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Gladiator World to be built in Rome

Always wanted to be a Gladiator? Want to fight like the legionnaires did? It is all coming available now. New astonishing facts are beginning to leak about the collapsed roof at the Domus Aurea this last Monday. The work under way was not restoration works. It is really foundation works for a new amusement park [...]

Corot to Monet – The symphony of nature

Until June 29, 2010 the city of Rome will host the exhibition “Corot to Monet – The symphony of nature”.
The exhibition will show more than 170 works which shows the evolutionary path of the Impressionists way of presenting the natural landscape, starting from the early innovations of the painters of [...]

Roof collapses on Nero’s palace

This morning parts of the roof of at Nero’s Golden Palace in Rome, Domus Aurea, collapsed this morning. Workers were doing repairs when parts of the roof collapsed, which in turn led to the garden on top of the roof collapsed inside the palace in an area of about 100 square meters. No one was [...]

Arista alla Fiorentina

Today’s cooking is a perfect dish to prepare ahead. Arista alla Fiorentina is actually as good served cold as warn.
Arista derives from the Greek word aristos, meaning “best”. According to tradition, some Greek clergymen which visited Florence in 1430 for a Ecumenical Council were served the Tuscan-style roast pork and found it “aristos” or very [...]

Egon Shiele and his times

At the Royal Palace in Milan, a much interesting exhibition on Egon Shiele (1890-1918) are opening at the moment. Schiele was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the predestined successor to Gustav Klimt, but died before he could fulfill his promise. His fascinating but not wholly admirable character is accounted for, at least in [...]

Neurotic jazz with Woody Allen

Maybe most know as a movie director, and actor Woody Allen is also a musician, playing with a impressive wibe the clarinet. At the moment he and his New Orleans Jazz Band, are touring Europe and will be in Italy at the end of the month.

The first concert will be on March [...]

L’Età della Conquista. Il fascino dell’arte greca a Roma

The Romans took a lot from the Greeks and developed into their own. Especially in art. A new exhibition at the Musei Capitolini offers you an unique collection of Greek art from early Roman days.
The works comes from one of the most significant eras for the development of all western art: the period following the [...]

Ajo, ojo e peperoncino

Does cooking Italian food mean you have to spend the whole day in front of the stove? No, not necessarily. Today we will do 2 quick and tasty Roman dishes. Simple and quick, but still very, very Italian. We will do Spaghetti con Ajo, ojo e peperoncino (Roman dialect for aglio, olio e peperoncino – [...]

Last chance to see Steve McCurry in Milan

You do remember the picture of the young Afghan girl with eyes that burns through you, printed on the cover of National Geograpfic magazine in 1985? Most likely, it’s one of these pictures that never leaves you. The photographer, Steve McCurry has spent a lot of time in Asia and some of his pictures can [...]

Edward Hopper – on display in Rome

This week in Rome, opened for the first time ever an exhibition of the work by Amerian painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967). The exhibition pays tribute to the entire career this one of the 20th century’s most popular and best known American artist. The exhibition presents more than 160 works, including famous masterpieces
The exhibition will [...]