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Rome residents can contribute to installation by Japanese artist
The Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome is collecting old keys to be used by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota in the Japan pavilion at the 56th Venice Bi...
Romanian orphans come of age on the streets of Italy
TERMINI STATION. While commuters are rushing towards their trains, youths circle around the escalator to Via Giolitti. They wear tight jeans and tough-looking jacke...
Final stage of largest ever maritime salvage operation
The complex operation to refloat the Costa Concordia shipwreck has begun, two and a half years after it ran aground on rocks after sailing too close to the small...
A guide to registering civil and religious marriages in Italy.If you are planning your happy wedding day in Italy you may require a little more time than you thought. So if you would like bells and ribbons instead of red...
Shopping for a wedding gown at the St Rita monastery in Umbria
I can still hear the voice of Sister Maria Laura and remember her smiling face when she said, “No more cheesecake!” She was fitting me into a...
Ancient religious festival held in Trastevere every July
The annual Festa de' Noantri takes place in the Rome district of Trastevere from 15-30 July.
Central to the festival, which dates back to the start of the 1...
Rome's Belgian Academy celebrates its 75th anniversary
When the Belgian Academy was inaugurated in Valle Giulia in 1939, it must have caused a stir for the sheer novelty of its design. Sandwiched among the grandiose n...
Scaled down version features less films and returns to October slot
The ninth edition of the Rome Film Festival, which will take place from 16-25 October at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, will be a slimmed-down v...
Refuse trucks grounded over closed treatment plants
Rubbish has been piling up on Rome's streets in recent days due to the temporary closure of two of the city's four treatment plants.
The Via Salaria facility nor...
Project to concentrate on Pigneto and S. Lorenzo
Rome is to install surveillance cameras in a bid to combat drug dealing in Pigneto and S. Lorenzo, districts which have seen growing protests by residents in recent mo...
Famous Dublin statue restored before return to streets
The statue of legendary Dublin fishmonger Molly Malone will soon return to the streets following a two-month restoration programme costing an estimated €50,0...
75 per cent of waters contain bacteria
Much of the sea water around Rome is not suitable for bathing, according to data released recently by the Lazio branch of Italian environmental body Legambiente.
In early Jun...
A book belonging to John Keats has been bought by the Keats Shelley House in Rome and will go on display this autumn in the museum at the bottom of the Spanish Steps.
Keats’s autographed copy of Tacitus’s...
Rome exhibition reflects the colour and tragedy of Kahlo's life and art
Frida Kahlo, the world's best known exponent of Latin American art, had her first major exhibition in her native Mexico City in April 1953. By th...
Movie theme park located in Castel Romano
The long-awaited theme park dedicated to the magic of cinema will be opened on 16 July along Via Pontina in the Castel Romano area, about 10 km from EUR, south of Rome.
Des...
25 cyclists undertake charity cycle from Ireland to Rome
A group of 25 non-professional cyclists is undertaking a cycle of over 2,000 km from Ireland to Rome, to raise funds for 23 different cancer charities.
Centr...
Basilica is only landmark in Italy in travel guide's top ten St Peter’s Basilica in Rome has made the world's top ten list of landmarks in Tripadvisor’s second Travelers' Choice Attractions Awards, based on...
Shoppers should be wary of discounts more than 50 per cent
Summer sales in Rome begin on Saturday 5 July with discounted prices on offer for the following six weeks.
Italian business association Fismo-Confesercenti...
Plans to refloat shipwreck in mid-July
The Costa Concordia shipwreck will be towed away from the small Tuscan island of Giglio to be scrapped in the north-west Italian port of Genoa, following approval by the Italian...
The British pavilion in Milan will focus on the importance of the honey bee to our planet
British beekeepers will be delighted by the news that the winning design for the British pavilion at Milan's Expo 2015 designed...
Our second feature on traditional Italian crafts
The Amalfi Coast is one of Italy's most popular tourist spots, and yet few visitors venture from the coast to explore the craggy Lattari mountains that rise above the s...
Popular park reopens following restoration
Rome's newly-restored Villa Celimontana park has reopened after being closed to the public since April 2013.
The €970,000 restoration project focused mainly on a 20,0...
Bypass closed since January landslides
The tangenziale ringroad at Corso Francia in northern Rome has reopened following a five-month closure caused by landslides during the storms in January.
Rome's mayor Ignazio...
St Stephen's School on the Aventine celebrates 50 years in Rome on the weekend of 27-29 June.
The school was founded in 1964 by Revd John O. Patterson with an ethos focusing on a classical liberal arts education, mode...
Rome celebrates its Sts Peter and Paul
Although traditionally a public holiday in Rome, with public offices, schools and many shops closed, this year the feast day of St Peter and Paul falls on a Sunday so won't make...
Cars banned in additional areas around Colosseum and Piazza di Spagna
The second phase of pedestrianisation along Rome's Via dei Fori Imperiali begins on 28 June and remains in effect until 31 August.
During that t...
Visitors over 65 to pay for tickets
Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini has introduced new legislation regarding visiting times and ticket prices for Italy's heritage sites, taking effect from 1 July. The mi...
Team of Rome-based priests and seminarians travels to England
The Vatican-based St Peter’s Cricket Club, comprising priests and seminarians, has announced its first tour to England on 12 September.
The so-ca...
Rome mayor under fire for low fee
Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino has come in for heavy criticism after it was revealed that the Rolling Stones were charged just below €8,000 to use the Circus Maximus as their conce...
Private money needed to retore Rome's monument
Italy is seeking a corporate sponsor to provide the estimated €31 million required to preserve Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea in central Rome.
Situated on the Oppian...
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