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Romanian orphans come of age on the streets of Italy
TERMINI STATION. While commuters are rushing towards their trains, youths circle around the escalator to Via Giolitti. They wear tight jeans and tough-looking jacke...
A guide to registering civil and religious marriages in Italy.If you are planning your happy wedding day in Italy you may require a little more time than you thought. So if you would like bells and ribbons instead of red...
Shopping for a wedding gown at the St Rita monastery in Umbria
I can still hear the voice of Sister Maria Laura and remember her smiling face when she said, “No more cheesecake!” She was fitting me into a...
Rome's Belgian Academy celebrates its 75th anniversary
When the Belgian Academy was inaugurated in Valle Giulia in 1939, it must have caused a stir for the sheer novelty of its design. Sandwiched among the grandiose n...
Rome exhibition reflects the colour and tragedy of Kahlo's life and art
Frida Kahlo, the world's best known exponent of Latin American art, had her first major exhibition in her native Mexico City in April 1953. By th...
Our second feature on traditional Italian crafts
The Amalfi Coast is one of Italy's most popular tourist spots, and yet few visitors venture from the coast to explore the craggy Lattari mountains that rise above the s...
An ecumenical gardening project in the heart of Rome.
The monastery and church of S. Gregorio al Celio was founded by Pope Gregory around the year 575, when he converted his family’s patrician villa into a monastery....
Life is filled with joys and sorrows, the happiness of a birth and the deep sadness on the death of a loved one. The last thing one needs on these occasions is to be bogged down by bureaucracy. We hope that the following...
Courts sometimes rule in favour of occupation of cultural venues in Rome.
Sarah Barchus
Tourist itineraries are packed with Rome’s famous historic sites, but they tend to ignore the places where history is currentl...
The city promotes direct sale of organic produce at farmers’ markets
There once was a time when the daily market in Campo de’ Fiori, dating back to the 1800s, was bustling with local vendors. Those days are long gone...
A bicycle-friendly mayor of Rome means the future could be brighter for Rome's cyclists
Rome may not be trying to reinvent the wheel, but it is trying to make its streets more welcoming for pedal power. Economic and...
Unscrupulous gang bosses pay foreign workers a pittance for dangerous and unregulated work on Rome’s building sites
by Mike Dilien
Viale Palmiro Togliatti. At dawn, a dozen men get off bus 591 and join a crowd behi...
Roman bars in the Pigneto suburb can be more conducive to conversation than many of the expat pubs in central Rome.
Italian bars tend to be much of a muchness. Espresso is a key word that describes not only the coffee....
Foreign nationals resident in Italy should make sure that their wills are in accordance with Italian inheritance laws
An article on inheritance may not seem a bright and breezy way to begin the New Year, but hav...
First Vatican exhibition dedicated to a living architect
The work of celebrated Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter Santiago Calatrava is the subject of a major exhibition at the Vatican's Bra...
Stiffer regulations on tax declarations for foreign residents in Italy have been in force for several years but now controls are getting tougher
“Desperate times call for desperate measures” – Hippoc...
Ariccia's unique and splendid artistic heritage is eclipsed by its most famous gastronomic product
Mention the name of Ariccia to any Roman and he or she will be sure to come up with the word porchetta. At weekends th...
The film festival faces a challenge to prove itself on the international circuit this year
Marco Müller remains at the helm for the festival's eighth edition, which runs from 8-17 November, but has a busy and dif...
A series of readings and conversations organised by the American Academy in Rome on 9-10 May explores the life and work of the great Latin poet
Irish Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney is the William B. Hart Poet-in-Re...
Margaret Stenhouse
The French Academy – once considered a rather aloof institution – is undergoing a transformation.
A well-known local legend, trotted out by tour guides, recounts that the eccentric Queen Cristina...
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