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When in need of clothing or costume jewellery, most people head straight for well-known department store chains or boutiques which stock pieces according to the latest seasonal trends. But buyers take note: there is an a...
With a stone head, a ten-metre-long creature in crumbly white chalk is outlined all over the sidewalk. It stretches and stretches from under the brick side-wall of the church of S. Rocco over the pavement and into the st...
When two policemen called on Graziella Marota on 20 June last year she had a mental image of her son Andrea trapped in the wreckage of a crashed car. It was a moment she had been dreading since the 23-year-old accepted a...
According to the Paris based OCSE (Organization for economic cooperation and development), the number of unemployed in Italy will be 6.3 per cent of the work force (1.6 million) in 2007, down from last year
Pope Benedict XVI has nominated the French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran head of the reinstated pontifical council for inter-religious dialogue. Tauran has been the Vatican
As of early July, commuters and beachgoers on the Roma Lido line, running from Ostiense Station to the Ostia waterfront, will have cooler ride as the first of a planned six new air conditioned trains comes into service....
The last two building sites on what will be the first working section of the metro C line between S. Giovanni and Alessandrino in southern Rome opened on 25 June at Piazzale delle Gardenie and Piazza Mirti. The seven-kil...
Nightlife in Trastevere has exasperated neighborhood residents who are calling for intervention from city authorities in the most offbeat of ways. The Vivere Trastevere Committee, lead by long time Trasteverina Dina Nasc...
Nearly half a million anxious scholars, including 20,000 students in Roman schools, have begun their final school-leaving exams.
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The sacred vessel, which throughout the centuries has inspired crusades, legends, endless searches as to its true whereabouts, ancient and modern bestsellers, may after all be in Rome, according to Italian archaeologist...
The Protestant cemetery in the Testaccio area of Rome reopened 20 June. It was closed on 25 May for safety reasons after the fall of some pine-tree branches in a storm. During the closure three other dangerous trees have...
There will be a national train strike from 21.00 on Thursday 21 June until 21.00 on Friday 22 June. Passengers should expect extensive cancellations, although some national train services will continue to run during the...
The ministry of the environment will contribute up to 30 per cent of the price of a new bicycle (up to
The American International Club of Rome together with the Rome chapter of Democrats Abroad will hold their annual American Independence Day picnic Sunday 1 July from 16.30 until dusk. The site for the picnic is an organi...
The Colosseum will be lit up tonight, Friday 15 June, in memory of the victims of Nazism in the capital. The illumination remembers in particular the massacre of some 335 Italian civilians that took place at Fosse Ardeat...
Ancient Rome is the subject of the largest computer simulation of a historic city ever created. Classicists, historians and computer whizzes from the universities of Virginia and Los Angeles and Milan Polytechnic have cr...
Two senators recently wrote a letter to senate authorities asking that ice creams be made available at the senate bars. However the request was flatly rejected by the senate's administration, who turned down the request...
Builders digging space for a small, private garage in a Parioli have accidentally damaged the sole Roman aqueduct still in use, leaving several of the historic centre
Many memorials dedicated to events during the closing stages of world war two can be found in those parts of Italy occupied by German troops, especially Rome. Recently, on 4 June, the 63rd commemoration was celebrated at...
In February a new book, a fine slim volume, stirred up a wasps
On 12 May hundreds of thousands of people arrived in Rome from all over Italy to take part in Family Day organised by Catholic groups and family associations in defence of traditional family values. Gathered in Piazza S....
New electronic ticket barriers have now been installed at 13 metro stations on the metro B line (Laurentina-Rebibbia): Marconi, San Paolo, Garbatella, Circo Massimo, Colosseo, Cavour, Castro Pretorio, Policlinico, Bologn...
The Keats-Shelley House poetry prize for schools 2007 is divided into two sections, English and Italian, and into three age groups. This year the 5-9 age group was given the themes
In an address to members of Apimondia Italia, Asger Sogaard Jorgensen, president of the international federation of beekeepers
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