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The area around Rome has a variety of spas and residents and visitors may find it difficult to decide where to go for pampering. Below are some of the options available within reasonable reach of the capital. Remember th...
Thus spake Silvio Berlusconi when, on Friday 18 July, he announced that
Following pessimistic predictions by national consumer groups, the local branch of Italian merchants association Confcomercio Roma confirms that the summer discount season for clothes and accessories is off to a weak fir...
Culture Minister Sandro Bondi has outlined his planned makeover of Pompeii after the government declared a state of emergency there in early July because of
The city has unveiled a new traffic regime postponing nighttime traffic restrictions in the historic centre known as the ZTL (zona di traffico limitato). At present, the nighttime ZTL lasts between 21.00 and 03.00 on Fri...
The Travel and Leisure Magazine annual survey has rated Rome as the second best city in Europe, placing it behind Florence and ahead of Istanbul, Paris, and Krakow. The results also name Rome as the seventh best city in...
A survey carried out last year by Caritas, the Catholic aid agency, and published on 1 July 2008 has shed some interesting light on the
The city council department of public safety has reissued a summer ban on take-away sales of drinks in aluminum and glass containers in areas around the city. The ban is intended to curb littering and other forms of alco...
If you have ever rented accommodation in Rome or Italy there is a fair chance you will not have been given a registered contract. Landlords often choose not to register the rental agreement with the tax office (agenzia d...
Mario Schifano is the enfant terrible of contemporary Italian art. He is its true painter. Ten years after his untimely death
One hundred and eighty-six national delegations, 44 heads of state or government and, hold on to your hats, 1,528 media registrations. Wow. For most people in Rome, the recent high-level conference on world food security...
Italian labour unions have announced a 24-hour national transport strike for 7 July. Public transport will stop at midnight on 6 July and, except for minimum guaranteed service, will remain out of service until midnight...
The Italian government has declared a year-long state of emergency at the archaeological site of Pompeii in a bid to save the crumbling ruins from poor management, looting and lack of maintenance. Culture minister Sandro...
According to a report released on 2 July by the ministry of health 96.2 per cent of Italy's coastline is suitable for swimming and 93 per cent conforms to European standards of safe swimming water.
The top-ranking regi...
Police in Rome have launched an experimental bicycle squad to patrol the city
Levels of the airborne pollutant ozone in the capital exceeded Italian air quality standards four times in the last week of June, according the Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Lazio (ARPA). Italian law...
Right-wing Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno has ditched two luxury cars used to ferry the mayor about the city in another show of one-upmanship against predecessor Walter Veltroni. Alemanno inherited the two
The Italian actress, Sophia Loren, has made an impassioned appeal for a trash cleanup in Naples and in her birthplace, the Naples suburb of Pozzuoli. "I beg you to free Campania, the province of Naples and my own Pozzuol...
After years of bitter arguing, an agreement on the controversial high-speed railway line between Turin and Lyons was announced this week following a breakthrough meeting between the rail line
Confcommercio, the national confederation of retail traders, has announced that the summer sales of retail goods will begin in Rome on 5 July. The only cities that precede Rome in opening the sales are Naples (2 July) an...
The mayor of Naples, Rosa Russo Iervolino, has announced that a site has been chosen for the city's first termovalorizzatore or thermocycling garbage incinerator. It will be built in Agnano, a northern suburb where ex-p...
A study published by the Ente Bilaterale Turismo della regione Lazio (EBTL) in June says that tourism in the city of Rome in the first five months of 2008 has fallen by 2.7 per cent with respect to the same period in 200...
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