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South-east Asian cuisine is linked together by common underlying food philosophies, ingredients, flavours and preparations, although it can vary widely. It is comparable to the idea of Mediterranean food: the countries s...
Every art scene in the world has its own snobberies, rules, mafias, impenetrable market machinations. Every opening exists on a different level with a different clan of admirers and, if possible, regimented buyers. Of co...
Michael Burns, a 31-year-old Irishman from Belfast, confessed why he now had more Italian friends than fellow-foreigners. To be honest, I now realise people of my own tongue will inevitably move on at some time. The Ital...
The chips are down for Italys most famous car-maker, Fiat. The firm is up to its eyebrows in debt, struggling to withstand the pace of an increasingly competitive market and facing restless trade unions worried about an...
A fig-tree that grows in the Forum itself, the meeting place of Rome,
is sacred because things struck by lightning are buried there,
and all the more so for being a reminder
of the fig-tree under which the nurse o...
One down and two more to go. For Italy more than anywhere else in Europe the elections to the European parliament on 12 June were the first round of a two-year campaign. With very few exceptions, the personalities of the...
In the old days, art lovers had to creep into the dark, dusty corners of churches or walk through miles of indifferent works in museums to find their favourite masters. Today, blockbuster shows tear work from the surroun...
There has always been a sumptuously rich literary culture in Romes plethora of libraries and bookshops. However, there is a discrepancy between the abundance of these literary offerings and their accessibility to the gen...
The Keats Shelley House McDonald's Piazza di Spagna poetry prize 2004 is divided into two sections, English and Italian, and into three age groups. This year the 5-9 age group was given the themes "Flight in a balloon"...
Englishman Arthur Acton and his American wife Hortense created a garden for all seasons, independent of flowers, at the villa of La Pietra on Via Bolognese, near Florence. Their son, Harold Acton, the last private owner...
Englishman Arthur Acton and his American wife Hortense created a garden for all seasons, independent of flowers, at the villa of La Pietra on Via Bolognese, near Florence. Their son, Harold Acton, the last private owner...
In the old days, art lovers had to creep into the dark, dusty corners of churches or walk through miles of indifferent works in museums to find their favourite masters. Today, blockbuster shows tear work from the surroun...
There has always been a sumptuously rich literary culture in Romes plethora of libraries and bookshops. However, there is a discrepancy between the abundance of these literary offerings and their accessibility to the gen...
One down and two more to go. For Italy more than anywhere else in Europe the elections to the European parliament on 12 June were the first round of a two-year campaign. With very few exceptions, the personalities of the...
If living in a city with a cinematic heritage as rich as Romes brings out your inner Fellini, Rossellini or Dario Argento talents, then perhaps you may want to try your hand at making a short film. You may have seen film...
This weekends elections for the European parliament will be fought over many issues, but none of them are directly relevant to the mandates Europeans will be granting their 786 new members of parliament (MEPs).
For man...
Its a beautiful day! The group called The Semaphore had just plunged into the last, catching lyric of the evening, by then perspiring under blue, red and yellow spots trained on their tense faces. They were performing in...
If living in a city with a cinematic heritage as rich as Romes brings out your inner Fellini, Rossellini or Dario Argento talents, then perhaps you may want to try your hand at making a short film. You may have seen film...
Most people who go to visit the famous monastic complex of St Benedict and St Scolastica at Subiaco do not realise that they are actually in the heart of Lazios biggest park.
The town of Subiaco is one of the gateways i...
When in Rome go to the Alexanderplatz! reads one of the numerous inscriptions that embellish the walls of the oldest jazz club in Italy. Its an invitation that countless musicians and aficionados have taken up over the p...
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