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Rome's Trevi Fountain provided the spectacular backdrop to the sight of G20 leaders throwing coins over their shoulders into the waters of the Baroque monument on Sunday morning. Held amid tight security, the photo-op resulted in street closures across the historic centre ahead of the second day of G20 talks -  centred on 'People, Planet, Prosperit...

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Dear friends of We the Italians, as you know from today Rome is hosting the G20, the summit where the 20 most important countries in the world gather their leaders to talk about the future of the world. We the Italians has sent a small reminder to the press offices of the summit and the embassies of the 20 countries involved. A symbolic communicati...

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When you say Halloween in Italy, there are still those who turn up their noses because we give space to a product and a holiday that does not belong to us. But are we sure of this? We all know that it's an American holiday with an Irish tradition dating back to Celtic times. But there is a good chance that Halloween in Italy existed before the Celt...

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In ancient times, Rome was famous for hosting gladiator games. The Colosseum was crowded with thousands of people cheering their favorite competitors fight against other gladiators and wild animals. Glorious victories and shameful defeats were responsible for creating the environment at the amphitheater. Nowadays, Rome has a similar —although less...

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The Italian Ambassador to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, participated in the launch of the "Transatlantic Investment Committee", a platform dedicated to industrial, scientific-technological and entrepreneurial collaboration between Italy and the USA, speaking at an event organized by the Amerigo Association, in collaboration with the Centro...

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US president Joe Biden landed in Rome's Fiumicino airport in the early hours of Friday morning ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit hosted by Italy this weekend. The president will join the heads of the world's most powerful nations at a two-day summit in the capital's Nuvola conference centre on 30-31 October. Before he attends the talks, centred on '...

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Getting from Rome's international Fiumicino airport into the centre of the Italian capital normally takes about 45 minutes in a taxi, depending on traffic. This journey time could be cut to just 15 minutes within a couple of years under futuristic plans unveiled by Aeroporti di Roma (AdR) and Atlantia, the Italy-based global company which manages m...

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It’s only fitting that my Jewish boyfriend Daryl introduced me to the artichoke. Even though I was part-Sicilian, I had somehow never eaten one. I saw little culinary potential in the daunting, thorny bulb. Turns out, my Sicilian forebears also had to be convinced by their Jewish friends and neighbors that the artichoke offered much more than met t...

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“But he’s famous!” goes a voice outside a bar in Trastevere. A footballer? Politician? Big Brother contestant? Film star? “Ok, was famous,” the voice concedes, meaning none of the above. Trilussa, or Carlo Salustri, to de-anagrammatise his real name, was a poet, and a dialect poet at that. Albeit the dialect is romanesco – the patois of Caput Mundi...

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100 Pittori, Rome's historic open-air art event, returns to Via Margutta with its 116th edition from 29 October to 1 November. The four-day art festival will feature works by more than 100 Italian and international artists who will be on hand to meet the public, from 10.00 to 20.00 each day. The upcoming event is dedicated to Dante Alighieri, on th...

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