebio church on the corner of Piazza Vittorio it is clear that this will be nothing like a regular mass. Highly uniformed members of the Corazzieri and Forestali cor...
In the thesaurus of English words and phrases matter = material, substance, stuff, brute matter, rough raw materials, unpolished, physical nature, stocks and stones. To the acute observer of post world war two art, its s...
The Nutcracker is the Teatro dellOperas Christmas offering for the Rome public; it is a traditional production and very appetizing. The scale is grand, with large numbers of dancers, beautiful and imaginative costumes an...
Crib crawling round the various churches to admire the beautiful nativity scenes on display is one of the delights of a Roman Christmas. Many of these are authentic works of art, lovingly fashioned by master craftsmen of...
Today Christmas is celebrated in much the same way in Italy as it is in most other western countries, and this is also largely true when it comes to the food. However, in Italy strong regional or even local traditions ha...
When the poet Shelley stayed in Rome in 1819, he wrote of his evening walks when he saw the radiant Orion through the columns of the Temple of Concord (in actual fact, he was referring to the Temple of Saturn with its di...
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