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Throughout history there have been many reasons to come to Trastevere, the area on the west side of the Tiber which in Latin was called trans Tiberim,
2009 is off to a rocky start for Rome taxis, who say that a downturn in tourism and too much competition are hurting business.
According to taxi union Unica Taxi CGIL average earnings are down 30 per cent compared to la...
Rome celebrates carnival with a packed calendar of over 30 events all over the city.
The revelry gets underway Thursday 19 February with the traditional children's masked ball in Piazza Navona with clowns, music, street...
The Casa dell'Architettura hosts a pair of exhibitions until 8 March to bring a sampler of Finnish design to Rome.
The Casa dell'Architettura hosts a pair of exhibitions until 8 March to bring a sampler of Finnish design to Rome.
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of an underground river running underneath the Tiber at depths between 30 and 60 metres below ground level.
Among the discoverers is Franco Barberi, vulcanologist and ex-head of...
On Sunday 15 February Stadio Flaminio in Rome lights up for the game between Italy and Ireland in this international rugby fixture of the 2009 Six Nations tournament. Kick off is at 15.30.
The two games that started off...
Emergency rooms in Lazio are critically overcrowded, says emergency health professionals
Kick-off for the Six Nations rugby match on Saturday 15 February at 15.30 at the Stadio Flaminio between Italy and Ireland should see Irish eyes smiling in the eternal city, considering that the last nine encounters have...
On 10 February the Colosseum will be illuminated in memory of Eluana Englaro, who passed away on 9 February at 20.10 after 17 years in a persistent vegetative state following a car accident. Feeding tubes keeping her ali...
The S. Marco Curia in Venice has come up with a novel idea to combat the economic downturn in the city: opening
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Il cuoco segreto dei papi. Eminent food historian June di Schino and Furio Luccichenti, winners of the 2008 Bancarella della Cucina prize, explore the life, times and recipes of the 16th-century chef to...
The Italy national rugby team that will go into the 2009 Six Nations Championship on 7 February is a very different beast from the one that entered the tournament last year. Twelve months ago there was an air of confiden...
Just over a decade ago, in 1998, Rabbi Yaacov Deyo of Aish HaTorah in Los Angeles introduced the idea of speed dating to help Jewish singles meet each other and find a partner. Since then it has become a craze in many pa...
Italy's annual musical extravaganza, the San Remo Festival, which takes place 17-21 February, will have an injection of Hollywood glamour this year, thanks to a host of movie stars who are to make an appeal to support th...
Plain clothes policemen on buses, armed traffic wardens and yet more soldiers patrolling the streets are among the measures soon to come into effect to reduce crime in Rome.
A new squad of plain clothes police officers...
Plain clothes policemen on buses, armed traffic wardens and yet more soldiers patrolling the streets are among the measures the city has announced to reduce crime in Rome.
A new squad of plain clothes police officers ar...
Fondazione Musica per Roma, which runs the Auditorium Parco della Musica, is pairing up with iTunes to present "Ti regaliamo la musica digitale", a scheme which runs until 30 April. Spectators at the Auditorium will have...
27 January commemorates the day in 1945 when the Russian Red Army opened the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, freeing the prisoners and revealing to the world the horrors of the Holocaust.
To mark the an...
Interior minister Roberto Maroni has ordered city prefects to prevent demonstrators from congregating near churches and other
Over 35 million Italians will be watching digital terrestrial television by 2010, say media magnates and government officials present at the fourth National Congress on Digital Terrestrial Television, held at Rome
Five Etruscan tombs from the 5th cenury BC are on exhibition for the first time at the necropolis of Monterozzi in Tarquinia. The tombs were discovered in the late 1950s by a team of archaeologists from the Fondazione Le...
Free theatre tickets in exchange for your old mobile phones: that's the trade-in being promoted by Vodafone Italia for the "Serate del riciclo" scheme. On 2 February at 21.00 at Teatro Brancaccio, there will be a preview...
Verdi was commissioned by Khedive Ismail Pasha of Egypt to write Aida not for the opening of the Suez Canal (1869) as is often stated, but for the Italian Theatre in Cairo, where it opened with sensational success on 24...
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