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Weekend of strikes, traffic bans and marathon in Rome.
A four-strike by Rome’s public transport company ATAC is scheduled from 20.30 until end of service on Friday 8 April, affecting buses, trams, metro and light rail...
Last anti-smog Sunday of the winter season coincides with annual Rome marathon.
Traffic will be blocked in Rome's ZTL (zona di traffico limitato) and green zone on Sunday 10 April between 07.30 and 12.30 and again b...
Prime Minister Renzi hopes environmental referendum will fail.
On 17 April Italians are called to vote in a referendum on the duration of existing oil and gas exploration and drilling concessions in territorial waters...
The Turano Valley has been of strategic interest over the centuries.
The impressive fortress of Rocca Sinibalda overlooks and protects the tiny mediaeval village at its foot, dominating the meandering lower reaches of t...
Registration open for the annual Rome marathon.
The 22nd edition of the Maratona di Roma, which begins and ends at the Colosseum, takes place at 08.40 on Sunday 10 April.
More than 16,700 athletes from 115 differen...
Rome's MAXXI museum in mourning over death of Zaha Hadid.
Giovanna Melandri, the president of Rome's MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, has paid tribute to the museum's architect Zaha Hadid who died of a...
Wartime bunker built for Italy's former royal family.
A bunker designed for Italy's former royal family has opened to the public for the first time, after being abandoned by 70 years, at Rome's Villa Ada park.
The...
Italy’s first Ivory Crush takes place at Circus Maximus in Rome.
Italy joins the international fight against the poaching and illegal trafficking of elephant ivory and rhino horn, with the nation's first public ivory...
Rome's Muslim and Jewish communities help to design routes for Vatican Jubilee Year of Mercy.
A programme of 20 cultural itineraries featuring 330 sites around Rome was presented by Italy's culture ministry on 29 Marc...
Giancarlino's flower cycle in Via dei Cappellari brings back memories of a vanishing Rome.
By Mary Wilsey
“Sono andato in giro tutto il pomeriggio per le strade...” is the opening of the short story, Blumen, by Austria...
Rome's religious and cultural links with Ireland's Easter Rising 100 years ago.
By Mícheál MacCraith
This year marks the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which was the violent culmination of a long campaig...
20,000 less tourists in Rome for Easter following Brussels attacks.
There will be at least 20,000 less tourists in Rome this Easter, compared to last year, according to data provided by the capital's hotel association...
More light in the evenings but darker in the mornings.
Don’t forget to set your watches and clocks forward one hour at 02.00 Central European Time (CET) on Sunday 27 March.
Central European Summer Time (CEST) will...
Raggi sets out her programme ahead of Rome mayoral election.
Battling corruption, improving rubbish collection and decongesting traffic are top priorities for the Rome mayoral candidate Virginia Raggi of the anti-esta...
Rome's “mediaeval Sistine Chapel” reopens after 36-year restoration.
The sixth-century S. Maria Antiqua church in the Roman Forum, one of Rome’s earliest surviving Christian monuments, reopened to visitors on 24 March...
72nd anniversary of massacre at Rome's Fosse Ardeatine.
Italian president Sergio Mattarella attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Rome’s Fosse Ardeatine mausoleum on 23 March, in memory of the 335 people killed by the...
Rome monuments illuminated in Belgian flag colours after Brussels attacks.
Rome is increasing its security measures once again, in particular over the upcoming Easter weekend, in the wake of the Brussels terror attack...
85 per cent of city properties in Rome centre not paying rent.
Rome is owed €357 million in unpaid rent, accumulated over the years, from the city's 28,000 residential and commercial properties, according to a report...
All Rome flights to Brussels cancelled after Belgium terror attacks.
Rome's Fiumicino and Ciampino airports are in a state of heightened alert following the terror attacks in Brussels on the morning of 22 March.
Se...
The debate rages (among men of course) about whether a pregnant woman should run as a candidate for mayor of Rome.
Are men simply jealous that they can't be pregnant and run for mayor of the capital? Or are they just...
Four-hour Rome bus strike coincides with 24-hour nationwide train strike.
A four-strike by Rome’s public transport company ATAC is scheduled between 08.30 and 12.30 on Friday 18 March, affecting buses, trams, metro an...
English-language religious services in Rome during Easter Week.
VATICAN CEREMONIES
24 March. Holy Thursday. Chrism Mass, Vatican Basilica, 09.30.
25 March. Good Friday. Papal Mass, Vatican Basilica 17.00, Way of the...
Rome’s first Wall of Kindness designed to help the less fortunate.
Students from Rome's Marymount International School are creating a “Wall of Kindness”, where visitors can donate clothes to the less fortunate, on Sat...
Noted Italian buildings open for Giornate FAI di Primavera on 19 and 20 March.
Some 900 libraries, palaces, archaeological sites and religious buildings across Italy are open to the public free of charge on 19 and 20...
False friends, superabundant nouns and other confusables.
Martin Bennett
Sbagliando si impara, goes a wonderfully forgiving Italian proverb, tailor-made for non-native learners. Or, in blunter English: “You learn f...
Report shows quarter of Rome city staff off work at any one time.
Rome's commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has promised to take tough action against absenteeism after leaked statistics published in the capital's dai...
WakeupRoma clean-up campaign promises to restore civic pride in Rome.
WakeupRoma, the largest voluntary clean-up campaign ever organised in Italy, is taking place on Saturday 12 March in four separate locations around...
Fundrasing in Rome for victims of Nepal earthquake.
Each year during the six weeks of Lent, Churches Together, an ecumenical fellowship comprising 11 mainly English-speaking churches in Rome, raises money for the Rice...
Rome's motorists blessed on feast day of S. Francesca Romana.
Each year on 9 March drivers in Rome can receive the blessing of the capital’s patron saint of motorists, S. Francesca Romana, at the monastery named in he...
Numerous "Festa della Donna" events in Rome for International Women’s Day.
Women have free admission to all state museums and archaeological sites across Italy for International Women’s Day on Tuesday 8 March. There i...
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