2010 had a colourful start when the Golden Circus Festival, now in it’s 26th year, arrived at the Teatro Tendatrisce arena on 23rd December with lights, drum rolls, and trapeze artists exhibiting their skills, followed by animals and clowns.
[ 4 October 2009 09:00 to 8 November 2009 09:00. ] From fun runs to marathons and even ultra-marathons. Road races, cross country running and more around Rome and Lazio this month.
Fashion doesn’t always need to be a noose around your wallet’s neck. Find out how to make the most of Rome’s mercatini to save money and use your creativity to make a great outfit, or more. First published in March 2009.
Magic. The term stirs contrasting reactions in the minds of men: suspicion, fear, doubt, mockery… It is a controversial term, mostly because its definition leads to subjective interpretation and its connotation has varied across the centuries. First published in February 2008.
2010 had a colourful start when the Golden Circus Festival, now in it’s 26th year, arrived at the Teatro Tendatrisce arena on 23rd December with lights, drum rolls, and trapeze artists exhibiting their skills, followed by animals and clowns.
Circero and Caesar’s language has been scrapped from many school curricula in recent decades. Now, it is also disappearing in the Roman Catholic Church, the institution which had kept it alive for many centuries. Does this signal the ancient language’s second death since the fall of the Roman Empire? First published in April 2007.
If ‘your library is your portrait’, as Victorian journalist Holbrook Jackson once wrote, then Rome’s three great libraries – the Angelica Library, the Casanatense Library, the Collegio Romano’s Crociera – certainly offer an impressive likeness to their setting. First published in March 2008.
Easter is the faith-defining Christian celebration yet Christmas is easily the most popular - both now and in times past. TRF gets in the Christmas spirit with some reflections on its traditional and religious – pagan and Christian – aspects in Rome.
[ 6 November 2009 21:00 to 12 December 2009 21:00. ] Progressive metal band Dream Theatre have notched up several big hits over the years, selling over 2 million albums in the US and 8 million worldwide. Catch them at Rome’s Palalottomatica.
Cover Story:
Caesar’s Little Helpers - Rome Christmas shopping special
Current Issue:
Dec 09/Jan 10 - out now!
Table of Contents:
Worthy Cause Shopping, gift ideas, Rome’s Mithraic temples, Nativity scenes in Rome, cooking in Lazio
Grapes, olive oil, sunsets, races, good food, and wine flowing from a lions-head statue… Juliet Haydock takes us on journey to Rome’s picturesque neighbour Capena in the eighties; round its Rocca, traditions, and culture; and right back to Capena today. First published in April 2008.
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If you haven’t tried ‘Pizza a taglio’, you are missing out on one of Rome’s true culinary delights. Far from being mere filler junk food, ‘pizza by the slice’ in Rome is a marvel. First published in February 2006.
What do restaurant visits, beaches, annual passes for public transport, lawyers’ fees and unmarried couples have in common? At first sight, not very much it would seem. But these are all issues intimately linked in the end-of-year debate in the Italian parliament on the 2007 finanziaria, the budget revision. First published in January 2007.
Rome is a big city and visitors are often content with a flavour of what tourist guides offer. Sitting at a table in Trastevere or Testaccio, you may feel that that is where the real Rome lies, whereas a quick glance around the tables would reveal the presence of few Romans, if any. First published in October 2008.
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