Word: campidoglio
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...Alemanno's image may be adequately scrubbed up, but some of his supporters Tuesday night celebrated on the steps of the Campidoglio city hall with "saluti Romani" - the Mussolini-era stiff-armed salute that was later adopted and made notorious by the Nazis. Alemanno has moved quickly to quell fears that he still espouses fascist ideals. Among his first gestures after the victory was to send telegrams to both Pope Benedict XVI and Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni. "I will be the mayor of all Romans: for those who voted for me, and those who didn...
...member states to return to the Eternal City to sign the European Constitution. On Friday they came, and Berlusconi made the most of it. With famed filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli directing the live television coverage, Berlusconi led his European colleagues through a carefully choreographed ceremony at Rome's historic Campidoglio city hall. There were long, statesmanlike gazes from the balcony overlooking the ancient forum and a signing ceremony in the same Orazi and Curiazi hall where the 1957 treaty was inked. "The process of European integration ... has proved to be the most fruitful and enduring vision of the postwar period," Berlusconi...
...their engagement leaked out, Designer Calvin Klein, 43, and Kelly Rector, thirtyish, an assistant in his firm, stitched the knot in a secretive civil ceremony in Rome. Why Rome? "I've never been before," smiled the radiant bride. The couple slipped quietly into the red room of the historic Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill and exchanged vows in front of the councilman for the city police. (The mayor sent his regrets.) Afterward, the pair posed briefly for photographers, she threw her bouquet of white roses to a friend, and they were off, as the dapper groom explained, to stay "with friends...
...that moment, Caroline wants to get this attractive intellectual to bed. Ivan is in no hurry; he charms and tantalizes her with food, wine and graceful erudition. Rather than toss coins in a fountain, he guides her to the Campidoglio to see the caged she-wolf, symbol of the mythical beast that suckled Romulus and Remus. The animal, "glowering from slate-gray eyes that looked at once treacherous and ready to weep," suddenly howls in their faces...
...early spring tourists who went to see Rome's magnificent Renaissance landmark last week got a shock: the exquisite Piazza del Campidoglio was blocked off and obscured by police barricades and scaffolding. Blast damage showed on the graceful columns, and the main portal of the Palazzo Senatorio, Rome's city hall, was wrecked. Surveying the desecration of the work of the Eternal City's greatest artist, a shopkeeper snarled: "These terrorists are maniacs! What did Michelangelo ever do to them...