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A building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano has been given the go-ahead and will be constructed on the current site of the towers that once housed the ministry of finance in EUR. The plan for the building has...
Run-off elections for Rome mayor and president of the province of Rome will be held 27-28 April. Contestants for mayor are outgoing minister of culture Francesco Rutelli of the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD) and...
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The outgoing Italian cabinet has approved a bridge loan of
Friday 25 April Italy celebrates Liberation Day, which is generally accepted as the end of world war two in Italy, although German forces did not officially surrender until four days later on 29 April. In Rome, Preside...
A ten-year-old American tourist who went missing on 21 April from the Vatican Museums was found safe and sound four hours later in Via Veneto, some four kilometres away. The little boy had been visiting the museums with...
Rome marks its 2761st birthday on 21 April, based on its mythical founding date in 753 BC, with various events on the day itself and the days that follow. This year the city has chosen musical events in particular to cel...
Excavations for the new Metro C line station at Piazza Venezia have revealed an ancient Roman staircase in the middle of the square. The white-marble staircase inset into pink granite has been dubbed
Sunday 20 April sees the return of
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World-renowned architect Massimiliano Fuksas, acclaimed film director Ettore Scola, and one of the most respected voices on politics and current affairs and founder of the newspaper the Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, are...
Four out of ten Italian couples no longer have sex and only 30 per cent of couples are satisfied with their sexual life according to a study carried out by a group of sexologists, gynaecologists, and andrologysts. The st...
Italian animal rights groups were up in arms after an Italian brown bear who wandered into Switzerland was shot dead this week. JJ3 had been living in the Swiss canton of Graubunden for the last year, but Swiss authoriti...
The 13-14 April elections for mayor and president of the province of Rome will go down to run-offs between Francesco Rutelli of the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD) and Gianni Alemanno of the centre-right Popolo dell...
Although not 100 per cent grammatical, the play on the name Alitalia
On 27 June 2007 Wanted in Rome published an article on accidents in the workplace.
There are good reasons to enroll your child in a dance class.
The alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi has won the parliamentary elections of 13-14 April with a clear majority in both houses of parliament. This is partly thanks to the consolidation of Umberto Bossi
The work to repave the area around the base of the Colosseum on its western side has brought to light new archaeological findings. At the beginning of April a marble piece measuring a metre and a half of an equestrian st...
The centre-right alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi
City transport company ATAC has plans to extend the tram 8 line
49 million Italians will be called back to the polls on 13
Drivers of so-called microcars will have to pay to drive in the limited traffic zone (ZTL) areas of the city from 1 July. The tiny cars, which are popular with under-18s since they do not require a licence to drive, curr...
The chapel in Palazzo Barberini containing a crucifix by Pietro da Cortona and ceiling vault frescoes by either his pupils or him together with his pupils is now open to visitors after many years of closure. The newly re...
La Fanciulla del West, first sung at New York
The national strike of rubbish collectors set for 7-9 April has been called off. The Federambiente, which represents most public sanitation workers throughout Italy, has now signed a new national contract. Work was as us...
With less than a week to go before the general election Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the centre-right coalition Popolo della Libert
Palaces, theatres, villas, aqueducts, and other sites in Italy normally closed to the public will open their doors on 5 and 6 April for the Fondo per l
The tiny Democrazia Cristiana (DC) party has averted an embarrassing postponement of next week
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