ROME - Spirit of Scotland will be worshiped on Sunday as the Rome Whiskey Festival commences.

ROME - The Borghese Gallery, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of its reopening, is staging an exhibition that explores its historic ties with the Baroque sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

ROME - The Latin phrase “Genius Loci” has come to mean the particular atmosphere of a place or its “spirit.” The innovative art project headed by MiBACT under this name, featuring work by

ROME - The barbarians are at airport security. A sea of blue “hooligans,” in the words of Il Messaggero, will arrive in the coming hours ahead of the Chelsea-Roma Champion League match.

ROME- The importance of being Earnest is more English than Shakespeare; more English than the crumpets fought over or the backward logic of witticisms defend half-baked ideas.

ROME - While my co-workers slogged away, proofing articles on Italy’s corruption, I slid out of my chair and took sanctuary in the multi-sensory cinema experience of the Time Elevator in

TRAME D'AUTORE | Six video-artworks between art and literature

ROME - Over 1800 accredited, 58 participating countries, 45 projects, more than 60 thousand meetings, 120 films, crowded Upfront TV and What's next Italy; it is the boom of the 3rd edition of MIA,

 ROME - "I had a terror-since September-I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid," wrote Emily Dickinson, the recluse who wrote in riddles.

ROME - The exhibition of Monet, held in Rome from 19 Oct.  to 11 Feb.

ROME - “To have a penis is to be chained to a madman” wrote Sophocles more than 2500 years ago. He was right then and he is still right today.

ROME - I showed up to the Teatro Piccolo Eliseo knowing next to nothing about the show I was about to see.

ROME - Auto Moto D’Epoca, the vintage car festival that boasts the most cars in Europe, is looking to the future through the lens of the past.

ROME– A press conference was held Tuesday in advance of the partial opening of the fourth and fifth levels of the Colosseum after more than 40 years of closure.

ROME - The Palladium Theatre, once a historical cinema, still reverberates with the elegant charm of the silent era.

ROME- The timeless grace and elegance of one of the most beloved actresses of all time, Audrey Hepburn, are featured in the official poster of the 12th Rome Film Fest, produced by the Fondazione Ci

VENICE- Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water wins the Golden Lion for best film, while Italian directors and actors fail to feature in the Venice Film Festival awards.

VITERBO - Visitors to the ‘City of the Popes’ will be welcomed with guided tours around the medieval city as well as non-stop tastings of local Etruscan delicacies.

INARI - The village of Inari, in Finnish

ROME- An exhibition combining artwork in glass, textiles and paintings of the Finnish artist Markku Piri goes on tour in three different Italian cities during the year of the Finnish Centenary.

TURIN - Italian tyre manufacturing giant Pirelli will host music event ‘The Factory Song’ in September this year.

ROME – The Keats-Shelley House in Rome will receive Elisabetta Strickland next Thursday for a talk entitled ‘The Ascent of Mary Somerville in Nineteenth Century Society.’ The talk will be an opport