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Its recent 40th birthday went largely unnoticed and uncelebrated. Yet the Autostrada del Sole is the longest motorway in Italy, hosts an average of over 58,000 vehicles a day along its 803.5 km, and has a lovely, almost...
Popular wisdom has it that taxi drivers in Rome are dubious, unreliable characters with an eye for quick money. The service has never been popular with residents or tourists of the eternal city, who claim that drivers ov...
Forget about the Colosseum and Trajans markets, get yourself into one of the citys many archives to unearth the hidden historical secrets of Rome on paper. From the wealthy noble family to the local bar in Campo de Fior...
Popular wisdom has it that taxi drivers in Rome are dubious, unreliable characters with an eye for quick money. The service has never been popular with residents or tourists of the eternal city, who claim that drivers ov...
When the governments pension reform bill was approved by the chamber of deputies in July, the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera ran a cartoon spoofing the reactions of centre-left politicians. Good news! Berlusconi has...
As we raised our glasses high, nonnos words sang out over the dining table, Salut per chinto anno, his deep, rich voice as hardy and pure as the red wine he held in his glass. Good luck, for a 100 years, his dinner guest...
The train from Roma Termini only took an hour to reach Terracina, a town situated on the coast between Rome and Naples. The climb up to the cave started at the base of the small mountain that slopes upwards from the town...
At any time of day Rita and Lallos fruit and vegetable shop was the place to meet everyone in the village. It was the social centre. All sorts of people the locals, the second-homers, the cook from the trattoria on the...
An earthquake hit a small place of 1,300 souls in Slovenia called Kobarid on 12 July this year. Nobody was killed but 353 homes were damaged, the worst shock for the village in decades. In neighbouring Italy, nobody noti...
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
himself. It struck him dead. And serve him right!
It is the duty of the wealthy man
to give employment to the artisan!
Hilaire Belloc, from More Peers 1911.
One of th...
This first of Rossinis mature opere serie was first put on at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in February 1813, to enormous acclaim. In addition to its musical felicities, the work is important as being at the beginning o...
This concert performance of Idomeneo, re di Creta at the Accademia S. Cecilia in Rome (16-19 Oct) epitomized everything for which the Rome musical public has to thank Myung Whun Chung and Bruno Cagli; young and attractiv...
This school year has finally seen the introduction of the Riforma Moratti, a series of reforms that have been under discussion since Silvio Berlusconi became prime minister in 2001 and that Letizia Moratti, Italian minis...
My name is Istandar. Im 26. Im from Somalia. We have civil war there. I am alone. All the people from my family are dead. Me and friends, we want to be refugee. I have no job, no money, no sleep. Last night, we sleep in...
Dan Browns The Da Vinci Code is a fast-paced, well-plotted murder mystery that takes the reader through the Louvre, a long night of murders and a police chase out of Paris to a wet morning in London. There the identity o...
If you look at the wine list in any Italian restaurant of class and this includes those in Rome ten to one youll find an abundance of Veneto and Tuscany wines, some from Fruili, Apulia and Sicily, and maybe the odd Fra...
l The Dutch Institute in Rome is staging an exhibition of work by the graphic artist M.C. Escher as part of its centenary celebrations. Escher (1898-1978) is most famous for his so-called impossible structures such as As...
Politics is always a roller coaster so after three and a half years as prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi has learnt to hold tight on the downs and enjoy the view on the ups. Over the summer, he was sitting precariously o...
15-16 Oct. If Fidelio sets the tone for this season at the Teatro dellOpera di Roma under Mauro Trombetta, the artistic director appointed last year, the opera-lover will have much to be happy about, as this production i...
To the north-east of Rome, about an hour's drive out of the city, off the beaten tourist track, is an area of exceptional natural beauty, archaeological importance, artistic interest and religious mysticism.
This is wh...
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