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Rome resolves to move summer bars and stalls following petition to save Kentridge mural.
Rome has pledged to reorganise the placement of the Tevere Estate bars and shops along the banks of the Tiber, following a petit...
Rome appeals to Italian and foreign sponsors for €500 million.
Rome's outgoing commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has issued a €500-million appeal to private donors and companies to sponsor the restoration of the cit...
80 per cent of Rome city employees strike over contract renewals.
About 24,000 Rome municipal employees are striking on 25 May to call for the renewal of their contracts, as well as a chance to renegotiate a 20 per ce...
Rome artists appeal to protect Kentridge mural from being obscured by summer bars and shops.
Leading figures from the Italian art world have signed an online petition to halt the summer-long Estate Romana string of st...
Harry Shindler takes case to supreme court over ex-pats' right to vote in Brexit referendum.
Two British ex-pats have taken an emergency case to the British supreme court after losing their latest attempt to overturn...
Ecumenical choir performs English sacred music in Rome.
The Sutton Chorale, an ecumenical choir based in London, will perform English sacred choral music at several churches in Rome in late May, according to Vatican R...
Prestigious Rome horse show combines equestrian events with high society.
The 84th edition of the annual Piazza di Siena horse show-jumping competition takes place in Rome's Villa Borghese from 25-29 May.
The five-...
440 vintage cars arrive in Rome as part of annual Mille Miglia event.
A fleet of 440 vintage cars from 36 countries arrives in Rome on the night of Friday 20 May, as part of the Mille Miglia race between the northern...
2,000-year-old military base discovered during works for Rome's Metro C.
The Italian culture ministry has unveiled an ancient Roman barracks, found during Metro C works in the S. Giovanni area of Rome in November, in...
Rome drain covers and fountain tops sold to illegal scrap merchants.
Dozens of cast-iron manhole covers have been stolen recently in Rome's suburbs, with about 50 alone taken from along Viadotto Gronchi, in the north-...
European court accepts case brought by Amanda Knox against Italy.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has accepted an appeal against Italy by Amanda Knox, the American woman acquitted last year by Italy's highe...
Fassina back in Rome's race for mayor.
Italy’s highest administrative court has readmitted Stefano Fassina, Rome mayoral candidate for Sinistra Italiana (SI), to local elections in June.
The Council of State ove...
The exclusion of Stefano Fassina leaves four candidates in the race for Rome's mayor.
The Lazio regional administrative tribunal (TAR) has upheld the exclusion of Stefano Fassina, Rome mayoral candidate for the smal...
War veteran Shindler to receive honoury doctorate together with Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti.
The American University of Rome (AUR) is to confer honourary doctorates on British war veteran Harry Shindler MBE and the...
Civil unions in Italy become law.
The chamber of deputies has given definitive approval to a controversial bill introducing civil unions for same-sex couples.
The bill passed on 11 May after first being put to a...
At present five candidates are running for Rome mayor in June.
There are currently five main candidates in the running for the post of Rome mayor in local elections on 5 June, with the second-round ballot scheduled...
Virginia Raggi against Rome Olympics for cost reasons.
Rome mayoral candidate Virginia Raggi has reaffirmed her opposition to Rome's 2024 Olympic bid following a key meeting with Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) presi...
Archeoboat connects Rome to ancient Fiumicino port at weekends until 30 October.
A new tourist service called Archeoboat provides boat trips along Rome's Tiber, connecting the city with the ancient Roman harbour near...
FAO and Nobel laureates unite to outline links between food security and peace.
Four Nobel laureates will highlight the critical links between food security and peace at an event hosted by the Rome-based United Nation...
Baubeach has been a summer haven for Rome's dogs for 18 years.
Rome’s beach designated exclusively for dogs and their owners reopens on Saturday 7 May and this year celebrates its 18th anniversary.
The 7,000-sqm st...
Morricone pulls out of three Rome performances over back problems.
Celebrated Italian composer Ennio Morricone has cancelled three concerts in Rome due to two collapsed spinal vertebrae, according to the Accademia S....
Rome plays its part in marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
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"Not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more." This is the Shakespeare quotation chosen by Christopher Prentice, Brit...
Night visits at the Vatican Museums until October.
The Vatican Museums open every Friday evening from 19.00-23.00 from 6 May to 29 July, and from 2 September until 28 October.
Online booking is mandatory, with last...
Street art by Alice Pasquini, Gaia and Fintan Magee in Rome.
Roman street artist Alice Pasquini has created a new mural in the capital featuring a couple kissing based on the famous image taken in Paris by Italian pho...
The spectacular tradition of rose petals fluttering down through the oculus of the Pantheon can be enjoyed on Sunday 15 May following 10.30 Mass for the feast of Pentecost.
The ancient ceremony...
World’s top tennis players come to Rome.
The 73rd edition of the Rome Master tennis tournament, known officially as the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, is currently taking place at the Foro Italico until 15 May.
The e...
Rome museums enlivened by night with music, theatre and dance.
The nationwide Notte dei Musei returns on Saturday 21 May, involving the opening of museums, galleries, monuments and archaeological sites in Rome and thr...
Rome's annual Komen Race for the Cure begins and ends at Circus Maximus.
Registration is now open for the 17th edition of the Komen Italia Race for the Cure which takes place on the streets of central Rome on Sunday 1...
Linea Mare connects Rome to beaches throughout summer.
Rome’s bus service to beaches along the coast from Ostia south to Torvaianica resumed on 1 May and runs throughout the summer.
The daily 62 service connects Vi...
U2's The Edge becomes first rock musician to play in Sistine Chapel.
U2 guitarist The Edge made history on 30 April when he became the first rock musician ever to perform in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, to raise awar...
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