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Praise the green earth.
Chance has appointed her
home, workshop, larder, middenpit.
Her lousy skin, scabbed here and there by cities
provides us with name and nation.
(From the poem Something Missing by Basil Bun...
As the academic year draws to a close, fine arts scholars at the British School at Rome are exhibiting their work in Fine Arts 2004, 12-19 June. The exhibition opens on 11 June at 18.30, with a performance by Juho Laitin...
New legislation regulating the protection and use of Italys cultural heritage became law last month. The complex Codice dei beni culturali e del paesaggio, which has 184 articles, integrates and extends previous legislat...
Insiders at Cinecitt, the citadel of Italian film-making nine kilometres south of Rome, say they see what is going on there now as an astonishing Renaissance within walls that only recently were showing signs of cracking...
Following a lengthy absence, womens professional golf returns to Rome. Even golfing enthusiasts will find it hard to remember that it was way back in 1991 that Britains Laura Davies won the third edition of the Rome Clas...
A year ago Gennaro Farina, the architect responsible for overseeing the construction of the museum complex for the Ara Pacis, told Wanted in Rome that the pavilion would be ready by April 2004. The completion date for t...
Media law for a new future?
According to the government the new media law lays the foundations for the future of Italys media. According to the opposition, it is tailor-made for prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and is...
Joan Marble Cook died in Rome on 30 April at the age of 84 after a short illness. In international gardening circles she will be remembered most for her two best sellers "Notes on an Italian Garden" and "Notes from a Rom...
Next week Rome celebrates the 60th anniversary of the citys liberation from German occupation. The 4 June celebration should have been for everyone, but instead the past has become entangled with two very contemporary el...
Rome, with its legendary history and its breathtaking collection of art extending across the city in museums, churches and galleries, has always been a major tourism centre. This has brought a mix of different cultures a...
The angelo bello (beautiful angel) that fascinated archaeologists and art historians during the first excavations, carried out at the church of S. Maria Antiqua in 1900, peeps out from behind the scaffolding screening th...
Although most of the museums in Rome are free for those under 18 or over 65 and reduced for those from 18-25, they are not so for the majority who are outside those categories. The unfortunate truth is, however, that the...
A dark stone fortress looms in the shadows beyond an unmarked dirt parking lot. After crossing a bridge and walking through a dark tunnel one is greeted by a number of stray dogs and hippies with piercings. They are some...
"The Esquilino neighbourhood conquered by the Chinese" ran the title of a recent article in the Rome section of "Corriere della Sera" reporting a monitoring project of the area. The results were surprising. Of about 500...
Pietro Vannucci, nicknamed Il Perugino, and on whom Michelangelo perpetrated one of the worst crimes in art history, was born in a small town near Lake Trasimeno in a flourishing corner of Umbria near the border of Tusca...
For centuries, Orvieto has been content to have tourists make brief visits, eat a meal, see the superb cathedral and then pass on to Siena, Florence and Rome.
Its trattorie and ristoranti have had two distinct clientel...
There were Jews in Rome before there were Christians; the first evidence dates back to 150 BC when emissaries of the Maccabees were sent to their co-religionists in the up-and-coming power in the west. For most of these...
They were the years of Hollywood on the Tiber, when Rome gleefully found itself subjected to a riotous invasion of American film people, all the big stars and directors, mincing starlets and hangers-on, attracted by the...
The last thing you would expect to see in Rome on a warm Saturday afternoon is a band of kilt-clad pipers marching across a bright green field. Against all odds that was exactly what an audience of over 20,000 saw at the...
The first phase of the new Uffizi project, an expansion and modernisation of Florences grand museum, opened in early March with six new rooms, the relocation of some masterpieces, an academic bookshop and a new exit at t...
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