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Italians in over one thousand cities and eight provinces will return to the ballots 27 and 28 May with run-offs in 10 and 11 June in the latest round of local elections since the combined local and national elections in...
The Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) weekend this year will be on 24-25 March when 500 buildings, monuments and places of special artistic interest throughout Italy will be open to the public free of charge (although visito...
Starting 17 March, students must keep their mobile phones turned off during lessons or risk having them confiscated by teachers, to be returned in the company of a parent or guardian.
According to the ministry of educat...
Rugby, much favoured by Mussolini as a sport and therefore for decades viewed with suspicion by many Italians, is enjoying an enormous wave of popularity and media coverage on account of recent striking successes by the...
The discovery of sections a Roman villa at Castel di Guido on the Via Aurelia, roughly 10 km outside Rome
Keeping in line with other European golf federations, the Italian federgolf introduced, on a trial basis for the current year, an associate membership programme (tesseramento libero), to facilitate newcomers to the game....
060609 is the new, one-stop call centre number for finding a taxi in Rome, set up by the city council.
As from 13 March
According to data released by the state forestry department (Corpo forestale dello stato), forests in Italy have increased by 23 per cent over the past two decades. Twenty years ago the principal problem threatening vege...
The Rome fire brigade set fire to Manzoni metro station on 10 March as part of an experiment to test new smoke and carbon monoxide sensors. The experiment was the first of its kind in Italy in that real fire was used to...
Italian environmental organisation Legambiente has launched a campaign to save the nation
The 18th science and technology week (XVII Settimana della cultura scientifica e tecnologica) will take place from 19-25 March in National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcan...
Italian politicians are the highest paid in Europe, according to the US newspaper, Paris based, International Herald Tribune.
Members of parliament in Italy make an average of
The cabinet has approved a package of laws in an effort to improve road safety in Italy after 42 people died in car accidents over the weekend of 2-4 March. The country holds one of the worst road safety records in Europ...
The Roman Press Association together with city officials held a demonstration in Piazza del Campidoglio 8 March demanding the release of La Repubblica correspondent Daniele Mastrogiacomo who was taken hostage over the we...
The place name committee of Rome city council has decided to honour five women by naming after them stretches of the tree-lined paths in Villa Pamphilj, in the Monteverde area of Rome, according to daily newspaper Il Mes...
Over 400 cash transfer agencies throughout in Italy were raided this week and forced to close after Italian authorities uncovered illegal cash transactions for a value of approximately
Luneur, the amusement park in Eur founded over 50 years ago, has undergone extensive renovations and is now once more open to the public.
While old favourites such as the Ferris wheel remain, live shows and exhibitions...
Angelo Bagnasco, the archbishop of Genoa, is to take over from cardinal Camillo Ruini as head of the Italian bishops
Some 176,334 lampposts light up the streets of Rome, according to a report released by city water and electricity agency Acea on 6 March. Of these, 1,327 are found along the bridges and banks of the Tiber, 805 illuminat...
lThe French embassy in Italy at Palazzo Farnese is one of the sites of an exhibition entitled Luce di Pietra from 24 March-15 April organised by the Italian fine arts and heritage ministry and the French ministry of cult...
Rome, goes a local saying, has a church for every day of the year. It could also boast a different trattoria, taverna, osteria or restaurant for every meal, breakfast and brunch included, and still have some to spare. To...
Long before Ryanair launched low-cost flights from Dublin to Ciampino, the Irish were coming to Rome in their droves.
Current estimates, drawn from the Italian ministry of the interior and Irish embassy records, put t...
The sight was a heartrending one as eight-year-old Alessio Raciti walked behind his father
For two days, there was talk of crisis and drama, that there would be new elections or an emergency government of technocrats. Italy was once again unstable and seemed to have gone back to its bad old ways of changing go...
Over 20 Italian members of parliament belonging to various political parities will don designer clothes and tread the catwalk on Ladies day, (Festa delle Donne) on 8 March next.
The novel initiative is to be the highlig...
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