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An accident at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, one of Rome's largest exhibition spaces, injured seven people who were working on the renovation of the building. Two are in a serious condition. The incident occurred on 14 Sept...
The second annual "Notte Bianca", when Rome stays awake all night, will be held this year between Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 September. The initiative is jointly run by the city council, Rome's chamber of commerce and the...
The Italian football season officially kicks off Sunday 12 September with a total of 20 teams in Serie A, compared with 18 last season. The promoted sides are Atalanta, Cagliari, Livorno, Fiorentina and Messina.
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Italy has more people reported suffering from Aids than any other western European country, according to a report recently released by the European Union commission, ahead of an international conference due to be held i...
Italian non-governmental agencies will not be withdrawing volunteers from Iraq in the wake of the kidnapping of two Italian women in Baghdad, along with two of their Iraqi colleagues on 7 September. The determination to...
Rome's first toy museum is set to open in Villa Ada on Via Salaria in spring 2006. The 30,000 piece collection is one of the largest and most prestigious in the world and was sold to the city by the Swedish entrepreneur...
Many banks across Italy will be closed on 10 September as staff strike in favour of better pay and work conditions.
Alitalia employees called off a 24-hour strike in protest against thousands of layoffs threatened by...
Schools in Rome are about to re-open. Some high schools open on Friday 10 September and by 16 September all of the 420,000 school children in Rome and Lazio will be back at work. As a result traffic throughout the city w...
Rome's moderate Muslims are being invited to hold a demonstration at the Campidoglio, the famous square on the Capitoline hill in Rome, on 11 September. The demonstration, against terrorism, will be in memory of the inno...
From 9 - 17 September there will be special showings in Rome cinemas of more than 60 films from the Venice film festival every evening from 20.30. This is an opportunity to see festival films in advance of their general...
A festival dedicated to "porchetta", the famous roasted suckling pig will take place in the small town of Ariccia in the Castelli Romani south-east of Rome on 3-5 September. The origins of the speciality dates back to th...
Almost 25 countries around Europe will take part in the annual European Day of Jewish Culture on Sunday 5 September. A wealth of exhibitions, conventions and guided tours have been organised with an "open door" policy in...
The unemployed in Italy are amongst the unhappiest in Europe. A survey conducted by a European economic research institute, Enepri, between 1994 and 2001 on the unemployed in 14 countries, has revealed that people out of...
The city of Matera in Basilicata, famous for its old abandoned town "I Sassi" used by Mel Gibson as a setting for his recent film "The Passion of Christ" has had an invasion of biblical proportions, not of tourists, as...
The 61st edition of the Venice film festival organised by the Biennale di Venezia, will be held at the Lido from 1- 11 September 2004, directed for the first time by Marco Mller.?The festival comprises about 70 films and...
More than half of the 2.5 million foreigners living in Italy have been residents for more than five years. But when it comes to giving citizenship to immigrants Italy has one of the worst records in Europe. Italy is natu...
The water that comes out of the taps in Rome is among the best in Italy, according to a recent survey by Altro Consumo a magazine published by an Italian consumer association. Springs in the provinces of Rieti and Rome s...
Work will begin in September on the restoration and consolidation of the building that houses the Capitoline Archives in Rome's Piazza della Chiesa Nuova on Corso Vittorio. The project also includes the reorganisation a...
People found guilty of misusing office facilities may soon be liable to fines and administrative sanctions according to new draft proposals put forward by the Italian ministry of innovation and technology in conjunction...
AMA, the Rome city refuse collection service, has revealed that fewer Romans have left the city to go on holiday this year than last year. On the last Wednesday in July AMA collected 4,287 tons of rubbish in the city, 44...
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