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Italian president Giorgio Napolitano and the president of the republic of Turkey, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, are due to inaugurate an exhibition celebrating Turkish history at the Palazzo del Quirinale on 10 January. The free e...
As from Monday 8 January private visitors without a guide booked through a tourist agency will not be able to get into the Vatican Museums until 10.00. This will cut visiting hours by one hour fifteen minutes for people...
The Vatican Museums are introducing price increases and major changes to the queuing system effective from 8 January 2007. The biggest change to the current system is that while at present visitors without guides can ent...
Drivers not stopping when they are involved in an accident could receive four months to a year in prison, as well as a fine and the suspension of their driving licence. This applies even if the injuries to those involved...
World Cup winners maybe, but Italian football no longer draws the crowds it once did. So far this season there have been less than 20,000 spectators on average per game for the top league Seria A matches, compared with m...
A museum for music composed in Nazi concentration camps during world war two is now in the making at Rome
Two free music concerts will see in the New Year in Rome from 22.00 on 31 December, city authorities have confirmed. At the ex-Mercati Generali in the Ostiense area of the city, Fiorella Mannoia will perform from her mos...
Rail fares in Italy go up 9 per cent on average from 1 January. The price rises apply to Eurostar, Alta Velocit
This year has been a record year from the airports of Rome, with 35 million passengers landing at Fiumicino or Ciampino during 2006, registering a 6,7 per cent increase from 2005.
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Twelve traffic lights and a satellite system will be installed along the Tiber as part of a flood warning system for the pedestrian and cycle path. If a central measuring system situated at Ponte Risorgimento shows that...
City authorities are asking Rome residents to remember the three rules of recycling this Christmas: to separate paper from plastic, to break up large packaging in order not to block up bins, and to throw rubbish in the c...
Parishes in Naples are removing precious artworks from local places of worship following the theft of 18th century nativity scene figurines, estimated to be worth
There will be no newspapers until 27 December due to a three-day strike and the traditional Christmas break, the Italian journalist trade union (Fnsi) has announced. Newspaper, magazine, agency and web journalists as wel...
Two members of the radical Rosa nel Pugno party have sparked off controversy after placing two pairs of embracing Barbies and Kens
It is estimated that 80 per cent of Italian tax evasion is committed in the service sector and commerce, particularly by the retail trade, according to the vice-minister of the economy, Vincenzo Visco, The total of econ...
lThe Polish Cultural Institute in Rome presents around 90 works by the self-taught Polish artist Nikifor (1895-1968) in an exhibition entitled Nikifor, genio dell
Commuters are rushing down the escalators on this winter morning and some just manage to dart inside the metro before the warning beep and clanging of doors. Inside the train, noses are buried deep in newspapers, most of...
British planes swoop down out of a clear blue sky with utter surprise to strafe and bomb an isolated Italian medical unit camped around an oasis in the Libyan desert, smashing the unit
Vatican secretary of state and avid Juventus supporter Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has proposed that the Vatican start up a football club to compete in the Italian football league. A long-time fan and wealth of sporting k...
After restoration lasting five years, the Museo Barracco, one of the most attractive small museums in Rome, has reopened; this is housed in the little palace known as the
Former premier Silvio Berlusconi is in the USA for a medical check-up and possibly to undergo pacemaker surgery.
These arrangements have been made public by Northern League leader and Berlusconi's personal friend and al...
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