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In a statement on the financial aspects of the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Giglio on 13 January, owners Carnival Corporation and Plc put out a statement on 16 January with the following information...
Moving Christmas
Christmas for children in Rome used to mean Piazza Navona. That was when the square was packed to overflowing and when the smell of candy floss and roast chestnuts filled the air. Those were the days wh...
Surrounded by a myriad of figurines representing the Pope, Obama, European leaders, TV personalities, film stars and football idols, stands a grinning doll-sized Berlusconi. He has ass
You could easily walk through Piazza di Porta S. Giovanni and overlook an elegant, eggshell-pink and marble edifice in the shadow of the Lateran Palace. What looks like a modest church is in fact one of the most importan...
In the wake of the decision of Italy Constitutional Court to reject a referendum on Italy
The Vatican Museums attracted just over five million visitors in 2011, its highest number ever, according to the director of the museums Antonio Paolucci.
Paolucci said that the wear and tear of almost 5.1 million vi...
The ongoing story of the Piazza S. Silvestro restyling continues as workers remove large sections of recently-laid cobblestones.
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A procession is due to take place in Rome on Tuesday 10 January in memory of Chinese man Zhou Zeng and his nine month-old daughter Joy who were killed during a botched robbery in the city
Rome's refuse collection service AMA has requested that people recycle their Christmas trees, rather than dispose of them illegally in street bins, at any of the city's 11 collection centres for bulky waste or 128 mobile...
Sales start in Rome on 5 January to the background of lower retail sales and longer shopping hours. The Christmas period has been slack, with purchases in some sectors down 40 per cent, so hope is pinned on the month-lon...
Commercial activities such as shops, bars, restaurants, supermarkets have been liberated from Italy
The new underground car park in Piazza Cavour is now scheduled to open on 24 January, several weeks behind schedule.
In the weeks running up to the inauguration the city will have to perfect a new scheme for the flow...
The airports company of Rome ADR is to stop using its automatic baggage handling facility at Fiumicino from midnight on 31 December, resulting in widespread disruption to those travelling through the airport.
The dec...
It had been our plan to put news on our website today of the new exhibition of work by Edith Schloss and her life-long friend Alvin Curran, which opens tomorrow 21 December. Instead we are bringing the sad news of her de...
Rome's anti-alcohol measures have been extended until 17 March, after the previous ban expired on 16 December.
The order prohibits the take-away sale of alcohol from bars and clubs from 23.00 until close of business,...
From 20 December until 16 January, the Metro A line will stay open until 23.30 every day of the week except Saturdays when it closes at the later hour of 01.30.
During this period the MA1 and MA2 substitute shuttle b...
Despite having a population of less than five million, about 100 of which are resident in Rome, Norway has contributed actively to the cultural life of the Italian capital over the years.
Considering that it has one o...
The British consulate has recently announced new opening hours. Could you explain the reason for this decision?
We reviewed feedback from British citizens and as a consequence we
A new space for hosting temporary exhibitions opened at Palazzo Barberini on 16 December, with a major show dedicated to Guercino, a leading figure in Italian 17th-century painting.
The additional 1,000-sqm on the gr...
The Tomb of the Scipios, a burial complex for the political and military Scipio dynasty during the Roman republic, has reopened after renovations began in 2008. To celebrate, on the weekend of 17-18 December there will b...
Rome's Capitoline Museums have installed a high-tech service that uses Near Field Technology (NFC) to explain the history behind some of their 300 art works.
By holding NFC-supporting smartphones near the antennas on...
An initiative to rid Rome's streets of used chewing gum has been launched in the area around Largo di Torre Argentina in the city centre.
A team from the refuse disposal company, AMA, has joined with voluntary associ...
Rome faces disruption to its public transport services due to a number of strikes between Thursday 15 and Friday 16 December against the new government's economic policies.
On 15 December a regional protest affects t...
There are over 442,000 foreign residents living in the province of Rome, with another 100,000 living in the greater Roman area, according to a report carried out by immigration officials in collaboration with the chamber...
Civil documents (stato civile) relating to birth, marriage or death are to become much quicker to obtain as of January, according to the city.
The process has been digitised, reducing the current average wait to 72 hou...
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