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One people has died, instead of the two as originally thought, in the metro crash in Rome on Tuesday morning. About 100 people were injured, at least five seriously, when two new high-tech trains on the metro A line in...
The first of the cameras planned for various crossroads in the capital will go into action on 19 October on the Via Cristoforo Colombo, at the crossing with the Circonvallazione Ostiense. The cameras will photograph whoe...
A new station on the Roma Ostiense Cesano Viterbo railway line (Fr 3) has opened in the Viale Quattro Venti in Monteverde, a few days ahead of the scheduled opening. The station is an important step in Rome councils of...
Referring to the sixth European retail theft barometer, a report on shoplifting which draws on information supplied by Checkpoint Systems, Coldiretti, the organisation of farmers and agricultural businesses, reveals that...
The long-running saga of the attempts to dislodge the Circolo degli Ufficiali (officers club) from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome is finally reaching a conclusion. The present minister of fine arts and culture, Francesco...
Italys chamber of deputies has voted in favour of blocking the project for the construction of the Messina bridge, which would have linked Sicily to mainland Italyat least for the time being.
The project was deemed "not...
The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso XIV, will be in Rome on Saturday 14 November to receive an honorary degree in biology from the Roma Tre University. The Dalai Lama is both the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the he...
A TV satire show called Le Iene (The Hyenas) secretly tested 50 Italian MPs for drugs and it found that one in three had taken either cannabis or cocaine in the previous 36 hours.
The Hyenas' television show, which airs...
Thirteen important works of ancient art have been returned to Italy by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a move to be seen as a very important step in the fight against the illicit trade in works of art found in the cou...
The horses of Rome are still not wearing their specially-designed pants. Last summer, an agreement was signed between the city council and the Rome carriage drivers trade union (associazione sindacale dei vetturini roman...
According to figures under discussion at Cernobbio at a conference to present a survey by the consultancy firm Ambrosetti The European House on old age within the European Union, of the ten cities within the EU with the...
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...
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