The sight of a velvet rope and a closed door beckons us. Nearly everyone wants to go beyond the velvet rope, often a message sent to our brains that screams VIPs ONLY, whether it’s a nightclub or an impossible-to-get-into hot restaurant of the moment. The same is true for Rome’s ancient sites, both then and now. Two millennia ago, there were place...
READ MOREOne of the largest and richest states of its time was the Roman Empire: the only state that could challenge it was the Chinese Han Empire. UNN reports on how much the inhabitants of ancient Rome could earn and how much it costs in modern money, citing a publication in the journal Nature Communications. Scientists compared Rome in 165 AD and the Han...
READ MORELa partnership tra Visit Detroit e la Juventus FC Umberto Rispoli è il primo fantino italiano a vincere una gara della Triple Crown Race Italia e Stati Uniti rafforzano la cooperazione per il recupero dei resti dei soldati americani dispersi della Seconda Guerra Mondiale Lady Gaga è ora a un solo premio dal titolo EGOT Cinque nuovi voli tra Itali...
READ MOREThe National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is proud to announce a special gala in Rome Italy, to be held on June 3, 2025, at the historic Palazzo Colonna. The exclusive event, organized by NIAF Italia, NIAF’s sister organization in Italy, is designed to celebrate NIAF’s 50th anniversary in the Italian capital and to commemorate NIAF’s long his...
READ MOREPresident Franco Pavoncello and Ambassador Armando Varricchio signed a new agreement establishing the Guarini Senior Fellowship on Transatlantic Relations during a visit by the Ambassador to John Cabot University. The new fellowship was created to promote transatlantic dialogue and stimulate discussion and cooperation between the United States, Ita...
READ MOREIn a spring marked by an extraordinary increase in flights between Italy and the United States, Delta Airlines inaugurated its new route between Rome and Minneapolis on Saturday May 24. The connection will operate four times a week until the end of summer with a 282-seat A330-300 aircraft, offering Delta One, Delta Premium Select, Delta Comfort+, a...
READ MOREWhat if eating became an act of memory? This is the challenge taken up by Stanley Tucci in his documentary series “Tucci in Italy”, a journey as intimate as it is universal. In this culinary fresco by National Geographic, broadcast on Disney+, Stanley Tucci doesn’t play a role. He lives, he searches, he tastes. Born of Italian-American parents, he...
READ MOREIn the Pauline Hall of the Lower Galleries of the Vatican Museums the entire collection, consisting of nearly five hundred specimens, of micromosaics belonging to the pontifical patrimony has been permanently displayed. This extraordinary collection, once owned by Domenico Petochi, was acquired in the early 1990s thanks to the initiative of the the...
READ MOREAt the back of a police station in the Italian capital of Rome is a warehouse that holds one of the most valuable art collections in Europe. Behind the armoured door is a vault that looks like it belongs to a compulsive hoarder. But instead of being filled with trash, it is an Aladdin's cave of treasure. Works from Picasso, Banksy, Warhol, Modiglia...
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