Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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The final act of the Champions League, the top football competition in Europe for clubs, will be staged on 27 May at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. The final head-to-head will be between Manchester United and XXX. The fin...
For anyone who has experienced previous earthquakes in Italy, (Friuli 1976, Irpinia 1980, Umbria 1997 just to mention the most serious in the last half century), there was something different about the one that struck Ab...
In the holy year 1950, Pope Pius XII created a sensation when he announced to the world that the tomb of the apostle Peter had been located in the exact spot where tradition had always placed it
03.32. It was a ghastly experience. The noise was that of a growling, roaring, angry beast running through the house at 03.32 that Monday morning. It was 6 April, the week before Easter. The earthquake had hit the least-...
When I came from New York to Rome in 1962, we went to stay with Lola in her apartment in Via Monserrato by Piazza Ricci. Across the street in a palatial apartment, said to have once been inhabited by a pope, lived Cy Two...
Entering the dressmaking workshop in Via Nomentana 952 is like stepping into another world. Here the unisex uniformity of today
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When the house is burning it is best not to pour oil on the flames. But on his first visit to Africa Pope Benedict XVI seemed to have little regard for conventional wisdom. At the outset of his trip he lobbed not just a...
Spring gardens Something of a magical destination, the ruined mediaeval town of Ninfa to the south of Rome is where, over a century, generations of the Caetani family planted and cultivated a wildly romantic English-st...
500 years after the glories of the Renaissance a new art movement burst forth in Italy to dazzle the west. It was exalted and explained by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who published its manifesto in the Paris dail...
In this tale drawn from the early stages of the Trojan war, treated by Euripides in two dramas and then inspiring plays and literally dozens of operas in the 17th and 18th centuries, Gluck
Luck is always essential for success in politics and recently Italy
It is not difficult to find organic food in Rome today; there are now many places in the city and surrounding area that sell organically-farmed produce, and interest in them is growing as a result of concern about the en...
Rome marathon
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