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Following the likes of New York and Paris, Rome has become the latest city to brand itself. Aimed primarily at the online audience, city authorities hope that the newly adopted logo will soon become a readily recognisabl...
For those who knew the old premises of the British Council in Palazzo del Drago on Via delle Quattro Fontane, its new home, just off Piazza di Spagna, could hardly be more of a contrast.
The wide elegant staircase at P...
Chiara asked my wife if she would like to come on a trip to Umbria to collect her mother Carla and bring her back to Rome at the end of the summer holiday. Marinella
Upon arriving in S. Maria di Castellabate, first impressions might suggest that the inhabitants of this charming fishing village are addicted to ice-cream.
Villagers of all ages stroll up and down the main thoroughfar...
Recently released figures show that MAXXI, the national museum for 21st-century art and architecture, welcomed 140,000 visitors in the first hundred days after it opened in May of this year. In addition, the museum
The ministry of cultural heritage has announced that from the second week in October a third level of the Colosseum will open to the public. The provisional opening date for the completely restored underground section of...
23 - 26 September. As part of a celebration of the life and culture of ancient Rome, the Museum of Ancient Roman Civilisation and its environs in EUR is hosting a
To coincide with the European Days of Patrimony, Rome is hosting a weekend of art, with free entry to state museums on 25 and 26 September. Held annually across Europe since 1991, the European Days of Patrimony are desig...
With the United States mid-term congressional elections coming up on 2 November US oversees voters are reminded to register to vote or to make sure that their registration is up to date.
The deadline for registration...
Google, the leading internet search-engine, is continuing to document the world's streets as part of its grand-scale photographic project Street View. They have now embarked on a photographic series of Italian "art citie...
Below is a list of the major museums and archaeological sites in Rome; in general, ticket offices shut approximately one hour before final closing time. In most cases admission is free for EU citizens under 18 and over 6...
For the second consecutive year, the leading travel booking and information website TripAdvisor.com has ranked Rome as the second worst city in the world for incidents involving pickpockets. Tripadvisor arrived at this r...
On 20 September 1870, in what came to be known as the Breach of Porta Pia, triumphant Italian Bersaglieri led by Raffaele Cadorna marched down Via Pia, having defeated Pope Pius IX's papal troops.
Rome subsequently a...
Preliminary plans have been revealed for a radical restructuring of the area surrounding the Ara Pacis museum complex, which, if passed will turn the area into a pedestrian zone with a large public park. The principal el...
It was a summer of high political drama and low intrigue; autumn and winter promise to maintain the tension. Both the theatre and the substance will continue and there is a fair chance of early elections in spring. For a...
Not many people have heard of Mario Nuzzi. And yet he was one of the most famous artists in 17th-century Italy. Commissions flooded into his atelier from the ruling houses of Rome, Florence and Turin. His works were sent...
The Vatican's Apostolic Library reopens on 20 September after a three-year renovation programme which cost
Rome's La Sapienza university has entered the ranks of the world's top 200 universities, climbing 15 places from last year to reach number 190. The figures have been compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), an independent...
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.
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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...
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