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Two allegorical female figures portraying the virtues of Friendship and Justice in the Room of Constantine at the Vatican Museums are by Italian Renaissance master Raphael, the weekly Vatican Magazine reported on Friday. The weekly televised program broadcast the first images of Comitas, friendship in Latin, which has just been restored, and the fi...

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La cultura è uno dei motori trainanti dell’economia italiana, uno dei fattori che più alimentano la qualità e la competitività del made in Italy. Il Sistema Produttivo Culturale e Creativo, fatto da imprese, PA e non profit, genera 89,9 miliardi di euro e ‘attiva’ altri settori dell’economia, arrivando a muovere nell’insieme 250 miliardi, equivalen...

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An exhibition in Rome gives life again to a particular kind of art: that one which in the past has been denied, demeaned or obliterated. Now this art can rise like a phoenix from the rubble to reveal itself once again. The first section of the Roman exhibition is dedicated to the recovery and protection activities carried out by the Carabinieri for...

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Do all roads really lead to Rome? The Via Appia Antica (The Appian Way) aka “Regina Viarum” (Queen of Roads) is one of the most famous roads in Europe and is considered to be one of the oldest in Rome. It was named after the Roman censor, Appius Claudius Caecus, who initiated and completed the first 90 kilometers of the road in 312 BC.  In roughly...

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Digging for Rome's new subway has unearthed the charred ruins of an early 3rd-century building and the 1,800-year-old skeleton of a crouching dog that apparently perished in the same blaze that collapsed the structure. Archaeologists on Monday said they made the discovery on May 23 while examining a 10-meter (33-foot) -deep hole bored near the anci...

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Michéal Castaldo to Release First Digital Single from His New CD "Cinecitta Canta" on June 30th. The digital single will be available on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, Google Play and other digital music stores everywhere. Listen to your favorite Italian Radio programs over the next several days to get a sneak peek of the single. The reason for th...

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In the madness of late spring at San Marco Square in Venice, amid the hordes pouring in from land and sea, hard by the hissing espresso machines and sizzling panini presses of overpriced cafes, I found the still point of the turning world. I found it in the library. It was 10 in the morning and I was standing, alone and enthralled, on the second fl...

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The Catacombs of Domitilla in Rome extend over twelve kilometers on four levels underground, and are full of decorations and frescoes that tell stories about Christian communities from the early centuries of the first millennium. After three years of restoration – using cutting-edge laser technology to preserve the ancient frescoes – this archaeolo...

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Ciao from Rome! Here we are with another month, another editorial, another wonderful magazine about Italy, from your friends at We the Italians!

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Corpus Domini, also known as Corpus Christi, is a Catholic feast day. It honors the Eucharist, and as such it does not commemorate a particular event in Jesus's life. Many places in Lazio celebrate the days around this festival with infiorata, or flower displays.

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