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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
The grass lawn and flower beds have been returned to the centre of Piazza Venezia following the conclusion of archaeological excavations for the planned metro C line. The area had been cordoned off since the summer of 20...
Rescuers have officially suspended the search for victims and survivors of the earthquake that devastated the province of L
Museums around Rome are hosting a variety of events in anticipation of the European Night of Museums which takes place on 16 May. Every Saturday evening until 2 May, Rome
Thousands of pilgrims will join Pope Benedict XVI at the Colosseum on Good Friday 10 April for the traditional Via Crucis procession from 21.00 to 23.30. A suggestive ceremony, the event ordinarily draws large crowds.
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10 April has been proclaimed a day of national mourning for the victions of the earthquake in Abruzzo. Flags will be flown at half mast throughout the country and shopkeepers are being invited to suspend activities durin...
Over 250 people are now known to have died in the earthquake that hit the mountainous Abruzzo region in the early hours of 6 April. Rescuers are continuing to dig among the rubble in search of around ten people still mis...
Rescue operations continue in the province of L’Aquila after an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale devastated the area on 6 April.
As of 14.00 on 7 April prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said the death...
Twenty-seven people, including five children, are confirmed dead and over 30 are missing after an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit the Abruzzo region in the early hours of 6 April. However, the death tol...
Ninety-two people confirmed dead, 1,500 injured and over 70,000 displaced: this is the provisional toll as of 17.00 on 6 April of the violent earthquake which devastated large parts of the province of L’Aquila in t...
Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) is offering 15 to 60 per cent discounts on 12 high-speed railway routes in order to gain an dvantage over the airlines on travel between Italy's largest cities.
Discounts are on a sliding scale...
The largest labour union in Italy, the CGIL, has called a demonstration in Rome for 4 April to protest the rising unemployment, falling salaries and weakened pensions that have resulted from Italy's faltering economy.
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From 2 April only digital thermometers are available for sale in Italy. Thermometers containing mercury have now been banned, in line with a 2006 European Union directive to reduce the use and spread of the highly toxic...
When the house is burning it is best not to pour oil on the flames. But on his first visit to Africa Pope Benedict XVI seemed to have little regard for conventional wisdom. At the outset of his trip he lobbed not just a...
Spring gardens
Something of a magical destination, the ruined mediaeval town of Ninfa to the south of Rome is where, over a century, generations of the Caetani family planted and cultivated a wildly romantic English-st...
500 years after the glories of the Renaissance a new art movement burst forth in Italy to dazzle the west. It was exalted and explained by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who published its manifesto in the Paris dail...
For the second year running, Rome hosts the international contemporary art fair
The city council has approved a plan to fuse Rome's three public transport companies, Atac Spa, Met.Ro Spa and Trambus Spa. According to the plan, parent company Atac, which oversees planning and development of Rome's pu...
Landfill managers around Lazio are threatening to turn away rubbish from Rome and 14 other towns in Lazio unless their municipal waste collection companies start paying arrears.
According to local business association F...
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Over the next ten years, 27 thousand hectares of suburban land stretching from EUR to Fiumicino and Ostia and taking in Appia Antica and Aurelia could have a makeover that the city hall hopes will double tourism in the c...
A budget proposal to increase the price of bus, tram and metro tickets is set to be approved on the evening of 26 March. Alemanno
Right-wing party Alleanza Nazionale (AN) has officially disbanded, paving the way for its members to join the new centre-right party Popolo della Libert
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