They say that the skatepark is a way to dust off Rome’s musty image, which carries the weight of its history. “We want to speak to young people with a modern language,” Mr. Cozzoli said ...

Top Travel Discover Rome’s Timeless Beauty and Modern Charm Posted: January 31, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 Step into the heart of Italy with this full travel guide to Rome, a city where ...

During the past few years, in the wake of Italy’s economic miracle, Rome developed an advanced case of the disease in its streets designed for chariots and its piazzas designed for people.

It draws a comparison between the West in 1999, the zenith of its confidence, and Rome exactly 1,600 years earlier, in 399—just decades before the empire’s collapse. What went wrong?

But few cities pose such complications as Rome, where two millennia of architectural and cultural history are buried below a vast area of the modern city surface. “It’s more challenging than ...

Artists owe a great debt to ancient Rome. Over the years ... the past century have captured the city just as indelibly as modern classics by the likes of Martin Scorsese or Spike Lee.