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The city council has voted against the creation of a register for unmarried cohabiting couples in Rome. The proposal, presented by the radical left, was rejected by the centre-right opposition and the recently created Pa...
City authorities have released their 2007 plan for reducing smog in the capital. Between 11 January and 29 March, 12 consecutive
From 10 January Rome will repeat its efforts to reduce pollution in the city with limitations on the circulation of traffic on Thursday afternoons and on a number of traffic-free Sundays.
Vehicles with number plates en...
There will be a bus and tram strike in Rome on Friday 14 December. The strike will begin at 08.30 in the morning and stop at 17.00 for the guaranteed rush hour service, before beginning again at 20.00 until 24.00. Metro...
The English Football Association (FA) has approved the appointment of Fabio Capello as the new English football team manager. The Italian is still in talks with the FA about details of the four-and-a-half year deal, incl...
Singapore Airlines made a surprise bid for the Italian government
Italian lorry drivers agreed to end the industrial action that has crippled the motorway system for three days after a meeting with government representatives on 12 December.
The drivers had been blocking the country
On Tuesday evening prime minister Romano Prodi ordered striking lorry drivers in Italy back to work, but drivers interviewed on the main evening television news were defiant, saying that they would remain on strike unti...
Bullying in Italian schools has risen by 6 per cent in the last two years, according to a new study by the Italian Pediatric Society. Almost three quarters of the 1,200 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 14 polled said...
This year the Piazza S. Pietro Christmas tree comes from Val Badia near Bolzano in Trentino-Alto Adige. The tree is around 140 years old, weighs three tonnes and, at 26 metres, is slightly shorter than last year
Saturday 8 December is the religious feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and an Italian public holiday. Firemen will place a floral wreath on the statue of the Madonna in Piazza Mignanelli next...
Nobel peace laureates to meet in Rome.
The 8th annual world summit of nobel peace laureates will meet at the Campidoglio from 13 to 15 December. The summit, promoted by Rome
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
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