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Rome plans to offer travelers the chance to bypass its famously crippling traffic by flying in air taxis directly from the city center. The goal is to have the service up and running in 2024, ahead of a year-long Vatican celebration the following year known as Jubilee. A ride from the central Termini rail station, where the air taxi terminal could...

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Who doesn’t love shopping? Online, IRL, at the mall or at the market. Food, clothes, books, trinkets, anything goes, really. True, in this day and age, spending money on futilities or “extras,” as we like to call them, it’s become increasingly difficult. For many, it’s difficult even to shop for what’s necessary… But let us not think of it, right n...

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Rome's catacombs, including those normally difficult to visit, will open for free guided tours on Saturday 15 October as part of the 2022 edition of Day of the Catacombs. Organised by the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology, the fifth Giornata delle Catacombe is dedicated to Pope Callixtus I (218-222) on the 18th centenary of his death. Th...

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I traveled to Rome with my mother, Cav. Gilda Rorro Baldassari, and a special delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO), assembled by Judge Basil Russo. We traveled to Italy in May 2022 to foster relationships with leaders of the Republic of Italy and the Vatican. We met with the Ministry of Forei...

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You can visit Rome a million times, but you never get tired of it. That’s why they call it “Eternal”. Here, eight of the best Roman museums, galleries and palazzi that amaze with art and history, making you breathe, even centuries later, the importance of the Eternal City: 1. PALAZZO ALTEMPSIn Piazza di Sant’Apollinare, Palazzo Altemps is an archit...

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On April 27, 2023, the romantic train of the 1920s will depart from Rome: Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express. It is a journey through time, through the 17 restored historic carriages. From the magnificent capital of Italy you will embark on a magical adventure to discover the city of love. This luxury journey allows you to admire the train's period deta...

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The 2022 edition of Tevere Day, a celebration of Rome's river Tiber, will be held on Sunday 9 October from 09.00 until sunset. The city will stage about 100 Tiber-related events for all ages, embracing sport, music, culture and history, spanning 84 kilometres of river, from Nazzano to Fiumicino. Tevere Day sporting events include rowing, cycling, f...

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The Barberini Vineyard, planted on the Palatine Hill in the heart of the Colosseum Archaeological Park, officially becomes part of the “Iter Vitis Routes”, the Council of Europe’s cultural itineraries created to promote and preserve the tangible and intangible European heritage of wine and viticulture. In the area of Vigna Barberini, named after th...

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Among the contributions to improving the condition and reputation of Italians in America that are wrongly less remembered is unfortunately still that of Sicilian physician Vincenzo Sellaro, co-founder of the first Italian hospital in America and Ordine dei Figli d'Italia in America (now the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America). The Sicilia...

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Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli inaugurated a two-week light show on the façade of St Peter's Basilica, telling the story of the first pope, at the Vatican on Sunday night. The eight-minute video charting the life of the apostle will light up St Peter's each night until 16 October - from 21.00 to 23.00 - with a projection every 15 minutes. Cardinal Ma...

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