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Meet Italo, Italy's New High Speed Train - and the First Breach in a Long-Standing Industrial Monopoly

N. L.

It travels at speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour between Milan, Rome and Naples. The new high-speed train is a welcomed novelty featuring innovative features, exclusive...

“Where the Tall Grasses Grow”: A peek into the secret archives of the Vatican

Judith Harris

For the first time in history the Vatican is offering the Roman public and visitors a peek into its famous “secret archives,” its collection of ancient and modern documents...

Thinking of the Next Pope: the Red Biretta Goes to Timothy M. Dolan

N. L.

New York's Archbishop was one of 22 Catholic churchmen who became Cardinals in a ceremony held in Rome by Pope Benedict XVI. Traditionally Americans are ruled out as papal...

China is Finally Near

Judith Harris

Last week in Rome, a Chinese shop owner named Zhou Zeng, his wife Lia and baby daughter, Joy, six months old, were leaving their store when two men whose faces were hidden by...

Rome is More: the Capital on Show in NYC

The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce in New York was transformed into an important showcase to present Rome, and more in general Lazio, as a land with wide-ranging offerings that...

The Vandals are Back in Rome, but Who are They?

Judith Harris

Yes, they are back. Visited annually by some 23 million visitors, Piazza Navona is perhaps Rome’s most beloved square after St. Peter’s. At 8:30 Saturday morning, while its...

The Wine of Rome: Frascati and Fontana Candida

Charles Scicolone

Fontana Candida Challenges the Common Perception that Frascati is a Wine to be Only Drunk Young.

Get the Best of Both Worlds: Rome & Los Angeles (or Here & Hereafter). All For Just $5,000US!

Darrell Fusaro

Last week I met my friend Mike Dugan in downtown Los Angeles to see his new place. It only cost him $5,000 and it is literally - to die for!

A Sunday Afternoon Back to the Jews Ghetto of Rome

Susannah Gold

Thanks to Centro Primo Levi, on Sunday, May 22, the choir from the Tempio Maggiore – the Synagogue of Rome – came to New York City to perform a number of special works for the...

The Beatified Pope

Maria Rita Latto

Rome is getting ready for the Beatification of John Paul II, the Pope who few hours after his death was defined so “great” as to deserve an abbreviated process over the usual...

In Search of the Real Caravaggio

Judith Harris

"Una vita dal vero" is an exhibition on view until May 15 at La Sapienza University that sheds new light on Caravaggio's life thanks to new historical documents meticulously...

The Befana Comes by Night…

Alice Bonvicini

The old good witch who brings candies and coal to the Italian children. Its origin and multifarious celebrations.

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