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The Vatican Museums are having a special Sunday opening on 10 May from 09.00 to 14.00 (last entrance at 12.30) to benefit families left homeless by the 6 April earthquake in Abruzzo. The museums will be donating all proc...
A fire at the ATAC bus depot in Via delle Mura Portuensi in Trastevere destroyed 30 electric minibuses in the early hours of the morning on 3 May. It is the only depot in Rome which stores the buses running on electrical...
Homes are being declared safe to return to but many people refuse to do so. One minor reason is that the gas supply has not been repaired. Many remember the heavy smell of gas after the earthquake and are scared that a f...
Labour Day on 1 May falls on Friday this year for a three-day weekend. Many shops and public offices will be closed for the holiday, which is also liable to create heavy traffic on the motorways.
Labour day will be cele...
For anyone who has experienced previous earthquakes in Italy, (Friuli 1976, Irpinia 1980, Umbria 1997 just to mention the most serious in the last half century), there was something different about the one that struck Ab...
In the holy year 1950, Pope Pius XII created a sensation when he announced to the world that the tomb of the apostle Peter had been located in the exact spot where tradition had always placed it
Silvio Berlusconi has always been one of the best salesmen in the world. I acknowledge his skills as a media supplier and before then as a building constructor. He is a fantastic announcer. He has learnt that before you...
The health ministry is urging Italians to stay calm in the face of an outbreak of swine influenza that has killed more than 150 people in Mexico and spread to Europe, with cases reported in Spain and Scotland.
While no...
The last surviving witness of the Nazi bloodshed in the Abruzzo village of Onna near L
Tough new anti-stalking measures were passed by parliament in mid-April as part of a package of measures to combat sex crimes.
The new law makes stalking a felony punishable by up to four years in prison. It also takes...
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Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, will be in Italy between 26-30 April as part of an official tour which will include a visit to the Holy See. Accompanied by his consort Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, the visit aim...
After days of torrential rain, the sun is shining on the 17th day after the earthquake in Abruzzo.
Water supply and sewerage. The roads around L
The Italian government has voted to change the location of the upcoming G8 summit in July from La Maddalena island in Sardinia to L'Aquila, which was heavily damaged by the 6 April earthquake. Prime minister Silvio Berlu...
Italy celebrates the 64th anniversary of its liberation from German occupation on 25 April with parades throughout the country. A public holiday, many shops and museums that are normally open on Saturday will be closed....
Originally held to commemorate members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey in world war one, ANZAC Day on 25 April is now a day when these two countries pay tribute to a...
One of the most prestigious events of the international tennis circuit, the 66th Internazionali BNL d
Rome marks the 39th Earth Day on 22 April with a free concert in Piazza del Popolo starting at 20.00. Many Italian and international stars will be doing their bit to raise awareness of environmental issues, especially th...
Italian middle and secondary school students are the least enthusiastic museum-goers in Europe according to a poll by online newspaper
Professor Christopher Smith, Vice-Principal of the University of St Andrews, has been appointed as the new director of the British School at Rome (BSR). Smith will take up the post on 1 October and will replace Professor...
The Eternal City turns 2,762 on 21 April, which is believed to be the date of its mythical founding by the twins Romulus and Remus in 753 BC. To celebrate, the capital will turn back the clock for a week of historical re...
People who are unable to return to their homes as a result of the earthquake that hit L
The eleventh edition of National Culture Week (Settimana della Cultura) gets underway from 18-26 April during which all of the country' state-run museums, galleries and archaeological sites are open to the public for fre...
03.32. It was a ghastly experience. The noise was that of a growling, roaring, angry beast running through the house at 03.32 that Monday morning. It was 6 April, the week before Easter. The earthquake had hit the least-...
When I came from New York to Rome in 1962, we went to stay with Lola in her apartment in Via Monserrato by Piazza Ricci. Across the street in a palatial apartment, said to have once been inhabited by a pope, lived Cy Two...
Entering the dressmaking workshop in Via Nomentana 952 is like stepping into another world. Here the unisex uniformity of today
The cultural heritage ministry has placed Rome's Teatro dell'Opera under compulsory administration due to a
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