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The local paper was breathless with excitement: “Rihanna, sirena sexy, a Ponza!” it shrieked. And me too! I was in Ponza as well! Though 24 hours ago I hadn’t even known the place existed. (Mind you, I am pretty shaky on the exact status of Rihanna.) The Pontine islands are a dragon-backed scattering of humps sticking up out of the sea south of Rom...

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C’era una volta… non iniziano così un po’ tutte le storie? Di solito le favole si, e anche se questa sembra una favola, in realtà è una storia vera: la storia di come un gesto d’amore e un cibo di casa siano diventati simbolo della cucina italiana nel mondo. Chi ha viaggiato un po’ se ne sarà accorto: fuori dai nostri confini nazionali, specialment...

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Italian luxury jeweller Bulgari has opened a new concept store in Via Condotti. The New Curiosity Shop harks back to the early history of the maison, when founder Sotirio Bulgari opened The Old Curiosity Shop in Rome's most fashionable street in 1905 in a nod to the novel by Charles Dickens. It tells of the brand's creativity through the display of...

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In 2016, the famous Rome studios - where US productions such as Ben-Hur and Gangs Of New York filmed as well as many Italian masterpieces from Federico Fellini to Nanni Moretti - returned to state ownership after 20 years’ of private management. Now, a €37m investment from Italy’s Ministry of Culture will see the studios expand in terms of its faci...

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Dopo aver attivato lo scorso mese di novembre i collegamenti dall'aeroporto di Fiumicino verso New York-Newark (7 giorni su 7) e Los Angeles (3 alla settimana), Norwegian, tra le migliori compagnie aeree low-cost lungo raggio al mondo e in Europa e che dal 2007 ha scelto Roma Fiumicino come base operativa in Italia (lo scorso anno la compagnia aere...

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Amongst the many philosophers who ever reflected on the issue of marriage, Søren Kierkegaard stands out for his austere view. Without pessimism nor irony, he praised the institution by noting, Marriage is and remains the most important voyage of discovery human beings undertake. There are locations such as the Castle of Torcrescenza – just north of...

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Assistere “passo passo” le sedi diplomatico-consolari all’estero, in occasione delle prossime elezioni politiche, un momento “importante nella vita politica del paese, cui partecipano anche gli italiani all’estero”. Così il Direttore generale per gli italiani all’estero, Luigi Vignali, che questa mattina alla Farnesina ha presentato alla stampa il...

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A four-year-old boy has been successfully treated for an acute form of leukemia via the use of immune-system cells that were genetically manipulated to make them capable of identifying and attacking the cancer, doctors at Rome's Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital said on Thursday. The child is the first Italian patient to benefit from this revolutiona...

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Frist Center for the Visual Arts - 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN. February 23–May 28, 2018. One of the most extraordinary geopolitical powers in history, the Roman Empire continues to capture the imaginations of people across the globe, nearly three thousand years after the city of Rome arose from a cluster of villages in central Italy. Rome: City an...

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For centuries ancient Romans have built roads and bridges connecting all of their conquered territories, triumphal arches celebrating their victories, aqueducts supplying water to the new settlements. Alongside their military achievements they also built squares, villas, theaters, and – last but not least – public baths: in other words, they also k...

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