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The National Association of Filmmakers (ANAC) has appealed to Italy's premier Mario Monti and president Giorgio Napolitano to help Rome's Cinecitt
On the afternoon of 9 July the south of Rome experienced a minor earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome. The quake struck just before 17....
Rome's Bioparco in Villa Borghese is organising three "safari nights" on 11, 18 and 25 July, allowing visitors to observe the zoo's residents by night. Zookeepers will conduct the tours using special torches whose blue...
The three heat waves – named Scipione, Caronte and Minosse – that have hit Italy over the last month have already beaten some of the heat records registered in the dreaded 2003 summer. The African anticyclo...
The national museum of Castel S. Angelo opens its doors to the public on summer evenings until 9 September, with free guided tours in Italian, English, French and Spanish. Tours include areas usually closed to the publi...
Italy's foreign affairs ministry at Palazzo della Farnesina opens its doors on Tuesday 10 July, from 10.00-15.00, when the public can view its significant art collection for free. The collection charts Italy’s pri...
The International Rome Film Festival has announced that its 2012 programme under new artistic director Marco Müller will include 60 world premieres, will put more emphasis on contemporary film and will include a new...
Rome's public transport will follow a reduced summer timetable until the city's schools reopen in September. The frequency of a good number of buses however has not been reduced, including 7 and 062 sea buses, the line...
Summer sales in Rome begin on 7 July with the capital's shops offering discounted prices until 31 August. In some outlets in the capital, shoppers can take advantage of up to 70 per cent from the original price. Howeve...
Two men dressed as centurions, who charge tourists for appearing in their photographs, were arrested on 2 July after an altercation with Rome police near the Colosseum. Police spotted the costumed men, brothers Manuel a...
Rome's public transport will be affected by a 24-hour strike action scheduled for Friday 6 July. The protests, about job security, have been called by a number of trade unions representing public transport workers in L...
There has been an increase in incidents of cobblestones and other Roman artefacts being detected in the luggage of departing tourists at the capital's Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, according to a report in Rome newspa...
29 June is the feast of Rome’s patron saints Peter and Paul and a public holiday in the capital. Shops and offices are closed for the day, with services running on a holiday schedule. There are liturgical celebrat...
The Westminster Abbey Choir will sing with the Cappella Musicale Pontificia, the Sistine Chapel Choir, in a historic ecumenical event on 29 June that will be broadcast around the world. It is the first time that the Si...
The capital is to screen the Euro 2012 Italy-Germany football game in Piazza del Popolo on 28 June at 20.45, according to the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno. The winner of the semi-final game, being played in Poland&rsqu...
Local elections normally just give politicians a hint of what they might expect in the general election; they allow the parties to adjust their sights to whatever is next. But not this year.
More than a wake-up call f...
Art Project, an initiative run by the Google Cultural Institute, was initially launched in 2011 and in April this year the second phase of the project went live. This brought the number of partner museums to 151, the num...
As an American mother of two and Rome resident since 2010, my advice about local schools is often solicited by new and imminent arrivals as they anxiously research educational options.
While I don’t claim to be...
A 24-hour strike by Rome's public transport companies is scheduled for Friday 22 June.
Organised by the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), the protest involves all of Rome
The bridge connecting Via Ostiense in Garbatella with the Ostiense ringroad will open to traffic on Friday 22 June from 10.00.
Situated near the Garbatella underground station, the
Work begins to move Number 8 tram terminus
Construction work has begun on the
18-22 June. Fish and Ships is the catchy title of a five-day doctoral workshop at the British School at Rome on the production and trade of salted fish products in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast during An...
Over 2 million fake tickets for Rome's Leonardo Express airport train service have been seized by Italy's finance police at the port of Livorno in northern Tuscany.
Authorities say that the false tickets, which were...
Following the opening of the new metro line B1 last week, bus routes in the north-eastern quadrant of the capital are to undergo radical changes from Monday 18 June.
The reorganisation will affect 41 routes
Eataly Rome, the capital’s new temple of Italian food products, is ready to open to the public at the former air terminal at Ostiense. In a preview for invited guests, gourmet businessman Oscar Farinetti – pa...
In honour of World Refugee Day on 20 June, the American Episcopal Church of Rome, St Paul
Rome's new metro line B1 opened at 05.30 on 13 June, after almost seven years in construction.
An offshoot of the Metro B line, the B1 begins at Piazza Bologna, with stops at S.Agnese/Annibaliano and Libia, and finish...
Taxi fares increased in Rome from 11 June. Fares between the centre of Rome and Fiumicino airport now cost
Trade at the historic open air food market in Piazza Testaccio ceased on 9 June, ahead of the market’s move on 13 June to modern premises located between nearby Via Alessandro Volta, Via Galvani, Via Ghiberti and V...
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