Rome and Philadelphia make medical history
Former Rome mayor Ignazio Marino was instrumental in establishing the world's first dual international medical degree.Rome's Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) and the Thomas Jefferson Univer...
Rocca Sinibalda: Lazio's most mysterious castle
The strange, multi-layered story of Rocca Sinibalda, located 50 km north of Rome.
The 12th-century Rocca Sinibalda sits on a spur of rock dominating the Turano Valley, a 40-minute drive north of Rome...
Nothing is impossible for AS Roma football club
AS Roma seeks to carry the spirit of an “impossible dream” into the new season as the Rome club’s popularity soars off the field.Blessed with an impassioned support base and fuelled by a city rivalry...
The trees of Rome
A history of Rome's trees, from primeval oaks to the toppling pines of today.
Italo Calvino wrote fancifully how once upon a time “A monkey could leave Rome and, swinging from tree to tree, reach Spa...
MAAM street art museum in Rome: migrants, murals and marching orders
A former salami factory in east Rome is a refuge for squatting migrants as well as being a precarious cathedral of street art.Outside the museum an earthen path skirts a dangerous stretch of road – Vi...
Ancient Rome's first fire service
The ruined Excubitorium, an ancient barracks for Rome's fire brigade, serves as a memorial to the city’s first responders.
The trams rumbling along Viale Trastevere wake me. The bell announcing morni...
Gentrifying Rome's Monti quarter
Evviva S. Giuseppe! Each year local artisans and a religious order preserve the last remains of authentic Rome.
A group of men carry an altarpiece out of a church that stands between a hostel and a h...
The changing landscape of Rome's art museums
Rome inaugurates new art spaces while reorganising the management structure and role of existing museums.In mid-May a gleaming new art museum opened at Rome's long-abandoned health offices on Via Meru...
Alberghi Diffusi: a different kind of Italian holiday
Full immersion in Italian village life is the philosophy of the “Albergo Diffuso” holiday formula.
On a balmy summer evening in the late 1990s, Daniel Elow Kilhgren, a young philosophy graduate of It...
Trajan's Column comes to life in Rome
Virtual reality transforms the graphic war scenes on Trajan's Column in Rome.
Rome’s most impressive novelties tend to be ancient, emerging after millennia from below ground. Viewable after a descent...
Guide to Rome's live music scene
A guide to Rome's best venues for all genres of live contemporary music, from rock to jazz.
With the exceptions of Monti, Testaccio and S. Lorenzo, which are reached easily by public transport, the...
Rome as muse for English-language poets
Over the centuries Rome has inspired numerous English-language poets.
Lovers of English poetry must often wonder what Keats would have made of Rome had he lived. But he died in terrible agony only th...
Buying a property in Italy
A guide to the contracts and taxes involved in purchasing a property in Italy.
Many people fall in love with Italy and dream about buying a home here. As in every country around the world, it is alwa...
Renting an apartment in Rome
Everything you need to know about renting a property in Italy.
For many expats, looking for the perfect housing solution may be frustrating and disappointing unless they understand the laws and regul...
Wanted in Rome Junior: Art as a Voice for Women
Art as a Voice for Women by Natasha Hughes, senior IB art student, aged 18, at St Stephen's School, Rome.
“I believe in equality. And I believe there is no difference between a man and a woman. I eve...
Memory, Martyrs and Mission
Rome's Venerable English College celebrates three significant anniversaries.
A discreet brass nameplate on the inner entrance door at Via di Monserrato 45, a stone’s throw from the offices of Wanted...
Italo speeds ahead
The new owners of the Italo high-speed rail service could give Italy's Trenitalia an uncomfortable ride as rail services open up to European Union competition.
While Italian politicians were busy c...
Rome's wild animals
The ebb and flow of Rome's natural world is documented in an exhibition at the city's Zoology Museum.
When a family of wolves was filmed on the green fringes of Rome last September – signifying a ret...
The modern renaissance of Matera
Once the shame of Italy, Matera is now the pride of Europe.
The city of Matera, former capital of the Basilicata region in southern Italy known for its sassi or cave dwellings, has recently received...
Italian elections head for uncertain outcome
Polls point to hung parliament after 4 March vote.
By Laura Clarke.
On 4 March Italians go to the polls to elect their new parliament, as well as the regional councils in Lazio and Lombardia....
