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...
On 31 August a new Apple Store will open in the shopping centre EUR Roma 2.
The opening is scheduled for 10.00 and a commemorative T-shirt will to be handed out to the first 1,000 visitors.
The Apple Store Roma 2 w...
Italian environmental agency Legambiente has filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office in Rome after 60 young trees in Parco della Garbatella were destroyed by vandals.
The trees included olive, elm, oak, floweri...
Rome's nasoni for animals.
Rome city authorities have developed an animal friendly “bowl” that has been attached to some of the capital’s most traditional public fountains, the nasoni.
The bowls...
Geysers, from three to five meters high, have started erupting gases near Fiumicino, just next to the Leonardo da Vinci International Airport boundaries. According to the fire department the gases, if inhaled, could turn...
According to the American television network CNN, the removal of the wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruiser should start in September. The ship has been lying partly submerged in front of the harbour of Giglio, a small...
A guide to the ins and outs of the Italian health system.
In the World Health Organization’s last health care ranking in 2000, Italy’s health care system was regarded as the second best in the world after...
Skilled artists embellished the façades of buildings in 15th- and 16th-century Rome but few survive today.
There exists – or rather, there used to exist – an “open-air art gallery” in Rome, most of which has nowadays be...
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has launched a campaign under the slogan “On holiday, don't let drink do your talking”. The idea is to encourage young holiday makers to think before they drink too...
The whole of Via dei Fori Imperiali, from Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum, is to be a pedestrian zone from 15-18 August to mark the public holiday of Ferragosto.
The area closed to cars (ZTL) in the historic centre of...
That Rome is a place where you have to be careful of your passport and credit cards is nothing new. The notoriety of the 64 bus, which many tourists use to get from the main railway station to the Vatican, is a classic p...
Our office in Via di Monserrato 49 is now closed until Monday 26 August. You can still insert your classifieds online and if you have any queries send an email to advertising@wantedinrome.com or editorial@wantedinrome.co...
“Turn off your air conditioners when they are not needed” is the message coming from Rome's ecology-conscious mayor Ignazio Marino.
As well as bicycling to work and pedestrianising the roads around the Col...
The British embassy in Rome is advising all British nationals in Italy to look after their passports and to make sure they renew them in good time.
According to embassy figures, in May this year 107 emergency travel d...
Research is under way on the Acqua Vergine, one of Rome's oldest aqueducts, to discover the amount of radon in its water.
It is thought that radon may have caused some of the illnesses suffered by ancient Romans rathe...
The collection of football scarves from clubs all over the world continues to grow at one of Rome's pubs, The Shamrock.
Located on Via del Colosseo at the Forum end of Via Cavour, The Shamrock is home to a total of 2...
Ahead of the introduction of the new traffic system at the Colosseum on 3 August, the mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino said it his "dream" of creating the "total pedestrianisation of the Roman Forum” during his adminis...
The American clothing store Brooks Brothers has arrived in Rome, becoming the historic company's third outlet in Italy after Milan and Bologna.
The 250-sqm store is spread out over three floors and is located in Piazz...
The MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome is offering ticket discounts during August to residents of Rome and people up to the age of 26.
For the duration of the month the price of the entrance ticket...
Archaeologists in Rome have uncovered the remains of a sixth-century archaic temple on Via Petroselli between the Tiber and the Circus Maximus.
Hailed as a significant discovery, the temple dates back to the reign of...
Tuesday 30 July is a national day of mourning in memory of the 38 victims of a bus crash, one of the worst in recent history, in southern Italy on 28 July. The driver was killed in the accident and a further 19 people in...
The lead singer of English alternative rock band Muse claimed that the band bribed officials to obtain permits to use fireworks during a concert in Rome on 6 July.
Muse frontman Matt Bellamy made the allegations to Br...
The plan to ban private traffic from the stretch of Via dei Fori Imperiali near the Colosseum becomes a reality at 05.30 on Saturday 3 August.
The city will mark the occasion with a “Notte dei Fori” progra...
The second phase of a reduced summer timetable for Rome's public buses and trams begins on Monday 29 July and lasts until the end of August.
The further reduction of services follows the first phase of the summe...
As Rome braces itself for a heatwave the civil protection authorities have issued a red alert "Level 3" health warning for Friday 26 July and subsequent days.
According to current predictions, temperaratures are...
The following article was sent to Wanted in Rome by one of its readers, before the current heat wave, John Manisco, who recounts his first attempt at cycling across Rome.
I irresponsibly decided to bicycle to my 87-ye...
Rome's historic clothing outlet Magazzini Allo Statuto, better known as MAS, is to close at the end of the year (for real this time), with 50 per cent off all items until 31 December.
Located on Via dello Statuto in t...
Almost 40 museums and archaeological sites across Italy will be open on the last Saturday night of every month until the end of this year, thanks to an initiative launched by Italy's culture ministry.
Beginning on Sat...
The approaching 100th birthday of former SS officer Erich Priebke – a Rome resident and one of the world’s last surviving Nazi criminals – has prompted a statement from the partisan group Associaz...
The British ambassador to Italy Christopher Prentice issued the following statement regarding the birth of a baby boy to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and her husband Prince William, in London on 22 July:
“I...
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