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While the Colosseum is perhaps the most famous Roman ruin in Rome today, it is not the only mostly-preserved Colosseum (or oval amphitheater) in the world. There is another Colosseum-like amphitheater in Tunisia. But there were plenty of entertainment venues in Rome to see and explore - the largest of which was the Circus Maximus (even larger than...

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Italy is organising two special golfing events in Rome and Milan this weekend in preparation for hosting the Ryder Cup later this year for the first time. The first event in the "Road to Rome 2023" programme, designed to let people discover golf and to promote the sport, will be held in Rome's Villa Borghese, on Via delle Magnolie, and in Milan's P...

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For the Spring 2023 Semester, the Lasallian Universities Center for Education in Rome, Italy will serve a record 22 college students; the most students since the program began five years ago. Most students are from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois while three students are from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York.  The students live in...

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In Italy, there are typical foods that have been lost to time, surviving only in some village festivals and unknown even a few miles away. There are foods that have become a heritage of humanity, such as pizza, and others that at some point go viral on social media, gaining followers all over the world. Cacio e pepe is one of the latter–a pasta dis...

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Underground tunnels, burial sites, places of worship, hiding spaces. Catacombs have been all that throughout their history. Many cities – the older the better, of course – have some sort of underground networks of passages and chambers, some more famous than others: we know well, in Italy, the catacombs of Palermo, but also the Bourbon tunnels unde...

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A chance find by an amateur metal detectorist has added to a long-running mystery of archaeology, as a fragment of an Ancient Roman dodecahedron has been found in the small town of Kortessem, in Belgium.  The piece, originally part of a dodecahedron measuring 5-6 centimeters (2–2.36 inches) in size, shows signs of having been repaired in the past,...

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The 2023 edition of the Maratona di Roma will be launched on Sunday 19 March with a tenor singing the national anthem followed by a flypast over the Colosseum by Italy's Frecce Tricolori jets. Famous for emitting plumes of the three colours from the Italian flag, the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force takes to the skies to mark i...

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All roads leading to Rome, it was perhaps inevitable that the Ryder Cup, golf’s most prestigious event, would eventually swing by the Eternal City. But when the biennial event’s 44th edition, the first in Italy, gets going at Rome’s newly redeveloped Marco Simone Golf & Country Club this September, the US and European teams won’t just be competing...

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The Isola Tiberina, located in the middle of the Tiber, right in the center of Rome, is a real monument in that in ancient times it had been worked and decorated in the shape of a ship. A real and gigantic Roman vessel with its mast, at that time an obelisk, that seemed to sail on the Tiber. Isola Tiberina is the only urban island on the Tiber in t...

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Rome. Italy’s capital city is not just Eternal, nor just one of the world’s most beautiful urban centers, but the capital of Italian cinema. The link between the Eternal City and the seventh art is undeniable, deep and indissoluble. This chaotic city has been a muse for directors like Sorrentino, Pasolini and Fellini; the home of Cinecittà studios;...

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