In my occasional series titled Things You Didn't Know about Sikhs, pretty much all the parmesan you get from Italy is made by Sikhs...

A guide to Rome landmarks associated with the great Italian film director Federico Fellini who was born on this day in 1920.

This dude is intense and correct

A very satisfying finish to tonight's match at Stadio Olimpico. Wesley came on and Roma changed gear.

Fix the Guardian Crosswords pages in the app. Now!

Last run of the year in Villa Ada. I noticed the laminated print out on this sign I pass regularly. And now I know a little about Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. I really like Italy's tendency to name roads and streets after people of note.

Abruzzo Is ok.

Everyone's favourite holiday tea flavour.

Beautiful weather, terrible art #rima

Don't get me wrong Rome is nice and everything but dark and Christmassy and I just want to go to the pub. And there isn't one.

Last night's gig was Lino Capra Vaccina with Mai Mai Mai. Great gig. Big crowd, one of whom collapsed on me after about 45mins of heavy ambience.

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Hints of autumn in Rome this morning.

Yunchan Lim played Autumn Leaves tonight and that was very good.

What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever

Vance must have a hard time at his Indian family weddings

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Over 450 items from Kraftwerk cofounder Florian Schneider's personal collection are up for auction.

Saw These New Puritans in Rome last night. They weren't happy about the king's visit, I can tell you. Fuming.

King Charles to be first reigning English monarch in 500 years to pray publicly with pope

A police investigation is under way after the car of the prominent Italian TV journalist Sigfrido Ranucci was destroyed by a bomb last night.

The new Adrea Laszlo de Simone album is out today. My favourite contemporary Italian musician. andrealaszlodesimoneofficial.bandcamp.com/album/una-lu...

Oscar Wilde, who was born on this day in 1854, in front of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius at the Campidoglio in Rome in April 1900, seven months before his death in Paris.

Made a solo trip out to Lanificio in Rome last night for the first time. Neoprimitivi and Memorials were great. Fujiya & Miyagi left me a bit cold. Or maybe the lure of my bed was too great.

We were delighted to welcome members of the UK Parliament—both from the House of Commons and the House of Lords—on Monday, 6 October, to the British School at Rome. The visit provided a valuable opportunity to strengthen UK–Italy relations and explore shared cultural and research interests.

All my comics have happy endings!

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of Rome in solidarity with Gaza.

Have made a YouTube playlist of Italian 20th-century pop superstar Lucio Battisti's later work, after he'd stopped working with lyricist Mogol and including his 'dischi bianchi' ('white albums'), because of their sleeve design www.youtube.com/watch?v=17x8...

Award winning Italian Drama! Chosen as #FilmOfTheDay in @RadioTimes @RadioTimesFilm ⭐ NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS (1982) tonight at 10:55pm. Italian with English #TPTVsubtitles

youtu.be/lFy_ayCoB6k?... It's a war on war.

Pretty grim out there this morning.

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Fans of Reginald Pole may be pleased to see that his little chapel on the Appia Antica has been fully restored. It doesn't look big enough to contain his beard but it is quite sweet.

ninogvilia.bandcamp.com/album/nicole... #nowplaying (even though she isn't from Georgia and does not exist)

I wonder what this reshuffle will mean for our ambassador here in Rome. Who was due to go at work with Lammy at the Foreign Office.

FWIW, the Heritage Foundation has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family. The male head of that family was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, and his wife "Countess Guardabassi" was one of the leading funders of US antisemites and neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s.

Saw this and managed to paint the red cross before the museum guards ushered me out.

youtu.be/TbLZKbY7Qrc This video of Karl Rock wandering around Leicester's Golden Mile is cheering. Everyone seems to be having a lovely time.

Last night's 'I think I'll pop down to the local church and see what's playing gig' was Joëlle Léandre. Someone I knew nothing about and who appears to be a big thing in the free/improvisational/new music world. She was great and 73 to boot.

Nino Gvilia was great last night in this beautiful romanesque medieval church near Siena last night. Perfect setting.

I spent last week in Shropshire, and I'd like to share something I saw in the village of Minsterley, just SW of Shrewsbury: maidens' garlands, aka virgins' crowns, aka virgins' crants. I'd never seen anything like it, and I'd wager many other people haven't either.

Watched the build up to the Palio, the race and the aftermath on tv. No idea what was going on before and during. Post race celebrations were easy to comprehend.

12th August 1944, 560 civilians are massacred in the mountain village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in the Province of Lucca (Tuscany). The victims are almost all women and children. The atrocity is carried out by Waffen-SS troops, aided by Italian fascists [Thread] >> 1

On this day 81 years ago, one of the worst civilian massacres in Italy during World War Two occurred in the Tuscan village of Sant’Anna di Stazzema where the Nazis murdered 560 people, including 130 children.

Here you go. This is what it's all about.