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11 April. American poet and playwright David Starkey is giving a poetry reading as part of the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation programme at John Cabot University. Director of the creative writing...
29 March - 23 April. The tenth edition of Trend - New frontiers of the British scene is taking place currently at the Teatro Belli in Trastevere. The month-long festival of British drama provides a bridge between establi...
At least 150 immigrants on their way from Libya to Italy are now feared lost in stormy waters south of the Italian island of Lampedusa.
A boat with probably about 300 people aboard, mostly of Somali and Eritrean orig...
4-7 April. The 2011 Communication & English Department Week begins on 4 April with Black Maria Film and Video Festival which offers a variety of award-winning international, narrative, experimental, documentary and anima...
Italy's home Six Nations matches look set to be played in Florence after the Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) lost patience with the owners of Rome's embattled Stadio Flaminio.
After complaining for years over the condi...
The American ambassador to Italy David Thorne, along with the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno and the president of Lazio region Renata Polverini, worked side by side on the first weekend in April in an anti-graffiti operat...
Two concerts are being staged in Rome on 4 and 6 April to raise funds for the Japanese Red Cross to help Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 11 March.
In the aftermath of the disaster, Fujiko Hirai,...
An Englishman ended up in hospital on Saturday night after another night of weekend violence and drunkness in Campo de' Fiori, in which a small drinking fountain (or nasone) in front of Giordano Bruno
31 March and 1 April are expected to be two bad days for commuters in Rome unless industrial action by public transport unions is called off at the last moment.
On 31 March there is a strike of regional transport outs...
Perhaps the future of original language films in Rome rests between the projector and those who place passion above profit
As a year of swingeing cuts to Italy’s culture and heritage budgets drew to a clos...
I wait for the last train from Termini on Friday night and a man, probably in his 60s but looking older, asks me if the train goes to Civitavecchia. Yes, I say, it's the last stop. We get on the train and he sits opposit...
The capital hosts the second edition of Restaurant Week from 4-10 April, following the success of its inaugural outing in Rome last November when over 6,000 people dined in the 52 participating eateries. The online resta...
Exploro.it, a multimedia application for smartphones which provides information and services, has been launched in Rome. Comprising a system of touchscreen icons, in addition to directing users to the nearest train stati...
Rome commemorates the 67th anniversay of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre on 24 March, in which 335 people were killed by the then occupying nazi forces on 24 March 1944. The mass killing was in retaliaton to a partisan atta...
Two iconic trains are being moved by night through the streets of Rome from the Smistamento railway station in the north of the city to the Gallery of Modern Art near Villa Borghese, where they are to feature in a forthc...
The AS Roma football club will probably change owner on 28 March according to Rome
Centuries of historical archive material at Rome
Security has been increased at the embassies whose countries are currently involved in military action against Libya: the US embassy on Via Veneto, the British embassy on Via XX Settembre and the French embassy in Piazza...
A museum dedicated to the Roman Republic and the memory of Giuseppe Garibaldi has re-opened at the Porta S. Pancrazio on the Janiculum hill. The building was inaugurated by president of the Italian republic Giorgio Napol...
Rome's first theme park dedicated to magic is opening soon, south of the city in Valmontone. The 600,000 sqm park, known as Rainbow Magicland, contains 35 attractions, some of which have never been seen in Europe, such a...
On the night between 16 and 17 March Rome's museums and shops stay open late to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. Reminiscent of the Notte Bianca from former mayor Walter Veltroni's administrat...
The 17th Rome Marathon takes place on Sunday 20 March at 09.00 on Via dei Fori Imperiali. This year's record turn-out sees 16,188 athletes from 84 nations competing in the 42 km marathon: 9,147 Italian and 7,041 foreign...
37 of Rome's bus routes will be diverted on the morning of 17 March, a public holiday, due to state celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
At 09.00 the president of the republic, Giorgio...
On 17 March 1861, the new kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in Turin. It was the culmination of almost 50 years of struggles, some political, some revolutionary and some open war. Tomorrow
At midday on 17 March, 150 shots will be fired from the cannon on the Janiculum hill. In what is sure to be the loudest celebration of Rome's festivities in honour of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, th...
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