New Year Gran Gala presented by Euroconcert: concert by the Strauss Festival Orchestra conducted by Edouard Serov. Music by Johann Strauss. Typical Viennese dancers accompany the music (21.00). Repeated 2 Jan 2006 (21.00...
The Nutcracker is the Teatro dellOperas Christmas offering for the Rome public; it is a traditional production and very appetizing. The scale is grand, with large numbers of dancers, beautiful and imaginative costumes an...
The director of the Salvation Army in Rome is calling for help for the homeless over the winter months. Emanuele Pavoni says around 3,500 people will be homeless in the city this Christmas. All donations, whether food, c...
31 Dec. Berlins Brandenburg Gate is as fine and symbolic a setting as any for New Year celebrations (Silvester in German) and traditional draws hundreds of thousands from across Germany and around the world. Once marking...
29 Dec 2005-6 Jan 2006. Conducted by Francesco La Vecchia, directed by Pierfrancesco Maestrini, with the Nuovo Coro Lirico Sinfonico Romano directed by Stefano Cucci.
Crib crawling round the various churches to admire the beautiful nativity scenes on display is one of the delights of a Roman Christmas. Many of these are authentic works of art, lovingly fashioned by master craftsmen of...
Over the past six years average rents in Rome have risen by 139 per cent according to a report by Cresme, the Centro ricerche economiche, sociali e di mercato per ledilizia. The increase in Rome has far outstripped those...
Lazio is preparing new measures for common law couples, with a view to recognising their civil and social rights. A sign of the times, the memorandum approved on 13 December commits Lazio to safeguarding non-traditional...
Today Christmas is celebrated in much the same way in Italy as it is in most other western countries, and this is also largely true when it comes to the food. However, in Italy strong regional or even local traditions ha...
The Italian minister for health, Francesco Storace, and the countrys dispensing pharmacists have come to an agreement to reduce the price of prescribed medicines. Those that come into what is known as category C will fal...
When the poet Shelley stayed in Rome in 1819, he wrote of his evening walks when he saw the radiant Orion through the columns of the Temple of Concord (in actual fact, he was referring to the Temple of Saturn with its di...
The Worlds Most Expensive Products
Among the products of Nature, the most expensive
To be derived fromtrees or shrubs are amber,
balsam, myrrh and frankincense.
I must not pass over the fact that gold, with which...
Three new rectors have recently taken up posts with English-speaking Roman Catholic churches in Rome.
Father Louis Brennan has come to S. Isidoros after 13 years as a provincial delegate in Dublin of the Irish province...
28 Dec-1 Jan 2006. Five days of music in beautiful venues make up the 13th edition of this annual appointment. Concerts take place throughout the day and night in the historic centre of Orvieto . The main events are the...
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Tucked away in a green valley with a river running through just over an hour’s drive from Rome, is a tiny medieval village built from stone. Our bedrooms are dotted around the hea...
It is a pleasure to invite you to Bludiprussia's new showroom, Little Blu, 9 Norico Street, next May 20 at 3 p.m. for a very special workshop.
The Little Greene Company introduces...