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The pundits will tell you the Rome of Pier Paolo Pasolini has vanished; Pasolini, the rebel poet, film-maker, novelist and Marxist intellectual from Bologna who discovered in Rome the one place in the world where his nat...
One of the best quips about retiring to Italy is Gracie Fields (about Capri): I was looking for somewhere like Blackpool only warmer. Umbria and Tuscany, the areas chosen by about 6,000 Britons of retirement age, arent...
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Il Caminetto opened in 1959 and it is the restaurant equivalent of a Chanel suit it never goes out of style.
Frequented by ragazzi alla moda, elegant elderly couples and well-kno...
Like many small towns in Lazio, Zagarolo possessed a splendid, if somewhat dilapidated, palace. In 1980 the town council had purchased the 16th-century Palazzo Rospigliosi, which had once been the country retreat of the...
Marilina Tuccinardi, the person responsible for children in the Rome city council social policies department, is in no doubt: The law is in the interests of the children and must be respected.
The law in question is a...
A double fare system is causing confusion among passengers trying to take taxis into Rome from Fiumicino airport. On 1 October, a fixed tariff of 40 for trips between the airport and anywhere within the Aurelian walls ca...
The 30 members of the Vaticans international theological commission, headed by Cardinal Joseph Levada, are recommending to the pope the cancellation of limbo. Limbo is that corner on the borders of hell to which are cons...
The director of St Petersburgs Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Petrovsky, has announced that Castello Estense in Ferrara has been chosen to house the Centro Studi Rinascimentali dellHermitage di San Pietroburgo or Hermitage It...
An estimated 3.5 million Italians are currently residing outside the bel paese according to a recent report published by Migrantes, an Italian-based religious organisation.
The report, entitled "Italians around the worl...
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...
The number of elderly people taking part in Rome city authorities ten-minute grandparents scheme escorting children across roads around their schools has more than tripled in the last five years.
When the scheme began...
There will be a nationwide 24-hour strike on Friday 6 October affecting all city transport. In Rome, buses, trams and local railways will be affected, although there will be two guaranteed phases of normal service, 05.30...
Rome has been chosen to host the 2009 Champions League final, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has announced. The 80,000-seater Stadio Olimpico will be the venue for the match, the culmination of the la...
Preparations for Pope Benedict XVIs first visit to Turkey at the end of November are going ahead despite a series of security issues, according to Vatican authorities. On 3 October, the Turkish press printed a message fr...
Italians restorers have been asked to assist in the restoration of the Forbidden City in China and to train Afghan restorers in Rome.
Restoration experts from the Florence university architectural planning department ha...
An art museum on wheels is running through Italy during the month of October - "il treno dell'arte - museo per un giorno".
This train with a difference (courtesy of Trenitalia) is taking some of Italy's great works of m...
Five new sports complexes will be built in the suburbs of Rome by the beginning of 2009, city mayor Walter Veltroni has announced. Work on complexes in the zones of Cesano, Pietralata, Bufalotta, Casal d Pazzi and Collid...
Rome's rubbish service, AMA, opened new offices on 2 October in Via Capo dAfrica 23 B, near the Colosseum. The office handles all applications, variations, cancellations, reductions etc, and takes the place of the old of...
Foreigners from outside the European Union (EU) who are resident elsewhere in Italy but who are studying or working in Rome have until 26 October to register in the electoral list to vote for the new representatives to t...
Around 4,000 people turned out to see the crowning of Mr Gay and Miss Lesbica Roma 2006 in S. Giovanni on 30 September. The winners were chosen from among 30 male finalists and 15 female finalists by a jury including mem...
The minimum age for buying alcohol will rise from 16 to 18 years of age according to new government measures announced this week to protect minors and prevent accidents on Italian roads. There will also be a total ban on...
Ten thousand tickets were sold in the first two days of tickets going on sale for the first Rome film festival that will take place from 13 to 21 October. Sales have initially been limited to films that will be shown at...
Theatres in Rome will be free for all during a series of special events this Sunday 1 October from 10.00-24.00.
Some 34 theatres will take part in this initiative entitled "Festa dei teatri" which will see over 50 event...
Industrial action scheduled at airports for Friday 29 September, due to have affected the entire sector, has been suspended. Trade union members will meet the prime minister Romano Prodi for talks at Palazzo Chigi on 10...
The many reality shows on Italian television are not drawing audiences as they used to.
L'Isola dei Famosi is now only attracting around 16 per cent of television viewers, Reality Circus' second episode was only watche...
Members of the chamber of deputies are questioning why they have to pay for haircuts while their colleagues at the senate get theirs for free.
Deputies of all political affiliations are united in their petition for free...
Members of the public will get the opportunity to have a rare peek inside the buildings that house the various banks of Italy on Saturday 7 October. For the fifth edition of Invito a palazzo, 110 buildings of 53 differen...
Domestic news in Italy over the summer is typically dominated by immigration issues and this summer has been no exception. While newspaper headlines told of the unfolding crisis in the Middle East, inside pages carried r...
He was so strong that once he got under a cow and lifted it up with his bare hands. He was very keen on wrestling as well: hed take us on three-to-one and throw the lot of us to the ground. And when he played soccer with...
To keep up with modern times Romes enterprising parish of S. Anastasia al Palatino has recently launched their Pray for Me call centre.
This service is aimed at all those believers who are too busy to pray. From now on...
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