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Everything is ready for La Corsa dei Santi, the race in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. The event takes place on Saturday 1 November.
The 10.5-km competition will begin at 10.10 and cross the historic cent...
Italy celebrates All Saints Day, or Ognissanti, on 1 November with a public holiday. Although this year it falls on a Saturday, thereby impacting fewer people, it does mean that public transport will run according to the...
It was 09.05 and the commentator on the BBC World News gave a gasp. She was reading out the falling figures on the European stock exchanges, only minutes after they had opened. However her tone was closer to what she mig...
Assuming all goes smoothly, the United States and the world should wake up on 5 November knowing the name of the 44th president of the United States. Either Barack Hussein Obama, junior senator from Illinois, or John Sid...
Halloween
The Brits and the Irish seem to take to Halloween like no one else. And we
The 2007 Italian wine harvest was one of the most unusual of the last few decades, both because it was one of the smallest and because it came so early. This year
The following is a roundup of some of the best exhibitions showing in Rome at present. The choice ranges from the ancient to the contemporary and as all the exhibitions last until the beginning of next year there is plen...
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to converge on central Rome on 25 October for an anti-government demonstration organised by the main opposition party Partito Democratico (PD).
Two separate protest marches...
Protests are building across Italy against proposed government reforms, which could radically transform the primary, secondary and higher education sectors. Students, teachers and university professors have occupied lear...
Rome rolls out the red carpet for the third edition of the Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma at the Auditorium - Parco della Musica from 22-31 October. This year
In Italy the gap between rich and poor has grown by 33 per cent over the last two decades according to
New excavations are scheduled in Piazza Venezia before a decision can be made on possible sites there for the planned metro C station and its exits. The centre of new activity will be in front of the church of Madonna di...
On 17 October young and old will be sleeping rough in towns and cities across Italy to mark the United Nation
Selected bars in Rome have agreed to maintain the price of coffee, cappuccino, brioche, fruit juice, sandwiches and other items for four months under a nationwide initiative aimed at mitigating the rising cost of living...
London auction house Bonhams removed ten artifacts from a 15 October auction following an appeal by former culture minister, Francesco Rutelli, who says that they were illegally exported from Italy. Among the most notabl...
Two senators, Silvana Amati of the opposition party Partito Democratico and Laura Bianconi of the majority party Popolo della Libert
The single largest jackpot in Italian history will go up for grabs in the 18 October draw of the superenalotto, the Italian national lottery. So far, the grand prize stands at
Labour unions CUB (Confedarazione Unitaria di Base), COBAS (Confederazione dei comitati di base) and SdL (Sindacato dei Lavorati Intercategoriale) have declared a general strike Friday 17 October which will mainly affect...
The tomb of the ancient Roman general who was the inspiration for Russell Crowe
Rome is the most dangerous city in Italy in terms of road safety with 21,452 accidents recorded in 2006
Rome has fallen far down the city rankings in the latest report by Lega Ambiente on the eco-systems of cities in Italy. The report, released on 13 October in Belluno, shows that Rome has dropped to 70th position compar...
Not long ago Piazza Navona used to be the playground for centre-city kids. In the mornings it would be full of mothers and babies in pushchairs (plus grandmothers and English au-pairs); in the afternoon it was full of sc...
Is it a sign of things to come? A few weeks ago, in Castel Volturno in the province of Caserta north of Naples, Italy had the worst outbreak of racial violence since it reluctantly became transformed from a super-homogen...
Standing room only in the conference room of Rome
This is a time not only to go apple and pumpkin picking but also to pick out great fashion pieces for autumn. There is no need to wait for temperatures to drop; this year
Opera was born in Italy, and so too were the main exponents of bel canto such as Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini: Handel, one of the early protagonists, was German by birth but Italian by musical training. Theatres throug...
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