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The city council has officially inaugurated its 060608 culture hotline, which gives out information in five different languages and sells tickets to the city
Art historian former Italian culture minister Antonio Paolucci has taken over from Francesco Buranelli as the director of the Vatican Museums this month. Paolucci was previously superintendent of the Polo Museale Fiorent...
On 14 November 2007, throngs of mourners came to pay their respects at the funeral of 26-year-old Gabriele Sandri, a local DJ and Lazio football fan shot through the neck by a police bullet the previous Sunday while sitt...
A gleaming white marble figure, elegantly reclining on a marble cushion, has always been the centrepiece, the icon, of the Villa Borghese museum, a treasure trove that is rivaled only by the Medici collection in the Uffi...
The recent murder of a British student in Perugia has brought to public attention the tens of thousands of foreign students attending schools and universities across Italy. Meredith Kercher was studying languages at Leed...
African cinema in Rome
The annual festival dedicated to films from or about the African continent takes place in Rome, 1-9 Dec.
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...
Italy is likely to grind to a halt on 30 November because of a transport workers
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...
Viterbo, about 50 kms north of Rome, and within easy access to the tourist regions of Umbria and Tuscany, has officially been designated as Rome
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...
The marathon frenzy that has seized Rome and surroundings in these recent weeks is not over yet. After the
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 first tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will excavate the tunnels of Rome
It might seem a paradox but in the fractious atmosphere of Romano Prodi
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
The main difference between Rome and Canada is that here I don
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...
Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi has announced the creation of a new mega-party that he hopes will unite Italy
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
Todis, the discount supermarket with 55 outlets in Rome, has agreed to join the city council
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
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