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A demonstration will take place Sat 11 November in Rome
Cities in Italy have the highest percentage of residents at retirement-age in Europe.
According to the Eurostats survey, Urban Audit, nine out of the ten cities with the oldest populations (old being defined as those o...
Progress reports for the Italian economy at the end of the third quarter show higher prices, rising unemployment, a widening trade deficit, increased public debt and GDP growth hovering around zero.
In September, a stud...
Rome is to launch a new road safety campaign in conjunction with ANIA foundation, the national body that represents insurance companies. The scheme, announced on 1 October, includes educational programmes in schools, imp...
The province of Latina has recently signed an agreement with landscape architect Professor Alan Berger of MIT to clean up the area known as the Agro Pontino, the former marshland drained by Mussolini in the 1930s. Berg...
National railway operator, Trenitalia, has suspended a new policy planned to come into force 1 October that would place a six kilogram weight limit on dogs travelling aboard trains and require smaller dogs to be transpor...
Excavate anywhere in the historic centre of Rome and something will turn up. When work started on the Auditorium Parco della Musica in the 1990s unusual Roman farm buildings came to light. Work stopped, plans were re-dra...
The Alitalia saga continues, an apparently unending telenovela, or soap opera, which would be downright funny if its possible consequences weren
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With the recent warning from British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh that 30 more airlines could go bust by Christmas you
With its wide and regular streets and post-unification architecture, Prati is in many ways the antithesis of the historic centre of Rome. However, despite the fact that it lacks the charm of many of the older parts of th...
Whether seen as an act of begging or legitimate form of entertainment, busking is not only fashionable but also commonplace throughout the historic centre of Rome. Musicians and street artists also entertain tourists wai...
National railway operator, Trenitalia, has announced a new policy placing a six kilogram weight limit on dogs travelling aboard trains and requiring smaller dogs to be transported inside closed carriers. Seeing-eye dogs...
The bike sharing scheme launched in mid June with 19 automated stations in the historic centre will expand to other areas of Rome beginning with Prati. The news of the expansion was announced on 22 September by the city...
In observance of United Nations world tourism day on Sat 27 September, the Vatican museums and Sistine Chapel are open free of charge from 08.30 to 18.30 with final entrances at 16.00.
In addition, free guided tours of...
Labour unions have called off a railway strike planned for 26 Sept. Trenitalia says that all regular service will continue as scheduled. For more information see www.trenitalia.it or tel. 892021 (
Labour unions representing railway workers have declared a strike for Friday 26 Sept. The strike will last from 09.00 to 17.00. The
The government has introduced new rules for bars and nightclubs across Italy in an effort to stem drink-driving and alcohol-induced road accidents among clients especially at weekends.
Under a decree passed on 30 July...
Notices were published in foreign and Italian papers on 23 September asking for new bids for Alitalia, Italy
Researchers at the University of Padova have discovered the remains of ancient Altinum near present-day Marco Polo airport on the mainland north of Venice. Abandonded in the seventh century in the wake of the Hun invasio...
Thinking about the present political situation in Italy a scene from the 1998 film
At Piazza S. Egidio in Trastevere, where I lived for 20 years, the residents are having an extended honeymoon. For almost a year now, perhaps even a bit longer, the illegal peddlers who used to set up their stands there...
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