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At the end of a very interesting tour of the castle of Bracciano north of Rome, the guide led the group to the battlements with a breathtaking view over rooftops and the lake. Looking down the brick wall of the castle,...
Nine bus lines will change course and four streets in the Salaria-Parioli area of town will be closed to traffic this week for a security clampdown during United States President George W. Bush visit to Rome.
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The Italian director Dino Risi, whose films included Profumo di Donna (1974, Scent of a Woman) and Il Sorpasso (1962, The Easy Life), has died in Rome aged 91.
Along with Mario Monicelli, Risi was one of the last survi...
The new municipal councillor for culture, Umberto Croppi, has declared that the planned car park under the Pincio on Piazza del Popolo side of Villa Borghese will not go ahead. According to the Corriere della Sera of 9 J...
The public transport strike, which was planned for Friday 6 June, has been called off. The strike would have involved all transport run by Metro and Trambus Roma and by ATAC. There has been no announcement as to why it h...
Italian labour unions have declared a four-hour strike of public transport for Friday 6 June. If the strike goes ahead as planned all public transport
The annual selection of films from the Cannes Festival will be on show in Rome from 5-12 June at eight cinemas in the capital. Taking part in the initiative are the Intrastevere (Vicolo Moroni), Nuovo Sacher (Largo Ascia...
The Isola del Giglio has been named the best coastal resort in Italy in this year
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) opens the 2008 high-level conference on world food security in Rome 3-5 June to discuss the implications of climate change and bioenergy on the world food supply.
Over 35 wor...
2 June is a public holiday in Italy to celebrate the Festa della Repubblica. The day commemorates the June referendum in 1946 when Italians voted to exile the monarchy, which was much discredited during world war two, in...
As the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) opens its 2008 high-level conference on world food security to address
The countdown to disaster may have begun. Experts involved in the ongoing trash emergency in Naples now believe that unless new areas for stockpiling are opened almost immediately, in early July, when the mercury soars,...
Law making in Italy is a confusing business. There seems to be no end to the terms used to express what is essentially the same thing. Some laws originate from parliament and others from government, while others seem to...
More than half of all bank robberies in the European Union (EU) take place in Italy, a new report by the Italian Banking Association (IBA) has revealed. In 2006, there were more than 3,000 bank robberies in the country,...
The new right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi has approved a package of tough new measures aimed at countering illegal immigration and crime. Some of the provisions extend to European Union (EU) citizens to target R...
The new Italian government headed by third-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on 21 May started off its five year term in office with a bang, adopting harsh new measures against illegal immigrants and co-opting the It...
Nearly half of working Italians do not take their full holiday entitlement, according to a report by public relations company Edelman for Expedia the travel website. 47 per cent of Italians fail to use six days of their...
Interior minister Roberto Maroni is putting the final touches to a package of tough new measures concerning immigration and crime, which are to be presented to the new right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi at a spec...
The 76th edition of the Piazza Siena equestrian show returns to Villa Borghese this year from 22-25 May. Piazza Siena will host the second round in the Samsung Super League Nations Cup series, after it opens in La Baule,...
Nicholas Johnson, principal of St George's British International School in Rome died suddenly on the 14 May 2008 in Rome while driving on Via Trionfale on his way to the school on Via Cassia with his son Fergus.
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The new Italian government is going ahead with plans to crack down on crime and illegal immigrants. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, announced the five point plan 13 May at the conclusion of a meeting with Milan mayor,...
Spring has arrived and it is the best time of year to visit the many beautiful parks and gardens in and around Rome. The city has always been characterised by vast green areas. In the second century BC it became fashiona...
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