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The city of Rome can be seen as a microcosm of the Italian wine industry. It was the ancient empire
Francesco Rutelli, the outgoing deputy prime minister and culture minister, has announced he will be standing for the mayor of Rome job in the 13-14 April elections.
Rutelli will run as the candidate for the Partito Dem...
One in six Italian households has domestic pets, according to an article in the Corriere della Sera. A two-page spread on 18 February on the boom of domestic animals concludes that while the numbers of pets are increasin...
Work has finally begun on the building that will be the new home to the Trionfale food and flower market, one of the most popular and colourful markets in Rome. The project to build a structure to cover the market, locat...
Pro-abortion demonstrations were held in Rome, Bologna, Florence and Naples on 14 February after a woman who had undergone an abortion in a Naples hospital was questioned by police earlier in the week. Around 4,000 women...
Sunday 17 February is the second traffic-free Sunday of the year in Rome. From 09.00-17.00 vehicles will not be allowed to circulate in the
Go to any state museum or archaeological site in Italy on 14 February as a couple and only one of you will pay. This initiative from the ministry of culture is an offer to the
Rome mayor Walter Veltroni has handed in his resignation on 13 February as he prepares for his role in the April general elections as leader of the Partito Democratico, the largest party on the centre left.
Veltroni ha...
People needing to take Rome night buses will no longer get stuck without a ticket after the tabaccai close thanks to a new initiative by city transport company ATAC that guarantees electric ticket machines on all night b...
The diocese of Venice is encouraging people to give up mineral water for Lent and start drinking tap water in a campaign to raise funds for charity. Praising the quality of the water on tap in every household in the city...
The latest statistics reveal that Italians are living longer than ever before and are having more children out of wedlock. Istat, the Italian institute of statistics, has published its demographic data for 2007, which i...
Italian general elections have been set for 13-14 April after president of the republic Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament on 6 February. The move came after speaker of the Italian senate failed in his mandate to fi...
Italian institute for statistics (Istat) has made its annual alterations to the contents of the shopping basket to be applied in 2008 in determining the changes in the cost of living. New in this year
Writing political commentary and analysis for a fortnightly magazine such as Wanted in Rome is always a risky business. The final deadline for articles is ten days before publication, after which it is impossible to chan...
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Franco Marini, the speaker of the Italian senate, who was asked by the president of the republic, Giorgio Napolitano, to try to form a government, has resigned his mandate on the grounds that he has been unable to find a...
Rome has announced a new plan to tighten up on rubbish collection and to improve recycling. The large street containers for recycling glass, plastic and metal (blue) and paper (white) will be emptied every three days ins...
Rome city council has begun distributing special cards allowing residents to indicate whether or not they wish to donate their organs for transplant in the event of their death. The card
A rugby weekend in Rome has established itself as one of the most popular events on the Six Nations calendar. But first, on Saturday 2 February, the Azzurri with new coach Nick Mallett will debut at Dublin
The spiral ramp used to transport scenery to the film studios of Cinecitt
Alitalia has confirmed that it will cut 150 of its flights into Milan
The spiral ramp used to transport scenery to the film studios of Cinecitt
The speaker of the senate, Franco Marini, is continuing talks with political parties to establish whether there is enough cross-party support to form an interim government following the fall of the Romano Prodi administr...
Melitus Were, the Kenyan opposition member of parliament who was shot and killed in Nairobi on the night of 28 January, was well known and loved in the Kenyan community in Rome. He came to Italy at the end of the 1990s a...
Rome city council has published a guide to Italian schools in the city for immigrant parents ahead of registration for the next academic year. The guide has been translated into eight languages
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