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Invito a Palazzo offers free tours of bank buildings in Rome.
The 15th edition of Invito a Palazzo offers the public a glimpse inside the head offices of a variety of Italy’s banks, free of charge, on Saturday 1 Octob...
Rosi's documentary on Lampedusa immigration crisis is Italian Oscar contender.
Gianfranco Rosi's documentary film Fuocoammare will represent Italy in the best foreign language film category at the 2017 Academy Awards...
Italy goes to the polls to confirm or reject overhaul of parliament, other changes.
The government of prime minister Matteo Renzi has set 4 December as the date for the consultative referendum on a controversial const...
Rome will replace paper carte d'identità with plastic cards.
Rome is to introduce new plastic identity cards, or carte d'identità, replacing the current paper format with a credit card-sized card.
From November all...
Artists have portrayed Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery for three centuries.
Nicholas Stanley-Price
In 1872-73 the English artist Walter Crane spent 18 months on his honeymoon in Italy, most of it in Rome. Influenced b...
GRAB bicycle greenway gets green light.
Rome is to create a 44-km cycle-pedestrian path around the capital, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the Italian transport minister Graziano Delrio and...
Rome mayor pledges more policing to avoid anti-social behaviour at Spanish Steps.
The newly-restored Spanish Steps are to reopen to the public on the morning of 23 September following an 18-month restoration whose €1....
Raggi says “irresponsible” for city to bid for 2024 Olympics.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has said the city will withdraw its bid to host the 2024 Olympics, confirming her long-held opposition to the candidacy.
The m...
Fee allows visit plus one photo posing with hand in Mouth of Truth.
Tourists must pay a €2 fee to visit Rome's Bocca della Verità, known in English as the Mouth of Truth, which was previously free.
The charge allow...
Ambassador Sally Axworthy presents credentials to Pope Francis.
Britain’s new ambassador to the Holy See, Sally Axworthy, presented her credentials to Pope Francis at the Vatican on 19 September.
This is the first...
"A new couple and a new family are being born,” Raggi says.
Mayor Virginia Raggi has celebrated the first gay civil union in Rome since a controversial law legally recognising civil unions between same-sex couples ent...
Alitalia chief describes 24-hour strike by unions as "pure madness".
Alitalia pilots and cabin crew belonging to the ANPAC, ANPAV and USB trade unions are to strike for 24 hours on Thursday 22 September.
The strike...
Second edition of Rome's Muracci Nostri street art project.
Several streets in the northwest Rome district of Primavalle have been enlivened with murals and installations thanks to the community street art organisatio...
Sponsor says "barbarians" should not have access to restored Spanish Steps at night.
Paolo Bulgari, the chairman of luxury jeweller Bulgari which sponsored the €1.5 million restoration of Rome’s Spanish Steps, says th...
Romans among the least satisfied in EU with their capital city.
The inhabitants of Rome are among the least satisfied in the European Union about life in their city, according to the Urban Europe study by the EU stati...
New contemporary art festival of free cultural events in Roman galleries and studios.
Art lovers in the capital can look forward to a new cultural project this autumn with the arrival of Rome Art Week.
This collabo...
Raggi stands by Rome environment councillor under investigation.
Rome's beleaguered mayor Virginia Raggi says she stands by her environment councillor Paola Muraro who is currently under investigation relating to her...
Roman Enrica Zarfati was deported to Auschwitz in 1944.
Enrica Zarfati, Rome's last Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, has died in the capital, aged 95.
Born in 1921, Zarfati grew up in Garba...
300 Austrian trees go on display in Rome's Piazza S. Silvestro.
Visitors to Piazza S. Silvestro in Rome's city centre will find a translucent dome housing 300 Austrian trees, between 8 and 11 September.
Titled Airs...
Chaos for Rome commuters as Atac fleet reduced by 200 buses.
Commuters in Rome grappled with 200 less buses than normal on Monday 5 September, resulting in the cancellation of around 3,000 bus journeys, on the day man...
Cinema2Day to launch in Italian cinemas on 14 September.
Going to the cinema on every second Wednesday of the month will now only cost €2 thanks to a nationwide initiative announced by Italy's culture minister Dario F...
Like Rome’s monuments, a stay in the Eternal City is a many-layered experience and needs time to appreciate.
Mike Dilien
“A-NI-MAL! A-NI-MAL!” three year-old Stivan yells. He is sitting on the kitchen floor and dru...
Raggi loses two councillors plus heads of two city companies in one day.
The mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi was hit by the resignations of two key figures from her administration on 1 September: her cabinet chief and b...
Pope Francis to declare Mother Teresa a saint at Vatican ceremony.
Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata is set to be canonised by Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sunday 4 September, almost 13 years after her beatification...
Majority of Ciampino flights will move to Rome's main Fiumicino airport.
Rome's second airport Ciampino is scheduled to close for renovation and maintenance works from 14-29 October.
During the temporary closure th...
New look for Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.
Renovations at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) in Rome are nearing completion following a re-evaluation of the gallery's spaces by its new director...
Full tram service between Valle Giulia and Trastevere in Rome.
Rome's Tram 3 line resumes its original route, from Valle Giulia to Trastevere train station, on Monday 8 August.
For many years the terminus had been...
This is a small collection of work from the 9th grade Creative Writing class at St Stephen's School in Rome. Among the pieces in this sampling is a prose poem, a syllabic work based on the Fibonacci sequence, and several...
The office of Wanted in Rome, on Via di Monserrato 49, will be closed from 1 until 31 August, and will reopen on 1 September.
Wanted in Rome wishes all its readers a very happy summer.
British premier Theresa May meets Italian counterpart in Rome.
Britain's new prime minister Theresa May arrived in Rome on Wednesday 27 July to hold talks with her Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi at Villa Doria Pamp...
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