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Many memorials dedicated to events during the closing stages of world war two can be found in those parts of Italy occupied by German troops, especially Rome. Recently, on 4 June, the 63rd commemoration was celebrated at...
In an address to members of Apimondia Italia, Asger Sogaard Jorgensen, president of the international federation of beekeepers
The Keats-Shelley House poetry prize for schools 2007 is divided into two sections, English and Italian, and into three age groups. This year the 5-9 age group was given the themes
Dear Mr President
As I follow with alarm the preparations for your visit to Rome this weekend one question comes to mind: have you ever stopped to ask yourself what impact your visits have on the people and communities...
Live and video performances and photographic works will give an insight into performance art in the United Kingdom (UK) over the last few decades at the British School at Rome on 3 June at 18.00-24.00.
The one-off eve...
I used to hate Rome. My parents lived here for five years when I was younger and I used to come and visit, but I never dreamt I
Spring is the time for minimising. Closets are cleaned out, jackets are put away, and not only the threat of the bathing suit season but also the arrival of fresh new produce provides the inspiration to streamline diets....
Take one part carnival, one part marathon and the rest Venice and its northern islands and you have the Vogalonga (the Long Row), the most exhilarating combination of sweat, art and madness that Italy has to offer. On 27...
On Friday 18 May at about 21.30 the participants in the 2007 Mille Miglia will start arriving in Rome having left Brescia on Thursday with an overnight in Ferrara. At one-minute intervals they will start leaving Rome at...
The spring election season is upon us. On 13 and 14 May there were local elections in Sicily and on 27 May a good portion of the rest of Italy will go to the polls to elect their municipal and provincial administrations....
The film cycle at the Centre Culturel Saint-Louis de France continues on 7 May with
For a couple of months now, sinister vans have been patrolling the streets of Rome. Reports are that the vans are blue and that on the side they bear the legend
In 1996 world leaders gathered at the World Food Summit in Rome pledged to halve the number of hungry people in the world by 2015. This commitment was reiterated in 2000 as part of the United Nations (UN) development goa...
People like me, born in the middle of the New Forest soon after the war, are privileged. There was beauty everywhere, and music. Grasshoppers and bees were the stringed instruments of the garden orchestra; birds its choi...
Today it is difficult to believe that La Traviata was a failure when first produced at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice on 6 March 1853. Perhaps it was because the first Violetta, Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, was so stout and...
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Aperitif at the organic restaurant
Join Club Tutti Expats & Locals of Roma (https://www.meetup.com/clubtuttiroma) for a delightful aperitif which will be held on Friday April 26th at 6:30 PM at the organic restauran...
