Hundreds of riot police with helmets, batons and tear-gas were ready for the slightest provocation and the mood was ominous as about 200,000 demonstrators were snaking down one of Rome’s main thoroughfares, writes Jo McKenna.
Rome
A tale of two Romes
Rome, the city where tourists live peacefully — minus their cameras — with a huge homeless population. It might not always be pretty, but it makes for interesting travelling, writes Tristan.
Is this Michelangelo’s first painting?
The painting ‘The Torment of Saint Anthony’, rumoured to be Michelangelo’s first ever painting, will go on display for the first time ever this June.
Amanda gives Rome a makeover
We now know why Amanda Vanstone has been dilatory in doing what what she’s basically paid for - she’s been too busy replacing the traces of class and flair created by the wife of her predecessor, Tanya Woolcott, writes Barry Everingham.
