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Rome stepchild adoption recognition follows landmark Milan ruling. A Rome court has recognised a lesbian couple as the mothers of the daughter born to one of the women through assisted reproduction. Gay activists h...
British in Italy group to participate in pro-EU “March for Europe” in Rome. European Union heads of state or government are meeting in Rome on 25 March for an extraordinary European Council, 60 years after the signing...
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Restored 14th-century Roman complex offers culture and accommodation. The Ospitale S. Francesca Romana, a 14th-century lodging house designed originally as a refuge for the sick, elderly and poor, has been relaunched...
The Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas has promoted ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue for three decades By Laura Ieraci. In a city more than 2,770 years old, an organisation’s 30th anniversary is not something most...
Restoration of two Roman fountains funded by Dutch sponsors. A group of Dutch patrons is funding the restoration of two Rome fountains as a symbolic gesture following the damage done to the 17th-century Barcaccia foun...
Six Nations ticket holders get free admission to 15 Rome museums. Italy faces France in the Six Nations rugby tournament at Rome's Olympic Stadium on Saturday 11 March. The match comes one week ahead of the final...
Festa delle Donne marked by women abstaining from work. Women across Italy are striking from work, as well as abstaining from university classes and household chores, on 8 March, International Women's Day. The move...
Royal visit to include Romania, Italy, Vatican and Austria. Britain's Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will visit Italy and the Holy See as part of a tour which will also include Romania and Austria. The...
24-hour strikes in Rome by ATAC and Cotral. Two 24-hour strikes by Rome’s public transport company ATAC and regional coach service Cotral are scheduled from 08.30-17.00 and from 20.00 until end of service on Wednesday...
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...
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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...
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