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10 December 2010. The Irish Club of Rome hosts its annual Christmas dinner on Friday 10 December at 19.30 at Ristorante Lo Scarpone on the Janiculum hill. The festive occasion is celebrated with a five course meal, follo...
On the feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December, Pope Benedict XVI pays homage to the Virgin Mary by making a pilgrimage to Piazza Mignanelli beside the Spanish Steps in the city centre at 16.00. In an annual tra...
On the occasion of World Aids Day 2010, the infectious diseases clinic of the Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital on Via Portuense 292 is providing free HIV screening for everyone on 1 December between 08.00 and 20.00. This is...
Retailers in Rome are asking for a moratorium on street demonstrations over the Christmas-New Year festive period. During the student protests on 30 November and the tight security cordons around the historic centre many...
The Museo del Novecento opens in Milan on 6 December. Situated in Palazzo Arengario and connecting to Palazzo Reale it is an ideal location for Milanese and tourists alike.
The building, which is within sight of the D...
The 35th edition of the annual international nativity crib exhibition 100 Presepi has opened in Piazza del Popolo's Sala del Bramante and runs daily throughout the Christmas season, until 7 January 2011.
In addition...
The centre of Rome came to a standstill on Tuesday 30 November as police clashed with students protesting against education reforms being voted on in Italy
Sadly, clicking channel 43 will no longer bring you BBC World News on digital terrestrial TV. Blogs around Italy are aflame with accusations of censorship and outrage that foreign ― and thus presumably independent...
The apartment where Italian novelist Alberto Moravia lived from the 1960s until his death in 1990 opens to the public as a museum on 30 November. Located on the top floor of a building on the Lungotevere della Vittoria i...
Adapted for the stage and performed by David Mandelbaum, Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-d is performed in Trastevere by New York's New Yiddish Repertory, and is the 80th production by the English Theatre of Rome.
Zvi Kolit...
When we first started Wanted in Rome in the mid-1980s English-speaking expats were easy to identify and the city was a place where foreigners could lead a relatively cheap, leisurely and pleasant way of life. The English...
Formerly a school, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme was opened as a museum in 1998 to house the overspill of antiquities languishing in the store rooms of the Museo Nazionale Romano which is set inside the ruins of the Roman b...
Before even embarking on this discussion, we must clarify terms: expatriates (expats) are people residing out of their native land for a variety of reasons; expatriots are people alienated from their own countries for ot...
After a two year restoration programme between 2007 and 2009, and 11 months of rendering the site safe for visitors, the Villa Quintili has opened to the public. The ten hectare architectural complex is located about eig...
According to an online survey conducted by the city, 83 per cent of Rome's residents have voted in favour of moving the terminus of the number 8 tram from Largo Argentina to Piazza Venezia. Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno...
An ice rink for amateurs and professionals, children and adults has opened in Rome close to Piazza Mancini, one of the city
Organised by the Irish Club of Rome, a walking tour of the city's Ghetto district takes place on Sunday 21 November. Led by guide Marco Carusi, the tour will be conducted in Italian and will last two hours. Beginning at...
Following years of neglect, Rome's Tomb of Nero on Via Cassia close to the American Overseas School, has been restored to its former glory after a restoration project costing
Two weeks after we first reported our broken phone we now have our line back. The fault was on the outside cable which, the technician told us, needs replacing all down the street.
How did we resolve the impasse? Who...
Museums in Music takes place on the night of Saturday 20 November in 47 cultural venues throughout Rome. Over 100 live musical performances are being staged, primarily in museums, but also in exhibition spaces, churches,...
One of Rome's best-known and most authentic Irish pubs, the Druid's Den, is now offering a large function room which may be booked for private parties and events. Completely separate from the main pub next door, the auto...
Italian environmental group Legambiente has described as "alarming" the level of pollution at the landfill site Malagrotta, situated west of Rome near Via Aurelia. Tests carried out at the dump between February and May t...
As more people use bicycles to get around Rome an action group of bicyclists and pedestrians called Di Traffico si Muore (Traffic kills) has initiated a safety campaign in the wake of the latest death of a bicyclist in e...
Telecom Italia and our quest to get our phone line back
On 2 November we discovered that there was a fault on your phone line 066867967. We could make calls out from the office, but readers and advertisers trying to pho...
Rome's MAXXI wins World Building of the Year
Rome's MAXXI, the national museum for 21st-century art and architecture, is the recipient of the 2010 World Architecture Festival (WAF) prize for the World Building of the...
After the proposal to advertise the names of sponsors on the metro C underground line, the issue of corporate sponsorship of Rome's schools has surfaced.
In return for the provision of new equipment and better facili...
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