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EUROPEAN ELECTIONS James Walston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 FRIDA KAHLO COMES TO ROME Andy Devane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 GETTING MARRIED IN ITALY Studio Legale Annino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 WEDDING DRESSES AT THE MONASTERY Theresa Potenza. . . . . . 11

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politics

James Walston

EUROPEAN ELECTIONS

Italy gears up for European elections on 25 May

uropean parliamentary elections have not been marked by great enthusiasm in the past, but this year’s are different. There are issues which cross borders and which cross parties, and each country has developed variations on topics which raise temperatures and divide otherwise like-thinking people. Even more important, this will be the first time that the newly elected European parliament will elect a chief executive, the head of the European Commission, so there will be some interest in the personalities of the politicians and we shall at least know who they are and where they come from. Across the continent, the elections are a thermometer of local political temperatures – the leaders, the policies and the organisation – but in Italy, where everything is highly personalised, the results on 25 May are even more crucial. Once again the Partito Democratico (PD) is the front-runner with polls giving it 30-35 per cent of the vote, and the new party secretary, prime minister and former mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, is staking his career on the result. When he took over as prime minister in February, it was obvious that his principal task was to turn the party around by the European elections, and this is what he has been trying to do since then.

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Italian premier Matteo Renzi.

In numerical terms, the second biggest party, and second oldest at just over a year, is the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) of Genoese comic Beppe Grillo, fighting a confused game trying to bridge gaps between left and rightwing populisms using a careful dose of blogs and outbursts from (one-way) press conferences. He has achieved his aims of staying centre-stage, creating debate and maintaining his ratings. On the other side, though similar to both in many ways, is the eternal Silvio Berlusconi, down but certainly not out. In August last year, he was given the final verdict in his Mediaset case: four years for tax evasion of €7.3 million. After all the attenuating circumstances are applied, the resulting conviction is 10 months’ social service. This verdict wasn’t delivered until mid-April and

won’t be put into force until the autumn. The court was very lenient, ordering him to work once a week and for not less than four consecutive hours in an old people’s home close to his main residence in Arcore, north of Milan. There is an irony in that Berlusconi is 77 himself but the supreme irony of Berlusconi working as a convict at a foundation which belonged to himself was avoided (it had been aired as a possibility and only half jokingly). He had appealed to the Italian parliament and the European court of human rights in Strasburg to be allowed to stand as a candidate, but they turned down his appeal. The issues, too, cross parties for the first time. The terms “left” and “right” are still bandied about but there is some discussion about who owns them and what they mean. There’s even a sprinkling of parties standing across the continent, so we have the paradox of more and more euro-sceptic parties and movements combining to fight “Europe” and it’s not at all clear what “Europe” means, usually a catch-all word that refers to pieces of bureaucracy that the speaker cannot abide. Immigration is a buzz-word that raises hackles across the country and the continent. The Lega Nord has always been to the forefront in the battle against “illegal” immigration and, before

politics that, uncontrolled movement of southerners to the north, but now Grillo and some parts of the M5S have jumped on that bandwagon and even the mainstream parties argue that there must be some debate on immigration control. The other very controversial issue for the whole continent (or most of it) is the euro. Even though the detailed pros and cons have not been worked out, everyone has an opinion on how much the euro has cost them but not what an exit strategy would cost them, so the hot air around the debate will continue well after the election, though the clarity probably rather less. If that is true for the euro, then the suggestion from some that a country leaves the Union is even more true. Meanwhile in Italy alone there are major issues like the abolition of the senate’s equal powers (a constitutional amendment) and the revision of the electoral law, both highly controversial and cutting across parties and sometimes through parties. The PD, for example, has a vociferous minority opposing drastic change in the senate for fear that it could shift too much power to the executive. In the margins of this debate is the abolition of the provinces, an issue which should have been laid to rest 40 years ago but – like so many others – has festered on, gathering dust and distributing resources. On a much more day-to-day level there is Renzi’s promise of finding an extra €80 per month for the lower paid, which should be in the pay packets in May. Ever since he launched the proposal, there have been furious discussions over where the funds will actually be found. At the other end of the pay scale is the question of cutting top public managers’ salaries, a popular move – except with the managers themselves, of course. The two other big players have their own particular problems affecting their campaigns. Grillo quoted Primo Levi’s Se Questo è un Uomo to make fun of

European voting

Beppe Grillo, leader of M5S.

Former premier Silvio Berlusconi.

banks and freemasons, a particularly vulgar piece of pseudo-satire published at Pesach (Jewish Passover) and followed by the usual protestations that he is not anti-semitic. Meanwhile, Berlusconi’s closest and oldest collaborator, Marcello Dell’Utri, was arrested in Beirut while fleeing arrest for a mafia association conviction. Finally, the gender issue has come to the fore with Renzi putting five women at the top of the PD electoral lists on 25 May. They are all qualified politicians and not dental hygienists of the leader, as with Berlusconi, but they were not selected by the party. He followed that move be appointing five women out of eight new top managers of public companies, so the debate over women in politics and business and gender or merit has heated up again.

Almost all countries vote on 25 May, although a few (such as the United Kingdom and Ireland) go to the polls between 22 and 24 May. In 2014 the voting is for 751 MEPs rather than the 766 in the previous elections. The countries with the fewest MEPs (only six) are Estonia, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta. The country with the most is Germany with 96. The MEPs represent over 500 million people in 28 countries and are elected for a five-year period. In parliament they are grouped by party affinity and not by country. The largest group in the outgoing parliament was the Christian Democratic European People’s Party (EPP) with 274 seats, followed by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) with 195. According to the results of one poll (Poll Watch, www.electio2014. eu) taken in mid-April the EPP would lose seats getting 222 and the S&D would gain seats (209) but not enough to become the largest single party. Minimum voting age is 18 except in Austria where it is 16. In 2009 there were 375 million eligible voters. Turnout (especially among young voters) has gone from 61.99 per cent (in 1979) down to 43 per cent (in 2009). The country with the highest turnout in 2009 was Belgium with 90 per cent and the lowest was Slovakia with 19 per cent. The voting is governed by the electoral laws in each country but it must be by universal suffrage, free, confidential, and MEPs must be elected on the basis of proportional representation. The first MEPs were nominated by their local parliaments but since 1979 MEPs have been elected and the power of the European parliament has been gradually increasing. For the first time this year the newly elected European parliament will then choose the head of the European commission. For more details see: www.elections2014.eu. 7 May 2014 | Wanted in Rome

ART

rida Kahlo, the world’s best known exponent of Latin American art, had her first major exhibition in her native Mexico City in April 1953. By that time her health had deteriorated to such an extent that her doctors forbade her from attending the opening night. However, moments after hundreds of people had poured into Mexico’s Gallery of Contemporary Art, an ambulance and a motorcycle escort pulled up outside. The astonished crowd witnessed a gaunt Kahlo being stretchered into the gallery to her four-poster bed, which had been installed earlier that day. The heroic spectacle generated such shock and reverence that most of the assembled press photographers abandoned their cameras, failing to record the extraordinary event. Fortunately one photograph does exist. It shows a weak and wide-eyed Kahlo, dressed in traditional Mexican costume and jewellery, staring up at her supporters. Kahlo’s bed was decorated with photographs of her husband, the revolutionary muralist Diego Rivera, her political heroes such as Josef Stalin, her family and friends, while attached to the bed’s canopy hung grinning papier mâché skeletons. One by one, Kahlo’s friends and admirers queued to greet her personally. Later, led by Rivera, they formed a circle around her bed, drinking wine and singing Mexican ballads with her until the early hours. Within a year she was dead, aged 47. On the 60th anniversary of Kahlo’s death, Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale hosts a remarkable retrospective in her honour. Curated by Helga PrignitzPoda, this beautifully presented exhibition explores Kahlo’s art and her links with the most important cultural movements of her time, from Stridentism to Surrealism to Magical Realism. The exhibition comprises some of Kahlo’s most celebrated paintings and

Kahlo’s Self Portrait with Monkeys pokes fun at her adoring art students.

Andy Devane

FRIDA KAHLO COMES TO ROME

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art spans the full spectrum of her artistic career. Her 110 works on display feature more than 40 of her portraits and self-portraits, of which she said: “I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best.” Pride of place is reserved for her Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, never before exhibited in Italy. Like a child arriving at a beach for the first time, it is tempting to race through the Scuderie’s halls to consume Kahlo’s exotic world all at once. Her unsmiling self-portraits observe the viewer who is bombarded by her colourful and arresting imagery, the fruit of a vivid imagination and a skilled hand. Unlike many so-called major exhibitions, this one does not rely on supplementing the central artist’s work with pieces by other lesser-known contemporaries. The inclusion of a small number of artists associated with Kahlo is perfectly within context and adds to the overall vitality of the exhibition. Chief among those sharing Kahlo’s wall space is her husband Rivera whose exhibited works include Portrait of Natasha Gelman and a sensuous lithograph of a nude Kahlo. Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was born on 6 July 1907, to a Hungarian father and a Mexican mother. As a child Kahlo suffered from polio, leaving her with a stunted right leg, but worse happened when she was 18. A traffic accident left her with severe spinal damage and rendered her incapable of giving birth. The physical and emotional impact of the crash was to haunt her for the rest of her life. Visitors to the Rome exhibition are reminded of her suffering by the Plaster Corset in which Kahlo was entrapped from 1950. The hand-painted device features a hammer and sickle over an unborn baby, reflecting the blend of political and personal behind the artist who always wore her heart on her sleeve. Kahlo’s pain is evident in her sketch for Henry Ford Hospital which

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Frida on White Bench, New York 1939, photo by Hungarian-born American photographer Nickolas Muray.

refers to a miscarriage, her second, that she suffered in Detroit in 1932. When she was 22 she married Rivera, 20 years her senior. This volatile relationship weathered Rivera’s serial infidelities and violent temper, and Kahlo’s bi-sexual affairs and poor health. The couple divorced in 1939 only to remarry a year later. Kahlo once said: “I have suffered two grave accidents in my life: one in which a streetcar knocked me down... the other was Diego.” Kahlo’s magnificent portrait of Rivera is juxtaposed by her unflattering caricature of her husband, a pudgyfaced ogre with bulging lips and crossed eyes. However her love for Rivera is clear in her paintings, many of

Kahlo’s portrait of her husband Diego Rivera.

art which depict both artists in embraces, at one with nature, the sun, the moon, the planet, each other. Among the highlights at the Scuderie is her Self portrait with monkeys, a humorous comment on her relationship with her adoring students – who called themselves Los Fridos – at La Esmeralda art college in Mexico. The exhibition also includes a number of her watercolours such as Caballito Mexicano, a beautifully-painted rocking horse, or the curious Father Christmas character in San Baba, a caustic political critique about the bourgeois revolutionary leader and former Mexican president Venustiano Carranza. Her contribution to surrealism is addressed with a series of works including the collage painting My Dress Hangs There in which the artist pines for Mexico after living in the US for three years with her husband. André Breton, founder of the surrealist movement, described Kahlo’s art as a “ribbon around a bomb”, but for Kahlo “surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in the wardrobe where you are sure of finding shirts.” Perhaps she had this in mind when painting Window Display in a Street of Detroit, which features a lion, a white horse

and a likeness of George Washington. Towards the end of the exhibition is a room called The Diary 1946-1954 which provides an insight into Kahlo’s private world. This section includes a deeply personal series of works created by Kahlo while at a Mexico psychiatric clinic following Rivera’s request for a separation. Her friend, the young psychology student Olga Campos, encouraged Kahlo to process her suicidal feel-

Kahlo’s hand-painted plaster corset.

ings into her paintings in an attempt to cure herself through art therapy. There is also a selection of beautiful photographs, in particular those by Nickolas Muray, featuring a rose-haloed Kahlo. Several of these images have become almost as iconic as Kahlo’s paintings themselves, including Frida on White Bench, New York 1939 which appeared on the cover of the Mexico version of Vogue magazine in 2012. The exhibition ends with the artist’s presumed last drawing, a self-portrait of a sad-eyed Kahlo with a dove nesting on her head and a lemniscate, or infinity symbol. Kahlo’s diary reveals that the dove alluded to the poem La Paloma, by Spanish poet Rafael Alberti, which begins “The dove was wrong. The dove was mistaken. To travel north she flew south.” Today, Kahlo’s influence extends far beyond her assured place in art history, according to the exhibition’s curator. Prignitz-Poda claims that Kahlo is a globally-recognised star whose image and first name have been branded similarly to Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, as evidenced in Rome with La Casa di Frida on Via dei Falegnami 9. Kahlo is also now regarded as a forerunner of feminism, a movement which has embraced her since the 1970s. The Rome exhibition is part of an integrated project with the northern Italian city Genoa which hosts Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from 20 Sept-15 Feb. The Genoa show continues the story begun in Rome, focusing on the tumultuous marriage which shaped the paintings of Kahlo, a true artistic spirit whose short life was lived to the full.

20 March-31 Aug. Scuderie del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio 16, tel. 639967500, www.scuderiequirinale.it. Sketch Kahlo made of her time at Henry Ford Hospital, following her miscarriage in Detroit. 7 May 2014 | Wanted in Rome

LEGAL AFFAIRS

Studio Legale Annino

GETTING MARRIED IN ITALY

A guide to registering marriages in Italy

f you are planning your happy wedding day in Italy you may require a little more time than you thought. So if you would like bells and ribbons instead of red tape, read on. The law on marriages is one and the same all over Italy. However, local town halls may interpret the law in slightly different ways and waive certain requirements. In Italy two forms of marriage are available. Civil marriage, a ceremony carried out by the authorised official at the comune (town hall) or Roman Catholic religious marriages. Couples wanting religious marriage in other denominations need to perform a civil marriage first, as only Catholic priests are authorised marriage officers in Italy. In order to start your application for a civil marriage you will need the following documents:

▶ A valid passport

▶ Birth certificate – A copy bearing an

Apostille stamp in accordance with the Hague Convention on the legalisation of foreign public documents. Apostille stamps are available from the local authority in your country of origin where the certificate was

issued. Once this has been obtained the certificate must be translated into Italian. ▶ Evidence of the termination of any previous marriage/s if applicable (e.g. final divorce decree, annulment decree, or death certificate of former spouse, bearing an Apostille stamp and translated into Italian). If you are female and your previous marriage was terminated within the last 300 days, you must obtain a waiver from the Italian district attorney’s office (Procura della Repubblica presso il tribunale) at the court in the city where the new marriage will be performed. The waiver is issued upon presentation of medical evidence that you are not pregnant. ▶ Affidavit or nulla osta sworn before a consular officer from your country of origin commissioned in Italy, stating that there is no legal impediment to your marriage according to the laws of your country of origin. You will normally have to schedule an appointment with your consulate. The nulla osta is valid for six months. Once the nulla osta has been issued, it should be taken to the legalisation office (ufficio legalizzazioni) of the local prefettura to legalise it. You will need to

purchase a €16 revenue stamp (marca da bollo) from any tobacco shop (tabaccaio) and present it together with the document. ▶ Atto notorio: This is a declaration, in addition to the nulla osta, stating that according to the laws to which you are subject in your country of origin there is no obstacle to your marriage. This declaration is to be sworn before two witnesses (they may be of any nationality but must be over 18 and possess valid photo identification) before an Italian consul outside Italy or, in Italy, before a court official in the city at the notary services office (ufficio atti notori) of the court (tribunale ordinario) having jurisdiction over the city where you intend to marry. Make an appointment in advance. Our advice is to take along your visa or permit of stay (permesso di soggiorno). You will need two revenue stamps of €16 each and one of €10.62 to apply for the atto notorio, which generally will be ready to pick up after four to 10 days. ▶ Declaration of intention to marry: You should present all the above-listed documents to the marriage office (ufficio matrimoni) of the town hall (comune) in the city where the mar7 May 2014 | Wanted in Rome

LEGAL AFFAIRS riage will be performed, and make a declaration of intention to marry (dichiarazione di matrimonio) before a civil registrar (ufficiale di stato civile). If you do not speak Italian, an interpreter should accompany you. For this registration you will usually require a revenue stamp (marca da bollo) to the value of €16 if one of the couple is an Italian citizen, or two marche da bollo if both are non citizens. Civil banns must be posted at the town hall for 11 days. If nobody disputes your request for marriage, after the first eight days of the banns’ being publicly posted the comune will issue another nulla osta and the marriage may be planned. From this date the couple have 180 days in which to perform their marriage. Civil ceremony: A civil ceremony is performed by the mayor or or deputy mayor. Two witnesses and – if necessary – an interpreter must be present at the ceremony. Witnesses may be of any nationality, but must be over 18 and possess valid photo identification. A witness cannot serve as interpreter. At the moment of marriage the couple declare whether or not they want to hold all their assets jointly or individually (co-

Complesso Vignola Mattei near the Baths of Caracalla is one of the locations for civil weddings in Rome.

munione legale dei beni or separazione dei beni). Catholic religious ceremony: for this, you will need the following additional documentation. The Roman Catholic Church requires baptismal and confirmation certificates in addition to the documents listed above. For complete information, you should check with your priest, and it’s worth remembering that Catholic weddings may not be celebrated in the diocese of Rome during Lent. The church will post your marriage banns instead of the comune and issue the nulla osta for the decla-

ration of marriage at your comune. You may be required to attend premarital classes scheduled by the church. The priest will register the marriage with the civil authorities. Any Italian marriage certificate bearing an Apostille obtained in Italy is internationally recognised. An Apostille is obtainable at the legalisation office of your local prefettura. After obtaining this you may proceed to register your marriage with the consulate of your country of origin if you wish to do so. Studio Legale Annino www.annino-lawfirm.com

A number of English-speaking Catholic churches perform weddings in Rome ▶ Pontifical

Irish College near the Colosseum has been a popular marriage venue for Irish couples for decades. Ceremonies on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. It also arranges weddings at its parish church, S. Giovanni in Laterano. For enquiries weddings@irishcollege.org. Via dei SS. Quattro 1, tel. 06772631, www.irishcollege.org.

▶ St Isidore’s College is a Franciscan community located near Piazza Barberini. Weddings are conducted in Irish or Eng-

lish, and minimum advance notice is four months. For enquiries col.isidoro@alice.it. Via degli Artisti 41, tel. 064885359, www.stisidoresrome.com.

▶ St Patrick’s is an Irish Augustinian church located in the Via Veneto area. It generally holds weddings for Irish couples

or couples of Irish descent. Via Boncompagni 31, tel. 0642903787.

▶ S. Silvestro in Capite is one of the main Catholic churches for the English speaking residents of central Rome. Information

on weddings is available on the church’s website. Piazza S. Silvestro 1, tel. 066797775, www.sansilvestroincapite.com.

▶ S.

Susanna, the American Catholic church in Rome, is located near Piazza Barberini. Due to temporary closure it is conducting weddings this year at nearby S. Camillo de Lellis church. On occasion it can organise weddings at St Peter’s Basilica. For enquiries rector@santasusanna.org. Via Venti Settembre 15, tel. 0642014554.

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WEDDINGS Theresa Potenza

WEDDING DRESSES AT THE MONASTERY

can still hear the voice of Sister Maria Laura and remember her smiling face when she said, “No more cheesecake!” She was fitting me into a wedding gown in the most unexpected of places, the back room of an Umbrian monastery dedicated to St Rita of Cascia, which I had heard about after reading a short article in The New York Times. In the 1950s women began donating their dresses out of solidarity and as an offering to St Rita, a 14th-century saint from a nearby village who wanted to become a nun, but who was married off by her parents at the age of 12 to a violent and abusive husband. After 18 years of marriage, he was murdered in a family feud and his two sons died of dysentery before they could avenge his death. St Rita then asked to be admitted to the Augustinian convent of St Mary Magdalene but was turned away because of the family’s violent reputation. She persisted in her request and was finally admitted to the convent at the age of 36. She is known as not only the patron saint of impossible causes but also of sterility, abuse victims, loneliness, marriage difficulties, parenthood, widows, the sick, bodily ills and wounds. She was canonised in 1900. Sister Maria Laura became an Augustinian cloistered nun and entered the St Rita convent in Cascia in 1993, just after she had been engaged to be married herself. After choosing instead to be a bride of Christ, she felt called in particular towards helping brides. Indeed her service of offering second-hand wedding dresses in the name of sobriety and to bring renewed focus on the sense of marriage has had profound effects. With her earlier experience working as a stylist in her family’s tailoring business, she has the gift of refashioning donated wedding dresses for new brides, helping women find peace in the process of preparing for their weddings. Sister Maria Laura says that an average of three

women visit the monastery each week, and between eight and ten per month leave with their dream dress. Previously, when the dresses were donated they were destined for women with serious social and economic difficulties who had spent time at the convent. Now the dresses have become an important act of charity for others and the operation has grown and has its own warehouse. Sister Maria Laura makes the experience of choosing a gown full of love and joy, helping women who may not have known anything about St Rita or St Augustine, or who may be of a different faith, as she understands the meaning behind her own gown that she wears in devotion to the Augustinian order. You couldn’t help but love Sister Ma-

The 22 May celebrations for the feast of St Rita in Cascia.

ria Laura as she attempted to interpret my reactions and then scurry among over 300 dresses in the back to find a new style. She would bring them out one by one and experiment and advise on alterations. She’d create open backs with ribbons, suggest where to cut the neckline, and reassemble inner padding. There were several shades of designer bridal gowns in white, cream, champagne, gold and ivory to choose from, in any style imaginable thanks to the variety of women who have donated dresses. In return, many women return their dresses after their wedding in order to provide a similar opportunity to someone new. The brides-to-be do not pay for the dress; rather the common practice is for recipients to provide the church with an appropriate donation. Sister Maria Laura has a certain creativity and willingness to help that makes her work a real blessing. For me, in the fashionconscious capital city, where the prices can range from €4,000-€8,000, it had seemed a lost cause finding a suitable and affordable wedding dress. Appropriate then that I found one at the convent, as St Rita is the patron saint of impossible causes. It is evident that Sister Maria Laura feels a great calling in her work. “It gives me great joy to see a young woman who can fulfil her dream of love with a dress appropriate for the happiest day of her life,” she said. A particularly special time to visit the town is the upcoming feast day of St Rita on 22 May, when there is a historical parade and the blessing of the roses. In the town one can also visit a large sanctuary dedicated to St Rita, built in the 20th century after her canonisation. In the basilica it is spectacular to see her body still intact in its glass tomb. An appointment must be made in advance to visit the dress depot of the monastery at Viale S. Rita 13, Cascia, tel. 074376221, www.santaritadacascia.org. 7 May 2014 | Wanted in Rome

rome’s major

Museums

For more details see www.museiincomuneroma.it and www.beniculturali.it.

Below is a list of the major museums and archaeological sites in Rome. Book tickets for many Rome museums and archaeological sites on tel. 060608 or online at www.060608.it. Book tickets for the Borghese Museum, Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia, Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Corsini online at www.beniculturali.it.

vatican museums

Viale del Vaticano, tel. 0669883860, mv.vatican. va. Not only the Sistine Chapel but also the Egyptian and Etruscan collections and the Pinacoteca. Mon-Sat 09.00-18.00. Sun (and bank holidays) closed except last Sun of month (free

entry, 08.30-12.30). All times refer to last entry. For group tours of the museums and Vatican gardens tel. 0669884667. For private tours (museum only) tel. 0669884947. Closed 26 December and 6 January, Easter Sunday and Monday.

Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums, tel. 0669881814, www.vatican-patrons.org. For private behindthe-scene tours in the Vatican Museums.

Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia Piazza Villa Giulia 9, tel. 063226571, villagiulia.beniculturali.it. National museum of Etruscan civilisation. 08.30-19.30. Mon closed. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna Viale delle Belle Arti 131, tel. 06322981, www.gnam.beniculturali.it. 08.30-19.30. Mon closed. MAXXI Via Guido Reni 6, tel. 063210181, www.fondazionemaxxi.it. National Museum of 21st-century art, designed by Zaha Hadid. Tues-Sun 11.00-19.00, Thurs and Sat 11.00-22.00. Mon closed. Museo delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari Piazza G. Marconi 10, EUR, tel. 060608, www.popolari.arti.beniculturali.it. Traditional Italian tools, crafts, clothing, furniture, musical instruments, jewellery. Tues-Fri 09.00-18.00, Sat-Sun 09.00-20.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian on prior booking. Palazzo Corsini Via della Lungara, 10, tel. 0668802323, www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/ en. National collection of ancient art, begun by Rome’s Corsini family. Tues-Sun 08.30-19.30. Mon closed. Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale Via Merulana 248, tel. 0646974832, www.museorientale.it. Interesting national collection of oriental art with some special exhibitions from its own collection and special loans. Tues, Wed, and Fri. 09.00-14.00. Thurs, Sat, Sun. 09.00-19.30. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian on Sun (11.00 and 17.00). Museo Nazionale del Palazzo Venezia Via del Plebiscito 118, tel. 0669994285,

www.museopalazzovenezia.beniculturali.it. Residence of Pope Paul II in the 15th century, it was the embassy of the Republic of Venice and then of the Austrian Empire. Paintings, sculpture, bronzes by Pisanello and Bernini. 08.30-19.30, Mon closed.

tel. 060608. Open for temporary exhibitions only 16.00-24.00. Mon closed. Museo Barracco Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 166, tel. 0668806848, www.mdbr.it. A collection of mainly pre-Roman sculpture. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Museo Canonica Viale P. Canonica 2 (Villa Borghese), tel. 060608, www.museocanonica.it. The collection, private apartment and studio of the sculptor and musician Pietro Canonica who died in 1959. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian and English (book ten days in advance). Museo dei Fori Imperiali and Trajan’s Markets Via IV Novembre 94, tel. 060608, en.mercatiditraiano.it. Museum dedicated to the forums of Caesar, Augustus, Nerva and Trajan and the Temple of Peace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Museo dell’Ara Pacis Lungotevere in Augusta, tel. 060608, www.arapacis.it. Home of the Roman altar to peace commissioned by Emperor Caesar Augustus in the 1st century AD. The museum was designed by American architect Richard Meier. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed.

Museo Napoleonico Piazza di Ponte Umberto 1, tel. 060608, www.museonapoleonico. it. Paintings, sculptures and jewellery related to Napoleon and the Bonaparte family. 09.0019.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian and English. Museo di Roma – Palazzo Braschi Via S. Pantaleo 10, tel. 060608, en.museodiroma.it. The city’s collection of paintings, etchings, photographs, furniture and clothes from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in English and Italian on prior booking tel. 0682059127. Palazzo delle Esposizioni Via Nazionale 194, tel. 0639967500, www.palazzoesposizioni. it. Large space which hosts several travelling exhibitions each year. Tues, Wed, Thurs 10.0020.00. Fri and Sat 10.00-22.30. Sun 10.00-20.00. Mon closed. Scuderie del Quirinale Via XXIV Maggio 16, tel. 0639967500, www.scuderiequirinale.it. The museum opposite the residence of Italy’s president stages major exhibitions. Sun-Thurs 10.00-20.00, Fri-Sat 10.00-22.30.

a sculpture by Bernini, plus works by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto and Caravaggio. 10.00-17.00. Galleria Colonna Palazzo Colonna, Via della Pilotta 17, tel. 066784350, www.galleriacolonna.it. Private collection of works by Veronese, Guido Reni, Pietro di Cortona and Annibale Caracci. Sat 09.0013.00 only. Private group tours are available seven days a week on request. For wheelchair access con-

tact the gallery to arrange alternative entrance. Keats-Shelley Memorial House Piazza di Spagna 26, tel. 066784235, www.keats-shelley-house.it. Museum dedicated to the lives of three English Romantic poets – John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Mon-Fri 10.00-13.00, 14.00-18.00; Sat 11.00-14.00, 15.00-18.00. Guided tours on prior booking.

state museums Baths of Diocletian Viale Enrico de Nicola 78, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma. beniculturali.it. Part of the protohistorical section of the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Baths of Diocletian plus the restored cloister by Michelangelo. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed. Borghese Museum Piazzale Scipione Borghese (Villa Borghese), tel. 06328101, www.galleria.borghese.it. Sculptures by Bernini and Canova, paintings by Titian, Caravaggio, Raphael, Correggio. 09.00-19.30. Mon closed. Entry times at 09.00, 11.00, 13.00 15.00, 17.00. Guided tours in English and Italian. Castel S. Angelo Museum Lungotevere Castello 50, tel. 066819111, www.castelsantangelo.com. Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum used by the popes as a fortress, prison and palace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Colosseum, Palatine and Roman Forum Colosseum: Piazza del Colosseo. Palatine: entrances at Piazza di S. Maria Nova 53 and Via di S. Gregorio 30. Roman Forum: entrances at Largo Romolo e Remo 5-6 and Piazza di S. Maria Nova 53, tel. 0639967700, www.colosseo-roma.it. 08.30-19.15. Single ticket gives entry to the Colosseum and the Palatine (including the Museo Palatino; last entry one hour before closing). Guided tours in English and Italian. Crypta Balbi Via delle Botteghe Oscure 31, tel. 0639967700, www.archeologia.beniculturali.it. Museum dedicated to the Middle Ages on the site of the ancient ruins of the Roman Theatre of Balbus. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian.

Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico L. Pigorini Piazza G. Marconi 14, EUR, tel. 06549521, www.pigorini.beniculturali.it. Prehistoric Italian artefacts and ethnological material from various cultures. 10.00-18.00. Palazzo Altemps Piazza S. Apollinare 46, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali. it. Ancient sculpture from the Museo Nazionale Romano, including the Ludovisi collection. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed. Palazzo Barberini Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, tel. 064824184, www.galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it. National collection of 13th- to 16th-century paintings. 08.30-19.30. Mon closed. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme Largo di Villa Peretti 1, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it. Important Roman paintings, mosaics, sculpture, coins and antiquities from the Museo Nazionale Romano, including the Kircherian collection. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed. Vittoriano Piazza Aracoeli, tel. 066991718, www.museiincomuneroma.it. Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II and Italian unity. Also Museo Centrale del Risorgimento. 10.00-16.00. Mon closed. Entry free.

city museums Centrale Montemartini Art Centre Via Ostiense 106, tel. 060608, en.centralemontemartini.org. Over 400 pieces of ancient sculpture from the Capitoline Museums are on show in a former power plant. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in English for groups if reserved in advance. Capitoline Museums Piazza del Campidoglio, tel. 060608, en.museicapitolini.org. The city’s collection of ancient sculpture in Palazzo Nuovo and Palazzo dei Conservatori, plus the Tabularium and the Pinacoteca. 09.00-20.00. Mon closed. Guided tours for groups in English and Italian on Sat and Sun. Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna Via Francesco Crispi 24, tel. 060608, www.museiincomuneroma.it. The municipal modern art collection. 10.00-18.00. Mon closed. MACRO Via Reggio Emilia 54, tel. 060608, www.macro.roma.museum. The city’s collection of contemporary art, plus temporary exhibition space. Via Reggio Emilia 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Also MACRO Future, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4,

private museums Casa di Goethe Via del Corso 18, tel. 0632650412, www.casadigoethe.it. Museum dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 10.00-18.00. Mon closed. Doria Pamphilj Gallery Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Via del Corso 305, tel. 066797323, www.doriapamphilj.it. Residence of the Doria Pamphilj family, it contains the family’s private art collection, which includes a portrait by Velasquez,

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ROSA RAME: SALVATOR ROSA 10 April-29 June This exhibition is dedicated solely to the work of Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), comprising some 100 etchings, 14 plaster casts and three drawings from the collection of the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. The graphic works by Rosa are supplemented by a series of archival documents from various prestigious libraries, relating to important periods of the Neapolitan artist’s career. Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Via della Stamperia 6, tel. 06699801, www.grafica.beniculturali.it.

John Stanmeyer’s World Press Photo winner at Museo di Roma in Trastevere.

exhibitions MICHELANGELO. DIFFICOLTA’ E VOLI DI UN ARTISTA UNIVERSALE 28 May-14 Sept On the 450th anniversary of the death of Michelangelo, an exhibition traces the life and work of the great Florentine master. On display are drawings, paintings, sculptures and architectural models, as well as a selection of signed documents including letters and poems. Capitoline Museums, Piazza del Campidoglio, tel. 060608, www.museicapitolini.org.

Michelangelo’s Madonna della Scala at the Capitoline Museums.

L’Accademia di Platone by Salvator Rame at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica.

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WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2014 2-23 May Each year an independent jury at the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam selects images for this prestigious recognition of international photojournalism. Among the 53 photographs from 25 countries on show is the winning entry by American John Stanmeyer. His image depicts a group of migrants on a beach in Djibouti, holding their telephones towards a moonlit sky to receive a signal to reach their relations in neighbouring Somalia. Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza S. Egidio 1B, tel. 065816563, www.museodiromaintrastevere.it. WIM WENDERS: URBAN SOLITUDE 18 April-6 July German photographer and film director Wim Wenders presents an exhibition of photographs that focus on the solitude and desolation of urban life. The exhibition comprises 25 images, each of which are accompanied by haikus penned by the artist. The last time Wenders exhibited in Rome was in 2006 at the Scuderie del Quirinale. Palazzo Incontro, Via dei Prefetti 22, tel. 0697276614, www.fandangoincontro.it.

VEDUTISTI TEDESCHI A ROMA TRA IL XVIII E IL XIX SECOLO 9 April-28 Sept A selection of about 80 landscapes by German artists from the 18th and 19th centuries. The paintings depict Roman ruins and monuments as well as country scenes from surrounding towns and villages such as Nemi, Tivoli and Lake Albano. Most of the painters in the exhibition were connected to Angelika Kauffmann, the 18th-century neoclassical painter who regularly entertained artists and intellectuals at her home on Via Sistina. The works come from the extensive collection of prints and drawings at the Museo di Roma and concludes the Luoghi Comuni series which has featured Rome landscapes by French and British artists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Piazza di S. Pantaleo 10, tel. 060608. IMPRESSIONISTI DANESI IN ABRUZZO 1 April-2 June Almost a century ago the Abruzzo region was hit by the devastating Avezzano earthquake that destroyed the town and claimed over 30,000 casualties. Among the earthquake’s many victims was the mountain village of Civita d’Antino which, for over 30 years, had been home to a Scandinavian artists’ colony. The Hans Christian Andersen Museum displays around 50 paintings by these plein-air Nordic artists, more than a century after their work was first exhibited at Rome’s Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (GNAM) in 1911. Museo H.C. Andersen, Via P. S. Mancini 20, tel. 063129089, www.museoandersen.beniculturali.it. FORMA E VITA DI UNA CITTÀ MEDIEVALE. LEOPOLI-CENCELLE 3 April-27 July Archaeological artefacts from LeopoliCencelle, a mediaeval city founded during the reign of Pope Leo IV (847855). The new city was built to protect the citizens of Civitavecchia from Sara-

cen raids along the Tyrrhenian coast during the ninth century. The exhibition reconstructs the different historical stages of Cencelle which was rediscovered 20 years ago by experts from universities in Rome, Chieti, Tuscia and Perugia. Mercati di Traiano, Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Via Quattro Novembre 94, tel. 060608, www.mercatiditraiano.it. MARION GREENSTONE. POP ART A NEW YORK 1960-1970 16 March-25 May The Museo Carlo Bilotti presents 14 Pop Art works by Brooklyn artist Marion Greenstone (1925-2005) whose contribution to the art world has only been recognised in recent years. The works on show are from the 1960s and cover Greenstone’s extensive oeuvre from her early abstract expressionist work to her final hyper-realism stage. Greenstone studied and painted in Italy for a couple of years in the mid-1950s and the works on show come from the private collection of her sister. Museo Carlo Bilotti - Aranciera, Viale Fiorello La Guardia 4, tel. 060608, www.museocarlobilotti.it.

STILL SHOWING ANDY WARHOL 18 April-28 Sept The works of Andy Warhol, a leading exponent of the American Pop Art movement, come to Rome following a recent showing at Milan’s Palazzo Reale. The exhibition features over 150 works, comprising paintings, photographs and sculptures from the collection of Peter Brant. The works on display range from Warhol’s early drawings right up to his Last Supper series, first presented in Milan in 1987 in what was to be his last exhibition before his death that same year. Other works include self-portraits, Electric Chairs, his portrait of Mao and the famous Blue Shot Marilyn, bearing a visible restoration where a friend of the artist fired a pistol at the canvas in 1964. The exhibition also includes some lesser-known works such as a series of Polaroids never exhibited before in Europe. Fondazione Roma Museo Palazzo Cipolla, Via del Corso 320, tel. 066786209, www. fondazioneromamuseo.it. HOGARTH, REYNOLDS, TURNER. PITTURA INGLESE VERSO LA MODERNITA’ 15 April-20 July This exhibition examines the development of 18th-century British painting and offers a selection of nearly 100 paintings by the most significant British painters of the time. The works by Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Stubbs,

Mountain landscape with children by Gad Frederik Clement at Impressionisti Danesi.

Constable and Turner are on loan from major art institutions in London. Palazzo Sciarra, Via Marco Minghetti 22, (corner Via del Corso), tel. 06697645599, www.fondazioneromamuseo.it. FRIDA KAHLO 20 March-13 July This exhibition dedicated to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is likely to be among the biggest shows in Rome this year. This major exhibition explores her paintings as well as her relationship with the artistic movements of the time, from Mexican Modernism to international Surrealism. The exhibition comprises some of her most celebrated works, on loan from Mexico, Europe and the US, and also includes a selection of photographic portraits of the artist. Scuderie del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio 16, tel. 639967500, www. scuderiequirinale.it. See cover and article page 5.

Tempio di Ercole by Friedrich Wilhelm Gmelin at the Vedutisti Tedeschi exhibition.

MUSÉE D’ORSAY CAPOLAVORI 22 Feb-8 June This exhibition showcases the work of late 19th-century French masters from 1848 to 1914. The 70 paintings on show include works by Corot, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Seurat, Sisley and Van Gogh. Complesso del Vittoriano, Via S. Pietro in Carcere, tel. 06678664. MAFAI-KOUNELLIS LA LIBERTÀ DEL PITTORE 21 Feb-1 June The works of Roman painter Mario Mafai (1902-1965) alongside an installation by Rome-based Greek artist Jannis Kounellis, who reinterprets Mafai’s later

Epigraph inscribed to Pope Leo V at the Leopoli-Cencelle exhibition. 7 May 2014 | Wanted in Rome

Pompidou, Paris) and Femme de Venise V (private collection). Galleria Borghese, Piazzale del Museo Borghese 5, tel. 068413979, www.galleriaborghese.it.

PASOLINI ROMA 15 April-20 July The curators’ approach to this touring exhibition is to present Pasolini as an artist and intellectual of current European relevance, committed to defending regional languages such as Catalan as early as 1947 – when its use was forbidden by the Franco regime – and in his dialogue with French intellectuals such as Sartre, Barthes, Godard. The exhibition presents an overview of Pasolini’s life and works over three decades, through a vast array of photographs; excerpts of filmed interviews, newsreels, feature films; a wealth of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, novels, screenplays, articles, letters to friends and intellectuals; paintings and drawings by Pasolini, and works by his favourite artists, such as Morandi, Zigaina, Mafai, De Pisis. It also traces, through audiovisual documents, the difficulties Pasolini had with conservative and reactionary sectors of the public opinion and with Italian civil and religious institutions, which led to 33 court cases brought against him during his lifetime. Pasolini’s relationship with Rome is examined in detail through a series of maps of the city spanning the 25 years of his life in Rome (1950-75), with photographs identifying the locations where he shot his films, set his novels, and met intellectuals and friends. These biographical and cultural routes are also made available through a dedicated website, www.pasoliniroma.com, that offers an interactive map with text in five languages. Each of the six sections of the exhibition includes a looped video projection by French film-maker and critic Alain Bergala, depicting places related to Pasolini, the most arresting being the views of the sea from the villa of Pasolini and Moravia at Sabaudia, and the beach of the Idroscalo at Ostia, where the poet was murdered on 2 November 1975. Pasolini Roma is conceived by Alain Bergala with Catalan film historian Jordi Balló and the late Gianni Borgna, former Rome councillor for culture. It is produced by Palazzo delle Esposizioni in collaboration with the Centre of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, www pasoliniroma.com. Jacopo Benci

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Andy Warhol’s Mao at Palazzo Cipolla.

paintings. The Kounellis installation is on show with 40 of Mafai’s paintings from 1928-1964. Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera, Viale Fiorello La Guardia 4, tel. 060608, www.museocarlobilotti.it. GLI ETRUSCHI E IL MEDITERRANEO LA CITTA’ DI CERVETERI 15 April-20 July Exhibition dedicated to Cerveteri, an Etruscan stronghold in northern Lazio, about 50 km from Rome. The exhibition spans almost ten centuries of history during the first millenium BC and examines how Cerverteri became one of the major powers of the Mediterranean, before being absorbed by the nascent Roman empire in the first century AD. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, tel. 0639967500, www.palazzoesposizioni.it. ALMA-TADEMA E I PITTORI DELL’800 INGLESE 16 Feb-5 June Sensual nymphs and nudes, romantic mythology, sorcery and fairytales are depicted in the exhibition’s 50 paintings by well-known Pre-Raphaelite painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John William Waterhouse, as well as works by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones and Albert J. Moore. The works are from the Pérez Simón collection and the exhibition comes to Rome in between showings in Paris and Madrid. Chiostro del Bramante, Via della Pace, tel. 06916508451, www.chiostrodelbramante.it. GIACOMETTI LA SCULTURA 4 Feb-15 June Billed as the largest exhibition of works by Alberto Giacometti ever held in Italy. Among the works are Femme qui marche II (Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice), Buste de Diego (Centre

RODIN IL MARMO, LA VITA 18 Feb-25 May A major exhibition of 60 marble works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The Rome show follows its successful presentation at Palazzo Reale in Milan. The exhibition was created with the Musée Rodin in Paris and takes place in parallel with the Rodin exhibition at GNAM. Terme di Diocleziano, Viale Enrico de Nicola 79, tel. 0639967700. ATTRAVERSO RODIN SCULTURA ITALIANA DEL PRIMO NOVECENTO 11 Feb-30 May The influence of Auguste Rodin on early 20th-century Italian sculpture began with the acclaim he achieved at the Venice Biennale in 1901 and continued over subsequent decades. The exhibition includes works by Italian sculptors in the collection of GNAM, including Medardo Rosso, who both admired and clashed with Rodin, as well as a selection of works from public and private collections. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (GNAM), Viale delle Belle Arti 131, tel. 06322981, www.gnam.beniculturali.it.

music Rome’s classical music season is coming to an end but during the summer there are numerous musical events in outdoor spaces around the city. For a more detailed list visit the musical associations’ websites. Auditorium Conciliazione www.auditoriumconciliazione.it, Accademia di S. Cecilia www. santacecilia.it, Accademia Filarmonica di Roma www.filarmonicaromana.org, Auditorium Parco della Musica, www. auditorium.com and Wanted in Rome’s festival listings on these pages.

ACCADEMIA FILARMONICA ROMANA

Via Flaminia 118, tel. 063201752, www. filarmonicaromana.org (see different venues for performances) KATIA AND MARIELLE LABEQUE 29 May This concert by the Labeque sisters on two pianos and Gonzalo Grau percussion with music by Gershwin, Glass and Bernstein closes the winter season. The French sisters became famous when their recording of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue sold

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JAN LISIECKI 28 May A recital of Chopin’s music by the 19-year-old Canadian for his debut at S. Cecilia. The New York Times has described Lisiecki as a pianist who makes every note count, and despite his age he is already recognised for the maturity of his interpretations. He has been recording for Deutsche Grammaphon since he was 15.

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Cellist Mario Brunello for Accademia S. Cecilia.

Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki debuts for Accademia S. Cecilia.

over half a million copies. Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano.

ACCADEMIA S. CECILIA

S. Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Music, Viale P. De Coubertin 30, tel. 06802411, www.santacecilia.it

Music from Sonic Boom by Uri Craine and Han Bennink for Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti.

Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire plays at Rock in Roma.

American heavy metal band Metallica comes to Rome.

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PERFORMANCES BY S. CECILIA STUDENTS 8-30 May Throughout May S. Cecilia students and their teachers give public performances on their chosen instruments: viola 11 May, piano 14 May, violin 15 May, cello 19-20 May, chamber music 24-25 May, flute 30 May. STABAT MATER LES DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES BY POULENC 10-13 May Two mystical pieces by Poulenc. His Stabat Mater was written in 1950 after the sudden death of his friend Christian Bérard. Les Dialogues des Carmelites (1956) relates the true story of the execution of 16 nuns during the French Revolution. Poulenc was once described as “half monk, half delinquent” and often found it difficult to reconcile his faith with his transgressive lifestyle. KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN 20 May Zimerman is best known for his recitals of music by Chopin, Schumann and Brahms. Here he plays Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas, opus 109, 110, and 111. MANFRED HONECK MARIO BRUNELLO 24-27 May The Austrian conductor returns to S. Cecilia to lead the orchestra in a programme of Romantic music by Johann Strauss, Maiskovsky and Tchaikovsky with Mario Brunello cello.

Lungotevere Flaminio 50, tel. 063610051, www.concertiiuc.it (Concerts are in the Aula Magna of La Sapienza University) URI CAINE AND HAN BENNINK 27 May This jazz concert with pianist Uri Caine and percussionist Han Bennink playing music from Sonic Boom, their album of live improvisations released in 2012. This is the last concert in the IUC season.

live music PAT METHENY 18 June The Grammy Award-winning American jazz guitarist and composer comes to Rome this summer. Metheny’s musical style incorporates progressive and contemporary jazz, Latin jazz and jazz fusion. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Via Pietro de Coubertin, www.auditorium.com. ARCADE FIRE 23 June Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire plays in Rock in Roma. Since coming together in 2001 the group has won numerous high-profile musical accolades and is known for hit albums such as Funeral, The Suburbs, and Reflektor. METALLICA 1 July The Rome concert by heavy metal legends Metallica is the only Italian date on the Californian band’s upcoming European tour, and comes five years after their last concert in Rome. Fans can vote for the concert setlist on the Metallica website by choosing 17 songs among the 140 from the group’s three-decade career. Rock in Roma, Ippodromo delle Capannelle, Via Appia Nuova 1245, www. rockinroma.com.

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MAGGIO MUSICALE 29 April-4 July The first good news about Maggio Musicale festival is that it is still with us, with a new organisation and a life-saving injection of state funding. The second is that the city’s new theatre, Nuova Teatro dell’Opera di Firenze (Viale Fratelli Rosselli 1), will host most of the concerts, lectures and dance events, although not the opera programme (see Opera section) this season. More good news it that the dance section, MaggioDa, which was in danger of being axed, now has a new director Davide Bombana and its annual programme will be managed by an external company. For full of programme see www. operadifirenze.it.

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FESTIVAL SUONA FRANCESE 20 March-30 June The initiative showcasing French and Italian contemporary music returns for its seventh consecutive year although the 80 concerts scheduled mark a decrease from the 130 last year. Events take place in about 40 locations in Italy, many in and around Rome. This year the theme is Spécial musique romantique francaise. Highlights include performances by French musician Pierre-Yves Macé at Teatro S. Leonardo in Bologna (16 May), French band La Femme at Planet Roma (5 June), and Amadou & Mariam, the blind musical duo from Mali at Fiesole (26 June). For information www.institutfrancaisitalia.com. THIS IS FOOD 24-25 May Described as Rome’s first festival dedicated to pop cuisine This is Food returns with some of the most interesting and innovative exponents of the capital’s culinary scene. The aim of the project is to ignore the Michelin-starred chefs and expensive restaurants, and concentrate on the search for original and creative cuisine from funky new food start-ups. The first day offers aperitivi until late and continues on Sunday from brunch until midnight, all of which can be enjoyed on the building’s large outdoor terraces. Officine Farneto di Roma, Via dei Monti della Farnesina 77, www.thisisrome.it/thisisfood. FESTIVAL VILLA ADRIANA 18 June-15 July Although the music, theatre and dance programmes do not start until

mid June the first event of the festival (which is back again after an internval of two seasons) is the exhibition Adriano e La Grecia at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli until 2 November. Some 20 sculptures that have never been loaned from Greek museums before are on show, along with works from Hadrian’s Villa. Highlights of the festival include a new play by Emma Dante (18-19 June), the Martha Graham Dance Company (25 June), Ute Lemper (1 July) Carolyn Carsen (3 July), the Netherlands Dance Theater 2 (10-11 July). More details in the 5 June edition of Wanted in Rome. Some events will be at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and others at Villa Adriana in Tivoli. FESTIVAL PLANNING For those who want to plan ahead, the Ravenna festival opens on 5 June to celebrate its 25th anniversary (www. ravennafestival.org). Verona opens on 20 June (www.arena.it), followed by Ravello on 21 June (www.ravellofestival.com) and Spoleto on 27 June (www.festivalspoleto.com). We shall bring you highlights of these festivals in the June edition of Wanted in Rome.

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SERATA PETIT 28 May-20 June Rolan Petit’s two choreographies Le Jeune homme et la Mort and Pink Floyd Ballet. Music by J.S Bach and Pink Floyd. Roberto Bolle dances in Petit’s best known work Le Jeune homme et la Mort on 28 and 29 May and Ivan Vasiliev on 30 May, 1, 4, 5, 7 June. Petit’s Pink Floyd Ballet dates back to 1972, but it wasn’t until 2009 that it arrived at La Scala where it was an immediate hit, with its combination classical ballet techniques to music by the English rock group, Pink Floyd. Teatro alla Scala, Piazza all Scala, www.teatroallascala.org. DON QUIXOTE 11 May By the Ukraine Ballet Academy with Aleksandra Timofeeva and Mikhail Martynyuk. Don Quixote was choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus for the Ballet of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre in 1869. There have been numerous reworkings since (this one is by Moldavian choreographer Egor Scepaciov) but all are based on the original. Teatro Arcimboldi, Viale dell’ Innovazione 20, teatroarcimboldi.it.

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Mali musicians Amadou & Mariam at Fiesole for Festival Suona Francese.

FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DELLA DANZA ATERBALLETTO 27-28 May Italy’s prestigious contemporary dance company Aterballetto in workwithinwork, a William Forsythe classic to music by Luciano Berio, which was first performed in Italy only last year. Rain Dogs is a recent choreography by Johan

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Pink Floyd Ballet by Rolan Petit at La Scala.

Inger of the Nederlands Dans Theater to music of the album of the same name by Tom Waits. It was first performed by Aterballetto last October at Reggio Emilia. Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Fabriano da Gentile 17, www.teatroolimpico.it. LA BELLA ADDORMENTATA TEATRO DELL’OPERA 23 May-1 June Tchaikovsky’s classical ballet with David Garforth conducting. The choreography is by Canadian dancer turned choreographer Paul Chalmer, who has often worked with the ballet company of the Opera di Roma. The part of Princess Aurora is danced by Jurgita Dronina, principal dancer of the Het Nationale Ballet of the Netherlands. Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli 7, www. operadiroma.it. HIEROS GAMOS - SACRO VINCOLO 26 June By the young Italian choreographer Ashai Lombardo Arop with the EtnoContemporary Dance Company in her new work Hieros Gamos with music by Michele Maione, commissioned by the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. Giardini Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Via Flaminia 118.

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FOR FESTIVAL MAGGIO MUSICALE TRISTAN UND ISOLDE BY RICHARD WAGNER 30 April-11 May The opening opera in the Festival Maggio Musicale is conducted as always by Zubin Metha. It is a new production directed by Stefan Poda. Tristan und Isolde contains all the favourite themes of the Romantic period, love, death and the darkness of night, but it is often considered a landmark in the development of 20th-century classical music. The part of Tristan is sung by Torsten Kerl and Isolde by Liobe Braun. The opera is in German. Teatro Comunale, Corso Italia 16, www.operadifirenze.it. FOR FESTIVAL MAGGIO MUSICALE L’AMOUR DES TROIS ORANGES BY PROKOFIEV 1-7 June A new production. Conducted by Juraj Valcuha and directed by Alessandro Talevi. This often-misunderstood opera was first staged in Florence in 1979 in Italian, but returns in its origi-

RainDogs for Festival Internazionale della Danza at Teatro Olimpico. Photo A. Anceschi.

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Il Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, giunto alla sua 77a edizione, sembra essere tornato agli antichi splendori per ciò che concerne i titoli e gli interpreti operistici. Da segnalare subito è l’Opening Gala (10 maggio) che propone una messa in scena del IV atto di Otello di Giuseppe Verdi e del I atto di Tosca di Giacomo Puccini con un cast di cantanti famosi: Gregory Kunde e Maria Agresta per il primo titolo e per il secondo Fiorenza Cedolins, Marco Berti e Ambrogio Maestri. In mezzo ci saranno i balletti La Valse di Maurice Ravel e After the rain di Arvo Pärt, che prevedono la partecipazione straordinaria dell’etoile Alessandra Ferri. Sul podio Zubin Mehta. Secondo appuntamento è l’opera in forma di concerto Roberto Devereux di Gaetano Donizetti (18 e 20 maggio), nel ruolo protagonistico di Elisabetta I Mariella Devia che così completa il cosiddetto “ciclo Tudor” formato anche da Anna Bolena e Maria Stuarda che il soprano ligure ha già cantato rispettivamente nel 2012 e nel 2013 a Firenze suscitando grande entusiasmo. La parte di Elisabetta è di notevole difficoltà perché oltre all’abilità tecnica nell’eseguire un canto virtuosistico ardito, richiede all’interpretare la capacità di dare senso e calore a un fraseggio teso e vibrante. Con Mariella Devia negli altri ruoli principali Celso Albelo (Roberto Devereux), Chiara Amarù (Sara) e Gabriele Viviani (Nottingham), dirige Paolo Arrivabeni. Altra opera in programma ma questa volta in forma scenica è di Sergej Prokof’ev (1-7 giugno), allestita dal sudafricano (ma di origine italiana) Alessandro Talevi reduce dal successo di un Rigoletto in abiti moderni e ambientato in una discoteca, proposto a Fano e ad Ancona appena due mesi fa. L’amour des trois oranges è presentata nella versione originale francese che fu data a Chicago nel 1921, mentre in russo, così che ne fosse apprezzato l’arguto gioco linguistico, fu proposta a Leningrado cinque anni dopo. È un lavoro meta-teatrale che ironizza sulle regole e sulle usanze del melodramma ottocentesco con una musica che beffardamente strizza l’occhio alle sonorità musorgskiane e wagneriane, passando per citazioni del teatro di Puccini, tardoromantico e verista. La direzione d’orchestra sarà di Juraj Valčuha che il pubblico italiano già conosce per La Bohème data a Venezia nel 2011 e per il terzo atto di Parsifal presentato a Parma nella Pasqua dell’anno passato.

L’Elisir D’Amore by Donizetti at Rome’s opera house.

In scena ancora due recite di Tristan und Isolde di Richard Wagner (7 e 11 maggio), l’opera inaugurale di questo 77° Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, che è diretta da Zubin Mehta e allestita da Stefano Poda curatore anche delle scene, dei costumi, delle luci e della coreografia. Gli interpreti della coppia del titolo sono il tenore Torsten Kerl e il mezzosoprano Lioba Braun. Il Teatro alla Scala presenta Elektra di Richard Strauss (18 maggio-10 giugno) per la messa in scena di Patrice Chéreau ripresa da Vincent Huguet. Il regista è morto lo scorso ottobre e questo è stato il suo ultimo allestimento operistico presentato al Festival di Aix-en-Provence 2013. La Scala ora lo ripropone come omaggio all’arte di Chéreau. Si tratta di uno spettacolo che trasferisce la reggia di Argo, di antica ellenica memoria, in un ambiente di classicheggiante austerità ed eleganza rinascimentale, dove i personaggi si muovono secondo una recitazione fatta di sguardi, gesti e atteggiamenti ricercati e studiati, che rivelano gli stati d’animo di personaggi nevrotici, al limite della follia, chiusi in un mondo crudele e senza via di scampo (nel rispetto delle intenzioni di Strauss e del librettista von Hofmannsthal). Alla Scala si esibirà lo stesso cast di Aix-en-Provence: il direttore Esa-Pekka Salonen (la cui lettura analitica ha conquistato pubblico e critica) le cantanti Evelyn Herlitzius (Elektra), Waltraud Meier (Klytämnestra) e Adrianne Pieczonka (Chrysothemis) con il tenore Tom Randle nell’ambiguo ruolo del “traditore” Aegisth. Cambia invece il baritono che sostiene la parte del “vendicatore” Orest: sarà René Pape. Paolo Di Nicola

nal French version. See more details in Opera Notes.

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ELEKTRA BY RICHARD STRAUSS 18 May-10 June The Strauss interpretation of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, on a libretto by Hoffmannsthal. Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and directed by Patrice Chéreau, who died last autumn. Klytramestra is sung by Waltraub Meier, Elektra by Evelyn Herlitzius and Oreste by René Pape. It is a co-production with the Aix en Provence Festival, New York’s Met, the Finnish National Opera, Staatsoper Under den Linden and Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona. Teatro alla Scala, Piazza alla Scala, www.teatroallascala.org.

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L’ELISIR D’AMORE BY DONIZETTI 8-14 May This is the 2011 production, which saw the opera debut of the Neapolitan playwright Ruggero Cappuccio. Donizetti’s light and sunny opera is conducted by Donato Renzetti, a master of opera buffa. It has a young cast with Rosa Feola, Francesco Meli, Antonio Poli, Alessandro Luongo and Adrian Sampetrean. Donizetti wrote L’Elisir D’Amore, which is still one of the world’s most frequently performed operas, in six weeks in 1832. Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli, www.operaroma.it.

Evelyn Herlitzius stars as Elektra at La Scala. Photo Pascal Victor.

Theatre JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR 18 April-1 June The Teatro Sistina celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Italian version of

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the horrors of war. Founded in 1939, the Belgian Academy in Rome celebrates its 75th anniversary on 8 May. Academia Belgica, Via Omero 8, tel. 0620398631, www.academiabelgica.it.

The McKim Mead and White Building at the American Academy in Rome.

the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Teatro Sistina, Via Sistina 129, tel. 064200711, www.ilsistina.it. BILL BAILEY 25 May British comedian, musician, actor and television presenter Bill Bailey comes to Rome for the first time with his awardwinning stand-up show Qualmpeddlar. Best known for his appearances on television progammes such as Have I got News for You and Nevermind the Buzzcocks, Bailey is one of the UK’s top comedians. 20.00. Teatro Parioli Peppino De Filippo, Via Giosuè Borsi 20, tel. 068073040, wwww.teatropariolipeppinodefilippo.it. ROME’S COMEDY CLUB 30 May Rome’s Comedy Club presents its penultimate show before the summer, with Marsha De Salvatore, Kissy Dugan, Liz Knight, Michael Monkhouse, Francesco De Carlo, Gabriel Gougsa and Ryan Costello. The show takes place at Skené where, in addition to comedy, the audience can enjoy restaurant service and seating. See www.romescomedyclub.tumblr.com or tel. 065755561 or 3921505171. Skené, Via Francesco Carletti 5 (beside Metro Piramide). THE ENGLISH THEATRE OF ROME 1-8 June The English Theatre of Rome presents its annual original monologue night, introducing new artists and new writings under the theme The straw that broke the camel’s back, with audience participation. The theme focuses on each individual breaking-point, and is described as a fiesty and fun evening with numerous intrepretations of the old Arabian proverb. 1 June 17.00, 20.00. 5 June 20.00, 8 June 17.00, 20.00. For tickets email rometheatre@yahoo.com, tel. 066879419 (after 16.00) or text 348/935562. Teatro l’Arciliuto, Piazza Montevecchio 5, www. rometheatre.com.

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ROME SAVOYARDS, PLAYS IN ROME 10-15 June The Rome Savoyards and Plays in Rome present The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco and Death Knocks by Woody Allen. The double bill of comic one-act plays is performed in English and directed by Sandra Provost. 10-13 June 20.30, 14-15 June 17.30. Teatro S. Genesio, Via Podgora 1, off Viale Mazzini, tel: 347-8248661, www.teatrosangenesio.it.

Academies AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME 21 May-29 June Building an Idea: McKim, Mead & White and the American Academy in Rome, 1914-2014 The Academy celebrates the centenary of its main building with an exhibition of drawings, plans, photographs and other archival material relating to the McKim, Mead & White building, the only European project designed by the architectural firm of the same name. Curated by architectural historian Marida Talamona, the exhibition outlines the design, construction and early critical reception of the building, and includes recently-resurfaced designs from Italian state archives. American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, tel. 065852151, www. aarome.org. BELGIAN ACADEMY 3 April-3 July The Belgian Academy present Torso, Opus 4, nr. 2, an exhibition of works by young sculptor Athar Jaber. Growing up in Florence to Iraqi parents, Jaber was keenly aware of the suffering of his relations in Iraq during the Gulf War whose disturbing images he viewed on television as a child. By contrast Florence was a haven of Renaissance palaces and masterpieces. As a result his mutilated sculptures offer a sort of beautiful battleground between classicism and

BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME 14 May. The Mausoleum of Hadrian rediscovered. A new reading of the structure, lecture by Paolo Vitti from Rome’s Sapienza University. 18.00-19.30. 16 May-4 June. La Sardegna di Thomas Ashby. A photographic exhibition of images of Sardinia taken between 1908 and 1912 by British archaeologist Thomas Ashby. 22 May. A new humanism. A conversation with the Sri Lankan-British designer and architect Cecil Balmond, and the American “starchitect” Daniel Libeskind. Moderated by Milanese architect Stefano Boeri, this is the fifth event in the Meeting Architecture: Architecture and the Creative Process programme. 18.00-19.30. 23 May. A recital of English and Italian lute and guitar songs by Felicity Rogers, singer, and Robin Thodey, lute and guitar. 19.00-20.00. British School at Rome, Via Gramsci 61, tel. 063264939, www.bsr.ac.uk. CASA DI GOETHE 21 March-18 May Casa di Goethe presents ©Isolde Ohlbaum. Foto 1975-2014, an exhibition of photographs by German photographer Isolde Ohlbaum. The exhibition features portraits of German and Italian writers such as Peter Handke and Roberto Saviano, as well as authors affiliated with the Casa di Goethe. It also includes portraits of celebrities such as David Bowie and Andy Warhol, and stars of German cinema such as Werner Fassbinder and Klaus Kinski. Ohlbaum is considered one of the most important photographers of the artistic and literary world. Casa di Goethe, Via del Corso 18, tel. 0632650412, www.casadigoethe.it.

Artur Jaber’s Torso Opus 4, nr. 2 at the Belgian Academy.

WATER SPORTS NEAR ROME Ready to make a splash this spring? Rome and its environs offer many aquatic activities, both above and below water, which will help you do just that. Here are a few suggestions. BOATERS Canoa Kayak Roma Assex (Via A. Poerio 85, tel. 0658320923) offers both canoeing and kayaking lessons and can also accommodate people with disabilities. Centro Nautico Turano (www.lagoturano.com) will put the wind in your sails. Located just over an hour from Rome near Rieti, the centre offers sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and skiing on Lago Turano. BOARDERS AND SKIIERS The Parco del Tevere Watersports Complex (Via Tiberina km 8,300) has two private, artificial lakes and topnotch watercraft for creating the perfect water skiing and wakeboarding conditions. Open all day, all year. For those who love cresting a wave, there is the annual July Surf Expo at the S. Severa beach just outside Rome. Last year’s 15th edition drew

over 30,000 visitors during the threeday event. Participants can choose from free surfing courses, stand-up paddleboarding (SUP), windsurfing, surfrowing – a combination between surfing and canoeing recently introduced to Italy – and flyboarding, where wakeboarding takes flight. If you can’t wait for the Surf Expo, stop by Naloo Surf at Marina di Palo (www.naloosurf. it) to learn how to windsurf. For kitesurfing head to Talamone Kitesurf Windsurf Center on Monte Argentario near Porto S. Stefano (www. twkc.it). There are also several shops for your surfing needs allyear-round, including Point Break in Fregene (www. pointbreakfregene.com), which teaches surfing, SUP and many other water sports for all ages and skill levels. Dna Boards at Via Massaciuccoli 77 (tel. 0686329540) can help you find windsurfing, kiting and surfing equipment to meet your needs.

By Sarah Barchus velopment dive centre located on Via Tuscolana, prides itself on taking divers to the best sites near Rome such as S. Marinella, the Ventotene and Ponza islands, Lake Capo d’Acqua, Secce di Tor Paterno, a marine protected area, and many other underwater hotspots. ADVENTURERS If you don’t mind going a little out of Rome to get in the water, consider heading to Lake Bracciano or Lake Albano, where motorised boat traffic is prohibited, making them serene locations for swimming, sailing, windsurfing and paddle boating. RAFTING For those not afraid of getting wet, and maybe a little wild, Umbria’s Rafting Marmore Falls (www. raftingmarmore. com), less than an hour from Rome, is the place to go. The operation guides groups of six down the Nera River through fourth degree rapids. Still sound too tame? Try hydrospeeding, essentially aquatic tobogganing, for a twohour thrill ride. But if you prefer a more relaxing experience, take the easy rafting tour, designed for people of all ages.

DIVERS There are a couple of PADI Five Star Dive Centres in Rome, including Diving Blue World at Via Borghesano Lucchese, tel. 339/2162633. Acquazzurra Diving (www.acquazzurra.it), a PADI Five Star instructor de7 May 2014 | Wanted in Rome

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room, terrace, furnished kitchen, car-port. Rent €2.300. Tel. 068610871, imm.edwards@ gmail.com.

MANZONI AREA. Furnished flat for single person, €500 monthly plus expenses. Minimum 6 months. Apply at murray771@ hotmail.com.

PIAZZA DI SPAGNA - PENTHOUSE IMMOBILIARE. 5th floor, completely remodeled, living room, eat-in kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a balcony. €4.000. Tel. 065919125. info@penthouseimmobiliare.it.

MONTEVERDE VECCHIO / PAMPHILI. Splendid 130 sqm, totally redone, 3 bedrooms, large balconies, garage, cantina, furnished or unfurnished, quiet, near the park. €1.600. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@ virgilio.it. MONTEVERDE VECCHIO. Renting two furnished rooms, hall, cupboard, service. Tel +39065812742. MONTEVERDE. 90 sqm, 3rd floor (top), lift, furnished, living room with open kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, balconies. Air conditioning, parquet. Monthly rent €2.000. Other excellent properties on www. propertyint.net. Property International tel. 065743170. MONTEVERDE. 450-sqm villa on 3 levels in compound with pool, tennis, football, newly restored, semi-furnished, large living room with dining area, study, 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, fantastic furnished kitchen, garden, parking. Monthly rent €5.500. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint.net. Property International tel. 065743170. MONTEVERDE VECCHIO, VILLA PAMPHILI. Monteverdevecchio, Villa Pamphili, bright, furnished apartment, 3rd floor, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, kitchen, €1.500 monthly, a.petro@libero.it tel. 0039349 4962562. MONTI PARIOLI. Beautiful, redecorated, 300-sqm apartment. 3 bedrooms, 3rd bathroom, ample living-dining room, study or 4th bedroom, furnished kitchen, maid’s quarters. Rent: €3.500. Tel. 068610871. imm.edwards@ gmail.com. MONTI PARIOLI. Close to Villa Borghese, wonderful, renovated 60 sqm, open space (2 bathrooms + 2 bedrooms + kitchen) with garden. €1.500. 1 year contract minimum. Available now! George, gcafaggi@libero.it. MONTI. Restored loft. Large living / bedroom, studio / sleeping loft. Antique ceilings, kitchen, bath. Ref 723, €1.350. Tel. 063212341. MONTI. 120 sqm, 4th floor on 2 levels with small balcony, semi-furnished, bright, living room with area, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, eat-in furnished kitchen, small balcony. €2.500. Other excellent properties on www. propertyint.net. Property International, tel. 065743170. PARIOLI. Elegant 140-sqm apartment, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living- dining

PARIOLI. Prestigious 200 sqm. apartment, air-conditioned, living room, dining room, terrace, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, built-in closets, maid’s quarters, fully-equipped kitchen, garage-box, storage-room. €3.800. Tel. 068610871. imm.edwards@gmail.com.

PONTE MILVIO. Lovely, restored apartment, top floor (4th), bedroom, guest room, 2 bathrooms, living room, kitchen, 50 sqm, € 800 monthly. Tel. 339 / 6792131, email: francesca. lugli@virgilio.it. ROME SWEET HOME - HISTORIC CENTRE. Lets to companies and private individuals. Exclusive locations. Apartments, 1 - 2 - 3 bedrooms, completely furnished, maid service, utilities included, special rates for monthly lets. www.travelbusinessapartments.it, info@romesweethome.it. Tel. 0669924091, 335 / 7713580. ROOM FOR LET NEAR S. GIOVANNI. Single room and mini apartment, near S. Maria Maggiore, metro A/B. Share the bathroom. Kitchen and washing machine. Tel. 334 / 2804248, 338 / 7911289. S. GIOVANNI. Via L. di Savoia. Partly furnished apartment, double entry, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, €3.000 monthly. Classe G 0652205391, immobiliare@eurocenterweb.it. S. SABA. Annia Faustina. Entrance, hall, kitchen, two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Furnished. €1.600 more other available. Classe G. Tel. 0652205391, immobiliare@ eurocenterweb.it. SHOP / OFFICE for rent, 6 plus 6 years, C1 / 50 sqm facing street. Tel. 3408150614. Available March. lunettamia@hotmail.com. STUDIO APARTMENT IN MONTEVERDE VECCHIO. Studio apartment in Monteverde Vecchio. Via dall’Ongaro. Completely independent without condo. Heating and air conditioning, elegantly furnished. Alarm. Close to Villa Sciarra park. Easy parking in silent private road. Tel. 3384573620, Pierluigi. lorenzi@libero.it. TESTACCIO. Testaccio, friendly neighbourhood in centro storico, elegant 70 sqm, dining room with kitchen corner, living room, bedroom, 2 bathrooms. €1,500. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@virgilio.it. TESTACCIO. 70 sqm, 2nd floor, lift, bright, quiet, furnished, living room, bedroom, bathroom, eat-in kitchen. Doorman. Monthly rent €1.000. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint.net. Property International tel. 065743170. THE BEST OF CENTRE ROME! 85 sqm, totally and finely renovated, doorman, silent, double windows; parquet, 1st floor with lift,

secure front door, spacious entrance, 2 bedrooms; 2 full bathrooms; large living / dining room; fully-equipped kitchen; large terrace with decking; independent heating; internet; TV; fully furnished; 3-18 month lease. info@plus-assistance.eu. TORRINO NORD. For rent, a smart fournished apartment of 90 sqm. With a lounge, two bedrooms, a kitchen, two bathrooms, a terrace and a balcony. €1.500. Classe G. Tel. 0652205391 immobiliare@eurocenterweb.it. TRASTEVERE, VIALE GLORIOSO. Trastevere, Viale Glorioso, elegant, bright, furnished 140-sqm apartment, 3rd floor, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living / dining room, kitchen, 2 storage rooms, air conditioning, €2.300 monthly, a.petro@libero.it, tel. 0039 349 4962562. TRASTEVERE. Sunny, restored 1 bedroom, living, study loft, kitchen, bath, facing charming piazza. Ref 1100. Tel. 063212341. €1.600. TRASTEVERE. Trastevere, lovely townhouse, country atmosphere, 3 floors, 2 bedrooms, quiet. €2.000. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@ virgilio.it. TRASTEVERE. Vicolo del Leopardo. All new, quiet street, 2 bedrooms, 4 people, medium length rent from mid May. Only foreigners. Tel. +39 346 3066626. TRASTEVERE. Bright nicely renovated 80 sqm, 7th floor, furnished, living room, spacious furnished kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 2 small balconies. Doorman in building. €1.300. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint.net. Property International, tel 065743170. TRASTEVERE. Trastevere, charming, quiet, furnished, top-floor apartment with two terraces, living, dining room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, study on the terrace, beautiful views, fifth floor, no elevator, lift for luggage to the fourth floor, minimum rental one year. Another one bedroom apartment in Monti, Via del Boschetto, €1.000 per month plus expenses. For visits please contact meerundsonne@libero.it. TRASTEVERE. Trastevere - Riari - splendid, furnished (vintage French), 2 bedroom, 3 bathroom flat w/HUGE terrace overlooking Botanical Gardens, €4.000. Immobiliare Zanni - (Bonnie) 3474009753 http://www. immobiliare.it/agenzie_immobiliari/Zanni_ Roma.html VATICAN - CASTEL S. ANGELO. Interesting cottage, open space, 3 levels, fireplace, kitchen, 2 bathrooms. Excellent neighbourhood. Quiet. €1.300. jbalsano@virgilio.it. VIA ARDEATINA WITH GARDEN. Residential, fully furnished, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, double living, large kitchen, 230 sqm garden box. Well connected. elenabarcaioli@gmail.com. VIGNA CLARA (NEAR MARYMOUNT SCHOOL). In compound (swimming-pool, tennis) beautiful 280-sqm apartment, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, separate dining room, small private garden, maid’s

quarters. Rent: €3.500. Tel. 068610871. imm. edwards@gmail.com. VIGNA CLARA. Elegant 160-sqm apartment, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living-dining room, ample balcony, furnished kitchen, maid’s quarters, garage-box, storage-space. €2.200. Tel. 068610871. imm.edwards@gmail.com.

Accommodation vacant out of town BALDUINA. Single room, with private bathroom, in apartment to share with landlady. Use of kitchen, washing machine, dining corner with TV. Near bus stop, train station, metro A. Monthly, including internet connection, room clearing and weekly change of linen and towels. Rosetta tel. 0635346098, 338 / 3666356. TIVOLI - MANDELA. 50 km from Rome, apartment: living room, bathroom, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, furnished, €250 + €40 condominium, tel. 066786400. ZAGAROLO – 20 MILES FROM ROME CENTRE. Fully furnished. In Zagarolo, 25 / 30 minutes by frequent train or bus. Beautiful apartment in Villa. 2 Bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, sitting room, garden, quiet panoramic. €900 monthly. Also within same property attractive cottage bedroom, living kitchen, another small room, bathroom, portico garden, €600 monthly. Tel. 347 / 7037894, drroversi@gmail.com.

Bed & Breakfast CASA VIVANTI B&B. Silent, comfortable, non-smoking rooms with a view, private bathrooms and all the amenities, steps away from St Peter’s. Languages spoken, tel. 3882475226.

Holiday Accommodation SUMMER RENT - JULY 2014 - MONTE ARGENTARIO. Porto Santo Stefano; smokepet-free 70 sqm-flat, 6-bed, 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom, balcony + seaview, living + kitchen area + sofabed, hotwater, washmachine, dishwasher, microwave + sat-tv + dvdplayer (multiregion), carpark included; shops@300mt. +393494909806-tl9685@ vodafone.it. UMBRIAN COUNTRYHOUSE. Charming 3-bedroom house, renovated, for short / long term rental. Rome 1 hour (Orte trains). Details: www.casamuralto.com

ties in the various European markets. Working on multinational IT Client accounts. The job involves liaison with sales, and driving business opportunities, sales, sales leads and marketing. You will be working in your native language (with some English) and in a team. Our facility is state of the art, we are an American company and our business workspace, and management methodology reflects that. Candidates must have relevant work experience in sales and / or marketing. Experience in IT sector a plus! Positions to start immediately. Competitive compensation with contract. No non-Italian residents please - must have working permit and / or work visa and reside in Rome. Please note interviews will be held in English or relevant language. If interested send CV to: jobs. rome@3d2b.com. Tel. 0697844620. https:// www.youtube.com/user/3D2BGlobal. ENGLISH MOTHER-TONGUE TEACHERS. A language school and Cambridge Esol authorised centre, is looking for qualified and experienced English teachers based in Rome. The school offers courses for all ages. Please send your CV at: didattica@languageinaction.it. Phone 0650910598. ESTABLISHED PRESTIGIOUS LANGUAGE school Rome seeks mother-tongue English teachers. Offering good weekly wage, professional environment, immediate start. Tel. 063611508, newbritishcentres@ gmail.com. INTERNATIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOL. International Primary School is looking for a qualified year 4 teacher, English mother tongue, minimum 2 years experience. Please telephone 06.8411137 or send C. V. to core. school@tiscali.it. INTERNATIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOL. International Primary School is looking for a qualified year 4 teacher, English mother tongue, minimum 2 years experience. Please telephone 068411137 or send C.V. to core. school@tiscali.it. KINDERGARDEN SEEK TEACHERS. Kindergarden La Maisonette in Via Tripolitania in Rome seeks, starting in September, possibly with a try test in July, a kindergarden English mother tongue teacher. Experience and Italian teaching certifications are a plus. Send CVs to infotripolitania@lamaisonnette.net. LOOKING FOR A COOK / HOUSEKEEPER. Looking for a cook / housekeeper on per hour basis to work for a diplomatic family in Rome. Knowledge of English an advantage. Send CV to: bambasciata@gmail.com.

BABYSITTER / TUTOR. Mothertongue, drive licence Mon-Fr 16.00-20.00 for 7 and 11 old from Sept for min 1 year. associazione. castellinaria@yahoo.it.

PARTNERSHIP IN AN IMPORTANT LANGUAGE SCHOOL OFFERED. A well established private language shool (running since 1976) aiming to expand its activity seeks partners with experience. Good opportunity. fulvioscalercio@gmail.com.

COME JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM! 3D2B is searching for business savvy representatives in the following native languages; English, French, German and/or Dutch. We are seeking excellent communicators and sales driven enthusiasts to support our client’s sales teams with opportuni-

SCHOOL NURSE NEEDED. The American Overseas School of Rome is looking for qualified, experienced nurses available for substitute employment. Must be bilingual, Italian / EU citizens or valid permit of stay for US citizens required. Please email detailed CV to jobs@aosr.org.

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TEACHERS WANTED. International company specialising in language training for business is recruiting Rome-based English teachers. Minimum requirements: native speaker with P.IVA, degree and teaching qualification, ideally at least 3 years’ teaching experience. CV to roma@linguarama. com or Tel. 0685355707. TEFL TEACHERS REQUIRED. Qualified, experienced freelance Tefl teachers required for company courses in Castelli Romani and Rome areas as from March. Applicants must have valid soggiorno. Please send CV to info@trainingclub.com. TERRAVISION GROUP SEEKS MARKETING ASSISTANT. A major European company, with headquarters in Rome and London, working in the tourism industry, is offering a fantastic opportunity for a refreshing and dynamic Marketing Assistant who is hungry to grow in a niche market. The Role: The role involves working alongside the marketing / commercial team to promote and commercialise the company’s integrated tourism services in various European cities through innovative marketing techniques and hard work. All the various aspects of marketing from communication to client management, from PR to sales, from research and statistical analysis to advertising are called upon everyday in this varied role. The Candidate • Preferably holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing / Advertising or related fields • Fluent in English and Italian, and /or at least 2 European Languages • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills • Strong analytical and organizational skills • Dedication and drive • The ability to work under pressure and adhere to tight deadlines • A quick thinker with the ability to work in teams and independently • Previous work experience in the tourism industry or an international setting is a plus • Knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications and all-round knowledge of computers and the internet. The position is based at the company’s head office in Rome, Italy and offers an excellent remuneration package, including benefits and incentive based earnings, and would commence with immediate effect. Only candidates who can already work in Rome will be considered for this position. Please do not apply for this position if you do not respond to these criteria. Interviews will be held in English and Italian to assess the criteria as stated above. Please send your covering letter stating why you are the best person for the role and your curriculum vitae to jobs@terravision.eu with Marketing Assistant stated in the subject line. TERRAVISION GROUP SEEKS MARKETING EXECUTIVE. A major European company, with headquarters in Rome and London, working in the tourism industry, is offering a fantastic opportunity for a refreshing and dynamic Marketing Executive who is hungry to grow in a niche market. The Role: The role involves working alongside the marketing / commercial team to promote and commercialise the company’s integrated tourism services in various European cities through innovative marketing techniques and lots of hard work. All the various aspects of marketing from communication to client manage-

ment, from PR to sales, from research and statistical analysis to advertising are called upon everyday in this varied role. The position is based in the company head office in Rome, Italy. The Candidate: The ideal candidate will be a new graduate in marketing or similar or a person with at least 3 / 4 years of experience in a marketing position who has lived and worked in an English speaking country. The candidate must possess an international outlook and possibly be a native English speaker. Knowledge of Italian is essential for this role and knowledge of at least two European languages is required. Excellent communication and relationshipbuilding skills will characterise the candidate as will the ability to work under immense pressure and to very tight deadlines. Dedication and drive are also fundamental qualities for this very demanding role. Precision, organisation, tenacity and quick thinking are other qualities that the ideal candidate will have and will be able to demonstrate. The candidate will also use the Microsoft Office suite perfectly and will have a good all-round knowledge of computers and the internet. Only candidates who can already work in Rome will be considered for this position. Please do not apply for this position if you do not respond to these criteria. The position offers an excellent remuneration package including benefits and incentive based earnings and would commence with immediate effect. Please send your covering letter of no more than 70 words in English, stating why you are the best person for the role and your curriculum vitae to jobs@ terravision.eu Marketing Executive stated clearly in the subject line.

resume and 2 reference contacts are to be submitted by e-mail to humanresources@ aur.edu or by fax to +390658330992. The search is aimed at candidates of both sexes, Law 903/77. Interviews will start as soon as possible and will be on-going until position is filled.

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME SEEKS ADJUNCT PROFESSOR. The American University of Rome – The Mathematics and Science program is now accepting CVs from potential Adjunct Professor candidates in the areas of College Algebra and Statistics for future teaching opportunities during the 2014-2015 academic year and beyond. Fluency or near fluency in English a must. Interested candidates should send a CV and a reference letter to facultyrecruitment@aur.edu. (Ref. ‘Mathematics’ in the subject field). Italian work papers essential. Interviews will be scheduled as soon as possible. The search is aimed at candidates of both sexes, Law 903/77.

TOUR DIRECTORS WANTED AT EF. EF Educational Tours world leader in students travel is currently seeking new Tour Directors to work in June. If you are: Fluent in English (other European languages are a plus). Knowledgeable about European culture and history. Organized. Committed to the educational value of traveling. Flexible and patient in dealing with people. At least 22 years old. Available to work in June. Familiar with London, Paris and Rome. No previous experience required: EF will provide full trainings and comprehensive support, including online websites and materials. For an application form and more information, please send an email to: linda.garofano@ ef.com Act now! We look forward to hearing from you soon. www.eftours.com.

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME SEEKS ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR. THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME is seeking a full-time Admissions Counselor to support the ES department in identifying and enrolling new students. Bachelor’s degree and demonstrated knowledge of American higher education is required: at least 1 year practical working experience in an Admissions capacity would be ideal. Bilingual English / Italian. Knowledge of and first-hand experience with different cultures. Excellent communication skills, proven ability to work both collaboratively and independently, well organized and able to set priorities. Data driven, proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications. Italian work papers and immediate availability are essential. 1 year term employment contract, renewable. Presentation letter (quote re: ES 01/2014),

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME SEEKS CANDIDATES. The Communication and English Program. The American University of Rome seeks candidates for a position as an Assistant or Associate Professor of Communication beginning in Fall 2014. The ideal candidate will have a completed Ph.D in Communication and will possess a theoretical and practical knowledge of convergent / digital communications. A specialty in one or more of the following may be an advantage: audio cultures, critical theory, cross-cultural communication, cultural commentary and criticism, digital culture, gender, globalization, posthumanities, race, semiotics, social media. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated dedication to undergraduate teaching and will be expected to advise students, lead in curriculum development, be active in scholarly pursuits, and perform department and university administrative duties. Salary and benefits commensurate with qualifications and experience. Fluency in English a must. Italian work papers essential. Applications consisting of a cover letter, CV, and contact details of three references should be sent by e-mail to facultyrecruitment@aur.edu by April 15, 2014 (ref. “Communication” in the subject field). The search is aimed at candidates of both sexes, Law 903/77.

TOURS IN ROME. Looking for outgoing people to give info to tourists in English and Spanish. Send email: montenegro201m@ yahoo.es. Tel. 393 9948175.

lessons ENGLISH LADY, OXFORD GRADUATE. English lady, Oxford University graduate, long experience, offers English lessons / conversation (adults only). Tel 068105213 / 3405161007. ITALIAN LANGUAGE COURSES. a) Part time evening classes (18.00-19.30 twice a week). b) Authorized examination center for the CILS certification (University for Foreigners of Siena ) and the «Diploma di 7 May 2014 | Wanted in Rome

Lingua Italiana “Firenze”» (Accademia Italiana di Lingua). Specific Preparation Courses. rome@scuolaleonardo.com. MOTHER-TONGUE FRENCH TEACHER. French qualified teacher. English, Italian, Spanish speaking. Loves teaching, your house or mine. Please leave telephone number on answering machine or email. Tel. 065898326; f.bessoles.roma@teletu.it.

Property for sale in town APT FOR SALE NEAR VATICAN. From owner. Sunny 2nd floor. 1 bedroom, plus living room with in-built new kitchen. Totally refurbished. 55 sqm. Near metro A and buses. Situated in typical 1930s Condominium with beautiful C garden. Contact annet@k-net.fr.

Property for sale OUT OF town LOVELY COUNTRY HOUSE near Viterbo 110 sqm finely refurbished with “terracotta” floor, wood ceiling, 45 sqm south portico + 15 sqm portico, central gas heating. 7600 sqm fenced grounds, 80 olive trees; oaks, cypresses. Automatic irrigation. Double garage, 15 sqm cellar. Trains to Rome each hour. 25 km to Tarquinia, Bolsena, Orvieto. Furnished. €299.000. Tel. 3495532203. PORTO S. STEFANO (TOSCANA). Restored nice apartment with independent entrance,

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sqm 110, beautiful terrace view on seaside. €450.000, www.internationalpoint.it. TREVIGNANO LAKE. New and aseismic semi-detached house in Trevignano / Bracciano lake ( 30 minutes far from Rome). Surrounded by a wonderful country quiet landscape, the house is 150 square metres wide with a 300 square metres private garden. The house consists of: ground floor with a sitting-room with a fireplace, a kitchen and a bathroom; first floor with two bedrooms, a bathroom and two balconies (wonderful lake view). Building constructor sells (no agency). The finishing-off has to be completed, therefore the starter price is €199.000,00 but it could raise up to €235.000,00. Phone number 3294230879 (after 20.00).

Rooms and flat shares CITY CENTRE - MONTI METRO CAVOUR. Overlooking room in 90 sqm flat, 3rd floor (no lift), kitchen and bathroom shared. €500/month + utilities (wifi, expenses cleaning). Cecilia.calvi@libero.it. LARGE SUNNY ROOM TO RENT NEAR PIAZZALE JONIO. A large, quiet, clean and fully furnished room on 3rd floor, with a small private balcony. Fully featured kitchen, a renovated bathroom, washing machine and Wifi internet connection are shared with the owner. Quite easy parking and very good connections to downtown and Porta di Roma Shopping Mall (bus 38, 80B, 80). At

a stone’s throw: Metro B Conca d’Oro, Express Bus 90 to Termini Central Station, 335 bus to Nuovo Salario Railway Station. Tidiness, cleanliness, punctuality and respect for the others are a must. €410/month all inclusive contact: anfitrite81@gmail.com. PIAZZA BOLOGNA - CENTRAL AREA. Metro B - Piazza Bologna near Piazzale delle Province and La Sapienza Univeristy: furnished room, internet, wifi, TV, in apartment to share. Use of kitchen and washingmachine. €450 (expenses and condominium fees included). Females preferred. Tel. 333 / 3848224, ziba.ajdari@gmail.com. Also short lets. TRASTEVERE - VIA DELLA LUNGARA. Large bright room with private bathroom, comfortable and well equipped + kitchen use. Including internet. Tel. 339 / 7857565. As from June 2014.

Short lets CAMPO DE’ FIORI - SPAGNA - NAVONA. Pantheon, Trastevere, Prati. Fully-furnished apartments, 1 week minimum. Many other possibilities. Tel. / fax 0648905897, info@shortletsassistance.com, www.shortletsassistance.com. PANTHEON. Nice studios, period building, new and well decorated, fully equipped kitchen corner, double / triple bedroom, bathroom, A/C or fan, internet, TV. Long-term too. Tel. 348 / 9792106, inroma@libero.it.

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numbers ASSOCIATIONS American International Club of Rome tel. 0645447625 – www.aicrome.org American Women’s Association of Rome tel. 064825268 – www.awar.org Association of British Expats in Italy britishexpatsinitaly@gmail.com Association of Malaysians in Italy tel. 389 / 1162161 – malaysiansinitaly@gmail.com Caledonian Society info@caledoniansocietyofrome.org Canadian Club of Rome canadarome@gmail.com Circolo di Cultura Mario Mieli Gay and lesbian international contact group tel. 065413985 – fax 065413971 Commonwealth Club of Rome ccrome08@gmail.com International Women’s Club of Rome tel. 0633267490 – www.pwarome.org Irish Club of Rome

irishclubofrome@gmail.com – www.irishclubofrome.com

Luncheon Club of Rome tel. 3385094448 Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums tel. 0669881814, www.vatican-patrons.org. Professional Women’s Association www.pwarome.org United Nations Women’s Guild tel. 0657053628 – unwg@fao.org www.unwgrome.multiply.com Welcome Neighbor tel. 347 / 9313040 – dearprome@tele2.it www.wnrome-homepage.blogspot.com

books The following bookshops and libraries have books in English and other languages as specified. Bibliothèque Centre Culturel Saint-Louis de France (French) Largo Toniolo 20-22, tel. 066802637 www.saintlouisdefrance.it Herder International Book Center (German) Piazza di Montecitorio 117-120, tel. 066794628 bookcentre@herder.it – www.herder.it La Librairie Française de Rome La Procure (French) Piazza S. Luigi dei Francesi 23, tel. 0668307598 www.librairiefrancaiserome.com Libreria Feltrinelli International Via V. E. Orlando 84, tel. 064827878 www.lafeltrinelli.it Libreria Quattro Fontane (international) Via delle Quattro Fontane 20/a, tel. 064814484 Libreria Spagnola Sorgente (Spanish) Piazza Navona 90, tel. 0668806950 www.libreriaspagnola.it S. Susanna Lending Library Via XX Settembre 15, tel. 064827510 Opening times: Sat & Sun 10.00-12.30 Tues 10.00-13.00, Wed 15.00-18.00, Fri 13.00-16.00 The Almost Corner Bookshop Via del Moro 45, tel. 065836942 The Anglo American Bookshop Via della Vite 102, tel. 066795222 The Open Door Bookshop (second hand books – English, French, German, Italian) Via della Lungaretta 23, tel. 065896478 www.books-in-italy.com

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Atac (Rome bus, metro and tram) tel. 800431784, www.atac.roma.it Ciampino airport tel. 06794941, www.adr.it Fiumicino airport tel. 0665951, www.adr.it Taxi tel. 060609 – 065551 – 063570 – 068822 064157 – 066645 – 064994 Traffic info tel. 1518 Trenitalia (national railways) tel. 892021 www.trenitalia.it

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cinemas The following cinemas show films in English or original language when available – see daily press for programme details. Alcazar Via Merry del Val 14, tel. 065880099 in original language on Mon Fiamma Multisala Via Bissolati 47, tel. 06485526 Filmstudio Via degli Orti d’Alibert 1/c, tel. 334/1780632 www.filmstudioroma.com Greenwich Via G. Bodoni 59, tel. 065745825 Cinema Lux Via Massaciuccoli 31, tel. 0686391361 Multisala Barberini Piazza Barberini 24-26, tel. 0686391361 Nuovo Olimpia Via in Lucina 16/g, tel. 066861068 Nuovo Sacher Largo Ascianghi 1, tel. 065818116 in original language on Mon when available

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Ambulance tel. 118 Carabinieri tel. 112 Electricity and water faults (Acea) tel. 800130336 Fire brigade tel. 115 Gas leaks (Italgas-Eni) tel. 800900999 Police tel. 113 Rubbish (Ama) tel. 8008670355

religious All Saints’ Anglican Church Via del Babuino 153/b, tel. 0636001881 Sunday service 08.30 and 10.30 Kids Rock children’s service every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month at midday Anglican Centre Piazza del Collegio Romano 2, tel. 066780302 www.anglicancentreinrome.com Bible Baptist Church Via di Castel di Leva 326, tel. 3342934593 www.bbcroma.org. Sunday 11.00 Christian Science Services Via Stresa 41, tel. 063014425 Church of All Nations Lungotevere Michelangelo 7, tel. 069870464 Church of Sweden Via A. Beroloni 1/e, tel. 068080474 Sunday service 11.15 (Swedish) Footsteps Inter-Denominational Christian South Rome, tel. 0650917621 – 333 / 2284093 North Rome, tel. 0630894371 akfsmes.styles@tiscali.it International Central Gospel Church Via XX Settembre 88, tel. 0655282695 International Christian Fellowship Via Guido Castelnuovo 28, tel. 065594266 Sunday service 11.00 Jewish Community

Tempio Maggiore, Lungotevere Cenci, tel. 066840061

Jewish Reform Group in Rome Congregation Lev Chadash, Piazza della Libertà 10 tel. 339 / 3824815, Shabbat services at 10.00, Friday night service once a month Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas Largo della Sanità Militare 60, tel. 067726761 Lutheran Church Via Toscana 7, corner Via Sicilia 70 tel. 064817519, Sunday service 10.00 (German) Ponte S. Angelo Methodist Church Piazza Ponte S. Angelo, tel. 066868314 Sunday service 10.30 Pontifical Irish College (Roman Catholic) Via dei Santi Quattro 1, tel. 06772631. Sunday service 10.00 Rome Baptist Church Piazza S. Lorenzo in Lucina 35, tel. 066876652 – 066876211, Sunday service

10.30, 13.00 (Filipino), 16.00 (Chinese) Rome Buddhist Centre Vihara Via Mandas 2, tel. 0622460091 Rome Mosque (Centro Islamico) Via della Moschea, tel. 068082167 – 068082258 St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Via XX Settembre 7, tel. 064827627 Sunday service 11.00 St Francis Xavier del Caravita (Roman Catholic) Via del Caravita 7 – www.caravita.org St Isidore’s College (Roman Catholic) Via degli Artisti 41, tel. 064885359 Sunday service 10.00 St Patrick’s Church (Roman Catholic) Via Boncompagni 31, tel. 0642903787 Sunday service 10.00 St Paul’s within-the-Walls (Anglican Episcopal)

Via Nazionale, corner Via Napoli, tel. 064883339 Sunday service 08.30,10.30 (English), 13.00 (Spanish)

St Silvestro Church (Roman Catholic) Piazza S. Silvestro 1, tel. 066977121 Sunday service 10.00 and 17.30 St Susanna Church (Roman Catholic) Via XX Settembre 15, tel. 0642014554, Saturday service 18.00. Sunday service 09.00 and 10.30 Venerable English College (Roman Catholic) Via di Monserrato 45, tel. 066868546 Sunday service 10.00

support groups Alcoholics Anonymous tel. 064742913 – www.aarome.info Archè (HIV+ children and their families) tel. 0677250350 – www.arche.it Associazione Centro Astalli (Jesuit refugee centre) Via degli Astalli 14/a tel. 0669700306 Associazione Ryder Italia (Support for cancer patients and their families) tel. 065349622/0658204580 www.ryderitalia.it Astra (Anti-stalking risk assessment) tel. 066535499 – www.differenzadonna.it Caritas soup kitchen (Mensa Giovanni Paolo II) Via delle Sette Sale 30 tel. 0647821098. 11.00-13.30 daily Caritas foreigners’ support centre Via Zoccolette 19, tel. 066875228 – 066861554 Caritas hostel Via Marsala 109, tel. 064457235 Caritas legal assistance Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano 6/a, tel. 0669886369 Celebrate Recovery Christian group tel. 338 / 1675680 Comunità di S. Egidio Piazza di S. Egidio 3/a, tel. 068992234 Comunità di S. Egidio soup kitchen Via Dandolo 10, tel 065894327 17.00-19.30 Wed, Fri, Sat Information line for the disabled tel. 800271027 Joel Nafuma Refugee Centre St Paul’s within-the-Walls Via Nazionale, corner Via Napoli, tel. 064883339 Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (Support for deaf and deaf-blind children) tel. 0644234511 – masonperkins@gmail.com www.mpds.it Overeaters Anonymous tel. 064743772 Salvation Army (Esercito della Salvezza) Centro Sociale di Roma “Virgilio Paglieri” Via degli Apuli 41, tel. 064451351 Support for elderly victims of crime (Italian only) Largo E. Fioritto 2, tel. 0657305104 The Samaritans Onlus (Confidential telephone helpline for the distressed) tel. 800860022

chiamaroma 24-hour, multilingual information line for services in Rome, run by the city council, tel. 060606