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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...
This summer parliament gave its definitive backing to plans for Italy to resume nuclear power production 22 years after it was abolished following a referendum.
Under the terms of the so-called economic development law...
On 19 August singer-songwriter Emilio Rez, 24, was returning home on foot along Via Etruria in the S. Giovanni area of Rome. It was 03.00, but as he hurried along the street he was stopped by a man who asked him for dire...
On Sunday 11 October, over 5,000 people, one for every person killed on the Italian roads each year, will lie down in Via dei Cerchi near Circo Massimo to protest against dangerous driving, whether from speed or alcohol...
10 October is a day of national mourning for the victims of the flooding and mudslides in and around Messina in Sicily on the night of 1-2 October.
Twenty eight people are known to have died and a further seven people...
Work to resurface Via dei Fori Imperiali finished at the start of October, a month earlier than expected. The work, which began in April 2009, involved the stretch between Piazza Venezia and Via Cavour. Here the sampietr...
A team of archeologists from Southampton University in the UK have uncovered the remains of an amphitheatre at the site of Portus, in Ostia, near Fiumicino. Using magnetic sensors, ground radar and metal probes, the Sout...
Tourist attraction or extreme cruelty? Although
to some the horse-drawn carriages around
Rome are just part of the scenery, for others
they represent animal cruelty and a campaign
has begun to get them off Rome
Gardening enthusiasts will enjoy the annual
autumn horticultural sale at the beautiful
Landriana estate in Ardea 35 km south of
Rome. From 9-11 Oct the Giardini della
Landriana, established by Marchesa Lavinia...
There will be disruptions to public transport services in and around Rome on 2 October due to two separate strikes.
Services on the city
A demonstration in favour of freedom of expression and plurality of information in the media will take place on 3 October at 15.30 in Piazza del Popolo. The protest has been called in defence of article 21 of the Italian...
A special note to all British passport holders:the
British consulate in Rome has very quietly done
away with its passport services,which have high-
tailed it to Paris. From 3 June the new Western
European Passpor...
There are few of us who have never wondered what relics lie beneath our feet and how the people lived who left them there. In just about any part of Italy, that curiosity is constantly fed by the visible remains of previ...
High summer is over in Abruzzo, autumn rain is setting in and a tough winter could be in store for the earthquake zones. Italy
Some new electric minibuses have arrived to replace the 30 vehicles destroyed in the fire at the Atac bus depot in Via delle Mura Portuensi in Trastevere on 2 May 2009. The remaining vehicles will arrive over the next fe...
A new public transport route is now open between the metro station at Anagnina and the university and Policlinico (general hospital) at Tor Vergata.
The eight-kilometre route has been revamped to make bus journeys qui...
On Thursday 24 September there will be a candleit procession in Rome to protest against all forms of racism, prejudice and intolerance. The procession will leave Piazza SS Apostoli at 19.00, passing through Via Cesare Ba...
As of 18.00 on the 23 September there will be a new entrance to the museum of Zoology. Villa Ulisse Aldrovandi, 18.
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