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Measures to protect tourists from pickpockets and fake porters
Rome's Termini station is to install barriers at the beginning of platforms to allow access only to passengers with tickets. The measures are designed as...
Rome's mayor expresses solidarity with city's Jewish community
Police in Rome are investigating a spate of anti-semitic graffiti that has appeared on shopfronts and walls around the capital in recent days.
The lat...
City votes to reduce advertising billboards
Rome has passed new legislation to reduce the amount and size of billboards that can be placed around the capital by advertisers.
The maximum size for the largest signs...
Rome's new culture councillor also faces problems at Teatro Valle and Teatro Eliseo
A tentative agreement has been reached between management and unions representing the staff of Rome's Opera House, following recent s...
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This past Sunday, 27 July, in Rome, Italy, 36-year old pho...
Historic movie theatre destined for retail and office use but will retain small cinema
Rome's former Metropolitan cinema building at the Piazza del Popolo end of Via del Corso could be turned into a shopping mall, aft...
Decision follows Rolling Stones controversy
Rome has approved significant increases in the cost of renting public spaces in the capital's historic centre. The move follows the controversy over last month's concert b...
Successful final voyage of shipwreck
The Costa Concordia shipwreck arrived at a port at Voltri, just outside Genoa in north-west Italy, five days after being towed away from the Tuscan island of Giglio.
The stricke...
Nobody injuried in accident caused by truck
The Via Flaminia in north Rome has reopened to traffic following the collapse of a pedestrian bridge on top of a truck on the evening of 24 July. The incident took place ou...
France warns that Corsica will not tolerate pollution
The Costa Concordia has travelled over 40 nautical miles in the 24 hours since it left Giglio on its way to be scrapped at the north-west Italian port of Genoa....
Woman sentenced to death for apostasy is welcomed in Italy
Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman who was condemned to death for converting from Islam to Christianity, arrived in Rome with her family on 24 July, en route...
Overhaul part of reorganisation plan by Rome's bus company
ATAC continues to reorganise its service, changing another batch of bus routes on 21 July, for the third time in as many months.
The changes affect routes...
AMA Roma cracks down on absenteeism
Rome's refuse collection agency AMA Roma is clamping down on its widely-documented rates of absenteeism, which the city's mayor Ignazio Marino has described as "unacceptable". The...
Rome, Venice and Milan most popular with foreigners
Rome was the most popular Italian city for foreign tourists during the first six months of this year, according to data compiled by leading online hotel reservation...
On the bimillennium of the death of Augustus on 19 August 14 BC, Rome is celebrating and rediscovering the emperor who made her great with initiatives, exhibitions and cultural events discussing his personality and his t...
Child's tomb covered with terrible curses
An ancient mausoleum containing a dozen tombs belonging to a family of wealthy nobles has been discovered at Rome's sprawling Ostia Antica archaeological site near the coast....
De Blasio welcomed by Marino
The New York mayor Bill De Blasio began his nine-day Italian holiday with a welcome from his Roman counterpart Ignazio Marino at the city hall on the evening of 20 July.
De Blasio, who...
1,500 new requests for assistance at station's help centre
The day centre at Rome's Termini station received 37,000 requests for assistance last year, according to findings by the Osservatorio Nazionale sul Disagio e...
High speed rail link to be launched in December
Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport will be the first Italian hub served by fast trains, with the initial experimental phase beginning in December with a high speed s...
Painting to be shown near the Pantheon
A watercolour by Adolf Hitler will be displayed at an art gallery near the Pantheon in Rome on 18 July.
The work on paper will be shown during a press conference at the Galle...
Accident halted half of A line on 15 July
The city's Metro A line has resumed normal service after an accident on the morning of 15 July led to commuter chaos for the whole day.
The incident, which occurred at arou...
Japanese sponsor visits site
Japanese entrepreneur Yuzo Yagi visited Rome's Piramide Cestia mid July to observe the final stages of the €2 million restoration process that he has funded since work began in March...
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...
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