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Articles by: Judith Harris

  • Art & Culture

    Matera and its Sassi. Europe's 2019 Cultural Capital

    Judith Harris(January 18, 2019)
    Of the 58 European Capitals of Culture since Athens was designated the first in 1985, this year's choice fell on Matera in Basilicata. After four years of preparation, the 2019 year of European Culture kicks off there on Jan. 19 with music, exhibitions, light shows, and dance and theater performances.
  • Neapoletan Presepe
    Art & Culture

    The Search for Italy's Most Fascinating Presepi

    Judith Harris(December 13, 2018)
    Italian presepi -Nativity scenes, that is- come in all shapes, sizes, colors and dimensions. The historic ones in the venerable churches may have over 100 hand-carved figures. In today's presepi, Holy Families, shepherds and sheep may actually be alive - or be made of ice or sand.
  • Vice-President of the Council and Minister of the Interior
    Op-Eds

    Matteo Salvini at the Foreign Press Association in Rome

    Judith Harris(December 12, 2018)
    Matteo Salvini will shortly visit the United States, he told a crowded hall of foreign journalists at the Foreign Press Association Dec. 10. While calling for regular and regularly controlled immigration, he said, "My priority is the 5 million Italians living in poverty."
  • Fear of immigrants is an economic theme: 58% say they believe that migrants take away jobs from Italians
    Op-Eds

    Annual Censis Report Shows a Weary Italy

    Judith Harris(December 09, 2018)
    This December's annual Censis Report on the Italian society and economy is not exactly what Santa ordered. Its 52d edition shows an Italy suffering from fear of the future and of migrants, and lax in investing in education.
  • Art & Culture

    Enjoy a Bird's Eye View of Ancient Rome

    Judith Harris(December 02, 2018)
    In a 22-year project, 50 classicists and computer experts have for the first time recreated ancient Rome in virtual reality. Thanks to new technology, students and scholars as well as the general public can fly over the Rome of 1,700 years ago.
  • Rome under attack
    Facts & Stories

    Even the "Colosseum Park" Now at Risk In Rome

    Judith Harris(November 23, 2018)
    Associated Press agency album of photos of Rome display huge trash piles, clogged sewers, graffiti and potholes. Going viral worldwide this week, the AP photos shocked even the Romans. Perhaps worse are plans to build a shopping plaza within the Colosseum park.
  • Digging
    Life & People

    Worth Their Weight in Gold: Italy's Truffle Treasure

    Judith Harris(November 12, 2018)
    This is the height of the truffle season, and Italy is host to a number of truffle fairs. The most important, the International Truffle Fair at Alba, in Piedmont, celebrates the incredibly aromatic white truffle. But truffles are found even near Rome, and almost year round.

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