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Fiona Winward
Of the handful of Greek restaurants in Rome, the tiny ten-table Ouzeri is often touted as the best. Overshadowed by rowdier Trastevere restaurants around the corner, its easily missed watch ou...
In the wake of this summers terrorist alerts at British airports, the fatal bomb attacks in London (2005) and Madrid (2004), the daily reports of death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan and the crises in Iran and L...
The Mediterranean Shipping Line (MSL), owned by the family of one of Italys most discreet billionaires, Gianluigi Aponte, born in Sorrento in 1940, resident in Geneva, but with Italian passport, is reported to be plannin...
The head of a statue representing a water deity, stolen last December from Villa Celimontana's Fontana del Fiume has been found in Civitavecchia.
Investigators believe that the statue's head was stolen by professionals...
The autumn season of public transport strikes is about to begin, with the following announced as the official strikes in September:
7 September. Alitalia's 24-hour strike for this date has been called off until later i...
Stabbed twice in the back and once in the throat, a 24-year-old Roman student, Angelo Frammartino, was killed in the old city of Jerusalem in August. Ten days later Israeli police told the media that his self-confessed k...
This summers referee-fixing scandal centred around Turin giants Juventus threw Italian football into disarray and reinforced unpleasant stereotypes about Italy and corruption. But the furore also seemed to help the Azzur...
The Latin poet, Horace, wrote in rapturous terms of the country retreat in the valley of Ustica, which his millionaire patron, Maecenas, had given him: A shady valley, hidden amongst mountains... where the generous plum...
2.5 million turn out for Notte Bianca
City authorities are hailing the Notte Bianca which took place on Saturday night (9 Sept) as a great success for culture and the economy. Around 2.5 million people filled the capita...
Romes limited traffic zones will be completely pedestrianised between 21.00-06.00 on Sat 9 September during the capitals third Notte Bianca, which sees the citys museums, art galleries and shops stay open throughout the...
In a series of moves that will not surprise those Italians who aspire to the highest ranks of the state cultural bureaucracy, a competition to select 11 superintendents for the minister of culture and fine arts has been...
There have been 752 road accidents in the Lazio region between 1 July and 3 September resulting in 12 deaths. These are the statistics provided by the local traffic police, who reported that there have been over traffic...
Two thirds of Italian employees earn less than 1,300 a month, with 35 per cent earning less than 1,000 a month.
This is what emerged from a research conducted by IRES (the national institute for social and economic res...
The number of tourists in Rome has increased by almost 25 per cent between 2004 and 2006, according to regional tourism bureau Ente Bilaterale del Turismo. The number of tourists staying in the capitals hotels has steadi...
More video cameras, more police, better rubbish collection and a complete block on cars in the area this is the mayors solution for the Trevi fountain and its surrounding streets. The crush of tourists around the worlds...
According to a recent survey by the International Obesity Task Force (a private research group) for the World Health Organisation around 36 per cent of children between the ages of 7 and 11 in Italy and Sicily are overwe...
More and more Italians are saying "yes" - when in actual fact they would rather answer "no".
This surprising fact emerged from a survey conducted by Riza Psicosomatica, an Italian bodily and mental health magazine, who...
The Vaticans Ospedale del Bambin Ges, which does not offer beds for obstetric and gynaecological cases under the Italian states health service but has great neonatal expertise, and the nearby state Ospedale del S. Spirit...
During work on the pavements along Via Veneto in readiness for the Rome film festival which opens on 13 October, a slab of Egyptian granite, over three metres long, has been found just below the surface inside the Aureli...
Etruscan scholarship has been thrown into a state of excitement by the announcement that the pre-eminent Etruscan sanctuary, Fanum Voltumnae, precisely written about by the Roman historian Livy, and for which scholars ha...
On 9 September the brand new park of Centocelle will open permanently to the public as part of the Notte Bianca celebrations.
The park comprises a wood with some 500 typically Mediterranean trees, a nature trail, a cycl...
Giant sardines floating mid-air over the lake in Villa Borghese, red giraffes stalking down Via Cavour and maverick Spanish hairdressers transforming hair into sculpture with feathers, stars, flowers and iron wires in Pi...
Romes taxi drivers and city authorities have agreed on a set fare between the capital and its two airports that will come into force on 1 October. The cost of a trip between the historic centre and Fiumicino airport will...
On 1 September Pope Benedict XVI is to make a whistle-stop helicopter tour to the small town of Manoppello in the Abruzzi region in order to pay homage to what many Catholic faithful believe to be the true veil of St Ver...
City authorities are to increase protection for 27 km of Romes bus, tram and taxi lanes by spring 2007. The selected priority traffic lanes will be delineated using a raised plastic strip in order to deter other motorist...
The mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, and the minister of fine arts and culture, Francesco Rutelli, have agreed to meet in the second half of October in order to discuss a calendar designed to put an end to bickering betwe...
Romes Sapienza University, which is part of the University of Rome, is number 100 in the academic ranking of the world universities. Harvard came top, followed by Cambridge and then Stanford in third place.
Compiled b...
Romes Bioparco is celebrating the birth of a baby giraffe. The babys mother is one of two female giraffes brought over to Rome in June from a zoo in the Czech Republic to keep Rocco, the Bioparcos resident male giraffe,...
The minister of fine arts and culture, Francesco Rutelli, has announced that, in addition to 3 million already set aside, a further 800,000 has been allotted for the works necessary for the reopening of Neros palace, th...
The weekend of 26 and 27 August saw an estimated 10 million Italians return home from their summer holiday according to the consumer association Telefono Blu. In Rome heavy traffic and long delays were registered on the...
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