Pietro Vannucci, nicknamed Il Perugino, and on whom Michelangelo perpetrated one of the worst crimes in art history, was born in a small town near Lake Trasimeno in a flourishing corner of Umbria near the border of Tusca...
For centuries, Orvieto has been content to have tourists make brief visits, eat a meal, see the superb cathedral and then pass on to Siena, Florence and Rome.
Its trattorie and ristoranti have had two distinct clientel...
There were Jews in Rome before there were Christians; the first evidence dates back to 150 BC when emissaries of the Maccabees were sent to their co-religionists in the up-and-coming power in the west. For most of these...
They were the years of Hollywood on the Tiber, when Rome gleefully found itself subjected to a riotous invasion of American film people, all the big stars and directors, mincing starlets and hangers-on, attracted by the...
"The Esquilino neighbourhood conquered by the Chinese" ran the title of a recent article in the Rome section of "Corriere della Sera" reporting a monitoring project of the area. The results were surprising. Of about 500...
Like the famous ticket booths in Leicester Square in London and in Times Square in New York, Rome now has its very own sales point for discount theatre tickets. Although the location in a railway workers club, or circolo...
9 May-9 July 2004. Toti Scialoja was an abstract painter after world war two, a poet, writer and teacher of the brightest young artists on the horizon. He was in love with American action painting but misunderstood it. H...
Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia. Concert conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. Music by Schubert and Brahms (18.30). Repeated 10 May 2004 (21.00), 11 May (19.30).
7 April-6 June 2004. For FotoGrafia, about 85 photographs by masters of the late 1800s, such as Robert Macpherson, Giorgio Sommer, James Robertson and Celestino Degoix, focussing on the atmosphere and landscapes of the M...
7-30 May 2004. The exhibition, subtitled Photography and journalism: the award-winning images of 2004, is a chilling reportage of events that took place during the year.
Night-time public transport is under discussion in Rome 22 - 24 April at an international forum being held to compare the experiences of cities worldwide. With ever more people working in shifts around the clock, and wit...
Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia. Chamber music concert by the ensemble Le Musiche Nove, with Cecilia Bartoli mezzosoprano. Arias by Frescobaldi, Caccini, Monteverdi and others (21.00).
I am a cultured multilingual (graduate from Columbia University)= artist, with a car, available for company, conversation, lessons, transport, assistance and support. Fluent in Fre...
Hello, I am a cultured multilingual (graduate from Columbia University) artist, with a car available for company, convesation, lessons, transport, assistance and support. Fluent in...
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...