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The price of pasta is set to rise by 20 per cent in Italian supermarkets from the autumn, according to the Italian pasta manufacturers
The European Fundamental Rights Agency released a report Friday 6 July counting the number of children forced to beg on the streets of Italy at near 50,000. According to the study, most of the children are Roma or immigr...
Theories as to the origin of the ancient Etruscan civilization, which flourished from roughly 800 BC, or even earlier, until its final domination by Rome in 100 BC, have fired the imagination of historians for millennia....
The population of Italy rose by almost 380,000 between 2005 and 2006, largely due to the influx of foreigners coming to live in the country. The report by national statistics organization Istat reveals that the populatio...
Pope Benedict XVI has now officially announced that mass can once again be said in Latin in Roman Catholic parishes, without having to request special permission from the bishop. Baptism, marriage, confession and the ano...
Marriage is not what it used to be in Italy, according to statistics recently released by Istat, (Italian statistics institute).
The data was compiled from finalised divorce and separation procedures registered throug...
Free anonymous HIV tests will be available in two of the capital
Rome mayor Walter Veltroni has withdrawn the capital as a host city candidate for the 2016 summer Olympic Games. The decision was made following the Olympic Committee
The Confcommercio (confederation of businesses) has specified that clothes and accessory summer sales in Rome will begin on 14 June and end on 24 August.
Rome is one of the last cities to begin its summer sales: shops i...
Following research carried out on the quality of life in 21 Italian cities, conducted by Altroconsumo, an Italian consumer guardian association, Rome (50.1 marks out of 100) registered a poor 16 th place, narrowly preced...
The Confcommercio (confederation of businesses) has specified that clothes and accessory summer sales in Rome will begin on 14 June and end on 24 August.
Rome is one of the last cities to begin its summer sales: shops i...
The water clock at Villa Borghese has been restored to working order after falling into disrepair in the middle of the 20th century. The mechanism, which is powered by the movement of water, was created by Giovan Battist...
The Fondazione Ania (Italian road safety foundation) has launched a campaign called
1 July is the day that marks the liberalisation of the domestic power supply market. This means that householders will be free to choose their electric and gas supply company, in other words shop around for the best offe...
Rome mayor Walter Veltroni has announced he will be standing as a candidate for the leadership of the newly created Partito Democratico (PD). The new party, which will not become politically active until spring 2008, is...
People who cannot take on the responsibility of owning a dog full-time can now spend an hour walking one of the residents of the dogs
Theories as to the origin of the ancient Etruscan civilization, which flourished from roughly 800 BC, or even earlier, until its final domination by Rome in 100 BC, have fired the imagination of historians for millennia....
Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing future heads of the Catholic Church in an effort to guarantee a wider consensus among the cardinals. Previously, a two-thirds majority was required to elect a new pont...
The gardens of the Swiss Institute in Rome will host a jazz concert entitled
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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...
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