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The coastal road outside Reggio Calabria, along the Ionian Sea, boasts two imposing sights: a grandstand view over the Mediterranean and a long stretch of lush coastal orchards, primarily between Villa S. Giovanni and Ro...
The war in Iraq might be a long way away geographically but the political dangers are close to home. Most Italians are against using war to disarm Saddam Hussein and for more than two months a vast majority of them has t...
Some 30 foreign yachters are now wintering in the quiet waters of a new harbour near the mouth of the Tiber, the first custom-made maritime haven in Rome since ancient times.
Crowds of curious visitors most of them fr...
The beauties are tall and trim. They are firm with only a hint of padding in just the right places, their colouring translucent. They stand erect, row after row of them, waiting patiently to be judged on their magnificen...
When the commander of the Swiss Guard, his ex-model wife and a young officer in the corps were discovered shot dead at the Vatican in May 1998, it was the kind of story a journalist dreams about a mystery involving sex,...
At this time of year, many of us dream of summer, which is a good reason to go in search of some Mediterranean sunshine. No need to go far a quick trip to your local enoteca will do the trick. Here you can find concentr...
A busy and efficient restaurant in Via Gioberti, barely 20 paces from Termini station, enshrines a rarity. In the Europe of today, with the accent on labour mobility, he should not be rare at all, but in conservative Rom...
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Libreria per Ragazzi Mel Giannino Stoppani
Piazza dei SS. Apostoli 59/a - 65, tel. 0669941045.
A spacious, well-designed and well-stocked bookshop entirely dedicated to children and teenagers. Also CDs and...
In which country do criminal offences far outnumber residents?
The unexpected answer is the Vatican, where annual figures made public for the first time paint the tiny pontifical state as a veritable hotbed of crime.
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The city council is launching another campaign to clean up Rome and crack down on residents who don't respect the capital. From June a task force of 300 workers will patrol the streets, and half of them will have the pow...
It looks set to become the biggest and most controversial issue for Londoners since the poll tax, forecast the BBCs in-house magazine Ariel. The topic was the mayor of Londons car tax, a levy of 5 to be imposed on every...
Speed dating, Americas answer to the inefficiencies of the human courting ritual, has all the advantages for rushed singles. No tedious guessing whether someone is interested, no risk of painful rejection, and not more t...
Following the production of Faust which opened the season at Romes opera house to mixed reviews, its the turn of Donizettis Lucia di Lammermoor (21 Feb-4 March). This production was first staged in Florence in 1996 under...
Long, of the land-art generation, took long walks in Scotland, Tibet and other spectacular landscapes and built loving rings of stone and other mysterious marks and cairns in their midst. In this new gallery he only show...
Lee Miller was first a Vogue model, then a Vogue photographer, who lived with Man Ray at the height of the 1930s in Paris. She learnt art photography from him, but later became a tough photo-reporter. She was married to...
Its not quite a direct line to God, but mobile phone users can now receive the thoughts of Pope John Paul II each day in the form of a text message. The Holy Father spreads the word to subscribers in the form of an SMS (...
The intangible realms of souls and cyberspace have been brought together with the creation of an on-line cemetery, or city of remembrance. Launched by the municipal agency for the environment (AMA) last November, the sch...
Starting at the bottom
Olio di sansa e di oliva is the lowest grade oil. The sansa says it all. It is the dregs of the olive oil industry – the dry residue that is dumped in a smelly, fermenting heap outside the o...
One cold, overcast mid-February day nine years ago, this writer stepped through the doors of the Phillips auction house in central London. There was a reverential silence as visitors shuffled by, staring at the lots soon...
Locanda dei Girasoli is the only restaurant of its kind in the whole of Italy. It is a long way from the centre of Rome, set in an ugly, cramped suburb that does not attract many visitors. Yet it is the site of a highly...
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