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Roughly eight million vehicles are expected to be on the roads over the weekend of 1-2 August as the summer holiday season begins in earnest. The company in charge of most Italian motorways, ANAS, says most of the traffi...
Rome leads Italian cities in confirmed cases of the A(H1N1) virus known as the swine flu, according to a 27 July bulletin by the Italian health ministry. Of the 618 cases confirmed in Italy since the beginning of May, 16...
A team of Italian and American archaeologists have discovered the remains of five Roman ships lying at the bottom of the sea near Ventotene, an island off the coast of the modern-day Lazio and Campania regions.
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Leisure: Rome's top outdoor pools - Update
For those of you who are staying in Rome during the summer below is a list of a few swimming pools in and around the city.
Aquapiper. Water park with wave machines, slid...
With the summer heating up towards the end of July, volunteers with the city civil protection service have begun handing out free bottles of water at metro B stations Termini and Piramide. Trains on the metro B line are...
An informal survey by Italian environmental group Legambiente has found that as many as two in five cars in Rome do not have valid emissions stickers known as
If Michelle Obama had managed to get away from her official lunch at the Campidoglio on 8 July to take an informal stroll into the centre of Rome she might have taken the short cut all locals know, down the steps from th...
When centurion Brutus Fabius Faber (alias Fabio Del Prete) and front line spearman Marcus (better known as Marco Ricci) buckle on their armour for their weekly training sessions in Roman warfare, they are adamant about o...
Although many Italians may look horrified at the suggestion of a weekend at Ostia, the proximity of the Roman coast with its good transport links to the city makes it an easy and accessible summer beach destination. Whet...
Nightime opening for Vatican Museums on 24 July.
The Vatican Museums will open after sunset for the first time ever on 24 July offering visitors a unique opportunity to explore part the museums
With the global recession taking its toll on world tourism, Rome
Fabrizio G. Scalabrino gives his own take on the recent G8 summit in L
The countdown begins to the 13th World Aquatics Championships, also known as the FINA (F
The French Academy in Rome is opening the doors of the Villa Medici to visitors from 10 July to 20 September 2009 as part of the summer initiative
Waste management utility AMA has announced that it will be reorganising and revamping its services in order to tackle the city's grime and decay.
AMA says it will be hiring 544 new employees by the end of the year and p...
Parliament has given its definitive backing to plans for Italy to resume nuclear power production 22 years after Italians voted in a referendum to abolish it.
Under the terms of the economic development bill passed by t...
Museums, archaeological sites and other cultural venues run by the city council will be the setting for concerts, theatre performances, guided tours, exhibitions, workshops and other events until 20 September. Many of th...
Mobile telephone subscribers in Italy may have to wait a bit longer before they can transfer their number smoothly and quickly from one operator to another after the Lazio regional administrative court cancelled a delibe...
Despite nearly drowning in disagreements, judicial inquiries and delays, the 2009 World Aquatics Championships are upon us. From 17 July to 2 August 2,800 athletes from 200 nations will be competing in the 13th edition o...
The Julio-Claudian dynasty produced some Roman emperors whose departures from reality are the stuff of legend. One of Caligula
Most petrol sellers around Italy will be closed from the evening of 7 July to the morning of 10 July to protest against the conditions imposed on them by suppliers, Italy
Too late to pull back. On 2 July prime minister Silvio Berlusconi spent seven hours in L
Public transport strikes are scheduled for Rome on 7-8 July.
On 7 July there are possible stoppages until the end of service called by the grass-roots members of the independent unions Cub, Cobas and Sdl in protest aga...
The G8 summit, to be held in L'Aquila from 8-10 July, is set to trigger a series of protests countrywide.
On 7 July, the confederation of grass-roots workers
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