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The Turano Valley has been of strategic interest over the centuries.
The impressive fortress of Rocca Sinibalda overlooks and protects the tiny mediaeval village at its foot, dominating the meandering lower reaches of t...
Giancarlino's flower cycle in Via dei Cappellari brings back memories of a vanishing Rome.
By Mary Wilsey
“Sono andato in giro tutto il pomeriggio per le strade...” is the opening of the short story, Blumen, by Austria...
Rome's religious and cultural links with Ireland's Easter Rising 100 years ago.
By Mícheál MacCraith
This year marks the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which was the violent culmination of a long campaig...
False friends, superabundant nouns and other confusables.
Martin Bennett
Sbagliando si impara, goes a wonderfully forgiving Italian proverb, tailor-made for non-native learners. Or, in blunter English: “You learn f...
Rise in seagull numbers coincides with decrease in Rome's sparrow population.
Andy Devane
St Peter's Square, 27 January 2014. As the Vatican's Sunday Angelus ceremony drew to a close, Pope Francis appealed for peac...
Getting around Rome is not easy at the best of times but for the disabled it is particularly difficult.
Alessandro Ciccarese
To move, walk, travel – in a word, live. It would seem easy enough and most of us take it...
Unanimous decision to award documentary Fuocoammare.
Fuocoammare is a film about ordinary people, the every-day heroes of Lampedusa, and a monument to the hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees who made it to...
Young artist allows Rome's tree stumps to "live again".
Andy Devane
Rome is well known for its street art which has enlivened the city but now another art form is taking place on the streets, much nearer the ground...
Rome is full of traces of Pasolini more than four decades after his murder.
By Martin Bennett
Now you glimpse him now you don’t: Pasolini is still a presence 40 years after his death. He ghosts the Pigneto district r...
Belli's Romanesco sonnets are given new life in colloquial English.
Andy Devane
Residents of Rome will be familiar with the white marble statue of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli that stands at the Ponte Garibaldi end of...
The historic bell foundry in Agnone expects to play an important role in Pope Francis' special Jubilee of Mercy.
Margaret Stenhouse
The ancient town of Agnone, tucked away in the hidden heart of the Molise region,...
Rome’s social housing was built for the poor but is ending up in the pockets of the rich.
Mike Dilien
“FOR RENT: Largo C. Ricci, near Colosseum. Four 60-sqm apts. Splendid view of Roman Forum. €41 /month.”
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Restoration of Galleria Carracci at Palazzo Farnese reveals hidden drawings, dates and signatures.
“And like a horse he hauls his trolley the whole day through, working till he’s almost tired unto death.” So the early...
Rome struggles to prepare for Pope Francis' pilgrims.
No-one in Rome is pretending that the Holy Year of Mercy that Pope Francis will open on 8 December will be smooth sailing. The announcement of a special Jubilee (o...
Traces of the House of Stuart can still be seen in Rome 300 years after the Jacobite Rising in Scotland.
The Jacobite Rising in Scotland in 1715 was the second of three unsuccessful attempts made by James Francis Edwa...
Volunteers take matters into their own hands to combat Rome's vandalism and neglect.
Stazione Trastevere at 09.00. Five dozen people who have pulled themselves out of bed on a Saturday morning are milling around the c...
How an Afghan refugee found kindness at Rome's Joel Nafuma Refugee Center.
My name is Rakin and I am a refugee. It is difficult for me to share my story, but I feel it’s important because I want others to understand t...
Small is extra beautiful at the Finnish Institute in Rome.
The Finnish Institute in Rome – or, to give it its proper name, the Institutum Romanum Finlandiæ (IRF) – may cater to one of the smallest foreign European com...
Living along the Appia Antica can have its drawbacks but once inside The Compound, the rest of the world melts away.
People walk along the Appia Antica as tourists, soaking up step by step the layered history of the cob...
An exhibition at the Capitoline Museums reflects on the turbulent decline of the Roman empire.
“C’è la crisi” is a present-day refrain often heard in Rome. Following on from the more positively-titled Age of Conquest...
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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...
