Hints and tips:
...June 15-17, sonar.es Arena di Verona Festival, Italy Few things rival sitting in the evening air inside this vast Roman amphitheatre, and this year there’ll no doubt be a special charge to the experience...
...Villazón has gone through various phases, first as a potential successor to Plácido Domingo, then TV personality, then opera director, while ticking over latterly as a singer, mostly in concerts....
...For Roman London, incidentally, that is about six metres under their feet....
...Goya Subastas, Montesa 31, 28006 Madrid (+34914-315 311; goyasubastas.com) And the thing I’m eyeing next is a matte gold signet ring with an engraved green stone inspired by a Roman original....
...Evraz, the steelmaker controlled by Roman Abramovich, was the sector’s relative outperformer on a loss of 2.6 per cent to 66.2p....
...The comment for some time shocked and haunted the courtier but she said her Roman Catholic faith meant she came to take it as well meant....
...As part of a five-day tour of Rome (“once the centre of the Roman empire”), they were invited to a concert in the “stylish” surrounds of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel....
...By the time of the Romans, olive oil production was codified and classified into 10 different grades....
...African slaves were brought in to man the sugar plantations of Cuba and Santo Domingo, and also to shepherd the flocks of sheep introduced to New Spain....
...’s production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, conducted here by Placido Domingo and Julian Kovatchev....
...Romans are no angels, and have many ingenious ways of parting the unwary from their money, but in my experience they know when to stop....
...It’s located in the oldest part of the little town, at the top of a hill, with traces going back to the Romans and the Longobardi....
...But ancient Rome had an advantage: It could make the people it conquered and dominated part of the Roman Empire....
...With local architect Domingo Cárdenas-Mata, we traipse through a slightly seedier section of the city, La Macarena, to another house....
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