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How to volunteer.
Anyone interested in signing up as a volunteer to help pilgrims during the Holy Jubilee Year can find all the information and necessary application form on the easy-to-use official website, in six la...
Special Italian task force to save world cultural sites.
UNESCO has accepted the project of Italy's prime minister for a specialist unit of Italian experts to save world historic and cultural sites under threat of des...
72nd anniversary of deportation of Rome’s Jews.
Commemorative events are taking place in Rome on 16 October, 72 years after more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews were deported to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz....
Contracts worth €2 billion.
Rome's public transport company ATAC awarded the vast majority of its service and supply contracts from 2010-2015 without due legal process. It is also suspected that contracts were signed...
Money for political parties approved by the senate.
Party financing has been released by the Italy's senate in record time. The upper house of Italy’s parliament has agreed to unlock €45 million in party funding for t...
€3,000 in cash instead of €1,000 now permitted for payments.
The ceiling for cash payments for goods and services is to be raised from the present €1,000 to €3,000.
Strict limits on cash payments were introduced by...
Annual fee to drop from €113 to €100.
The €100 fee for the television licence will be included in electricity bills from 2016 onwards.
The measure, contained in the budget bill, is designed to stop extensive non-pa...
UN secretary general thanks Italy for saving immigrants.
Ban Ki-Moon spoke in Italian when he thanked a joint session of parliament for Italy's help to migrants, defining it as “humane and courageous.”
He acknowled...
No public service strikes during Jubilee.
The head of Italy's strike regulatory body (commissione di garanzia e sciopero) has called for a moratorium on public service strikes in Rome that coincide with important even...
Rome's women taxi drivers get in-cab surveillance cameras.
Night-time attacks are high among Rome's taxi drivers, 10 per cent of whom are women. 15 surveillance tele-camera systems, called Roadscan, have been presente...
Italy's budget plan for 2016.
Measures presented by prime minister Matteo Renzi's government include lowering of taxes on first houses, promises of lower taxes on companies from 2017 and changes to pension regulations...
Civil union legislation has been tabled in Italy's chamber of deputies.
The controversial measure, which would also allow the adoption of the partner's children, could split the present government coalition.
Three arrests for bribery in return for contracts.
Italy's anti-corruption agency (ANAC), headed by magistrate Raffaele Cantone, has arrested three people in Rome on charges of bribery in return for asphalting contrac...
Rome's outgoing mayor works to compete pedestrianisation project.
Rome's outgoing mayor, Ignazio Marino, is working to complete his plan to pedestrianise the whole of Via dei Fori Imperiali, from Piazza Venezia to the...
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Have you ever seen the London Tube Map?
Well, the London Tube has 11 lines and 382 stations. This massive public transportation network allows people to know, live and visit the city.
The T...
Italy moves closer to constitutional change.
The government of prime minister Matteo Renzi has moved a step closer to overhauling Italy's two-chamber parliamentary system following approval by the senate of a highly c...
Rome hosts week of cultural events against homophobia.
The capital hosts a series of cultural events dedicated to the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community as part of Rome Rainbow Week...
Works on Rome metro system ahead of Jubilee year.
Rome's A, B and B1 lines will close at 22.00 from 18 October for maintenance ahead of the Holy Jubilee year which begins on 8 December.
Rome's main metro lines will...
Bulgari-sponsored project causes disruption to local businesses.
Rome’s Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti, better known as the Spanish Steps, is set to undergo a €1.5-million restoration financed by luxury jeweller Bu...
Rome's MAXXI to manage L'Aquila contemporary art museum.
A new modern art museum is set to open in the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila, under the management of the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome's mu...
Rome city government on hold for 20 days.
Following the resignation of Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino on the evening of 8 October, the city government is left with only ordinary administrative powers for the next 20 days...
Ignazio Marino leaves in wake of Rome credit card scandal.
The mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino has resigned following pressure from his Partito Democratico (PD) party in the wake of mounting political pressure on the may...
Case opened after Marino makes public his expenses.
Rome prosectutors have opened an investigation into the expenses of the capital's embattled mayor Ignazio Marino, in the wake of a petition lodged by the anti-establ...
Drivers on routes most at risk will be protected by guards.
Drivers operating buses on Rome's most dangerous routes will soon be protected by armed guards, according to the city's transport councillor Stefano Esposito...
Traces of the House of Stuart can still be seen in Rome 300 years after the Jacobite Rising in Scotland.
The Jacobite Rising in Scotland in 1715 was the second of three unsuccessful attempts made by James Francis Edwa...
Five new trains for Leonardo Express rail link to Rome airport.
Rome's Leonardo Express airport rail link has been boosted following the launch of five new state-of-the-art trains on 2 October, during a ceremony at Te...
Tenth anniversary of Festa dei Nonni in Italy.
On 2 October Italy celebrates the important role of grandparents in families and society in general.
The Festa dei Nonni is being marked with events and initiatives ac...
Street Heart project continues to brighten Rome suburbs.
German street artists Herakut have completed a largescale mural in the east Rome district of Torpignattara, as part of the ongoing Street Heart project organise...
Strike closes Rome's Metro A and B.
A strike action by members of the USB trade union has forced the city to close down the Metro A and B lines on Friday 2 October as part of a 24-hour public transport strike.
The...
New focus on children, culture and tradition at Piazza Navona market.
The Christmas market at Piazza Navona has been reorganised and from now on the number of stalls will be reduced to 48, down from 72 last year.
T...
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