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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...
From 1 November, the limited traffic zone (ZTL) in Trastevere and S. Lorenzo will be active only on Friday and Saturday nights from 21.30 until 03.00 the next day.
The winter timetable stays in effect until Apri...
Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in prison and three years interdiction from public office after being found guilty of tax fraud. The Milan court handed down the sentence on F...
Commuters in Rome face two public transport strikes on Friday 26 October. The first strike action, organised by trade union Faisa Cisal, involves 81 bus routes operated by Roma TPL in the city suburbs, from 08.30-17.00 a...
Rome's security forces are on high alert for the scheduled "No Monti Day" protest at 14.30 on Saturday 27 October. The demonstration, which involves trade unions, students, left-wing parties and various protest groups, h...
During the night between 27 and 28 October, at 03.00 to be precise, don’t forget to set your clocks backwards by one hour. We will gain an hour’s sleep, but we will lose an extra daylight one.
A couple of days ago, 20 October 2012, a family of four living in the province of Pisa, mother father and two children collected some wild mushrooms, took them home, ate them and died, all four. The mushrooms they collec...
The eleventh Rome Supercat Show will run in the Nuova Fiera di Roma on 3 and 4 November, following last year’s success with over 30,000 visitors. The two-day meeting of national and international cat-lovers wi...
Reports in the international media indicate that there is growing concern in international scientific circles over the stiff sentencing by an Italian court in L'Aquila of experts who failed to predict the 2009 earthquake...
This article was first published by Wanted in Rome on 15 September 2010 in memory of the Italan military hero who died in June of the same year.At daybreak on 21 January 1941, only the sentries and the cooks were awake i...
Services on Rome's number 8 tram will be disrupted over six days between 26 October and 4 November to allow the replacement of tracks in Piazza di Porta S. Paolo and Viale Trastevere.
Work begins on the night of 26 Oc...
Italy’s Winter Sports Federation (Federazione Italiana Sport Invernale) said plans are underway to host an Alpine skiing World Cup city event in Rome’s historic centre.
However the mayor of Rome Gianni Ale...
Rome has dedicated Sunday 21 October as Spqr Sports Day, with Via dei Fori Imperiali being transformed into an open-air gym from 10.00-18.00.
The family-friendly day out features dozens of mini sports camps along the...
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