City transport company ATAC will run five special Christmas shopping shuttles over the next few weeks in order to reduce traffic congestion in the city by encouraging shoppers to leave their cars at home. The five shoppi...
A stunning new set of doors designed by the Greek-born artist Jannis Kounellis has been inaugurated at the monastic garden of the church of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, in the Manzoni area of Rome south of Termini Station. T...
From 1 December employers must apply online through the ministry of the interior website www.interno.it for permission to take on new immigrant employees. On this website there are long but clear instructions for the e...
Taxi drivers blocked streets in Rome on 28 and 29 November, bringing traffic to a virtual standstill as they protested over city council proposals to increase the number of licences in the capital during ongoing talks ov...
Rome mayor Walter Veltroni has asked the commander of the city traffic police, Giovanni Catanzaro, to step down from office after Catanzaro allegedly used a disabled permit that had been reported lost to park his car in...
A judge in Florence has ordered the expulsion of three United States citizens, leaving a fourth awaiting trial, for assaulting a pair of off-duty carabinieri early Thanksgiving morning (22 November). The incident occurre...
Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of King Umberto II, the last monarch of Italy, and his son Emanuele Filiberto have filed a claim against the Italian government asking for
The mid-1980s was a promising period in Italy. The Azzurri were the champions of the soccer world. A dip in oil prices triggered a brief economic recovery. And, in the sleepy villages just outside the Marchigiana port ci...
In London and Paris playgrounds with good equipment in congenial surroundings are abundant. Here in Rome there are activities for children provided by Explora Children
Archaeologists digging on an unexplored area of the Palatine hill in Rome earlier this year may have found the Lupercal shrine, minister for culture Francesco Rutelli officially announced on 20 November. The shrine was f...
Rome city council has approved funding for the construction of a Casa del Ballo, a venue, library and exhibition space dedicated to dance along the same lines as the city
A local councillor has upset Rome city council by closing a stretch of the Tiber cycle path in the north of Rome because of security threats from nearby Rom encampments. Massimiliano Fasoli, who heads up the city
Football, police and government authorities were set to meet on 12 November to discuss the fate of the Italian championships following a weekend of football-related violence. A wave of hooliganism swept Italy over the we...
Rome city council is set to launch a bike sharing experiment in January next year, with 250 bicycles made available at 22 different locations in the city
The ten commandments for members of the Sicilian mafia have been found among the possessions of senior boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who was arrested by police in Palermo on 5 November. Lo Piccolo is thought to have stepped...
Strikes by private and public employees over low salaries, increased taxes, pensions and the treatment of precari (workers on temporary contracts) are scheduled for Friday 9 November. In Rome, the industrial action may a...
In its freshly and painstakingly restored Victorian exhibition palace Rome has done herself proud with the sumptuous and deeply explorative retrospective of one of the most respected masters of our era.
The American pai...
ADJUNCT FACULTY: Sustainable Conservation
The American University of Rome is looking for an adjunct instructor to teach the course "Sustainable Conservation" which is part of a...
Qualified mother tongue teachers are needed for morning/afternoon lessons in state schools for Cambridge Primary, Lower Secondary, and Secondary 2. CELTA or equivalent teaching cer...