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The ministry of fine arts has announced that every weekend until 5 and 6 of May 2007 there will guided tours to the historic rooms (Saloni Storici) of the Palazzo Venezia which are normally not accessible to public excep...
lWork by the late French artist Gilles Aillaud (1928-2005) goes on show at the French Academy at Villa Medici in Evasioni, the first big exhibition of the year, 8 Feb-8 April.
During his years in high school Aillaud su...
It was a very happy mayor Walter Veltroni who officially announced last November that Rome was to have its first public golf course, to be built on land conceded by the city. Less happy, but still upbeat, was Franco Chim...
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The Italian government and football authorities have outlined tough new measures at a special cabinet meeting following the suspension of all matches on 2 February. The sanction was imposed after a 38-year-old police off...
The government was set to meet the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) on Monday 5 February to decide when Italian football will be restarted. All domestic and international Italia...
Petrol stations will be shut from 19.00 on Tuesday 6 February until 07.00 on Friday 9 February in protest against the a new law liberalising the sale of fuel passed by the government at the end of January. The new measur...
Cocaine use has more than doubled in Italy between 2001-2005, according to a ministry of the interior report, making it the European country with the third highest cocaine usage after Great Britain and Spain.
The main...
In just two months, the 2006-2007 ski season has already registered seven deaths, the latest three resulting from collisions just 48 hours apart.
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According to a study issued by the Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale, 45 per cent of young people in Italy between the ages of 30 and 34 still live with their parents.
One child in four is born to a mother over 34,...
Car sales in Italy in the month of January 2007, at about 300,000, are three and a half per cent higher than in January 2006. Of these cars, 78,000, or 31.4 per cent were of the Fiat group (against 30.7 per cent in 2006...
The composer Gian Carlo Menotti, founder of the Spoleto Festival, has died at the age of 95 in Montecarlo.
Born in Cadegliano (Varese) on 7 July 1911, he began his musical studies at the Milan conservatoire, before mo...
Three new stations were inaugurated on the Roma Tiburtina-Guidonia (FR2) railway line to the east of the city centre on 1 February. Trains now make two stops on the stretch between Stazione Prenestina and Tor Sapienza at...
The senate has passed a motion to enlarge the American military base in Vicenza by a six-vote margin, mainly thanks to support from the centre-right opposition. Many in the government
Veronica Lario, the wife of ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, has sent an angry letter to a national newspaper demanding a public apology from her husband for some flirtatious comments he made at a gala dinner.
The m...
Rome city council is planning to move some of its offices out of the Campidoglio to the Ostiense area of the city, freeing up some 30,000 sqm of the current buildings for new public museum areas. Only the offices of the...
According to a report in free newspaper Leggo the new train station of Quattro Venti, which was inaugurated in November last year, is in a state of neglect.
The Quattro Venti station is situated in viale dei Quattro Ve...
Cars with license plates ending in odd numbers will be banned from the city
Tobacco sales in Italy in 2006 registered an increase of 1.1 per cent over 2005, which translates into about one million kilos. The figures are contained in the Tobacco Observatory, a publication issued three times a yea...
To celebrate 60 years since its founding, Ferrari yesterday began a
According to figures released by Asaps (Associazione amici sostenitori della Polstrada), the numbers of those stopped by the road police and fined for talking on mobiles while driving has risen from 36,517 in 2005 to 40,...
Eleven bidders stepped forward to express interest in buying up a large chunk of the Italian government
Switch off your lights for five minutes on Thursday 1 February between 19.55 and 20.00 if you are concerned with energy wastage and global warning. The campaign is being organized by the French environment group
Italy opens up to liberalization
The government has given the green light to a new package of liberalisation laws masterminded by minister for economic development Pierluigi Bersani. The new laws are principally aimed...
Starting on 4 February it will be possible to visit the Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill on the first Sunday of every month. The visits, in groups 30, will take place every 10
Cars with license plates ending in even numbers will be banned from the city
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