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In a bid to improve order in Rome's historic centre, the local district council is considering ordering restaurants, bars and discotheques to close one hour earlier except on Fridays and Saturdays. If adopted it will m...
Compulsory military service in Italy is being abolished; the last young men being called up to join the services are those born in 1985. The last call-up date will be 31 December 2004 and those who can produce evidence o...
The remains of two imperial Roman ports are to be made into an archaeological park, with work starting in 2005. The ports are both to the north of Ostia, close to Rome and to Leonardo da Vinci international airport at Fi...
Four very large rock falls in the Italian Dolomite mountain range in the past few weeks, including one of the smaller columns of the "Cinque Torre" above Cortina D'Ampezzo and the top of the "Piccolo Cir" above the Passo...
The famous villa, gardens and fountains built for Cardinal d'Este in the 16th century have been restored to their former splendour and the night-time opening is back again after 20 years. ACEA, Rome's electricity utility...
Dissatisfied patients in Italy are taking legal action against their doctors more often than before. A report published by Cittadinanzattiva, an action group protecting citizens' and consumers' rights, shows that in 200...
The death of a woman in Milan who fell down a lift shaft at the end of July has once again highlighted the precarious state of Italy's lifts. The death was the third of its kind in 16 months despite regulations introduc...
There has been an increase of 4.84 per cent in the arrivals of tourists to Rome this year, with American visitors up by 10 per cent and Japanese up by 5.88 per cent compared with the same period in 2003. The figures, p...
In a new drive to discourage graffiti the senates justice commission has suggested more severe penalties for people caught defacing public and private property.
Depending on the offence culprits could risk a fine of up...
The Ethiopian ambassador to Italy, Mengistu Hulluka, has declared that his country is willing to lengthen the runway at Axum airport to allow the return of the Axum obelisk from Rome. The obelisk was looted from Ethiop...
Rome will play host to the long-awaited concert of Simon and Garfunkel on Saturday 31 July, their first-ever appearance together in Italy. Everything is ready for the free concert in the Fori Imperiali which is a part of...
Late-night shopping in certain streets in the centre of Rome will become a reality on Friday 30 July until the 31 August. Shops in 26 streets, winding through the centre of Rome from the Via Veneto, down to the Pantheon...
Ibimet, the Italian national research council's institute of biometeorology, has revealed that the Italian climate is changing fast. In the last 15 years the temperature of the Tyrrhenian sea has risen by two degrees cen...
Unesco has named two new world heritage sites in Italy. The first is the Val d'Orcia in Tuscany, an agricultural area between Montalcino and Montepulciano made famous by the writer Iris Origo in her book " War in the Val...
There is a new garden open to the public in Rome, a hortus conclusus (enclosed garden) which has been recreated in a disused space inside the Museo della Civilt Romana at EUR by a group of about 30 criminal offenders. Fo...
Four large Italian consumer associations are asking all cell-phone owners to switch off their phones from 12.00 14.00 on Thursday 15 July in protest at what they describe as "Sky-high tariffs, unnecessary services and m...
A group of 37 Africans who were put ashore at Porto Empedocle in Sicily on Monday 12 July have been taken to a centre for illegal immigrants in Agrigento, Sicily, from where they may be repatriated under existing Italian...
Italian fire stations are to be opened to the elderly for six weeks in the height of the summer. The initiative comes following the exceptionally hot summer of 2003, when elderly people, who had remained in towns and cit...
The S. Susanna lending library in Via XX Settembre 15 is switching to summer opening hours. Between 16-31 July and 1-15 Sept the library will be open Tues 10.00-13.00, Wed 15.00-18.00 and Sun 10.00-12.30. In August openi...
Are you petrified of giving presentations, or do you harbour secret aspirations as a stand-up comedian? A new club is being formed in Rome to help people improve their public-speaking abilities. The toastmasters club rec...
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