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For my summer vacation, I got to choose where to go to on a trip in Europe. It was between Rome and Greece because I wanted to see the old temples of the Greek gods, but I settled on Rome because it has a Colosseum and cool sculptures to see. It also is home to my favourite foods, pizza and pasta. And of course gelato! My mom and I arrived in Rome...

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As Italy commemorates the 75th anniversary of its wartime surrender, signed on September 3rd, 1943 and made public five days later, researcher Anne Saunders tells the stories behind some of the most evocative World War II sites you can visit today. Perhaps the best-known WWII sites in Italy are those at Cassino. However, the war also is commemorate...

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If you're planning to visit - or even settle down in - the Italian capital, you'll likely want to blend in as much as possible. But phrasebook Italian isn't going to cut it in the cobbled streets and crowded bars of Rome. To really impress, try learning a bit of the local lingo. The Roman dialect was being singled out by poet Dante as the ugliest i...

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Ciao Tutti, It's been an amazing summer for the IABF. We held our first Youth Baseball clinic at MCU Park. We purchased and shipped over 100 bats and other baseball equipment for youth tournaments in Italy, and we returned from a 10 day trip to Italy where we conducted baseball clinics for over 300 kids in Rome & Nettuno. And, we are just getting s...

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An historic Italian atelier that helped make the dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the iconic subway vent scene in The Seven Year Itch has appealed to the government for help to stave off closure. The family owned tailoring business, Sorelle Antonini or the Antonini Sisters, made the pleats for the ivory dress that blows up over Monroe’s thighs in th...

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It is one of the must-see sights for visitors to Rome but its iconic Trevi Fountain has been making headlines for the wrong reasons recently — and people are getting fed up. Two tourists came to blows earlier this month as they competed for a prime selfie spot and a new round-the-clock deployment of police officers clearly indicates the authorities...

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More than sixty years ago the Italian writer and painter, Carlo Levi, wrote a series of essays about Rome that were published posthumously. These short essays, published in 2005 under the title Fleeting Rome, must rank among his best works, perhaps surpassing even his famous Christ Stopped at Eboli. The essays in Fleeting Rome focus on Romans’ uniq...

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Rome is dotted with fountains – hundreds of them. From monumental to small, the city’s architectural landscape is very much characterized by the presence of ‘fontane,’ which for the past 2,000 years have decorated the squares and provided drinking water. During the Roman Empire, Rome had eleven aqueducts providing water for 39 monumental fountains...

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Dopo Firenze, che ha ospitato le edizioni del 2014 e del 2016, sarà Roma ad accogliere la terza edizione degli Stati Generali della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo. In programma il 22 e 23 ottobre prossimi, anche questa edizione dell’iniziativa sarà organizzata dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale in collaborazione con l’...

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The Vittoriano, otherwise known as the "Altare della Patria " (altar of the nation) was nicknamed by the French, because of its appearance, "La grande tarte" (the big cake). It may not be the most outstanding piece of architecture of the capital, yet it remains one of Italian patriotism symbols, mostly because it holds within the Tomba del Milite I...

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