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Every morning at about 09.00 the market at Piazza Campo de Fiori loses the last semblance of a street market for locals and shows its true colours as a tourist trap. Coach-loads of Germans file past the stalls, while Ame...
The ivory face
Its among the most precious objects ever found in Italy. And: a figure which is certainly one of the most important which the ancient world has given us. Antonio Giuliano, professor emeritus at Tor Vergat...
For anyone with a weakness for betting, there exists a magic sextet of numbers in Rome that plucks a winner out of the hat almost without fail. And it doesnt cost you a penny either. All you
have to do is ask it a quest...
Italys international rugby union side has been steadily improving over the past few years, but faces a daunting opening match in this years Six Nations tournament when it takes on world cup winners England on 15 February...
Dear Juliet, writes 32-year-old Davide. Im writing to tell you about a love story that has filled my heart for the last ten years. Only you can understand Davide goes on to define himself as a worker, poor and a bit unfo...
The sage and happy sculptor and scholar Peter Rockwell has lived in Rome for decades. On a recent visit to New York two shows made an impression on his fertile and lively mind. One consisted of the drawings of Pieter Bru...
If you have noticed some upheaval in the centre of Rome of late, it is probably not an isolated piece of maintenance work but rather part of a master-plan to pedestrianise many of the citys squares and streets and modern...
Never before had this writer looked down on the Romans as regards their haircuts, dining habits, even their habitat and bedrooms; never, that is, until he boarded Topless and saw everything from a completely different a...
I got my job through sheer good fortune. I had come to Rome intending to pay the rent by teaching English. I left my CV at the Keats-Shelley museum in Piazza di Spagna and two weeks later the curator asked me if I would...
Virginia, a young woman living in Rome who needs to learn English for her secretarial job in an international firm, was born and raised in Argentina. I was born and raised in the United States and have been earning my li...
The peasants eat thistles, Goethe wrote disdainfully of the artichoke in his book Travels through Italy. Pliny the Elder, a first-century AD Roman scholar, called it one of life's monstrosities. And even recently one coo...
A new year and a halfway house; just over two-and-a-half years have passed since Silvio Berlusconi became prime minister and if all goes according to plan, the next elections will be in spring 2006. Certainly Berlusconi...
A new year and a halfway house; just over two-and-a-half years have passed since Silvio Berlusconi became prime minister and if all goes according to plan, the next elections will be in spring 2006. Certainly Berlusconi...
The business principle of give the customers what they want appears to have worked, at least in the low cost airline sector. It has seen a phenomenal growth and has given traditional carriers a shot of adrenalin they cou...
On a fine noon on 9 June 1311 all the shops were shut and all the bells were ringing in the fortified Tuscan town of Siena. There was a sound of drums and fifes and trumpets and castanets. All the people were singing. In...
What would Georgina Masson, author of The Companion Guide to Rome, and John Fort, who has recently revised her text, have said to one another if they had ever met? Possibly Fort might have asked her about her dog Willy;...
One of the delights of an Italian Christmas is going to churches to see the presepi, or Christmas cribs. Many of these are authentic works of art, with spectacular scenic effects reproducing picturesque corners of old Ro...
Believe you me, theyre waiting for whats going to happen here like manna from heaven, exclaimed Natalino Gasbarro, the foreman of a work team heading the citys project to bring drains, light and new housing to Salone, on...
The summer of 2003 was dramatic for the majority of Europeans. The elderly suffered, crops withered, water was scarce and accusations of administrative bungling abounded throughout the continent. However not everyone wa...
The Teatro La Fenice in Venice is finally coming back to life after the fire that destroyed it on 29 January 1996. The reconstruction of the theatre began just a year after the fire, but was interrupted in 1998 due to pr...
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