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Service at Commonwealth cemetery in Rome on 10 November.The annual Commonwealth Remembrance Day service takes place on Friday 10 November at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on Via Nicola Zabaglia 50 in th...
Piramide Cestia wins Europa Nostra heritage conservation award. Rome's Piramide Cestia pyramid celebrates winning this year's Europa Nostra award for heritage conservation by opening for free guided tours throughout Wed...
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74th anniversary of deportation of Rome’s Jews. Rome's Jewish community is commemorating the the 74th anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz. Th...
Rare discovery of ancient wooden ceiling in Rome's S. Giovanni district. Rome archaeologists have announced the discovery of two ancient Roman rooms which feature a charred wooden ceiling and intact pieces of furnitur...
Telecoms company TIM donates €6 million for restoration project. Rome’s Mausoleum of Augustus is set to reopen to the public in April 2019 following a €6 million restoration funded by Italian telecommunications compan...
Rome's Jewish community to boycott annual Liberation Day march. On 25 April Italy celebrates the 72nd Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from German occupation and fascist rule at the end of...
Historical groups evoke ancient Roman tradtions with Natale di Roma. The capital celebrates its 2,770th birthday on Friday 21 April, with events lasting until Sunday 23 April. Known as Natale di Roma, the annual birth...
Annual commemoration at Rome War Cemetery. New Zealanders and Australians in Rome will mark ANZAC Day 2017 with a memorial service on Tuesday 25 April at the Rome War Cemetery on Via Nicola Zabaglia, in the Testaccio...
Archaeologists announce "sensational discovery" on Rome's Coelian hill. The unearthing of a Roman aqueduct has been announced by Rome archaeologists who describe it as a "sensational discovery of enormous importance,...
Excavation of Forum of Julius Caesar will focus under Via dei Fori Imperiali. The Carlsberg Foundation of Denmark is donating €1.5 million to fund a major three-year archaeological excavation project at the Forum of J...
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Marymount - International School Rome
Marymount - International School Rome
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73rd anniversary of atrocity at Rome’s Fosse Ardeatine. Italian president Sergio Mattarella will attend a wreath-laying ceremony at Rome’s Fosse Ardeatine mausoleum at 11.00 on Thursday 23 March, in memory of the 335...
Holocaust victims remembered in Rome 72 years after liberation of Auschwitz. International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January is being marked in Rome with around 100 memorial events over a ten-day period from 23...
Service at Commonwealth cemetery in Rome on 11 November. The annual Commonwealth Remembrance Day service takes place on Friday 11 November at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on Via Nicola Zabaglia 50 i...
O’Flaherty saved the lives of over 6,000 escapees in Rome during world war two. On 8 May 2016 a plaque was unveiled at the Vatican's Collegium Teutonicum to honour the Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty (1898-1964)...
Prison at Roman Forum will reopen with new visitor facilities. The Mamertine prison at the Roman Forum will reopen to the public on 21 July, following a year-long closure to allow for archaeological work and the insta...
Rome celebrates 71st anniversary of liberation on 25 April. On 25 April Italy celebrates the 71st Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from German occupation and fascist rule at the end of worl...
Annual commemoration at Rome War Cemetery. Australians and New Zealanders in Rome will mark ANZAC Day 2016 with a memorial service on Monday 25 April at the Rome War Cemetery on Via Nicola Zabaglia, in the Testaccio d...
Wartime bunker built for Italy's former royal family. A bunker designed for Italy's former royal family has opened to the public for the first time, after being abandoned by 70 years, at Rome's Villa Ada park. The...
Rome's “mediaeval Sistine Chapel” reopens after 36-year restoration. The sixth-century S. Maria Antiqua church in the Roman Forum, one of Rome’s earliest surviving Christian monuments, reopened to visitors on 24 March...
72nd anniversary of massacre at Rome's Fosse Ardeatine. Italian president Sergio Mattarella attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Rome’s Fosse Ardeatine mausoleum on 23 March, in memory of the 335 people killed by the...
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