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Rome has prohibited the take-away sale of alcohol from bars and clubs from 23.00 until close of business, seven days a week, effective from 3 August until 30 September. It is also illegal to consume alcohol between 23.00...
Stations between Ottaviano and Termini on Rome's Metro A will be closed from 11-25 August for upgrading works on the tracks. The stations affected are Repubblica, Barberini, Spagna, Flaminio and Lepanto.
A substitute...
Italy's first flash mob marriage proposal took place in Rome's Piazza del Popolo in late July.
The future bride Alessandra – oblivious to what was about to happen – was enjoying her birthday with her famil...
Long-awaited plans to restore Rome's Colosseum were presented by Italian culture minister Lorenzo Ornaghi and the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno on 31 July.
The controversial plan, which is to take two and a half years...
Ruins of the Vergine Aqueduct, one of the most important in ancient Rome, have been discovered under the former Rinascente building off Via del Corso, now the home of Spanish retail giant Zara.
Archaeologists came acr...
As of 1 August, tickets for Rome’s bus, metro and tram issued prior to the introduction of the new 100-minute €1.50 tickets on 25 May are no longer valid.
However until 31 October, the old 75-minute €1...
Could these photos of road works along Via delle Botteghe Oscure indicate that there are some interesting ruins underneath the surface?
The works, on the stretch of road between Largo Argentina and Piazza Venezia, are...
Firefighters brought under control a bushfire that raged in northern Rome on the evening of 30 July. The fire broke out in the hill-top Monte Ciocci park in the area of Piazzale Ammiraglio Bergamini, located between the...
Animal rights activists and politicians have called on Rome's mayor Gianni Alemanno to take action after a number of recent incidents involving the maltreatment of horses used to draw the carriages known as "botticelle"...
The Colosseum is leaning almost as much as the Tower of Pisa according to the findings of in-depth surveys before restoration work starts on monument.
The south of the structure is 40 cms off the horizontal because of...
“I just wanted to see Rome,” is what the 11-year old boy is reported to have said when he was discovered alone and without a passport or ticket on a Jet2 plane from Manchester to Rome on 24 July.
The story...
A critical report about the Irish College leaves Ireland’s famous seminary in Rome facing difficult times ahead.
It was during the preparation for the millennium celebrations of 2000 that the Pontifical Irish Co...
An exciting initiative encourages artists to leave their mark on the walls of the Swiss Institute of Rome
While the capital’s modern galleries strive to retain their cutting-edge credentials, the Swiss Institute...
Sustainable management is needed for Italy's smaller sites.
Nestling in the hills 10km north of Viterbo in northern Lazio there is a largely forgotten but nonetheless impressive Roman theatre: the theatre of Ferento....
New speed cameras go into operation on three sections of Italy’s provincial roads for the first time on 27 July.
The system, called Vergilius, is similar to Tutor, already in operation on national motorways. How...
Opponents of low-cost flights at Ciampino, Rome’s second airport, are hoping that its closure for nine days at the end of September will work to their advantage.
Flights to Ciampino will be suspended from 24 Sep...
Passengers on Tram 8 can expect disruption to the service from Stazione Trastevere into Largo Argentina until 5 August.
Buses will operate instead of trams along the route for the next two weeks, mainly because of wo...
There should be fewer tables and umbrellas in Piazza Navona from 23 July according to new regulations passed in April by the city government.
Places to eat and drink should be limited to the pavements in front of the...
The Festa de' Noantri, an important annual festival, takes place in the Rome district of Trastevere on Saturday 21 July. Central to the festival, which dates back to the start of the 16th century and whose name "Noantri"...
A new law states that from 26 June 2012 minors under 18 years of age can only travel abroad if they hold an individual passport or an individual identity card recognised by customs officials in the country to which they...
A four-hour public transport strike is scheduled in Rome on Friday 20 July, from 08.30-12.30.
The protest involves all of Rome’s public transport services including buses, Cotral coaches, trams, A and B metro li...
During the night of 18 July a large fire destroyed the famous Number 5 theatre at the Cinecittà studios. Dense, high columns of smoke and acrid fumes invaded the whole district generating fear among local resident...
Rome's municipal modern art gallery on Via Francesco Crispi presents a new exhibition of over 100 postcard-sized paintings that celebrate the capital, from 17 July to 28 October. Entitled "100 sguardi su Roma", the show...
Rome has established a task force comprising veterinarians, police and legal services from the animal rights association Earth to save abandoned dogs and cats in the capital over the summer when owners often leave their...
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35 areas across the capital have been made available to graffiti artists, in an agreement reached between the city of Rome and its “writers”.
The pact was presented on 12 July at the Monti Tiburtini metro...
Over recent nights there have been a number of high-profile incidents on Rome's streets, some of them involving tourists and foreigners. In the early morning of 11 July a 22-year old Australian woman was found suffering...
Rome is the third most-congested city in Europe according to a report by traffic navigator TomTom, which recorded a 34 per cent congestion level on the Italian capital’s streets between January and March this year....
With temperatures predicted to soar as high as 44 degrees the weekend of 14 July, those cooling off in the sea at Ostia’s free beaches will be under the watchful eye of a team of rescue dogs. Known as the "bau-wa...
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