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Monday

Rail smasher third as well as fourth March - CANCELLED

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | There is due to hold upward a track smasher inward Italy adjacent weekend , from 9pm on the tertiary of March until 9pm on fourth March. H5N1 publish of guaranteed services should operate - come across the Trenitalia website for latest information.
UPDATE: the smasher has right away been cancelled too thus all services should operate normally. Keep your eyes on the trenitalia site for hereafter disruptions.

More on trains inward Italy
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Rome: run into archaeological finds from Bulgaria

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | In Rome final Mon , when nigh all the museums were unopen , nosotros works life a fantastic gratis exhibition. Until the 15th March , 2 rooms inwards the Quirinale (seat of Italy's presidents) are hosting a modest display of 'Treasures of Bulgaria' , including beautiful archaeological finds from ancient burial sites inwards that country. Some of the items on demo are exquisite , together with then fine they nearly moved us to tears. One of our favourites was a marvellous , fragile gilded crown of laurel leaves. Visit if you lot can; visiting is gratis , doesn't accept long , together with you lot instruct to peek within the grand Quirinale Palace - move prepared to become through safety scanning , though.
> Press loose (in Italian) amongst opening hours
> Our lead to events inwards Rome
> photos from the excavations
> more Thracian tomb discoveries (BBC: August 2006)
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Sunday

London - La Dolce Vita Event

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | If you're inwards the London expanse in addition to you're swell on all things Italian , you lot mightiness live on interested inwards an consequence taking house at Olympia this weekend. La Dolce Vita is a exhibit opened upward to both merchandise in addition to the populace , amongst marketing stands in addition to exceptional events. We've no consider how expert this 'festival' is , simply in that place are enough of interesting exhibitors listed in addition to it's worth a await if you lot don't heed the entrance charge.
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Venice inwards Winter

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Wrap upwards warm , specially on the water! But don't forget your sunglasses.

Drinks nosotros enjoyed: hot chocolate inwards Campo S. Stefano; rose tea at Caffè Florian; Bellinis at Harry's Bar; spritz inwards Campo S. Margherita; proper English linguistic communication tea every bit provided past times our hotel upon request; vin brulé past times the Rialto; Prosecco anywhere really... though nosotros specially liked the house where they had sparkling vino on tap. Maybe sometimes it was the sense rather than the character of the drinkable which made the impact...

For a yoke to a greater extent than garbled (still awe-struck) recollections of our Venice trip run across my Travelling Blonde reports.
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Saturday

Gardens of Ninfa on TV

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Gardens of Ninfa
Readers inwards the U.K. may live on interested inwards watching The Curious House Guest at 8pm on Th sixth April. The BBC two programme is to characteristic the fantastic as well as hard-to-visit Gardens of Ninfa inwards Lazio , southward of Rome. Usually the deferential presenter explores British solid soil houses , only this calendar week he'll live on visiting these Italian gardens , as well as exploring the British influences which helped degree them.
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Berlusconi cries Fraud!; Mafia boss arrested

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | The elections are over inwards Italy but that hasn't stopped the insults too accusations. After a most unedifying campaign it looks equally though Berlusconi volition become , but he isn't planning to operate out quietly. And equally the richest homo inwards the province , too amongst command of much of Italy's media , he for certain isn't going to disappear. He's been defendant , charged too thrown out earlier but even then bounced back.

From an outsider's perspective , Italy's politics are murky at best. Living inwards the province you lot instruct real petty feel of a straight chain of command. Central regime is made upward of bickering coalitions (sometimes resorting to fisticuffs inwards parliament) too it isn't ever slow to come across its number on everyday life. Authorities are manifold too unremarkably suspect. With constant allegations of corruption too intimidation at every score , correct downwardly to local hamlet councils , many Italians volition only ringlet their eyes too plough over that shrug when you lot inquire who controls their lives too their country. Maybe they're making black suggestions , or possibly they're only equally confused equally everyone else.

The Times , meanwhile , suggests that some other Italian tidings even out may non live unconnected to the election results - come across page two of their even out How Godfather was betrayed past times his postulate for build clean pants . As the Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is lastly arrested , we're left , equally park , to reverberate on the fact that these rare arrests by too large get got identify inwards or to a greater extent than or less the fugitive's ain draw of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement home; that during their decades 'on the run' they seem to pass near of their fourth dimension inwards their ain hamlet , amongst their families. Read Peter Robb's fantabulous Midnight inwards Sicily for swell coverage of both the isle , its offense too its relation to Italian politics.
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Friday

Rome: Ara Pacis re-opens

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | After vii years shut to the populace , i of Rome's almost of import ancient monuments re-opened on Fri (Rome' sec official birthday). The Ara Pacis , Augustus's altar of peace , is instantly housed inside a controversial novel museum development. We're only glad the site is opened upwardly i time again - it's the altar itself that's actually of import , non the setting. It's frustrating that Rome' sec monuments vanish periodically nether sheeting as well as scaffolding , oft disappearing for years at a time. The Domus Aurea , Nero's golden family , has shut i time to a greater extent than , but at to the lowest degree nosotros tin instantly catch the Ara Pacis.

Opening times are Tuesday - Dominicus 9am-7pm as well as the museum costs €6.50 (free to European Union under-18s as well as over-65s). The place is on Lungotevere al Augusta (Metro Flaminio) , betwixt the Tiber as well as the Mausoleum of Augustus.

Official Ara Pacis Museum website (in Italian).
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Cortona: Tuscan Sunday Festival

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | If you're inward Tuscany inward August , reckon checking out the Tuscan Sunday Festival. Taking house inward the picturesque town of Cortona , the festival is inward its 4th twelvemonth as well as includes classical concerts , lectures as well as wine-tastings. Highlights include Antonio Pappano amongst the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
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