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The Italian government could provide €2 million in funding towards the restoration of Rome's Mausoleum of Augustus, if approved by the Italian senate and house.
The funds, which are only part of the €1...
Rat catchers are busy catching rodents and making money in Rome
Rome has approved €400,000 to be spent on addressing the city's rat problem, according to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. It is common knowl...
Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino has admitted to being worried about the potential for violence at the upcoming AS Roma-Lazio derby at the Stadio Olimpico at 15.00 on 22 September.
The mayor made his remarks as the city dr...
Rome's occupied Teatro Valle enters new phase
Teatro Valle in Rome finally became a foundation on 16 September, putting it on the same footing as national and international cultural institutions.
The actors...
Insieme per Roma sponsors public art
A large flight of steps connecting Via di Vigna Murata and Via Luigi Lilio in Rome's EUR district has been transformed by artist Alessandro Sabong who turned the drab open-air sta...
London-based hotel group to run luxury Rome hotel
The luxury Hotel Eden in Rome was bought by London's Dorchester Collection on 18 September in a deal worth an estimated €105m.
The Dorchester Collection, a lux...
Strike calls during European Mobility Week Commuters in Rome can expect two public transport strikes on 20 and 21 September.
The announcement comes during Rome's participation in European Mobility Week, an annual eve...
Now that the Costa Concordia is upright two important questions remain. Can she be repaired sufficiently to be floated away from the island? If so, where will she go to be dismantled?
Originally the time for on-site r...
Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino has declared a traffic-free "Notte bianca", dedicated to the city's cyclists and pedestrians, on the night between 16 and 17 May next year.
Private vehicles, including scooters and mo...
Residents in the S. Giovanni area of Rome are protesting over the city's plan to continue chopping down trees on Via Sannio and Viale Ipponio, to make way for the troubled Metro C project.
Local resident associations,...
The removal of the wreck of the Costa Concordia is due to start early morning of 16 September, although it was delayed a couple of hours because of bad overnight weather. Experts say it will take approximately 12 hours t...
The new United States ambassador to Italy John R. Phillips arrived in Rome on 13 September. Ambassador Phillips succeeds David Thorne, who has completed his four-year term.
Ambassador Phillips, who is of Italian extra...
One third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, amounting to a loss of $750 billion to producers each year, according to a report released on 11 September by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO...
An American woman of Indian origin was racially abused and physically attacked in the Testaccio area of Rome at around 02.00 on the night between Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September.
The 30-year old American citiz...
Pope Francis met asylum seekers at the Associazione Centro Astalli, a Jesuit-run refugee centre on Via degli Astalli near Piazza Venezia, on 10 September.
During the visit he said that empty church buildings should be...
The Villa Borghese lake, popularly known as the laghetto, will be out of bounds for the next six months after water was discovered leaking into surrounding areas.
Once the lake is drained, engineers will begin a &euro...
We would like to draw our readers' attention to this tribute to Seamus Heaney on the American Academy in Rome website.
The tribute is by Karl Kirchwey, director of Creative Writing Program Bryn Mawr College, Philadelp...
Italian premier Enrico Letta has suggested that Italy could put itself forward as a candidate for the 2024 Olympics, causing friction between Rome and Milan over which city would be better equipped to host the sportin...
The construction sites of Rome's troubled Metro C reopened on 10 September following a late-night agreement reached on 9 September between Roma Metropolitana, the Metro C consortium and the city.
Construction work had...
Documentary on Rome's GRA wins top prize at Venice Gianfranco Rosi's documentary film “Sacro GRA,” which chronicles life along the Grande Raccordo Anulare ringroad that circles Rome, won the Golden Lion for...
The Number 3 tram service has been restored between Valle Giulia and Piazzale Ostiense. The trams had been suspended on that section during August, substituted by buses, to allow works on Via Labicana and Viale Manzoni...
Commuters in the capital have been given a temporary reprieve after Rome bus company ATAC postponed the four-hour strike it had planned for the morning of Monday 9 September.
This means that the city's buses, trams, m...
Pope Francis will become the subject of a movie directed by fellow Argentine Alejandro Agresti, according to reports in Variety magazine.
The biopic titled Historia de un Cura (A Priest's Tale) will star Rodrigo de la...
From 6 September until 25 October, the Vatican Museums open every Friday evening from 19.00-23.00, with last admission at 21.30.
The visit includes the Pio-Clementine museum, the Egyptian museum, the upper galleries,...
Rome's Senate buildings at Palazzo Madama are open to the public on Saturday 7 September from 10.00-18.00.
Senate staff conduct free guided tours every 20 minutes, for groups of about 40 people, with each visit lastin...
There is potential for traffic chaos in Rome on Monday 9 September as a result of public transport strikes planned by Rome bus company ATAC and regional coach company Cotral.
The scheduled double strike action, which...
The Vatican's new secretary of state, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, takes up his new appointment on 15 October. The Italian archbishop becomes the youngest cleric to occupy the post since the 1930s.
Pope Francis' choice...
A notorious pickpocket known as the "Specialist of the 64" – in reference to his preference for targeting tourists on Rome's 64 bus – has been banned from travelling on public transport in all Italian cities....
Traffic police rescued 20 puppies from the car of a noted animal trafficker on the motorway near Cassino south of Rome on the night of 28 August.
The police found the malnourished puppies – 19 Maltese and one Fr...
Rome residents who give blood up to 15 October will have free entry for two to the city's museums, as part of a drive to increase the city hospitals' blood supply.
All of Rome's civic musems are participating, with th...
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