Eight stalls at Rome's most famous open market in Piazza Campo de' Fiori have been closed down in a move to return the square to a more traditional look. The city council has decided the vendors of "varied goods" ranging...
21 Nov-1 Dec 2003. Patrizia Cerroni and her company "I Danzatori Scalzi" perform this danced and acted version of Tosca at Castel Sant'Angelo, where Act III of the story is set, accompanied by jazz, pop and rock music (2...
27 Nov 2003 - 11 Jan 2004. An itinerant exhibition of images on the theme of water by London photographer Mike Goldwater, which has travelled all over Italy to mark the United Nations' "Year of Water".
1 Dec 2003. The Teatro del Carretto presents a pantomime rendition of the Grimm Brothers' classic fairytale Snow White featuring puppets and music (10.00 and 21.00).
3 Dec 2003. Professor Andy Gurr of the University of Reading in England will talk about Shakespeare's Henry V for the annual Giorgio Melchiori Lecture organised by the British Council (18.30).
6-8 Dec 2003. Handmade gifts made of wood, fabric or paper, flower compositions and locally-produced food will be on sale over this long weekend. On Mon 8 Dec there will be live music all day in the courtyard of Castello...
The number of hungry people in the world rose by 18 million during the second half of the 1990s after falling by 37 million in the first half, according to a new report by the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agricultu...
9 Dec 2003-16 Feb 2004. Work by the young Japanese artist, who is strongly influenced by the conceptual artists of the Piazza del Popolo area. The work of this thoughtful Japanese artist is finely considered, whether in...
Six out of ten Italians would go back to the lira if they could, and nine out of ten feel poorer since the introduction of the euro, according to a survey by research institute Demoskopea, which interviewed 626 people na...
Children's and babies' clothes, toys and nursery equipment, as well as books and videos for all ages, are on sale at All Saints' Anglican Church, Via del Babuino 153/b, 10.00-14.00.
Public transport may suffer industrial action on Monday 1 December from 08.30 until 16.30 when a strike is scheduled to halt buses, trams, the metro and COTRAL buses that connect Rome with the suburbs.
10 Dec 2003-1 Feb 2004. This exhibition reveals a lesser-known aspect of the work of one of Italys greatest late-20th-century artists: Scarpittas experiments with printing, etching and photography.
Lecture by Professor Witold M. Orlowski, chief economic adviser to the president of Poland, on the macroeconomic effects of the enlargement of the European Union (11.00). In English (Italian text available).
Paul Taylor Dance Company. 10-14 Dec 2003. In Mercuric Tidings, Images, Promethean Fires, choreography by Paul Taylor. Since breaking from Martha Grahams company in 1961, Taylor has continued to mine his choreographic im...
Presentation of Carlo M. Fiorentino's new book "Un esule polacco in Italia. Wladyslaw Sas Kulczycki (1831-1895)". The author will be present, as will Professor Hieronim Fokcinski, rector of the Pontifical Institute of Ec...
Sluggish public transport is finding it increasingly difficult to woo Italians away from their beloved cars, according to a new report by environmental association Legambiente. On average, it says, Italians now take a bu...