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There will be no more burials, at least for some time, in the commonly known Protestant cemetery in Rome, last resting place of the English poets Keats and Shelley. There is no more space in this popular and beautiful bu...
Corallobeach, a bathing establishment on the beach at Ostia near Rome, hosts this weekend 2-4 April "Beach for fun", an event which will include the first leg of the Italian championships of the "Wind Kitesurf Cup". The...
In the municipality elections 17 of the 19 seats were won by candidates from Asia; nine by candidates from the Philippines, six from Bangladesh, two from Sri Lanka. One seat was won by a candidate from Africa, a Mali na...
In the Rome city elections for immigrant representatives to sit on the city and the municipal councils, 18,918 people voted out of the 33,000 registered voters, a turnout of 57.33 per cent. The four (non-voting) seats on...
Clocks go forward one hour during the night between Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March.
The annual Rome spring marathon will take place on Sunday 28 March. The race, 42 kms long, has attracted more than 9,200 competitors and it will start and finish in the Via dei Fori Imperiali. The race goes to the centra...
Italy, the country with one of the lowest birth rates in the world, has the most expensive baby milk powder in Europe . (1 Kg of Nestles milk powder costs 32 in Milan and 16,60 in Berlin). It is so expensive that the min...
Italian trades unions have confirmed a general strike for Friday 26 March in protest against proposed pension and education reforms and the increase in the cost of living. It will involve public employees at regional a...
Death and injury from traffic accidents in Italy is down by 18 per cent since the introduction, in July 2003, of a new highway code which included the deduction of points on driving licences for various driving offences...
All Italian butchers' shops and supermarkets must now offer the consumer clear information about the provenance of the beef and veal they are selling, according to a European Union law which came into force in Italy on 1...
More than 170 people were injured, the vast majority of them police, following fighting at the Olimpico football stadium in Rome on Sunday night 21 March, when the game between Rome's two teams Rome and Lazio was called...
Private traffic, including mopeds, will be banned from circulating in Rome on Sunday 21 March. The no-go area, which is in operation 10.00-17.00, will encompass most of the historic centre including Esquilino and Trastev...
Italy's culture ministry has released details of the numbers of visitors to 30 of its museums and archaeological sites in Rome and Lazio during 2003.
The most popular site by a long way was the Colosseum and Forum compl...
Protestors against Italian troops in Iraq will be out on the streets in Rome on Sat 20 March. The march for peace, which is expected to attract a large turn-out, will start at 14.00 from Piazza della Repubblica, near the...
In an attempt to stop unregistered taxis offering their illegal services at Rome Fiumicino airport, there is now a tourist information point in terminal B distributing tourist information and giving advice about public t...
On Sat 20 March there will be a demonstration in Rome in favour of the withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq. The march, which is supported by most of the left wing political parties and by two of the major trade un...
The British Chamber of Commerce for Italy (BCCI) this year celebrates 100 years as the main point of reference for the British business community in the country. The oganisation was founded in Genoa in 1904, transferring...
Romes city council is calling for ideas from citizens to improve the quality of life in the capital. The council is looking for project proposals to solve concrete problems in the city, rather than complaints or generic...
Tourism in Rome was up by 0.53 per cent last year over the previous year. Of the more than 16 million tourists who visited the city and province in 2003, 6.4 million were Italians, an increase of 4.56 per cent over the y...
Computer sales in Italy are now outstripping television sales for the first time. Last year 3,658,000 new computers were bought, compared with 3,529,000 new television sets. Most of these computers were bought by profess...
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