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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
There will be no newspapers until 27 December due to a three-day strike and the traditional Christmas break, the Italian journalist trade union (Fnsi) has announced. Newspaper, magazine, agency and web journalists as wel...
Two members of the radical Rosa nel Pugno party have sparked off controversy after placing two pairs of embracing Barbies and Kens
It is estimated that 80 per cent of Italian tax evasion is committed in the service sector and commerce, particularly by the retail trade, according to the vice-minister of the economy, Vincenzo Visco, The total of econ...
lThe Polish Cultural Institute in Rome presents around 90 works by the self-taught Polish artist Nikifor (1895-1968) in an exhibition entitled Nikifor, genio dell
Commuters are rushing down the escalators on this winter morning and some just manage to dart inside the metro before the warning beep and clanging of doors. Inside the train, noses are buried deep in newspapers, most of...
British planes swoop down out of a clear blue sky with utter surprise to strafe and bomb an isolated Italian medical unit camped around an oasis in the Libyan desert, smashing the unit
Vatican secretary of state and avid Juventus supporter Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has proposed that the Vatican start up a football club to compete in the Italian football league. A long-time fan and wealth of sporting k...
After restoration lasting five years, the Museo Barracco, one of the most attractive small museums in Rome, has reopened; this is housed in the little palace known as the
Former premier Silvio Berlusconi is in the USA for a medical check-up and possibly to undergo pacemaker surgery.
These arrangements have been made public by Northern League leader and Berlusconi's personal friend and al...
The controversial finanziaria government budget has been approved by a vote of confidence in the senate of 162 against 157 votes, thanks in large part to the votes of seven life senators who gave their support to Prodi's...
The public transport strike scheduled for Friday 15 December has been cancelled by all the large trade unions. Some of the smaller trade unions are going ahead with the industrial action, however, so some disruption to R...
Rome-born composer Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Academy Award during the 2007 Oscars ceremony to be held in Los Angeles on 25
February. Morricone has written the music for over 300 films in a career spannin...
The Guglielmo Marconi library in the Marconi area (south of Monteverde) of Rome has been completely renovated and is now open to the general public.
Marconi is now the largest public library in the capital
Four new adjunct councillors have been voted on to the Rome city council in the 10 December elections for immigrant representatives. Romulo Sabio Salvador from the Philippines will represent Asia and Oceania (2,190 votes...
Two important pieces of Roman sculpture, stolen in the 1980s and belonging to the city of Rome, have been recovered and put on display again after cleaning and restoration. One is a headless male figure in toga, dating t...
The long-term plan to extend the space for exhibiting pictures within the Palazzo Barberini, which houses the Italian states main collection of antique pictures, reaches its first stage on 13 December. In the presence of...
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