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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....
“I enjoy being 30, I drink my 30s like a liqueur, I don’t shrivel up in premature old age, cyclostyled on carbon paper. Listen, Cernam, White, Bean, Armstrong, Gordon, Chaffee: being 30 is great, and so is being 31, 32,...
Italian strikes lead Ryanair and easyJet to cancel flights
Italy's national public transport and air traffic controllers strike is affecting flights throughout the country on Friday 12 December, causing delays and hu...
Protests and traffic disrupt city
Rome is bracing itself for what is known colloquially as a venerdì nero, or Black Friday, due to a national strike called by most of Italy's trade unions. Three of the main uni...
Museum established at residence of British ambassador in Rome
A small museum housing a collection of over 350 ancient Roman marble artefacts was presented at Villa Wolkonsky, the residence of the British ambassador i...
Eight-hour national strike to disrupt Friday transport in Rome
Commuters in Rome face a national public transport strike on Friday 12 December, from 09.00-17.00.
The strike will affect ATAC's buses, trams, metro a...
New rules of decorum for market's stalls
The number of stall permits at the Christmas market in Rome's Piazza Navona have been reduced from 115 to 72, as part of new rules for the historic market which opens each yea...
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