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From 27 March the Largo Argentina stop for buses heading towards Piazza Venezia and Stazione Termini will be moved temporarily to Corso Vittorio Emanuele, opposite the Feltrinelli book shop, to facilitate the ongoing ped...
Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has ruled that there must be a retrial of the case against Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the sexual assault and murder of the British student Me...
Rome's bus company ATAC has issued one million tickets bearing the image of Pope Francis greeting crowds from the balcony of St Peter's on the day of his election.
The limited edition tickets go on sale on 27 March an...
The 17th-century Acqua Paola fountain in Rome's Piazza Trilussa is to undergo an 11-month restoration programme after which it will be unveiled to the public on 14 February 2014, in time for Valentine's Day.
The &euro...
Low-cost British airline EasyJet launched flights between Rome and Milan Linatee on 25 March, ending the national carrier Alitalia's monopoly on the key business route.
There will be seven daily EasyJet flights betwee...
English-language religious services in Rome during Easter Week. The Vatican Easter ceremonies are being conducted by the newly-elected Pope Francis who, in addition to the public events, will celebrate the Mass of the Lo...
The annual "Earth Hour" event takes place in Rome on Saturday 23 March at 20.30.
Backed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) the global initiative involves famous buildings around the world turning off their lights...
Construction work on the central section of Rome's Metro C between S. Giovanni and the Colosseum will begin on 15 April, according to the city's mayor Gianni Alemanno.
The seven-year project will cost €792...
The traditional commemoration ceremony takes place at Rome's Fosse Ardeatine mausoleum on Sunday 24 March in memory of the 335 people killed by the then occupying nazi forces 69 years ago, on 24 March 1944.
The ceremo...
The terminus of the Number 8 tram has moved temporarily to Piazza Benedetto Cairoli, about 100m before the original terminus at Largo Arenula, on the corner of Largo di Torre Argentina.
The terminus is an interim meas...
The British embassy in Rome and the capital's administration are holding a press conference titled “Time to Act Against Sexual Violence in Conflict” on Capitol Hill on the morning of Friday 22 March.
The 1...
Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt will participate in the 33rd edition of the Golden Gala, Italy's annual track and field event, which takes place in Olympic Stadium in Rome this summer.
The Jamaican world record h...
Commuters across Italy will be affected by a nationwide 24-hour public transport strike on Friday 22 March.
The capital's bus, tram, metro and light-railway services Roma-Lido, Termini-Giardinetti and Roma-Viterbo wil...
Rome is at its best when there is a big event to organise. A city that is usually disorganised and chaotic transforms itself overnight into a model of good humour and efficiency.
The inauguration of Pope Francis on 19...
Many of Rome's streets were closed to traffic on Sunday 17 March to facilitate the 19th Rome Marathon which was won by Ethiopian Getachew Terfa Negari with a time of 2:07:56. He was followed by his compatriot Girmay Birh...
Security in Rome is tight as world leaders arrive for an inauguration mass for Pope Francis in St Peter’s at 09.30 on Tuesday 19 March.
The security operation in place is similar to that employed by the city for...
There is no longer any risk of eviction for the Rome-based Peter Pan Onlus association, the centre that provides support for families with children suffering from cancer, according to the newly-elected president of the L...
The 19th Rome Marathon takes place on Sunday 17 March at 09.30, leaving from Via Dei Fori Imperiali and finishing in the same place. There is no longer need to postpone the start to the afternoon as might have been the c...
It’s Pope Francis, said the tallest man in the group sheltering from the rain under Bernini’s columns to the left of St Peter’s Square. “So it must be O’Malley”, he continued with a kn...
Some 700 libraries, stately homes, archaeological sites and religious buildings all over Italy are open to the public free of charge on 23 and 24 March, for the 21st annual spring open day organised by the Fondo Ambiente...
The city government has voted to reduce the capital’s municipi (or administrative and political areas) from the current 19 down to 15. The change will take place within 30 days.
Four municipi will be merged into...
There was no mistaking the colour of the suffocating smoke that came pouring out the chimney above the Sistine Chapel on the evening of 12 March after the first vote of the cardinals to elect the new pope.
There was n...
The film-documentary “Girlfriend in Coma” was screened by “La7”, the former Telecom Italia TV network now propriety of Cairo Communications, on 9 March. The film is written, directed and prod...
2013.03.13 - 11.55. Fumata Nera.
"The fumata nera ("black smoke" in Italian) is the announcement to the outer world by a conclave that a Papal election wasn't decisive, by means of burning the ballots together with...
The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization on the United Nations (FAO) is to launch a "new, faster and more precise way of measuring global hunger and food insecurity". Starting this month, the system is part of FA...
The United States ambassador to Italy, David Thorne, has told young Italians that it is time to act on behalf of their country.
He told high school students at the prestigious Liceo Classico Visconti in the centre of...
James Walston looks at two populist politicians, Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo. See Walston's blog for the original version paste below and all its links.
Yesterday a group of about 150 parliamentarians demonstra...
2013.03.13 - 19.12. Fumata Bianca
"The fumata nera ("black smoke" in Italian) is the announcement to the outer world by a conclave that a Papal election wasn't decisive, by means of burning the ballots toget...
Anyone hoping to get into the last celebration of Mass in St Peter’s before the conclave in 2005 would have been disappointed. Eight years ago, from the death of Pope John Paul II to the election of the new pope, S...
2013.03.12 - 19.45. Fumata Nera.
"The fumata nera ("black smoke" in Italian) is the announcement to the outer world by a conclave that a Papal election wasn't decisive, by means of burning the ballots together with s...
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