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13 - 19 September 2010. Rome celebrates the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival with a parallel event titled 'The route of cinema from Venice to Rome'. Over the course of a week film lovers in the city are treated t...
For four consecutive Sundays from 18 September to 17 October the Auditorium Parco della Musica presents the literary event Save The Story. Under the subtitle Great writers, immortal Stories, audiences can listen as four...
The Colosseum is the latest monument to feature in the work of two international video installation artists. After four years of planning and negotiating with city authorities, Thyra Hilden from Denmark and Pio Diaz from...
The first new bridge to be built over the Tiber since the 1960 Olympics is now clearly visible in the Flaminio part of Rome. Ponte della Musica has almost spanned the river between Piazza Gentile da Fabriano - Via Guido...
Rome's multicultural Pigneto neighbourhood with working-class Roman roots.
By Martin Bennett.
Take a glint-nosed tram (no 5 or 14). A rattling ten minutes later you thread Porta Maggiore and an equally massive piec...
Analysis of the Sistine Chapel carried out during the summer has provided evidence that the ceiling is being damaged by polluted air caused by the combined body temperature of the thousands of visitors the chapel receive...
The Circus Maximus is the location for this year's Corso Futurista on Saturday 4 September. Meaning 'futuristic run', the run is inspired by an artistic movement founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti at the start of the t...
Urban Contest at Circo Massimo from 10-12 September offers a platform for Rome
Police are in the process of closing down and evacuating illegal camps which are occupied by the city's Roma community.
The authorities say they are beginning this task by concentrating on the camps they consider mos...
1 Sept-31 Nov 2010. The special visits to the beautiful frescoed and stuccoed rooms of Palazzo Spada continue every first Sunday of the month. During the next appointments on Sun 3 Oct and Sun 7 Nov (at 10.30, 11.30 and...
James Walston finds something profoundly depressing about the recent visit of the Libyan leader to Rome for the fourth time in just over a year.
He continues his political observations about Ghedaffi and Silvo Berlusco...
The Colosseum and the Baths of Caracalla are now open for guided tours every Saturday night until October.
The tours, conducted by archaeologists, bring to life the workings of the Colosseum, from its functionality to...
50 years after Rome hosted the 1960 Olympics, city authorities are to host a series of commemorative events, the first of which takes place at the municipal headquarters in Piazza del Campidoglio on Wednesday 25 August....
This summer sees the arrival of new additions to Rome's zoo (Biopark). Perhaps one of the biggest attractions so far this year has been the recent birth of Righetto, the baby zebra. His name, based on the Italian word fo...
Once the property of Austria, Palazzo Venezia is to host the Viennese Debutante
Normally associated with late autumn and early winter, the pruning season for Rome's trees has instead begun in August. The order forms part of the programme of work taking place on Rome's streets, otherwise largely dese...
Five prisoners from Rebibbia jail are involved in a project to clean some of Rome
Rome has launched a new project to light areas of the city not already illuminated at night. Over 53,000 lights will be installed in approximately 3,700 streets at a cost of
There they were, five bones lying on red silk in a glass casket. They had been escorted with great devotion from the place of his birth to the place of his death. Experts were at hand to give advice along the way to make...
The summer is typically a period of increased conflict in Italian politics as the need or desire to finalise legislation before the August recess can result in a series of provisions that are pushed through parliament wi...
James Walston continues his political observations from his blogsite.
To read more about the Berlusconi-Fini breakup click here.
Palazzo Barberini, on Via delle Quattro Fontane, presents an event on the evening of 19 September in honour of the renaissance painter Raphael (1483
This summer visitors to Villa Borghese can experience a trip around Rome
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