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70 years since liberation of Auschwitz
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday 27 January, numerous memorial events are being held in Rome until 15 February.
Established in 2005 b...
Rome International Church launches on 25 January
The Rome International Church holds its first public worship service at St George's British International School in the La Storta district of north Rome at 11.00 on 25...
We continue our series of traditional Italian crafts with two workshops preserving family businesses in Perugia
There are many reasons for visiting Perugia, Umbria's historic capital. The mediaeval city centre is an...
Restorers find marks indicating sectors of stadium
Traces of painted red numbers have been discovered during the ongoing restoration of the Colosseum, indicating various sectors of the amphitheatre similar to the seat...
Italian police display recovered stolen treasures
Italian art police unveiled their largest-ever single seizure of looted antiquities, comprising more than 5,000 archaeological items, during a press conference at Rome...
Marginalised and forgotten, Roma children play football in dangerous conditions.
By Mike Dilien.
“Che c’è scritto?” the man yelled. “Che c’è scritto?” he repeated and pointed at the road signs I had ignored. What w...
Summer 1959. Under the auspices of Pier Paolo Pasolini, HCB, as Cartier Bresson liked to be called, finds himself in Via S. Angelo in Pescheria in Rome's ghetto, trusty Leica in hand. The scene all the more pro...
Rome-based aid agencies and church organisations tackle west African epidemic
Rome has been at the forefront in the battle against the world's most widespread outbreak of ebola since the disease re-emerged in the west...
Six-month training and trial period begins January
Italy's interior ministry has issued Rome police with pepper spray as part of a six-month trial, with 650 officers in the capital beginning training courses in its u...
The story behind Rome's brass cobblestones.
While a group of young school children kick a soccer ball around in the Jewish ghetto, their ball bounces over the sampietrini but also on top of some brass cobblestones tha...
Border police ask for more resources at Fiumicino
Border police at Rome's principal international airport Leonardo Da Vinci complain of inadequate resources at one of Italy's most security-sensitive locations. Appeal...
Safe return of Italian women kidnapped in Syria
Two Italian aid workers kidnapped in northern Syria and held hostage for more than five months returned to Rome in the early hours of 16 January and are now undergoing h...
Annual tradition takes place in Rome and across Italy
On Saturday 17 January Italy celebrates the feast day of St Anthony Abbot, the patron saint and protector of animals.
Each year, for the last eight consecutive...
Voting for new president to begin by end of January
The Italian president Giorgio Napolitano signed his letter of resignation at 10.30 on Wednesday 14 January, weeks after stating his intention to resign due to a...
Student in critical condition in Rome hospital
An American student is receiving emergency care at Rome's S. Camillo hospital after falling off the parapet over the river Tiber at Lunogtevere dei Vallati in the early...
Rome acts to reduce smog
Rome has prohibited the most polluting vehicles from circulating within the city's green belt (the area inside the GRA ring road) on Tuesday 13 January from 07.30 to 20.30.
The city s...
Culture officials fear damage to Quattro Fontane fountains
Rome’s cultural heritage officials have blocked plans to film a high-speed car chase at the Quattro Fontane intersection as part of the new James Bond m...
Authorities on high alert for terrorism in Rome
Italy's interior minister Angelino Alfano convened an emergency anti-terrorism meeting to assess the terrorist threat to Rome following the attack on the Paris office of F...
Authorities on high alert for terrorism in Rome
Italy's interior minister Angelino Alfano convened an emergency anti-terrorism meeting to assess the terrorist threat to Rome following the attack on the Paris office of...
Registry offices now open all day Monday to Friday
Rome has changed the opening hours of all its anagrafe or registry offices which are now open from 08.00 to 18.30, Monday to Friday.
Previously city offices were m...
No cost for eco-friendly service
Rome's refuse collection service AMA has requested that people recycle their Christmas trees, rather than dispose of them illegally in street bins, at any of its 14 collection centres...
Sales begin two days earlier than previously announced
The post-Christmas sales season is underway in Rome and throughout Lazio, running until 16 February. The sales commenced in Rome on 3 January, slightly earlier th...
Religious feast forms backdrop to day of festivities and shopping in Rome
On 6 January, Italians celebrate the religious feast of the Epiphany or the more popular one of La Befana. It is a public holiday across Italy...
Mister OK takes final dive following request from director Paolo Sorrentino
On 1 January in Rome crowds gather to view the annual Tuffo nel Tevere, by now one of the capital's most unusual and popular New Year’s...
English language religious services in churches in Rome over Christmas
Wanted in Rome has compiled a list of English language religious services in Rome over Christmas. For Pope Francis' programme see the Vatican cale...
Click here for the 2019 listing
A guide to New Year's Eve in Rome
As New Year’s Eve approaches, Wanted in Rome highlights a selection of events taking place on the Festa di S. Silvestro or Capodanno, as it is kno...
Cribs on display across Rome during Christmas season
At this time of the year Rome has numerous Christmas cribs on show, the best-known of which is 100 Presepi in Piazza del Popolo. The 39th edition of this annual int...
Tango dance in celebration of Argentine pontiff
A day of prayer is being held for Pope Francis on the occasion of his 78th birthday on 17 December.
The Twitter-based initative #AuguriFrancesco began at midnight on...
Traffic ban affects buses and taxis Rome's Via dei Fori Imperiali will be closed to all traffic during the Christmas period from 25 December until 7 January.
The measure affects taxis and eight bus lines whose routes...
Bid could also involve Vatican
Italy is bidding to host the 2024 Olympics following an announcement by Italian premier Matteo Renzi at the headquarters of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) in Rome on 15 December....
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