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Italian identity cards are being issued at a rate of only 50 a day in the first municipality thanks to a shortage of council workers. The situation is even worse in the third municipality where as few as 20 a day are bei...
Work is set to begin on a four-month-long restructuring of Via Veneto on 8 June. The main aim of the project is to reclaim the road, once a symbol of 1960s Dolce Vita but now a characterless traffic artery, as a pleasant...
A new monument dedicated to those who died during the liberation of Rome from Nazi occupation in 1944 was unveiled on 4 June in Piazza Venezia. The ceremony took place on the 62nd anniversary of the Allies arrival in the...
New bus shelters for Romes historic centre will be green with a design reminiscent of classic 1930s and 1940s shelters, city authorities have decided. "Intelligent" panels informing passengers about bus arrivals, traffic...
Rome city mayor, Walter Veltroni, has been admitted to hospital, just five days before the council elections on 28 and 29 May. Veltroni has been unwell for some time but had hoped that he would reach the end of the elect...
Friends of the non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome will be launched on 25 May 2006 to raise funds for the conservation and maintenance of what is better known as the Protestant Cemetery, an oasis of calm and beauty close to t...
Bridge 11 of the problematic housing estate Laurentino 38 south of the EUR district of Rome was demolished mid-May. People living in precarious conditions of the bridge were moved to a residence on the Via Cristoforo Col...
The Rome city race course, Le Capannelle, is to become a public park. The area which adjoins the Rome ring road (Gran Raccordo Anulare) and the Via Appia is 140 hectares of unspoilt countryside which until now has been u...
Piazza S. Cosimatos 3 million facelift has been unveiled after 18 months of restoration and building work. The 10,000 sqm piazza in Trastevere is now semi-pedestrianised (with access to vehicles only at entrances and exi...
Visitors to Rome can now buy useful three-day discount cards to museums and public transport. Thanks to a new initiative backed up the city council, the ministry of fine art and culture and the city public transport comp...
As of 15.00 Friday 21 April until 21.00 Romans and tourists can visit the restored Ara Pacis monument free of charge following the official inauguration Friday morning of its smart new home designed by American Architect...
The city has set up a register of babysitters in Rome who have taken its new accredited training course. Among the subjects studied are pedagogy, developmental psychology and health education. The course is open to resid...
There will be 1,000 new bus shelters throughout the city in the next three years. This month 200 will be added to the existing 440, another 145 in June, 245 before February 2007, and the remaining 410 by 2008. The cost w...
The Palazzo Anagrafe in Via Luigi Petroselli 50 has been reopened to the public after more than a year of restoration. The building, which belongs to the city council, is the registry office for all births, marriages and...
Registration for places in the 170 city council-run nursery schools in Rome opened on 27 March. Parents with children from three months to three years old may apply for a place in the area where they live, in the area wh...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni has opened the newly restored Casino Nobile, the main villa in Villa Torlonia park. The villa has been returned to its original splendor with marble, mouldings, chandeliers, frescoes and mosa...
From 24 March until 2 April the city and province of Turin and the region of Piedmont are organising ChocolaTO a festival of chocolate. Turin has been a chocolate city for several centuries. The manufacture of drinking...
There is to be a new bridge across the Tiber known as the Ponte della Musica or music bridge in the Flaminio area of Rome between Piazza Gentile da Fabriano and the Lungotevere Cadorna.
The design for the bridge is by B...
The centre of Piazza della Pilotta between Fontana di Trevi and Piazza Venezia has finally become a pedestrian area after years of work and at a cost of around 500 million. The newly re-paved square, home to the Pontifi...
The city administration is planning to move a large part of it offices to the area around the Ostiense, either into remodernised buildings or into new ones. About 37 different departments will eventually move to the area...
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