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Few people are aware that women taking a taxi in Rome between 21.00-01.00 are entitled to a ten per cent discount on the fare. The discount is available from white licensed taxis and also applies to anyone travelling to...
The psychiatric department at Gemelli hospital in Rome has opened a new centre for sufferers of internet addiction disorder (IAD). The department already treats a range of dependencies from drugs and alcohol to gambling,...
Rome marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 with a programme of events and initiatives throughout the city.
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4 November is National Unity Day and Armed Forces Day in Italy.
At 09.00 the president of the republic Giorgio Napolitano will lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Altare della Patria in Piazza Venezia...
On 31 December 2008 there were 3,891,295 foreign residents in Italy against a total population of 60 million according to the national statistics institute ISTAT. This represents a rise of 13.4 per cent over the previou...
The annual Commonwealth Remembrance Day ceremony will be held on 11 November at the Rome War Cemetery, which holds the graves and memorials of over 400 Commonwealth servicemen who died in the fight to free Italy from Ger...
The Lay Centre is now offering an expanded programme from its new surroundings in what director Donna Orsuto calls
Rome city council has approved a decision to reduce the amount payable on outstanding traffic fines received before 31 December 2004. Under the new regulations, people who have not paid these fines will now only have to...
Rome will switch off its analogue TV transmitters on 16 November 2009, becoming the first European capital city to go digital. After this date viewers will need to convert or upgrade their TV equipment to receive digital...
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An Italian court of appeal has upheld a sentence convicting British tax lawyer David Mills of taking a $600,000 bribe to perjure himself in trials involving prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his holding company Fininv...
President of the centre-left Lazio regional government Piero Marrazzo has resigned from his post after finding himself at the centre of a high-profile sex scandal.
The former governor, a journalist by profession, suspe...
Already forgotten. It was 15 September 2009, five months and a few days after the catastrophic earthquake that hit L
The Non-Catholic Cemetery (commonly referred to as the Protestant cemetery) in Rome behind the Cestius pyramid at Porta S. Paolo has been described in rapturous terms by eminent visitors over the two-and-a-half centuries...
When the law giving immunity to prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the three other highest offices of state was overturned by the constitutional court in early October there was an almost universal rejection of the pos...
Partial results from 33 per cent of polling stations, available on the PD website, give Pier Luigi Bersani, the former government minister from Emilia Romagna, over 52 per cent of the vote in the
Windscreen washers and people cleaning headlights, selling paper handkerchiefs, cigarette lighters and other trinkets or providing entertaining at traffic lights have been banned under an ordinance signed by Rome
Clocks go back one hour during the night of 24-25 October, bringing an end to daylight saving time (
The volunteer group City Angels has a new branch at Termini station. 30 Angels, recognisable by their blue berets and red jackets carrying the association
Labour unions in Italy have called a 24-hour general strike on 23 October over budget cuts to education and other sectors, job cuts and working conditions generally.
The strike will mean disruptions to public transpor...
On 19 October Rome hosts two events dedicated to the African continent to coincide with the second special assembly for Africa of the synod of bishops, which is taking place in the Vatican until 25 October.
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The Italian parliament has thrown out the bill brought by member of the opposition party Partito Democratico (PD) and gay rights campaigner Paola Concia to include homophobia in Italy
In the chapel of a small church in the Mugello, an area north of Florence that was favoured by the Medici, American artist/architect David T. Mayernik has been executing a cycle of paintings depicting the martyrdom of th...
In the chapel of a small church in the Mugello, an area north of Florence that was favoured by the Medici, American artist/architect David T. Mayernik has been executing a cycle of paintings depicting the martyrdom of th...
In its short life, the opposition Partito Democratico (PD) has not had an easy or successful run and, hardly two years old, it is again working hard to define its identity: left or centre, Catholic or secular or somewher...
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