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An underground car park on the Pincio has been approved by city authorities. The car park will hold spaces for 726 cars on seven floors. However, only 10 per cent of spaces will be available for people looking for parkin...
The city's police and inspectors will be carrying out spot checks on Rome's street chestnut sellers in an attempt to enforce the existing regulations controlling the sector.
The law requires chestnuts to be sold accordi...
Francesco Rutelli, Italy's minister of fine arts, has presented at the Italian cultural institute in New York an important archaeological discovery made this summer in the course of excavations in Rome led by Clementina...
Rubbish collectors and street cleaners will be able to report members of the public who violate regulations on the disposal of rubbish under the terms of a new regional law. Violations will be followed by a fine from 50-...
There will be a 24-hour nationwide local transport strike on Friday 1 December beginning at 08.30. In Rome, the industrial action will affect all bus, tram and metro services as well as local train services. Services wil...
Foreign babies in Rome.
One in ten babies born in Rome have foreign parents, according to a study by La Sapienza University commissioned by city authorities. Around 2,600 babies of the 26,000 born in the capital in 2004...
Italy's national football team captain Fabio Cannavaro has won the prestigious Ballon d'Or European footballer of the year award due in large part to his performance at the 2006 World Cup.
European journalists appointed...
Five restaurants in Italy have had their three-star status reconfirmed in the new 2007 edition of the Michelin Red Guide, which classifies European restaurants and hotels. There were no new Italian entries in the prestig...
The city has presented the plans which have won the competition for the second phase of the long-term revamping of the Piazza Augusto Imperatore and its mausoleum. These have been drawn up by a group coordinated by Franc...
The 14th century open-air fresco depicting Il Cristo di Piet in Piazza Ara Coeli has been vandalized by excrement thrown from the street. The department of arts and heritage was alerted on 12 November but, according to...
Climbers have longed claimed that the true peak of Lazios mountain Terminillo is higher than its hitherto official peak, and is 150 metres from it. Now this has been confirmed by Mario Crespi, a lecturer from the enginee...
Only one Italian out of three can speak a foreign language and more than half declare that they have no intention of learning one.
These were the results of a survey done by Italian research company Censis in conjunctio...
A bookshop near Stazione Termini has launched Italys first official book swapping zone for children. The Esquilibri e Caff bookshop in Via Giolitti, run by eight Italian mothers, is holding the swapping event every Sunda...
Works have begun to restore the rectangular Temple of Portumnus, frequently and erroneously known as the Temple of Fortuna Virilis. It stands in the Foro Boario or cattle market of ancient Rome, and was dedicated to the...
Thanks to a partnership between the Comune di Roma and SEAT Pagine Gialle, Pagine Gialle Visual makes it possible to pass along almost all the streets of Rome virtually. Viewers can stop wherever they wish, and look roun...
Berninis celebrated bust of the head of Medusa is again on display at Romes Capitoline Museums after four months of cleaning and examination. Its exact dating is problematical, but it is believed to have been sculpted i...
An official announcement from Walter Veltroni, Romes mayor, and Franco Chimenti, the Italian Golf Federations president, has confirmed the already much talked-about project for the construction of Romes first public golf...
Learner drivers in Rome area will now have to sit their driving test at one of the three offices of the vehicle licensing department (Motorizzazione) instead of their local driving schools, resulting in an overall conges...
The Getty Museum in Malibu, California, is refusing to return two important statues that the Italian government claims were removed illegally from the country. The two works in question are the Venus of Morgantina, a mar...
Italy's government is fighting back against a new, violently explicit video game for children called Rule of the Rose, released nationwide this month.
Justice Minister Clemente Mastella has declared that "preventative m...
Hidden in the packed programme of the recent international film festival in Rome was Il Mondo Addosso (The weight of the world) by young Sicilian director Costanza Quatriglio. Shot in Rome from November 2005 to March 200...
Why do so many Romans have nice teeth? Why do they laugh at a well-timed quip in such a carefree way? The answer lies in the hills and mountains around them, guardians of the springs that provide them with the water they...
A ban on motorcycles and scooters that fall into the Euro 0 polluting category will be phased in from 1 January 2007 in Romes ZTL anello ferrovario an area inside the capitals green zone that extends to Piramide in the...
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There is a cave in Iraq with wall paintings dating from 50,000 years ago. Saffron has been identified as one of the pigments used in the paintings. The Sumerians used saffron for its medicinal properties. The spice was w...
lThe legacy of late American photographer Henry Clarke comes to the American Academy in Rome 16 Nov-16 Dec in the guise of 59 portrait and fashion shots taken from the 1950s until his death in 1998.
Former fashion acce...
20 November sees the beginning of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Anglican Centre in Rome. Celebratory events include the re-launching of the library on 20 November following its recent expansion (1,000...
From 20 November 2006 ashes of people cremated in Rome may be disposed of in the countryside, in rivers, the sea or in the Garden of Remembrance (Giardino dei Ricordi), within the cemetery at Prima Porta on the Via Flami...
The Italian-born art-collector, Carlo Bilotti, has died in New York at the age of 72. He was born in Cosenza, into a noble family connected to the Baroni di Serradileo, and after law studies in Naples and Palermo, first...
Americas wine bible, the Wine Spectator, has declared that the Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta Nuova 2001, made by the producer Casanova di Neri, owned by Giacomo Neri, is the finest wine in the world. The Wine Spectator p...
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