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The gay community of Rome, represented by the organisation Arcigay, has put forward a request for a gay area near of the Colosseum.
The aim is to have a specific space set aside along the lines of Marais in Paris and C...
Bakers in Rome have announced they may go on strike on Wednesday 26 July in protest over the new liberalization laws introduced by the government at the end of June. The new decree for their sector, aimed at increasing c...
The new museum of the Ara Pacis will be open for guided tours at night on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning on 25 July and ending on 27 September. There will be two tours each evening one at 21.30 and one at 22.30 for a m...
The heat is on. In the next eight days, in fact, Rome and the southern part of the country can expect temperatures to reach up to 38 degrees celsius.
The elderly are the ones most at risk in this aria africana; especial...
Trambus, one of the companies operating Romes tram and bus network has bought eight electric powered motor cycles for three teams of traffic wardens, to patrol the city streets to prevent illegal parking in places that s...
ACOTRAL, the Rome bus company running routes throughout the outskirts and the province of the city, has boosted its existing service from the Rome Stazione Tiburtina to the international airport at Fiumicino. There will...
People who donate blood in Rome during the months of July, August and September will receive two tickets for entry to one of the citys museums. The Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Museo dellAra Pacis and Museo Carlo Bilotti...
Do you have any unpaid traffic fines that you hope have been forgotten about? Well be prepared for a shock. From the 19 July the tax collectors the Monte dei Paschi di Siena, who collect the outstanding taxes for the cit...
The proposed increase in the Italys IVA (VAT) rate for chocolate, from 10 per cent to 20 per cent, announced recently as part of a government fund-raising exercise,by the minister for finance, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, has...
The Etruscan museum at Villa Giulia in Rome and many of the Etruscan sites in northern Lazio are being neglected, according to a report from the superintendent of the sites in Lazio to the minister of culture. Upkeep and...
After a year of painstaking restoration work, the Turtle Fountain in Piazza Mattei in Rome was inaugurated on 20 July. The fountain was built between 1581 and 1588 by Giacomo della Porta and Taddeo Landini, but the turtl...
Regional authorities have approved a law that will put an end to the bread and cover charge (pane e coperto) added to bills in many bars and restaurants in Lazio. The charge, usually amounting to around 1.50, is made if...
A series of 24 information panels have been put on the most important bridges and river banks along the Tiber in Rome. The weatherproof panels have information about the history of the older bridges, the hydraulic engine...
Taxi drivers came to an agreement with the government over the new liberalization laws late on 18 July after nearly two weeks of demonstrations and wildcat strikes. Trouble began after economic development minister Pierl...
The restoration on the section of the Aurelian walls, which were damaged during some violent storms in the year 2002, have now been completed.
The affected area is the external wall between the seventh and eighth tower...
Parking times in the blue parking lines in Testaccio have been increased from 08.00-23.00 to 08.00-03.00 seven days a week. In addition, parking meters have been introduced in the Piazza Orazio Giustiniani-Via di Monte T...
Taxi drivers from across Italy were due to converge on Rome on 17 July as part of ongoing protests at the governments new law that will liberalise the issuing of taxi licences. Wildcat strikes have now been ongoing since...
This summer season is proving a tragic one for swimmers and divers, with a number of deaths already reported on Italys shores and beach resorts.
Two underwater divers have been killed off the coast of Italy in the past...
City authorities have pre-selected ten architectural studios to come up with plans to renovate Piazza Augusto Imperatore and the Mausoleum of Augustus in the heart of Rome. A total of 48 studios took part in the pre-sele...
Italy's most famous and successful club Juventus have been relegated to the second division of Italian football and docked 30 points following an investigation into match-fixing.
Fellow Serie A league sides Lazio and Fi...
Talks between taxi drivers and the ministry of economic development broke down on 13 July, prompting wildcat demonstrations that slowed traffic and blocked Piazza Venezia in Rome. Taxi drivers are protesting against new...
Ten young dolphins have been found washed up on the shores of the Gulf of Venice over the last ten days between Basso Veneto and the Marche, prompting fears of a lethal virus. Experts are particularly concerned because t...
The unseemly spat in the Italian noble Savoia family over which member should be the head of the family is causing grave embarrassment to Italys minuscule monarchist party and some mirth amongst the vast majority of the...
The Vatican has announced a positive balance of 9.7 million for the year 2005, the highest in the last eight years, despite expenses incurred during the change of popes. The cost of the funeral of John Paul II and the co...
From Friday 14 July it will once again be legal to carry a passenger on the back of a low-powered 50cc scooter, overturning an unpopular law made by the last government. Three conditions have been imposed, however: the d...
Marcello Lippi has resigned as Italy's football coach just three days after leading the country to a fourth World Cup title.
Lippi was at the helm for over two years, culminating in Sunday's World Cup Final win over Fra...
Five hundred years ago, on 14 January 1506, a large and beautifully intricate marble sculpture was discovered in a vineyard at the Terme di Tito on the Colle Oppio in Rome. The sculpture depicted the Trojan priest Laocoo...
Sitting on a Rome roof-terrace one early summer evening during cocktail hour, I overheard an American girl ask: Whats with those birds up there?
She pointed to the hundreds of swirling, darting, spiralling, lunging bird...
Assaulted by thousands gasping for air in summer and once by Roman emperors the coastline of the giant province of Rome, has nevertheless long been a dicey place, tinged with scandal.
Over the past few years whisper...
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City Museum of Zoology, Via Ulisse Aldrovandi 18, tel. 0632609200, www.commune.roma.it/museozoologia.
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