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Trenitalia will step up ticket controls on board its regional trains as from Tuesday 16 January.The state-controlled train company has announced that its
More Italians die at the hands of a family member than at the hands of the mafia, according to a survey conducted by Eures (European Employment Services) in conjunction with news agency Ansa.
The total number of murde...
The week-long Festival delle Scienze opened at the Auditorium-Parco della Musica on 15 January. The theme of the second edition of the festival is
A provisional calendar of the events to take place throughout 2007 to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice on 4 July 1807, has been presented in Rome at the ministry of fine arts by...
There are at least 7,000 homeless people in Rome, according to a survey conducted by the lay community of Sant
The giant head in marble of Constantine the Great, which once adorned the Basilica of Maxentius and at the moment is on display in a courtyard of the Musei Capitolini, will be replaced with a replica being made in Schoen...
The chances of a young academic becoming a lecturer in an Italian university are extremely slim, according to figures published in the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, based on information from the Italian ministry o...
Environmental agency AMA will continue its free collection of Christmas trees until 21 January. The agency has already collected some1,000 Christmas trees throughout the city.
Trees in good condition are sent for repla...
Cars with license plates ending in even numbers will be banned from the city
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
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