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When the poet Shelley stayed in Rome in 1819, he wrote of his evening walks when he saw the radiant Orion through the columns of the Temple of Concord (in actual fact, he was referring to the Temple of Saturn with its di...
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Among the products of Nature, the most expensive
To be derived fromtrees or shrubs are amber,
balsam, myrrh and frankincense.
I must not pass over the fact that gold, with which...
The Rom or gypsies, as they used to be called, have historically held a precarious position in society and to say that they have suffered persecution seems an understatement if not a simplification. But in contemporary t...
Diamonds are said to be a girls best friend, so lets begin this cocktail party with the recipe for a Diamond Martini.
Diamond Martini
125 ml Wyborawa vodka or other premium-grain vodka.
A dash of Martini & Rossi (...
Today Christmas is celebrated in much the same way in Italy as it is in most other western countries, and this is also largely true when it comes to the food. However, in Italy strong regional or even local traditions ha...
This is near perfection. Once again the Teatro dellOpera di Roma, as it did earlier this year with Cos fan tutte, has put together brilliant young singers who really know both how to sing and act, put them into attractiv...
The Domus Aurea, once the home of the emperor Nero, has been closed to the public because of structural damage caused by the recent heavy rain in Rome. Some of the frescoes are also in danger lifting off the walls becaus...
The heavily built-up S. Lorenzo-Tiburtina area of Rome may be in for cleaner, quieter and less-congested times. Rome urban planning councillor, Roberto Morassut, speaking at the reopening of the renovated Piazza dellImma...
A truce has been declared between the Italian government and protesters in the Val di Susa in Piedmont in the north west of the country.
The protesters have been demonstrating against the building of a high-speed train...
According to a new study by Unicredit Banca, some 6,000 Roman small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) risk bankruptcy and another 43,000 are already experiencing serious banking-related problems. Rome is described as I...
The Rome city council has come up with plans which it hopes will keep private cars off the roads in the run-up to Christmas.
Five free shuttle buses will link undergrounds stations, railway stations, car parks and comme...
The power of Address Unknown lies in the simplicity of its telling. It is a story of friendship and its disintegration, and of the bitterness and tragedy that unfolds as a result. Published in 1938, it is also a damning...
After more than half a century, and years of negotiations, the Circolo degli Ufficiali (officers club) is finally preparing to move out of Palazzo Barberini into nearby Palazzina Savorgnan di Brazza. The move will mean t...
Builders redeveloping a former wasteland on the north-eastern outskirts of Rome unearthed a second century AD necropolis containing several sealed sarcophagi. Local historians and archaeologists were aware of the existen...
The new winter timetable for the Italian state railways comes into effect on 11 December. All the new train times are visible on the website of trenitalia, www.trenitalia.it.
A new station will be opened on the line bet...
Thursday 8 December is the religious feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and an Italian public holiday. Pope Benedict XVI will conduct mass to celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conceptio...
The Olympic torch for the 2006 Winter Olympic games, which open in Turin on 10 February, will arrive in Rome on 8 December and will be lit in the Piazza del Quirinale by the president of the republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciamp...
A voucher payment system for occasional workers will be experimented in ten Italian cities, starting in the new year. The vouchers will bring many people, who currently work illegally with no social security contribution...
The Teatro alla Scala opera house in Milan will open for the 2005-2006 season, at 18.00 on 7 December, (the feast of the citys patron saint, S. Ambrogio) with a production of Idomeneo King of Crete by Wolfgang Amadeus Mo...
Several hundred Italian police and carabinieri held an early morning raid on demonstrators against a project for a new high-speed railway line from Turin to Lyon in France.
Demonstrators were taken away from their Vena...
Italian towns and cities produced 31.1 tonnes of household rubbish in 2004, a 3.7 per cent increase on the previous year. This is according to the latest report from environment watchdogs, the Agenzia per la Protezione d...
There are 1,026 medals ready for the winners of the Winter Olympic Games, which open in Turin on 10 February. As large as a CD and slightly concave, the medals are like doughnuts (or Olympic rings) with a hole in the mid...
Two key transport arteries servicing the Rome metropolitan area the Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA) ring road and the Rome-Fiumicino motorway could become toll-paying roads. Drivers accessing the GRA from four main motor...
An information desk has opened at the immigration offices in Via Teofilo Patini in the Tor Cervara area of the city. It is designed to help any immigrants going home for the Christmas holidays who need information, regar...
Petrol prices in Italy are notoriously high, with the average price of a litre of unleaded at 1.25, slightly above the European Union average of 1.23, and well above the price in France (1.18) and Spain (1.01). Part of t...
Anyone caught picking up a prostitute in Romes densely populated VII municipality will be fined 500, according to a new proposal put forward by the areas president, Stefano Tozzi. He hopes this measure will stop, or at l...
A new bookshop called Libreria Punch selling English books has opened in the Monteverde Vecchio area of Rome. The shop sells books in English and Italian, CDs, films, cards and gifts.
Piazza Rosolino Pilo 6. Tel. 06580...
Rome will be hard hit this year by the exemption of church property and non-profit organisations from payment of ICI, a local-property tax. In Rome, the Catholic Church owns extensive property, not just church buildings...
Roadworks have been completed on one of Romes busiest thoroughfares, Via del Tritone, between Largo Chigi and Largo Tritone. The works, which began in August, meant that part of the street became one-way only and that th...
Although the expensive public works project to save the Venice lagoon, called Moses, is already under construction, the mayor of Venice doubts whether this system of hydraulic dams will be sufficient to cope with rising...
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