Local questions in Rome

The river running through Rome, Italy, is the Tiber (or Tevere in Italian) which flows south on the western side of the city. The Tiber is the third-longest river in Italy, rising some 210 kilometres (or 130 miles) to the north, from water springs on Mount Fumaiolo in Emilia-Romagna’s Apennine Mountains. After passing through Rome, the river continues in an Read more...

English Romantic poet John Keats is buried in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome (also called the Protestant Cemetery). Keats died in Rome aged 25 in 1821 from tuberculosis. His tombstone does not bear his name but reads: This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet, who, on his death bed, in the bitterness of his heart, Read more...

Actor James Gandolfini died after suffering a heart attack while staying at the Boscolo Exedra Roma Hotel (now called Palazzo Naiadi) in Rome, Italy on 19th June, 2013. Attempts to resuscitate 51-year-old Gandolfini were unsuccessful and he was declared dead at the hospital. The Emmy Award-winning actor was best known for playing New Jersey crime boss Tony Soprano in HBO’s Read more...