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Football has long been known as the beautiful game, but in these days of tycoon chairmen, global merchandising and badly-behaved, millionaire players, its beauty can seem little more than skin deep. To a group of young i...
As the sun shines down on the so-called impero dello shopping, a new shopping centre 25 km south of Rome between EUR and Pomezia, it seems a project blessed by the gods. Its neo-
classical columns, arches and fortified...
If you wish to surprise your guests during the coming festive season, you might like to produce a bottle of one of Italys most exclusive wines. The cork and label alone will be a guaranteed conversation piece; besides t...
Extremely positive. This is how Franco Pittau, coordinator of the annual statistical report on immigration to Italy published by Caritas di Roma, judges the proposal launched by deputy premier and leader of the right-win...
Holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah and New Years Eve are festive occasions that most of us look forward to with pleasure. They can be a time for family and friends, religious celebrations and togetherness, filled with...
In the posters, they call it the oldest monument in Rome, and so it is, even though its the most recent one to be opened up. The namesakes of matrons from the ancient city show visitors around and hordes of admirers pour...
Mariangela Temperas love affair with William Shakespeare began back in the early 1970s, when she was a young student in London.
I was working on my thesis on L.P. Hartley at the time and I
didnt really know all that mu...
My names Carmine Ariete and Im 41 years old. Im the one in the photo. Ill forgive you if you think the years have been unkind but thats life on the street for you.
As you can see though, Im not your stereotypical homel...
Mariangela Temperas love affair with William Shakespeare began back in the early 1970s, when she was a young student in London.
I was working on my thesis on L.P. Hartley at the time and I
didnt really know all that mu...
It was a lovely boating afternoon on Lake Bracciano on 26 July, 1956. Xavier Leutenegger (the Swiss director of personnel at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization at the time), his wife Hildegard, who was...
“We ordered the book in May, but it didn’t move for several months. Then all of a sudden it was sold out.” Dermot O’Connell, the owner of the Almost Corner Bookshop in Trastevere, was referring to...
My mother is Italian and my father is English, and they are still very much together. Recently I have started to think that this is because they are both atypical: my father is not particularly Euro-sceptical or fond of...
From Dylan Dog investigating the paranormal underbelly of London life to the king of terror Diabolik and the erotic works of Manara, Italian comics, or fumetti, are almost as much a part of the countrys culture as Federi...
Immediately before world war one, a group of young Italian men, quite macho and from provincial families nostalgic for past glories, formed a circle of friends in Ferrara. They had no special theories, wrote no manifesto...
The Pontifical Irish College in Via dei SS. Quattro Coronati, or Colaiste na nGaedeal, as its green gates proclaim, is celebrating its 375th anniversary on 6 November. As with many birthdays for those of advanced years,...
As early November approaches, an annual rite here in Italy is upon us. Families will begin flocking to their local cemeteries, autumnal flowers in hand, to pay respects to the departed and tidy up the family plot. While...
What follows are details of what you need to do to obtain a permesso di soggiorno, or permit to stay in Italy. However, you will not necessarily be asked for all of the documents listed, and you may be asked for somethin...
Mad dog mania seems to be going around, with reports about canine aggression constantly in the headlines. Victims of these attacks are running to hospitals, while most benevolent dog-owners are still puzzled about new la...
They used to refer to them as the seven hills of Rome. Now there are eight. That is what they call it: lottavo colle or the eighth hill. Ascent and descent take 15-20 stupendous minutes, and it is best scaled in the morn...
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