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An oasis of peace amid the havoc of Rome, one of the most enchanting corners of the city, today holds the unenviable award of being classified by the UNESCO World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 most endangered monument...
The 2006 World Cup has arrived at last and the endless waiting for millions of football fans is over.
Thirty-two nations are competing in soccers showpiece event in Germany, which takes place every four years and is enj...
This year has been characterised by a particularly high diffusion of lice among children in Rome, which began promptly at the start of the school term in January, reached its peak in May and is on the rise again this mon...
We have to start with the past in order to get to know our future, says Francesco Innamorati, head architect overseeing the restoration of Palazzo della Civilt Italiana in the EUR area in south Rome. Originally conceived...
Marino Polvani meets me outside Via Carlo Alberto 53 with a briefcase in hand. Its a Friday night and he has just got back from work but he wants me to see the outside of the building where one night almost two years ago...
I remember very well lunching at a restaurant near Anzio, south of Rome. In the garden was a mesembryanthemum plant loaded with the brightest orange flowers I had ever seen. In the West country accent of my birthplace I...
We have to start with the past in order to get to know our future, says Francesco Innamorati, head architect overseeing the restoration of Palazzo della Civilt Italiana in the EUR area in south Rome. Originally conceived...
It was a boiling hot afternoon in Pasadena, California, and sporting temperatures were soaring as Italian football hero Roberto Baggio ballooned a penalty kick high above the goal. The miss haunted Baggio for years, hand...
The little mountain town of Saracinesco, some 20 km east of Tivoli, has several claims to fame. Founded by Saracens, it is Lazios smallest comune or municipality with a mere 160 inhabitants. It also has a unique outdoor...
I insisted from the word go it had to be in Piazza Venezia and nowhere else. Otherwise, it would have been like plonking the Cenotaph in the middle of Shepherds Bush Common, explained Harry Shindler with a grin.
A vete...
If you thought that election fever was over, think again. Italy will be back at the polling booths once more on 28 and 29 May to elect 1,267 new town and city councils, eight provincial governments and the regional gover...
Romans on the whole appear to approve of what Romes left-wing mayor, Walter Veltroni, has done for the city over the past five years of his tenure, but even supporters attack him for failings, at least according to a ran...
As the Giro dItalia cycle race gets into full swing and the national football season draws to a close, it seems an appropriate moment for Silvio Berlusconi to hand over the reins of government to Romano Prodi. Berlusconi...
It is hard to believe that the magnificent and recently restored 1930s villa standing in a vast pine-studded park across from the Porta Ardeatina section of the Aurelian walls in south Rome was once owned by Enrico Nicol...
lContrary to reports in the Italian press, the library at the Goethe-Institut is not closing but it is being taken over by Romes city council. Nothing has changed, says Soledad Ugolinelli, press officer of the institute....
A new museum of contemporary art was inaugurated at the Aranciera in Villa Borghese on 10 May as part of the city authorities project to recover and make public use of Romes historic buildings. The Museo Carlo Bilotti ho...
Walking into Valle Giulia in Villa Borghese you are met with the imposing villas which house the various foreign academies. Although some have been built only recently, their architecture has been kept along Roman lines...
While the human inhabitants of Rome busy themselves with the commute to work or school, dodging motorini or tourist crocodiles, downing an espresso at a bar and a dozen other daily rituals, most are oblivious to the fact...
Most Romans have never even heard of an area of the city called Quartaccio, yet it is a dazzling little pocket-mirror of the problems facing nearly all the less well-off areas on the outskirts of Rome. It is also an exam...
Effective antitrust authorities are crucial to the working of all modern economies. But Italy, where competition is still a dirty word to many, needs them more than most.
Italy was a late starter in this field. The Ital...
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