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Works completed on Rome metro system.
Rome’s A, B and B1 metro lines have returned to their normal timetables, following early closures over the last six weeks, just in time for the opening of the Holy Jubilee Year of...
The opening of the Holy Jubilee of Mercy went off smoothly but Rome remains on high terrorist alert.
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When the sun went down on the opening of the Holy Year of Mercy on 8 December organisers and securit...
Jubilee launch attended by far fewer pilgrims than expected.
The façade and dome of St Peter's were illuminated with enormous images of humankind's relationship with nature on the evening of 8 December, marking the en...
Rome requires more mortuary space to cope with emergencies.
A news piece in the Rome edition of the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera has highlighted unusual difficulties at the city's morgue. According to the news...
Rome under tight security for opening of Holy Jubilee.
Rome is under tight security as Pope Francis opens Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy on Tuesday 8 December, the Catholic feast day of the Immaculate Conception. The holy...
Christmas is a busy social season for Rome’s international community.
Each year Rome’s international community holds annual parties and events during the lead-up to Christmas, before departing to their home countries....
University students on the decline in Italy.
Enrolments in Italian universities have dropped by 70,000 in five years said Italy's minister of education, Stefania Giannini, at the opening of the academic year at Rome's...
Ban on traders around St Peter's for Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy.
Rome commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has signed a decree banning souvenir stalls and mobile sandwich-bars from the area around St Peter's Square for...
New route makes visits to Roman Forum easier.
The Roman Forum has opened a new pathway for wheelchair-users, families with pushchairs and people with difficulty walking.
The new "barrier-free" walkway begins at the...
Public transport strike by ATAC confirmed for 4 December.
A strike by the capital’s public transport company ATAC is confirmed on Friday 4 December between 08.30 and 12.30, affecting buses, trams, metro and light rai...
Rome is famed for its local cuisine but it is also home to many ethnic and international restaurants which add an exotic dimension, and taste, to the Eternal City.
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Strikes by ATAC and Roma TPL in Rome on 4 December.
Commuters in Rome face yet another “venerdì nero” as trade unions representing public transport workers call two separate strikes on Friday 4 December.
A four-str...
Rome's nativity cribs over Christmas season.
Rome has numerous Christmas cribs on display at this time of the year, the best-known of which is 100 Presepi in Piazza del Popolo. The 40th edition of this annual internat...
Free HIV screening at Rome hospital on World AIDS Day.
The Italian ministry of health has launched its annual AIDS awareness campaign in time for World AIDS Day on 1 December.
In Rome the infectious diseases clinic...
St Peter's Christmas tree and crib to mark the Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy.
The Vatican will unveil the St Peter's Square Christmas tree on 8 December, coinciding with the first day of the Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy, r...
Rome prosecutors open corruption investigation into ATAC.
Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation into corruption and malpractice at the capital's public transport company ATAC, following two reports into the tr...
Pollution levels too high in Rome.
Rome has banned the most polluting vehicles from circulating within the city’s fascia verde or green belt (the area inside the GRA ring road) on Monday 30 November from 07.30 to 20.3...
Irregular tenders for Piazza Navona Christmas stalls.
Rome commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has asked the city's Municipio 1, the administrative authority for Rome's historic centre, to cancel the allocation of lic...
Rome's Primark store opens on 1 December.
Primark, the Irish low-cost retail chain, is to open a store in the Rome suburb of EUR at the Euroma 2 shopping mall on 1 December, according to local media.
Since launchin...
Rome orders centurions and rickshaws off tourist sites.
Rome commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has banned centurions from posing with tourists at the city's archaeological and tourist sites, two weeks before the lau...
Rome commuters affected by national train strike.
A national train strike is scheduled in Italy from 21.00 on Thursday 26 November until 18.00 on Friday 27 November.
Trains are guaranteed on 26 November if they lea...
Uber to challenge Rome's public transport with U Line.
The taxi hailing mobile app Uber has asked its Rome users to vote for their ideal eight-stop itinerary of taxi ranks which the company is calling the "U Line."...
Appeal to help Rome combat terrorist threat.
Rome's commissioner Franco Gabrielli has urged Rome residents to report illegal Bed and Breakfasts in the capital as part of increased security measures during the upcoming...
Rome supports International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
A total of 152 women were murdered in Italy in 2014, with 94 per cent of the deaths attributed to men, according to a report into femicide...
Joel Nafuma Refugees Center Christmas appeal.
The Joel Nafuma Refugee Center (JNRC) at the American Episcopal Church of Rome, St Paul’s Within the Walls, is holding its annual Christmas Gift Bag Appeal between now an...
Rome police detain 23 refugees from Centro Baobab.
Rome police detained 23 undocumented refugees following a dawn raid at the volunteer-run Centro Baobab, which offers assistance to hundreds of refugees every day, on...
Outcry after Tredicine clan win tenders for Piazza Navona Christmas stalls.
Rome commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has launched an investigation after it emerged that many of the tenders for the Befana Christmas mar...
Vatican charges two Italian journalists with crime.
The representative for freedom of the media at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has called on the Vatican to withdraw its criminal accu...
Private funds for the Aventino's Giardino degli Aranci.
Rome's Giardino degli Aranci on the Aventine hill is to benefit from maintenance and restoration works funded by a private foundation, the Sorgente Group, in col...
A short guide to some of the most important international Cultural Academies in Rome representing countries from around the world in the Eternal city.
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