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A good map of Lazio is advised for the following trip, because once off the motorway, the roads twist in all directions. It is also a good idea to set off early in order to avoid finding churches closed for the midday br...
John Earles account of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Balkans during world war two is a masterpiece of detached, investigative reporting. We only know Earle was actually there from the information on the b...
Rome was transformed after it became the capital of the new Italy in 1870. A burgeoning middle class wanted houses, theatres, cafs and shops. Prince Maffeo Sciarra, owner of prime property near the Trevi fountain, obligi...
John Earles account of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Balkans during world war two is a masterpiece of detached, investigative reporting. We only know Earle was actually there from the information on the b...
The great artist Patience Gray Mommens died in her home in Puglia on 10 March 2005. She was 87. She was a Delphic woman. She made beautiful drawings and beautiful jewelry in gold and iron and was known to the world as an...
Mascagnis blockbuster Cavalleria Rusticana is very frequently coupled with I Pagliacci, to create the combination contemptuously known as Cav and Pag, and the Teatro dellOperas decision to resurrect the composers piece w...
This early piece by Verdi, written for La Fenice when the composer was 33, is quite honestly not of the very highest inspiration. It does have one outstanding aria and a number of very melodious ones, as well as pleasin...
l Violinist Wolfgang David will perform a concert entitled Le tracce austriache di Bach at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura a Roma on 9 March at 20.00. A former child prodigy who was admitted to the Musikhochschule in Vien...
In a humble room at a cheap boarding house in a part of Rome which is now one of the most exclusive shopping centres in the world, a desperately ill, poor boy from London breathed his last hours. Around the traces of his...
It was New Years Eve and the mood was sombre in Helgas Folly, a crazy hotel plastered with dream-sequence murals overlooking Kandy in Sri Lankas central hill country. A hefty Dutch social worker recalled it being breakfa...
An estimated 10,000 people will set off from the Colosseum in Via dei Fori Imperiali on Sunday 13 March embarking on the 11th city of Rome marathon. The 42 km journey will take them through the main historic sites, as w...
A collision between a passenger train and a freight locomotive at Bolognina di Crevalcore near Bologna in mid-January killed 17 people. The accident was Italys worst rail disaster in 25 years and triggered an outcry.
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Clowning is a passion for me, says Claudio Ceccarelli. During a show, I get an adrenalin rush I cant explain. It doesnt matter how anxious and shy you feel beforehand, as soon as you put on your outfit you become your a...
Clowning is a passion for me, says Claudio Ceccarelli. During a show, I get an adrenalin rush I cant explain. It doesnt matter how anxious and shy you feel beforehand, as soon as you put on your outfit you become your a...
Georges Prtre is such an old hand at Carmen, having conducted his first performance of it some 60 years ago and made the famous recording with Maria Callas 41 years ago, that we can but be amazed at the energy and freshn...
The wooden spoon is once again within Italys grasp after an 18-10 spanking on Saturday against Scotland in the Six Nations rugby championship. Odds makers wager that it will take a near miracle for the inexperienced Azzu...
For almost 150 years, the Istituto Geografico Militare (IGM) has occupied premises in what was once a part of the monastery of the SS. Annunziata in Florence, without anyone suspecting that these rooms contained a fascin...
As far as most of the public knows, the sprawling ministry for fine arts and the national heritage (ministero per i beni culturali e le attivit culturali) occupies itself with monuments, archaeological excavations, museu...
Italy is a nuclear-free zone. Its armed forces never had a nuclear bomb to ban and energy companies have not been allowed to generate power with atomic technology since a 1987 referendum banned its use.
All of which so...
Italy goes to the polls on 3 and 4 April when almost 42 million Italians, or 80 per cent of the electorate, will choose assemblies for 14 out of the 20 regions. This will be the last big test before next years general el...
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