The Lazio chapter of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has raised the alarm over alleged plans by Rome city council to privatise parts of the capital
A mural depicting a Madonna and Child in the company of saints Peter, Paul, Sabina and Serafia has been discovered in the basilica of S. Sabina on the Aventine hill. Described as an exceptional find, experts date the wor...
A major campaign is underway to combat the abandonment of animals in Rome over the summer holiday season. Overseen by the municipal authorities, it makes use of varied means of communication to reinforce its message. Tho...
The campaign to hold a referendum against a recent law privatising water services in Italy has drawn to a close with over 1.4 million signatures deposited at the supreme court of cassation in Rome. This is nearly one mil...
The list of events for summer evenings in Rome this year looks good and is long enough to satisfy almost every taste in every part of town.
But the season has had an inauspicious start. The opening night of the Teatro...
Today there is little left of Monterano, once a bustling town built on tufa rock in rolling wooded Etruscan countryside about 50 km northwest of Rome. It used to be the feudal seat of the Orsini and Altieri families but...
The Colosseum and the Baths of Caracalla will open until midnight every Saturday night from 21 August until 23 October.
An agreement has also been reached with the unions to open the House of Livia on the Palatine and...
The Vatican Museums have announced a special evening opening on 14 July from 19.00-23.00 (last entrance 21.30) to view some of the Raphael tapestries, which for this occasion will be hung as they were originally on the w...
Castel S. Angelo is opening new areas to the public during the summer and from 16 July until 4 September it is open late at night on Fridays and Saturdays from 20.00-24.00.
The new areas on show are the Passetto di Bor...
Rome has more green space per head of population than any other Italian city according to a report from a department on regional health at the Universit
The preliminary project for the Shoah museum in Rome has finally been presented officially in public to the city, regional and Jewish authorities. The museum, which will commemorate Italy
The Villa Farnesina frescoes at the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Massimo are now open to the public again. The order in which the frescoes are viewed has been rearranged to make the way the public sees them today as...
This year Rome is keeping some of its schools open during the summer vacation to help look after 5,000 children from three to eleven years old. About 54 schools will open two to three days a week from July until mid-Sept...
Walk through any major square in Italy over the next couple of weeks and chances are you will be stopped and asked to lend your support to a campaign titled
After two years of hearing prime minister Silvio Berlusconi tell Italy that the economy was in fine shape and that Italians were better off than their European fellows, the message has been reversed. Berlusconi, the eter...
Italians are buying less and not such good quality food as they used to, according to the latest data released by the national statistics institute Istat on domestic consumer spending in 2009.
The research shows Ital...
On 3 July members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (GLBT) community are to gather in Rome for the annual local Gay Pride parade under the slogan
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