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Thursday 8 December is the religious feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and an Italian public holiday. Pope Benedict XVI will conduct mass to celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conceptio...
The Olympic torch for the 2006 Winter Olympic games, which open in Turin on 10 February, will arrive in Rome on 8 December and will be lit in the Piazza del Quirinale by the president of the republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciamp...
Anyone caught picking up a prostitute in Romes densely populated VII municipality will be fined 500, according to a new proposal put forward by the areas president, Stefano Tozzi. He hopes this measure will stop, or at l...
Italy has a long tradition of unauthorised building to which officialdom often turns a blind eye; as recently as March 2003 a general amnesty was granted to thousands of such abusive constructions, freeing their owners f...
Via Veneto,one of the most famous streets in Rome during the 1950s and 1960s, in the glorious hey-day of La Dolce Vita, is due to be restyled. A project that has been ready since 2002 is about to be dusted off and implem...
Rome city mayor, Walter Veltroni, is well known for his enthusiasm for the cinema and he has now revealed that he has recently played a part in the new Disney cartoon, Chicken Little, amici per la pelle which has just be...
Four workmen were arrested in Rome on 14 November, accused of stealing part of the money thrown into the Trevi fountain by tourists. When they were stopped they were found to have two buckets full of coins in their vehic...
135 people have been arrested in Rome for running a counterfeit ring which has sold up to 3,000 fake identity cards for up to 20,000 each. The investigators estimate the gang has netted some 2.5 million since starting op...
A group of expatriate musicians is aiming to repeat the success of their first concert in Rome if not the circumstances.
The Exiles comprise two Americans and two Britons who play a range of rock music including The E...
Rome is going through a Renaissance, according to a new book published by Il Sole 24 Ore journalist Massimo Mascini, who claims that the capital is home of Italys best success stories. In his book Futuro Italiano, he tra...
An autumn campaign is about to promote Roman food. Some 50 restaurants will offer a three-course lunch or dinner for 19.50. The menus will offer strictly local, old-fashioned specialities such as artichokes prepared in t...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, has announced that the city council will debate a special package of laws to empty Piazza Navona of stall holders and artists, whether they have a permit to be there or not.
Piazza Navona i...
Top businesses are moving out of the capital to places like Milan, Parma, Caserta even as far as Bangalore and other cities around the world. Companies in the telecoms, food, banking, insurance, and IT sectors are packi...
The readers of the American magazine Travel and Leisure have voted Rome Best European capital city for 2005 for the quantity and quality of the cultural sites on offer. It is the second time that the American publicatio...
During the first nine months of this year, 1,519 hopeful couples living in Lazio have applied to adoption a child. Some 900 of these would-be parents applied through national agencies while over 600 have taken the intern...
Italians call them baby-cubist, the teenage girls who dance atop pedestals, stage props or Perspex cubes in Romes numerous clubs for under-18s. And like their counterparts in adult clubs, they are often scantily clad wea...
The Rome city council and the national institute of geophysics and vulcanology are evaluating the possibility of using hot water from natural geothermal cisterns below 100 metres in certain areas of Rome. Hot water from...
The president of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, was presented with honorary citizenship of Rome by the citys mayor Walter Veltroni at a ceremony on the Capitoline Hill on 27 September.
The president, who c...
Plans have been published for a Shoah museum to be built in Rome near Villa Torlonia in the Nomentana area of the city close to some Jewish catacombs.
The ground floor of the building will be of glass and there will be...
From the end of September it should be possible to visit the building site at the Ara Pacis on Lungotevere in Augusta on weekends, ahead of the official unveiling of American architect Richard Meiers museum complex in ap...
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