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Rome tourists baffled after city installs wrong street map.
Tourists arriving into Rome's central Piazza Venezia have been left scratching their heads thanks to a new information panel, with detailed street map, install...
Disease risk linked to cockroaches, rats, flies and seagulls at Rome bins.
"There is a risk of passing from a hygienic emergency to a medical emergency, and therefore the risk of spreading diseases" due to the rubbish p...
Elizabeth Rodini succeeds Peter Benson Miller.
Scholar and curator Elizabeth Rodini begins a three-year term as the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome (AAR) on 1 July.
Rodini, who comes to...
Uruguayan tourist engraved "Juan" into wall of Colosseum.
A 32-year-old visitor from Uruguay has become the latest tourist to be caught vandalising the Colosseum.
The man used a key to carve his name - "Juan" into a ...
Romans post pictures of overflowing rubbish bins on Rome mayor's Facebook page.
As Rome battles a continuing rubbish crisis during scorching temperatures, Romans are posting photographs of the capital's rubbish-strewn s...
Rome police hand out €450 fines to tourists from Estonia, France, New Zealand, Ukraine and US.
Seven foreign tourists were fined €450 each after being caught entering the waters of Rome's historic fountains during the l...
Mediaeval fresco found in Rome church following discovery of obscure archive document.A large fresco dating from the Middle Ages has been discovered in a church on Rome's Aventine Hill, after being hidden behind an exter...
Doctors advise parents to keep children off Rome streets.
"Keep children at home, especially those with allergies," the Italian Pediatric Medical Society has warned Rome parents, as the capital grapples with a rubbish c...
Polish tourist cited for breach of Rome's drone ban.
A 34-year-old Polish tourist was detained by Rome police after being caught flying a drone over the city's 17th-century Spanish Steps on 26 June.
The tourist, whos...
Fiumicino scoops prestigious award for second consecutive year.Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport, better known as Fiumicino, has been rated Europe's best airport with over 25 million passengers, for the second year in a r...
Auditorium Parco della Musica pays tribute to late Italian conductor.The roof gardens of Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica have been named in honour of Claudio Abbado, the internationally celebrated Italian conductor,...
Festa di SS. Pietro e Paolo marked with fireworks at Piazza del Popolo.
Rome celebrates its patron saints, Peter and Paul, with a public holiday in the capital on Saturday 29 June.
This year the city marks the feast...
Annual campaign urges Romans not to dump their dogs during summer.
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi has launched a campaign calling on residents of the capital not to abandon their pets as they head off on summer holidays....
Rome public transport: the escalator which led to the eight-month closure of the recently-reopened Repubblica metro station is still broken.
The escalator which caused injury to dozens of Russian football fans at Rome's...
Lazio Region warns of health hazard due to rubbish on Rome's streets in heatwave.
The Lazio regional government has issued a public health warning over the trash accumulated on Rome's streets - particularly in the vicin...
Italian health authorities release red alert for heatwave.
Italy's health ministry has issued a heat warning for six Italian cities, including Rome, on Thursday 27 June, and for 16 cities on Friday 28 June.
The red a...
Guide on how to adopt a dog from Rome's kennels.
Are you ready to adopt a dog but don’t know where to begin looking in Italy? Although most people associate Rome with its cats, the good news is that there are many delig...
Andrea Gandini creates tree stump sculpture on Rome's Aventine hill.
The young Roman artist Andrea Gandini has created a new tree trunk sculpture in the Giardini degli Aranci, Rome's Orange Garden on the Aventine hill....
Historic floral display for Rome's patron saints Peter and Paul.
Rome celebrates its patron saints, Peter and Paul, with a public holiday in the capital on Saturday 29 June.
The historic infiorata floral display retu...
Repubblica station to reopen after eight months.
Rome's Repubblica metro station is to reopen at 05.30 on Wednesday 26 June, after being closed for eight months, following the collapse of the station's escalators on 23...
American e-scooter sharing companies Lime and Bird launch in Rome.Electric scooter sharing is now a reality in Rome following the go-ahead from Italy's transport ministry regarding the circulation of new forms of urban m...
Waters flow once again at Nymphaeum of Mirrors on Palatine Hill.
The fountains and surprise water jets of the Ninfeo degli Specchi, or Nymphaeum of Mirrors, are flowing once again - after 300 years - thanks to the ongoi...
Ron Howard to screen Pavarotti at Rome Film Fest 2019.
American actor Bill Murray will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in Rome, according to a sneak preview released by organisers of the Rome Film Fest.
US filmm...
Temperatures of up to 40 degrees in Rome later this week.
Italian weather forecasters are warning of "one of the most intense heatwaves of the last decade", with temperatures in Rome set to tip 40 degrees Celsius later...
Bishop of Rome expresses concern for capital.Rome has become "a city of decay and neglect" according to Pope Francis who was speaking during a Mass for Corpus Christi in the Tiburtina district on 23 June.
The pontiff ap...
ATAC terminates contract for 70 buses as they don't meet EU pollution standards.The 70 second-hand buses leased by Rome's public transport company ATAC earlier this year are being sent back to Israel as their Euro 5 engi...
Visitors can descend to network of tunnels where slaves once worked to heat baths.
It is now possible to visit a previously sealed-off stretch of the labyrinthine network of tunnels under Rome's Baths of Caracalla thank...
Rome celebrates its patron saints with free visit to Forum sites.
From 29 June, the feast day of Rome's patron saints Peter and Paul, it will be possible to visit the Roman Forum and the Imperial Fora with a single tick...
Qu Dongyu becomes ninth director-general of UN food agency.
Qu Dongyu, China's deputy agriculture minister, was elected director-general of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on...
11 ATAC buses have caught fire so far this year.
Two buses operated by Rome public transport company ATAC caught fire between the night of 22 June and the morning of 23 June, according to Italian news agency ANSA.
Th...
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