Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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Confcommercio, the national confederation of retail traders, has announced that the summer sales of retail goods will begin in Rome on 5 July. The only cities that precede Rome in opening the sales are Naples (2 July) an...
The new premises for the Monte Milvio market in Via Riano have opened, giving a permanent home to the 74 traditional stalls that have occupied the central reservation of Viale Tor di Qunto since 1982. New mayor Gianni Al...
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The Roseto Comunale, Rome
A building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano has been given the go-ahead and will be constructed on the current site of the towers that once housed the ministry of finance in EUR. The plan for the building has...
Friday 25 April Italy celebrates Liberation Day, which is generally accepted as the end of world war two in Italy, although German forces did not officially surrender until four days later on 29 April. In Rome, Preside...
Sunday 20 April sees the return of
Two Irish tourists were killed by a drunk driver in the early hours of 18 March as they were crossing Lungotevere Altoviti between Castel S.Angelo and Via della Conciliazione. Elizabeth Anne Gubbins, 27, and Marie Clare...
Wireless internet hot spots are to be installed in three Rome municipi (V, XII and XIII). The
People living on their own now form 42 per cent of Rome
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The cost of eating breakfast sitting down at a table in Rome is the highest in the country, a survey by consumers
Artificial grass has been put in Piazza Siena, the historic sports field in Villa Borghese. This change, which is a cost-saving measure for the city, has provoked considerable consternation from various quarters. Judgin...
Work has finally begun on the building that will be the new home to the Trionfale food and flower market, one of the most popular and colourful markets in Rome. The project to build a structure to cover the market, locat...
The man responsible for dying the Trevi Fountain red in last year has struck again, tipping hundreds of thousands of small coloured plastic balls down the Spanish Steps on 16 January.
The pope has urged the mayor of Rome, provincial and regional authorities to tackle poverty and degradation in the city. At the meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the left-wing mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, the pop...
Winter sales start on 5 January in Rome this year, a week earlier than normal. This means that the crowds that make for the city
The city council has voted against the creation of a register for unmarried cohabiting couples in Rome. The proposal, presented by the radical left, was rejected by the centre-right opposition and the recently created Pa...
The Rome city council
This year the Piazza S. Pietro Christmas tree comes from Val Badia near Bolzano in Trentino-Alto Adige. The tree is around 140 years old, weighs three tonnes and, at 26 metres, is slightly shorter than last year
Saturday 8 December is the religious feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and an Italian public holiday. Firemen will place a floral wreath on the statue of the Madonna in Piazza Mignanelli next...
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