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Maybe the Alitalia saga will one day have a happy ending; airplanes bearing the well-known green, white and red triangular
The Christmas period in Rome officially began on 8 December, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, although decorations were displayed in the streets and shop windows even in November. According to the local tradition,...
This has been a rollercoaster year by even the very mobile standards of Italian politics; some of the shocks have come from outside the country, such as the autumn financial crisis, but most have been self-inflicted.
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If you look very carefully, you can see where a crack ran through the left shoulder and breast of Raphael
The Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Palaexpo) exhibition hall on Via Nazionale is to be the new home of a five star restaurant by internationally renowned chef Antonello Colonna. The new restaurant is to be called Antonello C...
Rome city council has announced a holiday traffic regime intended to reduce traffic and facilitate shopping in the historic centre.
From 6 to 24 December, day-time traffic restrictions into the centre known as the ZTL...
Mon 8 Dec is an Italian public holiday for the feast of the Immaculate Conception. As per tradition, the Pope will visit Piazza Mignanelli adjacent Piazza di Spagna to depose a wreath at the column of the Immaculate Conc...
After being closed for 11 days, Parco Savello, better known as the Giardino degli Aranci on Rome
After being closed for 11 days, Parco Savello, better known as the Giardino degli Aranci on Rome
According to the annual report from the Italian health ministry over 51,000 people in Italy have been diagnosed with AIDS since the virus was first discovered in 1981. Of these 35,000 have died. The health ministry estim...
The first solar energy plant in the Vatican comprising 2,400 solar panels on the roof of the Paul VI audience hall was inaugurated on 26 November. It will generate 300 kilowatt hours of electricity, equivalent to the ann...
The city department of transportation has announced that the area formerly occupied by the market on the northeast end of the Ponte Milvio bridge is to become a parking lot. The new lot will have around 100 parking space...
Transport minister Altero Matteoli has ordered unions to postpone a railway strike planned for Friday 28 November. After a major strike in the public transport sector on 6 Nov brought much of Italy to a halt, the transpo...
December dates
The holiday season in the eternal city starts 1 Dec with the opening of the arts and crafts fair in Piazza Navona. A great place to knock out some Christmas shopping, the market is open daily from 10.00 t...
A dewy dawn over the Venetian mainland and green grassy slopes unfolding toward the blue Dolomite mountains to primrose yellow or pomegranate pink skies, ordinary people in fluttering robes or naked, made to look sacred,...
Two of the great food and farming events of the world took place concurrently in Turin in late October: the biennial Salone del Gusto giant food fair and Terra Madre, the convention for small-scale farmers from around th...
25 November marks the international day for the elimination of violence against women. To commemorate the occasion, over 50,000 people marched on Rome
Part of the ex-Fiera di Roma on Via Cristoforo Colombo will be used to shelter the homeless from the cold winter nights, replacing the tent which has been erected in the Castel S. Angelo area for the past few years.
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The 60th anniversary of the Fulbright Commission and the 30th anniversary of the American Association of College and University Programs in Italy (AACUPI) were celebrated on 20 November at the US ambassador
The province of Rome registered the highest number of automobile fatalities in Italy in 2007, agree studies by the Italian Automobile Club (ACI) and national statistics agency (ISTAT).
Over 344 people died on the provi...
In preparation for their prime time documentary "New Homes from Hell: Buying Abroad", ITV television network is seeking British expatriates who have had singularly negative experiences buying homes abroad. ITV says that...
Finding suitable childcare in the Lazio region will soon be much easier with the introduction of the "Casa Nido" project. As of late December, women who have undergone the training scheme to become so-called "tagesmutter...
Childhood in Italy is changing with the times, according to the Italian national statistics agency ISTAT, which have just released its 2008 report on the daily lives of Italy
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