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The following international schools in Rome are holding fairs during May:
8 May. American Overseas School of Rome, Via Cassia 811. 11.00-16.00. For more information tel. 06334381, www.aosr.org.
15 May. St George
Italy now has a certified email system giving legal validity to electronic correspondence between private individuals and the public administration.
The new service allows people to bypass long queues at the post offic...
On 10 March 31-year-old Angelo Russo hung himself in his cell at Poggioreale prison in Naples. A schizophrenic, he had been arrested just two weeks previously on suspicion of raping a 19-year-old girl at a psychiatric ho...
Just out of art school, growing up in the New York art world in the late 1940s, you took the Hopper paintings down at the Whitney Museum on 8th Street with a grain of salt. Their white New England spareness, their stony...
This year the 25 April Liberation Day national holiday in Italy falls on a Sunday but shops in Rome and Milan, which would normally be shut, have permission to stay open to make the most of the holiday tourists. Museums...
This year Earth Day on 22 April has the theme of biodiversity with a special focus on the oceans.
Rome is marking the event with a free concert in the Circo Massimo starting at 18.00 with a DJ set followed by live perf...
From the end of July or early August visitors to the Colosseum will be able to visit part of the monument
21 April is the 2,763rd anniversary of the legendary founding of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC.
The city is marking the occasion with a programme of events over several days, including free guided tours of archaeological si...
Travellers in Italy have a difficult week ahead due to the ash cloud generated by an erupting volcano in Iceland, which has disrupted flights and created transport difficulties across much of Europe.
Following a brief...
Rome is clamping down on the use of microcars following the recent death of two young drivers in accidents in Rome.
The municipal police has launched a series of patrols and controls across the city, with a special foc...
Athletes, sporting personalities and musicians are in Piazza del Popolo from 16 to 18 April to support Rome
At the moment Rome is offering some of the most stimulating historical art shows in the world. That its private galleries have always concerned themselves with live contemporary shows is known only to a few elect who are...
Colours have always marked Italian politics so finding an unattached one for the Popolo Viola was not easy. The grassroots movement that began in 2009 took purple so as not to be too obviously colour-coded. It is a touch...
Ravenna, the northern Italian city famed for its Byzantine mosaics, makes an unusual, but not inappropriate, venue for a current exhibition on the British Pre-Raphaelite movement. As Christopher Newall, a leading expert...
What a wonderful period this is. The air teases our senses with the smells and fragrances of spring and the roses are in full bloom. Here are some of the many interesting gardens that are open to the public in and near R...
Work is due to start on the interchange between metro lines A and B at Termini Station on 10 April.
Entrance to and exit from the metro lines will be affected. Access will only be available from two points: the lower f...
The Vatican Museums start their late evening openings again on Friday 9 April and they will continue every Friday evening until 9 July and then again from 3 September until 29 October. The late opening time is from 19.00...
American architect Richard Meier has approved plans to tear down part of a wall adjoining his modern Ara Pacis Museum complex that was included in his original design.
The wall in question divides the busy Lungotever...
Do you want to see the Caravaggio exhibition at the ex Scuderie del Quirinale but can
Thousands of faithful are to join Pope Benedict XVI at the Colosseum on 2 April for the annual Good Friday Via Crucis starting at 21.15.
The meditations and prayers have been prepared by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, former...
On 21 March 2010 Lady Susana Walton passed away peacefully at her home on the island of Ischia at the age of 83. Lady Walton was the owner and creator of La Mortella, private gardens located in Forio, Ischia. She was men...
Imagine being a Rome taxi driver. You sit around in taxi ranks, sometimes for an hour or two, trying to keep your place in a non-existent line.* At last someone jumps into your vehicle, certainly in a hurry. You are told...
Some places are so beautiful that they can only be described by a story. The island of Ischia is one of those places. Legend has it that after creating the universe, in a moment of passion God created Ischia, the island...
No matter where you stop to eat in Rome, you will find wonderful food. And the small, often family-run trattoria may be serving dishes that are not all that different to what was in vogue 2,000 years ago. You can find hi...
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