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The Keats Shelley House McDonald's Piazza di Spagna poetry prize 2004 is divided into two sections, English and Italian, and into three age groups. This year the 5-9 age group was given the themes "Flight in a balloon"...
Englishman Arthur Acton and his American wife Hortense created a garden for all seasons, independent of flowers, at the villa of La Pietra on Via Bolognese, near Florence. Their son, Harold Acton, the last private owner...
There has always been a sumptuously rich literary culture in Romes plethora of libraries and bookshops. However, there is a discrepancy between the abundance of these literary offerings and their accessibility to the gen...
Kenya is taking part in the annual festival of the Dionysia cultural centre for the first time. This years initiative, called Playroom Africa, will present aspects of the history, culture, music, theatre and visual arts...
American Independence day, 4 July, is being celebrated in Rome on Sun 27 June, 16.00-23.00, with an outdoor barbecue party at a pool-side venue. The party is organised by the American Round Table, and tickets cost 25 Eu...
Romes gay pride parade takes place on Sat 3 July. The details of the coulorful parade have not yet been finalised, but will be available from the Mario Mieli cultural association. Furthermore, on Thurs 24 June the Gay Vi...
The American International Club of Rome (AICR) held its annual awards ceremony for outstanding citizens on Fri 11 June. The awards recognise individuals who have contributed to cross-cultural relations in the internation...
The Miracle Players are back again at the Roman Forum for another summer season. The English-language theatre group presents a show with the usual mix of humour, satire and wit that tells of the facts and myths of the mo...
Children aged 5-12 can spend their summer holidays at educational play camps at the Museo Civico di Zoologia, Via U. Aldovrandi 19 (Villa Borghese), until Sept. Activities have a different subject every week, Mon-Fri 08....
Italy's match yesterday against Sweden proved just how much talent the Italian Azzurri have in their ranks but have failed to click due to bad combinations. The entry of Pirlo, Cassano, Gattuso and a revitalised Del Pier...
Sunday, 20 June (20.00) marks the second annual Concerto di Solidariet in Rome for the people of northern Uganda to help one-time child soldiers who are victims of the civil conflict in the area. The concert will be held...
A giant advertisement on a building visible from the central Piazza Venezia may have to come down according to a recent court ruling. The judge has accepted that tenants living in the building could suffer physical and p...
A collection of memorabilia, which once belonged to the late Duke of Windsor and his wife Wallace Simpson, is to go on sale at an auction at Christies in Rome on Thursday 17 June.
The collection, which is being sold by...
Every year in Italy more than 600,000 wild boar cause more than 5 million of damage to agriculture. The largest numbers are concentrated in Tuscany, with around 130,000 causing damage amounting to 3 million per year. At...
Roman Catholics are still the predominant Christian group in Rome, but those of Orthodox denominations are now a major presence in the holy city, according to the findings of a report released by the Rome diocese section...
Saturday 12 June marks the start of Euro 2004 football championships in Portugal. Italy, under coach Giovanni Trapattoni, has assembled the countrys best squad in a long time.
Del Piero and Vieri with Cassano should pr...
Newly privatised Italian electricity supplier, Terna (formerly Enel), is planning its launch on the Italian stock market on 23 June. The company owns 94 per cent of the high-tension electricity distribution grid in the c...
Until 27 June it is possible to visit one of the largest deposits of prehistoric elephants skeletons in Europe.
The extraordinary remains were discovered by archaeologists and palaeontologists in 1984, in the western pa...
There will be a free concert at the Circo Massimo in Rome on Friday 11 June from 17.00 - 24.00, the first in a season sponsored by Algida, makers of the well-known Italian cornetti ice-creams. The concert will feature Ru...
The eating habits of the Italians are changing. The ritual of sitting down at table twice a day is disappearing and more and more Italians are eating on the run, in the car, in front of the computer and in the office. T...
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Rome an exhibition has opened at the Vittoriano at the Piazza Venezia in Rome of previously unpublished photographs and films taken from American and British militar...
If living in a city with a cinematic heritage as rich as Romes brings out your inner Fellini, Rossellini or Dario Argento talents, then perhaps you may want to try your hand at making a short film. You may have seen film...
Its a beautiful day! The group called The Semaphore had just plunged into the last, catching lyric of the evening, by then perspiring under blue, red and yellow spots trained on their tense faces. They were performing in...
If living in a city with a cinematic heritage as rich as Romes brings out your inner Fellini, Rossellini or Dario Argento talents, then perhaps you may want to try your hand at making a short film. You may have seen film...
Most people who go to visit the famous monastic complex of St Benedict and St Scolastica at Subiaco do not realise that they are actually in the heart of Lazios biggest park.
The town of Subiaco is one of the gateways i...
When in Rome go to the Alexanderplatz! reads one of the numerous inscriptions that embellish the walls of the oldest jazz club in Italy. Its an invitation that countless musicians and aficionados have taken up over the p...
Praise the green earth.
Chance has appointed her
home, workshop, larder, middenpit.
Her lousy skin, scabbed here and there by cities
provides us with name and nation.
(From the poem Something Missing by Basil Bun...
As the academic year draws to a close, fine arts scholars at the British School at Rome are exhibiting their work in Fine Arts 2004, 12-19 June. The exhibition opens on 11 June at 18.30, with a performance by Juho Laitin...
This weekends elections for the European parliament will be fought over many issues, but none of them are directly relevant to the mandates Europeans will be granting their 786 new members of parliament (MEPs).
For man...
Most of the prize winners from the Cannes film festival will be showing in Rome until 10 June, the only exception being Golden Palm winner Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore, which wont be in distribution until the end of...
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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...
