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Rome's commissioner Tronca scraps Marino's "Rome & You" city logo.
Rome's commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has scrapped the controversial "Rome & You" city logo, introduced by former mayor Ignazio Marino in...
Historical groups evoke ancient Roman tradtions with Natale di Roma.
The capital celebrates its 2,769th birthday on Thursday 21 April, with events lasting until Sunday 24 April. Known as Natale di Roma, the annual bi...
Google Earth satellite imagery helps FAO with natural resource management.
The Rome-based United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has joined forces with multinational technology giant Google in using s...
Mutua Basis Assistance (MBA) offers special benefits to Wanted in Rome readers.
Mutua Basis Assistance (MBA), Italy's largest mutual aid society, offers readers of Wanted in Rome an exclusive package of special benefi...
Children's cinematherapy at Rome's Gemelli hospital.
A premiere of Disney's new children's film The Jungle Book took place at a new cinema facility at the Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, one of Rome's ma...
Daily tours in English of normally off-limits areas of Rome's Castel S. Angelo fortress.
Visitors to the Castel S. Angelo museum in Rome can take the new Castello segreto (secret castle) tour which includes areas usua...
22nd edition of Rome marathon takes place under the sun.
The 22nd edition of the Rome marathon on Sunday 10 April was once again dominated by African runners, with Kenyan Amos Kipruto winning the men’s race and Ethiop...
Gaby Ford's English Theatre of Rome celebrates 20th anniversary.
The English Theatre of Rome celebrates its 20th anniversary on 9 April. Formerly known as Off Night Repertory, the company was founded in 1996 and is ba...
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...
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