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On 19 November Rome re-inaugurated the statue of Blessed John Paul II in front of Termini station, following the "completion" of the original work after it received widespread criticism from the public, the city and the...
A special “Faith Scroll” has been inaugurated at the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi (ORP) office beside St Peter's Square on 15 November.
The scroll is a social media project by the ORP – the Vatican-run...
The All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby team, will play a test match against Italy in Rome on 17 November.
It will be the first time that the All Blacks have played at the 72,000-seater Stadio Olimpico, as the la...
The anti-austerity demonstrations held in Rome on 14 November led to clashes between protesters and police, with the main action taking place on the Lungotevere near Ponte Sisto. There were 30 injured, among them 16 poli...
Rome's Via del Plebiscito has temporarily become a two-way street due to continuing works to extend the number 8 tram line from Largo Argentina to Piazza Venezia along Via delle Botteghe Oscure which is currently closed...
There are numerous strikes and protests in Rome on Wednesday 14 November, causing widespread disruption to the city.
The nationwide strike will see Italy's railway employees cease work from 14.00-18.00, while maritime...
Flood warnings have been issued by Rome's civil protection authorities as the Tiber rises to dangerous levels in the centre of the city.
The river was already up to the arches under several bridges in the historic cen...
The national 24-hour public transport strike that had been scheduled for Friday 16 November has been postponed until Friday 14 December.
The strike has been called by the Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugltrasport...
The Almost Corner Bookshop is opening another shop, Almost Corner Too, at the beginning of December. The popular English-language bookshop on Via del Moro in Trastevere is opening its second branch, this time across the...
The annual Commonwealth Remembrance Day service takes place on Sunday 11 November at the Rome Commonwealth War Cemetery, Via Nicola Zabaglia, starting at 10.30. Readings take place at 10.45 and at 11.00 there is two minu...
Just for a laugh!
You know you've been in Italy too long when...
1) You consider accepting the dinner invitation at the house of someone you just met.
2) You can have a conversation with a stranger compris...
A proposal to gate in the statue of 16th-century philosopher Giordano Bruno in central Rome's Campo de' Fiori area has received approval from the local district council.
The plan was put forward by the Popolo de...
The US ambassador to the Holy See, Miguel H. Diaz, is taking up a teaching position at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
The US embassy to the Holy See said that Diaz’s departure had been in the pipeline for som...
An animated English-language video from the TED-Ed series provides a glimpse into the life of Rome's teenagers some 2,000 years ago. Narrated by Ray Laurence, a classics professor from Britain’s University of Kent...
Rome has embarked on its annual campaign to move some of the city’s estimated one million wintering starlings away from central areas, due to the birds’ anti-social side effects. The capital's removal program...
All forms of street trading are to be banned in areas of archaeological and historic importance in Rome's city centre, according to new regulations approved by Italy's culture minister Lorenzo Ornaghi.
The ban include...
The National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia is displaying several hundred antiquities from among the thousands illegally exported and now repatriated to Italy. They are mainly from central and southern Italy and are par...
Mobile network operator Vodafone Italia has launched its new 4G network based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) in Rome and Milan, with plans to cover a further 20 Italian cities by March 2013.
The global telecommunication...
The guest list of stars attending the seventh edition of the Rome International Film Festival from 9-17 November includes Jude Law, Bill Murray, Stephen Dorff and Adrien Brody.
These stars will be joined on the red ca...
A 19-year-old American foreign exchange student was stabbed 25 times in Rome's central Monti district at dawn on 1 November, following a night of Hallowe'en partying.
The victim was stabbed with a kitchen knife as he...
The Rome cat sanctuary in the old Roman ruins of Largo Argentina may be on the move. The Italian ministry of culture says that part of it is occupying an illegal construction in an important section of the archaeological...
The embassy of Ireland to Italy has moved from its central location at Piazza Campitelli to Via Giacomo Medici on the Gianicolo hill.
The move to Villa Spada – Ireland's former embassy to the Holy See, follows t...
On 31 October Pope Benedict XVI marks the 500th anniversary of the completion of the Sistine Chapel frescoes by renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti.
The pontiff will hold a vespers prayer service in the chapel,...
The city of Rome has shelved an electric carriage project to replace the controversial horse-drawn carriages, known as "botticelle
Police in Rome have discovered a new system used by thieves to steal money by tampering with bank machines.
Known as "cash trapping" the method involves inserting a metal clip into the banknote dispenser, in a manner...
Wanted in Rome offices in Rome (Via dei Falegnami 79) will close for the Tutti Santi (All Saints’) long weekend on Thursday 1 November and open again on Monday 5 November.
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All Saints’ Day, or Ognissanti, on Thursday 1 November, a public holiday in Italy. The All Saints’ festival is followed by All Souls Day on 2 November, a Catholic tradition of mourning the dearly depar...
A parked car was "swallowed" by a giant pothole in Piazza Albana on Rome's Aventine hill on the afternoon of 29 October.
The crater measures ten by three metres wide and has a depth of four metres. Nobody was injured...
The Fontana delle Tartarughe is being restored again. This is what Wanted in Rome wrote on 21 November 2003.
The late 16th-century turtle fountain in Piazza Mattei, one of Rome's best-loved monuments, is being fitted...
Traces of cocaine, cannabinoids, nicotine and caffeine have been found in the Roman air, according to a report released recently by the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution at Rome’s national research agency Consigli...
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