My country´s capital famously boasts some of the world´s most legendary and inspiring tourist attractions, such as the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Spanish Steps, and Vatican City. But Rome is also overflowing with millennia worth of r
Among the various cities I've traveled to in Europe, Rome is my favorite. The sites, history, construction and ancient buildings mark it as interesting reasons for millions of tourists to flock in each season. Being the key city in Italy, Rome is
As the cradle of Christianity, the Old Continent’s history with Easter is millennia old. And though recently it has evolved from a merely religious observance to an secular cultural (even pop cultural) phenomenon, the mix of elaborate religious pa
It's sad to say, but in the Eternal City - never Europe's cleanest to begin with - residents and visitors alike have been for months having to cope with mountains of trash as well as increasingly potholed streets, as Rome's Five-Star party mayor has
When someone recently asked what she shouldn't miss when she goes to Italy's capital for all of one weekend, I wanted to ask her – “ma sei pazza??”(Are you nuts?) You could spend every waking hour for weeks barely scratching the surface of this brea
Staying for a short period in Rome and want to learn something in the meanwhile? Rome offers a lot of courses, classes and seminars but nearly all of them are in Italian.
After thorough researches, however, we came up with this select
Pianist Stefano Bollani, renowned trumpet player Enrico Rava, these are just two of the big names of Rome’s Jazz Festival, the music event devoted to the very best of Italian jazz and upcoming artists.
It took three years of extraordinary building works to reopen to the public in September the historic “Library of the Popes”. 1,600,000 printed volumes, 80,000 manuscripts and 100,000 archival units, 8,400 incunabula, about 300,000 c
It is not as glamorous as the Cannes, not as original as the Sundance, not as old as Venice’s, but Rome’s International Film Festival is getting better every year and it has now become the world’s fourth most important event of i
by Vladimira Velikova V.D. (as inValentine's Day) is upon us again this week, and sometimes overhyped though it is, for many of us romantics it's still kind of sweet to have a special day th
by Marco Pontuali The Eternal City is, of course, famously an enormous trove of outdoor public art. Not just buildings and monuments but also hundreds upon hundreds of statues, from classical antiquity through the 20th century. And about a particula