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Anew phase of restoration work is now scheduled on the Domus Aurea, the fragile archaeological site on the Oppian hill, once home to the infamous emperor Nero. However the project, which is scheduled to start in October...
Rome is busy tidying its cemeteries ahead of All Saints Day, or Ognissanti, on Tuesday 1 November, a public holiday in Italy. The All Saints festival is followed by All Souls Day on 2 November, a Catholic tradition...
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Don't forget that European summer time (EST) officially ends on Sunday 30 October when clocks go back one hour at 03.00.
The sixth edition of the International Rome Film Festival opens on Thursday 27 October with a screening of The Lady, a film by Luc Besson about the Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi. The festival runs until Friday 4 Nove...
Two Italian newspapers, La Repubblica and La Stampa, are carrying news that Italy
Residents of Testaccio have submitted plans to the city for the transformation of the vacant area being left behind when the open air food market in Piazza Testaccio moves to nearby Via Galvani at the beginning of Januar...
The creation of a public garden on the Tangenziale Est ring road near Tiburtina station is being considered by the city of Rome. Highlighting the ugliness of the overpass in north-east Rome, the city
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Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated Rome
The capital's transport has been thrown into disarray due to the heavy rain since the early hours of Thursday 20 October, resulting in widespread flooding across the city. Rome's agency for mobility reports that the...
The mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno requested that the Lazio Region declare a state of emergency in Rome after early morning floods on 20 October caused chaos in the capital. Likening the damage to that of an earthquake, t...
Trenitalia is staging a national strike on Friday 21 October from 09.00-17.00. There is skeleton service being provided for some long distance routes but regional trains are likely to be badly affected. The industrial di...
The mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno has signed an order prohibiting demonstrations taking place in the capital
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10,000 pre-sale cinema tickets for the sixth Rome International Film Festival have been snapped up over the weekend after they went on sale at 08.00 on 14 October. Film buffs queued from the early hours on Friday outside...
The city of Rome is counting the cost in the aftermath of Saturday
The most shocking aspect of Saturday
On receiving the Marco Aurelio award for lifetime achievement at the inaugural International Rome Film Festival in October 2006, Scottish actor Sean Connery joked that it was hard to believe the city had never hosted suc...
Politicians in Italy had to do without their usual long summer break this year. The government was on call for most of August, trying to put together an austerity package to save not only the Italian economy but the euro...
The town of Ladispoli, just outside Rome, is in a state of flux. Few international tourists have ever heard of it, yet it
At 08.00 on Sunday 16 October, Piazza Repubblica was quiet. Gone were the crowds that swelled around Mario Rutelli's Fountain of the Naiads as they began their protest at 14.30 the day before. On Via Nazionale there...
The sixth edition of the annual Run for Food event to highlight World Food Day takes place in Rome on Sunday 16 October, with the theme "Food prices - from crisis to stability." The United Nation
Protests scheduled for Rome on Saturday 15 October leave Piazza della Repubblica at 14.00 and go in the direction of Piazza Porta di S. Giovanni, where they are expected to finish at 21.00. There will be 39 bus routes af...
A public transport strike affecting Rome's suburbs has been scheduled for Friday 14 October from 11.30-15.30. The four-hour strike has been called by workers at Roma Tpl, which operates 75 suburban bus routes. For...
Protests around the centre of Rome, leading up to a large demonstration on Saturday 15 October, are stretching the capacity of the security forces in the capital. On Tuesday 11 October the Biblioteca Nazionale was cl...
There have been 139 accidents in Rome involving minicars from January to September this year. That figure corresponds almost exactly with the number of minicar accidents recorded in the capital during the same period las...
Sunday 9 October was the start date for filling in the questionnaire for Italy
As from 11.00 on 10 October 2011, many owners of BlackBerry throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East reported not being able to use the messaging system BBM and having difficulty sending emails and surfing the Web....
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