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The Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital is offering a special 24-hour tourist medical service. The tourist department is staffed by one medical doctor and two nurses, and is meant especially for patients with low-severity d...
A Kung Fu teacher has entered the race for the Rome mayor post on the ticket of Genoese anti-establishment comic Beppe Grillo.
Grillo supporters will take to Rome squares this weekend in order to collect the 2,000 signa...
The number of people taking antipsychotic drugs in Lazio almost doubled between 2000 and 2006, a report by health watchdog Osservasalute has revealed. In 2006, 6.01 out of every 1,000 people in the region were on prescri...
The Sapienza University is organising a series of events for the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the student protest at the faculty of architecture in Valle Giulia from February 29 to 19 March.
The student demonstr...
Rome's La Sapienza University is organising a series of events for the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the student protest at the faculty of architecture in Valle Giulia from February 29 to 19 March.
The student de...
The 58th Festival della Canzone Italiana, known as the Sanremo Music Festival after the city where it takes place, will run for five nights from 25 February-1 March. On the final night an overall winner and winners of...
There are around 100, 000 tourists each day in Rome, or about 36-39 million "presenze" (nights spent by tourists rather than the individual numbers) in a full year, according to statistics presented on 20 February 2008 b...
The Democrats Abroad global primary has awarded Barack Obama with his eleventh straight win in the race to become the Democratic party
The cost of eating breakfast sitting down at a table in Rome is the highest in the country, a survey by consumers
Artificial grass has been put in Piazza Siena, the historic sports field in Villa Borghese. This change, which is a cost-saving measure for the city, has provoked considerable consternation from various quarters.
Judgin...
This show has the perfect name. There is something gorgeous about Pompeian red, the colour here employed with blazing frequency. It is like blood, it is like the juice of a ripe orange or pomegranate, it is like new rust...
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...
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