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In Rome 2,200,000 Italians will vote in five different elections on 13-14 April; for the senate, the chamber of deputies, the province, the city and the minicipii.
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According to a survey carried out by the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) together with the Studenti Magazine, Erasmus students studying in Italy are unhappy about many of the aspects of their experience.
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The 14th Rome Marathon takes place on Sunday 16 March starting in Via dei Fori Imperiali at 09.00. 14,500 people from 76 different countries will participate in what has become the most popular sporting event in Italy an...
There were 250,640 immigrants living in Rome at the start of 2007 according to the latest annual report from Caritas Roma, the Rome section of the international Catholic relief organisation. This represents a 6.3 per cen...
As Walter Veltroni promised, there are many women candidates (about 40 per cent) on the electoral lists of the Partito Democratico (PD) for the national elections to be held in 12-13 April. Veltroni, head of the PD, has...
Celebrations for the 500th anniversary of one of Rome
After over more than two years' controversy, work to remove the cobblestones (or sanpietrini) from Via Nazionale, is now scheduled to start in March.
According to an article in the daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera,...
Four frescoed rooms in the house of the Emperor Augustus on the Palatine Hill open to the public on 10 March. The house, which was first discovered in 1970s is made up of a dining room, a bedroom, a large entrance and a...
Drive south from Arusha in north Tanzania for about fours hours (you calculate travel in terms of time rather than distance in many parts of east Africa). Then climb for another four hours into the hills above the small...
Anyone who is thinking of seeing the Colosseum or the Roman Forum on the morning of 16 March may need to think again as most of the space will be taken up with people in various types of running gear. For at 09.00 that S...
The Japanese Cultural Institute holds a characteristically eclectic series of events this month, ranging from film through discussion to music.
Registration at city-run nursery schools and other services for children between 0 and 3 years for the 2008-2009 school year opens on 3 March and continues until 4 April. Children born after 1 January 2006 and babies due...
Many more Italians in northern Italy opt for cremation than in the south, a new study confirms.
The survey made ahead of the Tanexpor trade fair for the funeral sector, which will take place in Bologna from 28-30 March...
Vehicles with number plates ending in an odd number will not be allowed to circulate within the so-called Green zone in Rome on Thursday 28 February between 15.00-21.00 due to pollution-reducing limitations on the circul...
Wireless internet hot spots are to be installed in three Rome municipi (V, XII and XIII). The
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
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