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Rome protects the nests of swallows, martins and swifts.Rome has brought in new legislation protecting its swallows which it says will encourage the environmentally sustainable control of tiger mosquitoes instead of disi...
Museums in Rome free on first Sunday of every month.
Italy's state-run museums and archaeological sites are open free of charge on the first Sunday of every month, with the next edition of Domenica al Museo taking place...
Rome registers triple annual number of sinkholes already in 2018.Rome has 32 square kilometres of underground tunnels and chasms at risk of opening up under the strain of traffic and buildings, according to the hydrograp...
Rome, 28 May 2018 – Leading global school operator NACE Schools together with its Italian partners have completed the integration of two of Rome’s best known international schools into their network - Rome International...
Highlight of national celebrations is Frecce Tricolori aeronautical display in Rome.
The 72nd celebration of the Festa della Repubblica marking Italy’s national day takes place in Rome and across Italy on Saturday 2 J...
Chris Froome becomes first British winner of Giro d'Italia in Rome.Chris Froome was declared the first British winner of the 101st edition of Giro d’Italia, the cycling world's second-biggest annual stage race, in Rome o...
Forgotten Project commissions Rome mural by British artist.
Forgotten Project has unveiled a new Rome mural by the English street artist Lucy McLauchlan outside the abandoned Campo Testaccio, the legendary former footba...
David Tongue replaces Martyn Hales who retires after ten years in role.St George’s British International School, Rome, has appointed David Tongue as its new principal, replacing Martyn Hales who will retire at the end of...
Top international athletes compete in Rome on 31 May.
The 38th edition of the Golden Gala, Italy’s annual track and field event, takes place at Rome’s Olympic Stadium at 19.30 on 31 May.
As usual the sporting ev...
Second sinkhole to open on Rome's Via Ambrosini in six months.
A sinkhole measuring six metres deep opened up on Via Ambrosini in the Montagnola neighbourhood of southern Rome on 24 May. There were no injuries.This is t...
Political novice to implement M5S-Lega ‘contract for government of change’
President Sergio Mattarella has given little-known university law professor Giuseppe Conte a mandate to form a government embracing the populi...
Zingaretti appeals to local authorities to cut overgrown green areas.Local authorities in Lazio and the greater Rome area have been warned to cut the overgrown grass in "abandoned green areas" and roadside verges which r...
Mayor Raggi pledges 2,150 nasoni operating again by July.Rome is turning on its drinking fountains again after most of them were switched off last summer during a severe drought.The first 800 "nasoni" will become operati...
Eurostat survey taken in 2015 during Marino administration.Rome has come last out of 28 European capitals whose residents were asked to rate their satisfaction with the cleanliness of their city, according to a survey by...
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi heckled at Race for the Cure launch.Rome's Casa Internazionale delle Donne is facing eviction after the city administration of the anti-establishment Movimento 5 Stelle voted to close the women'...
Svitolina secures second win at Rome's Internazionali BNL d’Italia.Rafael Nadal secured a record eighth Italian Open title following a stunning come-back final match against 20-year-old German Alexander Zverev in the Int...
City says sheep already used to maintain Rome's Caffarella park.Sheep could be used to maintain Rome's wildly overgrown parks, with cows being deployed where the grass is too high, according to radical proposals being pu...
New rooms and Borromini staircase open to public for first time.
The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica at Palazzo Barberini opens 11 new rooms to the public on 18 May after museum management came to an agreement with the...
The populist Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) and right-wing Lega agree a government ‘contract’, but who will head the new executive remains unclear.
The populist Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) and right-wing Lega have sa...
The world's top tennis players will battle it out in the Internazionali BNL d’Italia at Rome's Foro Italico from 7-20 May 2018.By Ed White
Italy moves to the forecourt of world tennis from 7-20 May as the elite players...
Lighting system follows launch of youth hostel at beach-side castle.The exterior of the recently-restored Castello di S. Severa, located on S. Severa beach about 50km north of Rome, is illuminated at night thanks to a pe...
Palazzo Merulana houses Cerasi collection of 20th-century Italian art.A new museum hosting the important early 20th-century art collection of the Cerasi Foundation opens at Palazzo Merulana in Rome's Esquilino district o...
Rome's most intriguing buildings open their doors from 12-13 May.Registration is now open for the 2018 edition of Open House Roma which involves more than 200 of Rome’s museums, libraries, galleries, studios, academies a...
Police arrest two Casamonica suspects in Romanina bar attack.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has expressed her solidarity with RAI television reporters who were attacked while filming the arrest of two members of the promine...
Façade of Rome basilica shines again after year-long restoration.The façade of the Basilica di S. Maria in Trastevere, one of Rome's oldest churches, has returned to its original splendour following a restoration by the...
12th Rome passenger bus to catch fire while in service this year.
An ATAC city bus burst into flames on Via del Tritone in central Rome on the morning of 8 May, leading to the evacuation of the nearby Rinascente departm...
Number of bandiera blu beaches in Italy in reaches 368.Eight beaches in the Lazio region have been awarded the 2018 bandiera blu (blue flag) status for high water quality standards. The number of Lazio beaches to receive...
Major funds would be required to excavate the Oppio hill in Rome.
A "new Pompeii" could lie hidden deep beneath Rome's Colle Oppio however it would take "several millions" of euro to excavate it, according to Eleonora R...
M5s and Lega reject Mattarella proposal, PD gives support
Italy must either give itself a ‘neutral’ government with cross-party support that will hold office until the end of the year pending new elections in 2019 or re...
Art as a Voice for Women by Natasha Hughes, senior IB art student, aged 18, at St Stephen's School, Rome.
“I believe in equality. And I believe there is no difference between a man and a woman. I even believe that a wom...
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