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Ribera created the Five Senses series during his four years in Rome.
Three years after Caravaggio’s lonely death on a beach outside Porte Ercole, a Spaniard, still in his early twenties, arrived in Rome via Parma where...
Iranian diaspora in Rome mobilises against regime.ROME: On a Saturday afternoon in late January, a group of plain-clothes officers stand guard in front of the Iranian embassy's high wrought iron gates on Via Nomentana in...
Thursfield spoke to Wanted in Rome before stepping down after 15 years as director.
On a rainy day in December, Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery is quiet. This hallowed graveyard in the city's Testaccio district is the fina...
Italy gets two nominations in 2023 Oscars.
Oscar season has arrived. Yet Italy’s pared back representation in this year’s nominations - which were announced on Tuesday - does little to deter from the fact that Italian c...
Rome’s new wave of five-star hotels to bring investment, jobs and high-end luxury to Italian capital.
With its tropical beach resorts and soothing spas, Bangkok-based hotel brand Six Senses has made a name for itself by...
If you have been to Napoli, you've surely noticed Mount Vesuvius towering over the city.
The mountain is an unmistakable landmark of the Bay of Naples, and its beauty is captivating. However, it is as beautiful and spe...
St Francis is best associated with Assisi but there are also important sites in Lazio where he left his mark.
Greek is no longer spoken in upper Sabina, as it might have been more than a thousand years ago if the legend...
Rome's independent English bookshops survive and, some, even flourish.
A few months ago, with the closure of the celebrated Feltrinelli in the Galleria Sordi on Rome's Via del Corso, local Italian newspapers published d...
This autumn marks the half-centenary of John Cabot University of Rome. We sat down with the university’s president, Franco Pavoncello, to discuss the university’s achievements, his vision for the future, the difficulties...
Rome's environment councillor, Sabrina Alfonsi, says city looks worse than it is in reality.
Sabrina Alfonsi, Rome's councillor with responsibility for the environment, responds to Wanted in Rome’s questions about the c...
From 'backuppato' to 'zoomando': anglicisms as language enrichment or self-harm?
As an alternative to foreign travel, one could take a pleasure (or horror?) tour along the frontiers where English and Italian meet, all w...
How to get to and what to see in Orvieto. The hilltop city makes a delightful day trip from Rome. Situated in the province of Terni in south-west Umbria, Orvieto stands on the summit of a large outcrop of volcanic tufa r...
Altars of water: exploring the aqueducts of ancient Rome.South of Giulio Agricola metro stop stretches one of Rome's best kept secrets – il Parco degli acquedotti – as majestic in its way as the Colosseum but hardly a to...
100 years since Mussolini's March on Rome: what really happened and why it still matters today.
This week marks the centenary of the March on Rome but while Mussolini's fascist dream might be over, the chequered legacy...
Full immersion in Italian village life is the philosophy of the “Albergo Diffuso” holiday formula.
On a balmy summer evening in the late 1990s, Daniel Elow Kilhgren, a young philosophy graduate of Italian-Swedish descen...
Zannone island near Rome was infamous for orgies in the 1960s.Zannone, a small Italian island off the coast between Rome and Naples, was once a decadent destination for the rich and famous.
Part of the cluster of Pontin...
On 15 June 2000, ex-windsurfing champion and Italian television producer Enrico ‘Chico’ Forti was sentenced to life in prison without parole in Florida for the murder of Dale Pike.
20 years later Italian officials are...
O’Flaherty saved the lives of over 6,000 escapees in Rome during world war two.
On 8 May 2016 a plaque was unveiled at the Vatican's Collegium Teutonicum to honour the Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty (1898-1964)...
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