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Englishman Johnny Madge produces olive oil in the Sabina area of north Lazio.
By Philip Biss.
Italians are justly proud of their healthy diet and of that most important ingredient, olive oil. Where would the much-a...
Free entry to Italy's museums for women on 8 March.
Women in Rome and throughout Italy will have free entry to state museums and cultural sites on 8 March, as part of a nationwide initiative by the culture ministry to...
Raggi administration threatens to close Celio Azzurro.
Parents, teachers and small children gathered on the afternoon of 2 March to protest the threatened eviction of a multi-ethnic, city-subsidised kindergarten on th...
Master illustrator Mario Camerini creates hand-painted maps of Rome.
Andy Devane
Rome's central districts, or rioni, have been immortalised in a series of 22 hand-painted maps by master illustrator Mario Camerini....
Collins quits panel on protecting children over "lack of cooperation" from Curia.
Marie Collins, an Irish woman who was a victim of clerical sexual abuse as a girl, has resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the...
Rome exhibition offers new reading of Gentileschi's trailblazing artistic legacy.
By Andy Devane.
The stellar career of Italian early baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi has long been overshadowed by her tumultuo...
Wednesday Cinema2Day initiative extended until May.
The nationwide Cinema2Day initiative, which involves paying just €2 for cinema tickets on every second Wednesday of the month, has been extended until May by Italy's...
Piazza Venezia podium used by traffic police has been out of action for the last year.
The busy intersection in Piazza Venezia in front of Via del Corso has been without the traditional rush-hour sight of an elevated...
Controversy over revised stadium deal between city and AS Roma football club.
A plan to build a 52,000-seater stadium for Italian Serie A football team AS Roma has been given the green light following an agreement bet...
La La Land failed to win Best Picture but still scooped six of its 14 Oscar nominations at the Academy Awards ceremony on 26 February.
La La Land review by Paula Berner Magalhaes.
This romantic and lively Hollywood...
Rome celebrates traditional carnival season with parades and fireworks.
The ninth edition of Carnevale Romano, Rome's traditional carnival season, includes parades, readings, live music and fireworks, taking place in...
Papal visit to celebrate 200th anniversary of All Saints' Anglican Church.
Pope Francis will make an historic visit to All Saints’ Anglican Church on Via del Babuino on 26 February to mark the 200th anniversary of the...
Taxi drivers clash with police in central Rome.
A wildcat strike by Rome taxi drivers has been called off after six days following violent clashes involving protesting cab drivers and street traders on the evening of...
Four-hour strike by ATAC public transport network.
A four-hour strike by Rome’s public transport company ATAC is scheduled for Wednesday 22 February from 08.30-12.30.
The strike action will affect buses, trams, met...
Menorah exhibition result of unprecedented inter-religious cultural collaboration.
The Vatican Museums and the Jewish Museum of Rome will present their first joint exhibition in a move that is seen as underlining the...
Taxi strike in Rome enters sixth day.
Taxi drivers from across Italy are converging in Rome to protest against an amendment, currently before parliament, that would lead to the deregulation of the taxi sector.
The...
Police apprehend illegal "centurions" in Piazza del Popolo area.
Rome police have fined two men €400 each for dressing as centurions and charging tourists for photographs — a practice banned recently by the capital's...
Rome airports practically without taxis as drivers protest parliament vote.
Rome's taxi drivers are striking on Thursday 16 February ahead of a senate vote on a raft of measures which they say could favour multination...
Three generations of biscuit specialists in the heart of Trastevere.
Paula Berner Magalhaes
On a narrow street in Rome's Trastevere neighbourhood, the blending of gastronomic and family traditions can be tasted, and...
Paolo Berdini ninth senior figure to leave Raggi team.
Rome's urban planning chief Paolo Berdini has become the latest high-profile figure to abandon the administration of the capital's mayor Virginia Raggi of the ant...
Valentine's Day map aims to help victims of domestic violence.
A new map showing Rome's police stations in their proximity to the capital’s metro stations has been released on Valentine's Day by the website Giulia sot...
Market stall-holders claim they have been evicted by city.
The Mercato di Campagna Amica, a popular zero-km food market near Rome's Circus Maximus, has been closed by the administration of mayor Virginia Raggi.
The...
Rome monument vandalised yet again.
A traffic warden from the south of France has become the latest tourist arrested for defacing Rome's recently-restored Colosseum.
The 46-year-old French tourist, who was caught c...
An interview with Elio D’Anna, Founder and President Of the European School of Economics
After the financial crisis, the frontiers and the players of the global economy have changed. The technological developments and...
Some suggestions for a romantic Valentine’s Day in Rome.
Numerous Valentine's Day events are taking place in the capital whose MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo and Chiostro del Bramante have special two...
Third-grade student Jonah Giuliani, aged eight, writes about life at Ambrit International School.
My name is Jonah and I am an Ambrit student. Ambrit is an international school in Rome. It has kids from all around the...
The process of applying for Italian citizenship is complicated and costly and the treatment reserved for future Italians leaves much to be desired.
Laura Clarke
To become or not to become an Italian citizen? That is th...
Anti-Pope Francis posters coincide with Knights of Malta feud.
Rome police have launched an investigation into the appearance of dozens of illegal posters critical of Pope Francis posted around the capital during the...
Raggi questioned over life insurance policy as part of corruption probe.
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi, of the anti-establishment Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S), faces fresh corruption allegations following an eight-hour hear...
Sit-in and vigil on Via Veneto in protest over Trump travel ban.
Two separate protests against President Donald Trump's order restricting entry into the US took place outside the US embassy on Rome's Via Veneto on 2 F...
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