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On Saturday 29 June Rome celebrates its patron saints Peter and Paul with a public holiday in the capital. All public offices will be shut as will some shops while supermarkets may close at lunchtime.
There are liturg...
Rome's 060606 helpline is set to close on 22 June according to former city culture councillor Silvio Di Francia who informed La Repubblica newspaper that the switchboard's contract with its management company Almaviva en...
An abandoned stolen car containing four sacks of unprocessed mail was discovered in the early hours of Monday 27 May on Corso Italia, according to reports in La Repubblica.
Police found over 1,000 letters after search...
On 1 May every year Italy dedicates a public holiday to its workers.
In Rome buses and trams will run from 08.30 to 13.00 and from 16.30 to 21.00, with the usual night hour services during the nights either side of th...
On 25 April Italy celebrates the 68th Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from Nazi occupation and fascist rule at the end of world war two.
A public holiday across Italy, all state scho...
Security has been increased at various "sensitive" locations in Rome in the wake of the Boston marathon explosions which killed three people and injured more than 100 on 15 April.
The American embassy, consulate and r...
The capital celebrates its 2,766th birthday on Sunday 21 April, based on the legendary foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC, with a variety of events taking place across the capital.
On the morning of 21 April the...
Many of Rome's streets were closed to traffic on Sunday 17 March to facilitate the 19th Rome Marathon which was won by Ethiopian Getachew Terfa Negari with a time of 2:07:56. He was followed by his compatriot Girmay Birh...
The city government has voted to reduce the capital’s municipi (or administrative and political areas) from the current 19 down to 15. The change will take place within 30 days.
Four municipi will be merged into...
The total traffic block in Rome, programmed for Sunday 17 February, has been called off to allow pilgrims and well-wishers to get to St Peter’s Square for the papal Angelus.
The Pontiff says the Angelus every Su...
Viale Museo Villa Borghese is to become Viale Alberto Sordi on 24 February to mark the 10th anniversary of Alberto Sordi’s death. Viale Museo Villa Borghese runs from Via Porta Pinciana to Galleria Borghese, one of...
Two cars were extensively damaged in Rome's historic centre after plaster from an adjacent building collapsed on top of them.
The incident took place on Via Fiume at the corner of Via di Ripetta at around 08.00 on 4 F...
New rules have been issued governing the appearance and decorum of Rome's municipal police, according to a report in Rome daily newspaper Il Messaggero.
The rules state that all serving vigili must avoid dressing slop...
Rome’s city assembly has approved a decision to rename part of Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano after Blessed John Paull II. The area in front of the diocese of Rome’s vicariate buildings, alongside Basilica S....
A giant sandwich appeared outside the Rome mayor's office in Piazza del Campidoglio on 6 January, designed to reignite the debate around the so-called "anti-panino" law that banned eating on the streets of the city's his...
The streets of Rome have been hit by a spate of robberies of cast iron manhole covers over the Christmas period, mainly in the city districts of Primavalle and Portuense, and Boccea north-west of the capital.
Police b...
On 1 January in Rome crowds gathered to view the annual Tuffo nel Tevere, by now one of the capital's most unusual and popular New Year’s Day traditions.
At midday, immediately after the cannons fired on the Gia...
The keys to the city of New York, Las Vegas, Bucharest or Prague? A silver hawk on a haematite glove? A fur blanket by Valentino? A silver bust of Mother Theresa? Mayor Gianni Alemanno has donated almos...
The second edition of Rome’s Christmas lights programme, titled “Roma si mette in luce” begins in Piazza Venezia at 19.00 on Saturday 8 December and lasts until 10 January.
The lights on the capital&...
On 19 November Rome re-inaugurated the statue of Blessed John Paul II in front of Termini station, following the "completion" of the original work after it received widespread criticism from the public, the city and the...
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