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This year the 25 April Liberation Day national holiday in Italy falls on a Sunday but shops in Rome and Milan, which would normally be shut, have permission to stay open to make the most of the holiday tourists. Museums...
Clocks go forward by one hour on the night of 27-28 March, heralding the start of daylight saving time in the Central European Time (CET) zones.
You may lose an hour of sleep but this is compensated by the longer days t...
The restoration of the Pasquino statue (near Piazza Navona), done by the ATI Ghia-Equilibrarte, is now complete after almost five months of work. The Pasquino is the most famous of the Talking Statues in Rome, and in the...
Throughout Italy state-run museums are open to women on 6-7 March (a weekend) free of charge as a way of celebrating women who have contributed to all the arts.
Since 1911, 8 March has been International Women
The new director of the privately funded American Academy in Rome has been announced as Christopher Celenza, who is currently a professor in the department of German and Romance languages and literatures at Johns Hopkins...
Rome marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 with a programme of events and initiatives throughout the city.
Venti di Libert
4 November is National Unity Day and Armed Forces Day in Italy.
At 09.00 the president of the republic Giorgio Napolitano will lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Altare della Patria in Piazza Venezia...
The annual Commonwealth Remembrance Day ceremony will be held on 11 November at the Rome War Cemetery, which holds the graves and memorials of over 400 Commonwealth servicemen who died in the fight to free Italy from Ger...
Rome city council has approved a decision to reduce the amount payable on outstanding traffic fines received before 31 December 2004. Under the new regulations, people who have not paid these fines will now only have to...
Windscreen washers and people cleaning headlights, selling paper handkerchiefs, cigarette lighters and other trinkets or providing entertaining at traffic lights have been banned under an ordinance signed by Rome
Clocks go back one hour during the night of 24-25 October, bringing an end to daylight saving time (
10 October is a day of national mourning for the victims of the flooding and mudslides in and around Messina in Sicily on the night of 1-2 October.
Twenty eight people are known to have died and a further seven people...
A special note to all British passport holders:the
British consulate in Rome has very quietly done
away with its passport services,which have high-
tailed it to Paris. From 3 June the new Western
European Passpor...
On Thursday 24 September there will be a candleit procession in Rome to protest against all forms of racism, prejudice and intolerance. The procession will leave Piazza SS Apostoli at 19.00, passing through Via Cesare Ba...
As of 18.00 on the 23 September there will be a new entrance to the museum of Zoology. Villa Ulisse Aldrovandi, 18.
Art historian and university professor Eric de Chassey is the new director of the Accademia di Francia Villa Medici in Rome. He replaces Fr
Rome prefect Guiseppe Pecoraro and police are to introduce a series of measures to improve road safety in the city centre. The measures include installing 25 speed cameras,
Rome prefect Guiseppe Pecoraro and police are to introduce a series of measures to improve road safety in the city centre. The measures include installing 25 speed cameras,
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