Italian politicians and officials, Vatican clerics and members of the diplomatic corps paid their respects throughout Sunday 3 April to the late Pope John Paul II, whose body is lying in state in the Vatican.
The pope...
''He was one of us. I've been coming to see him since 1986. I was 18 then. I was and am a boy scout. There was a scout-rally in the Abruzzo, a mountainous region to the east of Rome. There were 13,000 of us. He came by...
It was as I sat at a friends house in Borgo Vittorio, just a few streets from St Peters, that I heard the bell toll. There had been so many false alarms over the last few days, but the heaviness of this ring was differen...
lThe sixth annual Trend season of plays by new British writers performed by Italian theatre companies is now under way at Teatro Belli, produced by Rodolfo di Giammarco and promoted by the British Council.
This seasons...
Imagine exotic, mouth-watering aromas that you have not experienced in months. Then imagine your taste buds soaking up forgotten flavours in the way that dry earth absorbs a downpour. Although I still enjoy a delicate sa...
8 March-12 June 2005. Coinciding with Barcelonas Year of the Book as well as marking the 400th anniversary of the first edition of Don Quixote, works by eight artists inspired by Cervantes masterpiece are on show at La P...
Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti. LIsola della Luce: Concert by I Solisti dellOrchestra Aracoeli conducted by Nicola Piovani with Noa female voice, Pino Ingrosso male voice, Omero Antonutti actor, and Gil Dor guita...
The wording on the city council advertisement says: In Rome its easier now you can change your residence without leaving your kitchen. It is an exaggeration, but what it means is that some of the bureaucratic procedure...
Italians go to the polls on Sunday 3 April and Monday 4 April to elect 14 regional governments, two provincial governments and 367 city and town councils, of which nine are provincial capitals. In total, more than 41 mil...
The Italian region of Lombardy has released the results of a survey on how young couples are living and dividing the domestic chores. Conducted for them by three separate pollsters, 2,881 people between the ages of 21 an...
18 March-7 June 2005. Running for two and a half months at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a love story that, uncommonly for an opera, has a happy ending. The story centres on Nemorino...
by Laura Clarke.
Non ci sar unaltro papa come lui. There will be no other pope like him, said an elderly lady at the news of the death of John Paul II, wiping the tears from her eyes. She was one of many people in St Pe...
by Gerald OCollins, S.J
He doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus. Shakespeares words about Julius Caesar bear applying to Pope John Paul IIs mission on our planet. During the years of his papacy, he went on...
After a long day waiting, the news of the death of Pope John Paul II at 21.30 local time still came almost as a surprise to the city. Although people have been making their way to St Peters for the last two days, and alt...
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Next to Metro A Lepanto, this historical Roman apartment is on the 5th (top) floor with a rooftop offering a view of the Vatican. Located in the quiet neighborhood of Prati, this b...
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