A US-born princess has been evicted from a villa in Rome housing the only ceiling mural by the artist Caravaggio. Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi called her eviction from Villa Aurora a “travesty”. The property has been at the centre…
A beautiful thing’: the African migrants getting healthy food to Italians
After years of exploitation, former fruit pickers set up a co-operative near Rome selling vegetables and yoghurt. Now they are working ‘twice as hard’ to get supplies to families under lockdown. Ismail bends over the vegetables in the middle of…
Tourist fined after midnight swim in Rome fountain (thelocal)
A French tourist was hit with a €450 fine this weekend after he fell foul of city laws aimed at curbing drunken behaviour. Rome’s city police apprehended and fined the 35-year-old French man when they found him swimming in a…