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Giorgio Lise, vice-postulator for the beatification of Albino Luciani, Pope John Paul I, has announced that the diocesan phase of gathering the information required for the process of beatification should be finished by...
Elderly and disabled people living in the IX municipio (local administrative area) can now make use of a free transport service to get to and from local health structures and public offices. The service, which is operate...
Rome city council is continuing to offer professional training for adults through a series of evening classes during the academic year 2006/2007. Registration opens on 4 September and continues until all places have been...
The Lazio regional government is to begin granting low-interest loans to marginalised people or groups as part of a policy of supporting micro-credit schemes favouring poverty reduction and social integration in the regi...
Data released by the ministry of education, universities and research show a widening gap between the number of women being awarded degrees at Romes universities and the number of men. In the year 1 January to 31 Decembe...
Anyone living in the centre of the Rome who has a passion for ice cream will be familiar with the bar and ice cream emporium in Via della Seggiola of Alberto Pica, president of the Italian association of artisan ice crea...
The number of tourists visiting Rome over the week of the Ferragosto holiday has been a record, with corresponding record figures at all the citys museums, monuments and sites. Some striking figures: on 15 August 1,164 p...
Rome residents who give blood in August or September will receive a special voucher which can be exchanged for two free tickets to one of the city museums. First-time donors also receive two free tickets for the Battello...
Agreement has been reached between the various transport entities in Lazio over an annual season ticket for Lazio commuters which will cover all forms of public transport in the region, including Atac and Acotral buses,...
In the middle of the 17th century, Pope Innocent X, the Pamphilj pope, employed Gian Lorenzo Bernini to build a magnificent fountain of the Four Rivers to beautify Piazza Navona, where he lived in Palazzo Pamphilj with h...
It is business as usual at many of Romes museums and monuments on the feast of the Assumption, or Ferragosto, on 15 August, which is a public holiday in Italy. One exception is the Vatican Museums, which are closed 15 an...
USA nuclear submarines will leave the tiny island of La Maddalena in Sardinia by 2008.
The United States department of defence, which has used the island as a base since 1972, has notified the Italian defence ministry o...
Long delays and high-alert security reigned at Italian airports after a major terrorist plot was foiled to blow up planes travelling between UK and USA.
Lengthy delays and last-minute cancellations of flights to London...
Enough of loud television ads. This is the message from communications minister Paolo Gentiloni on reports that sound levels soar by 83 per cent during advertising broadcasts on three Italian TV channels - state-owned Ra...
Rome is preparing to host children from war-torn regions of Israel and Lebanon. This initiative of the city, the Roman Catholic relief organisations, Caritas di Roma and S. Egidio, the Red Cross and the local Jewish and...
More Italians are staying at home due to family and economic reasons, many are taking briefer holidays and more are taking their vacanze in July or September.
This is what emerged from a study conducted by Federalberghi...
This summer has seen the rise of a romantic new urban legend involving one of Romes oldest bridges, Ponte Milvio.
Lovers of all ages and nationalities are choosing to pledge their undying love by fastening a chain with...
Coop Italia, one of the countrys largest supermarket chains is making plans to start selling its own brand of non-prescription drugs at about 25 per cent below pharmacy prices.
Although the cooperative has to wait for t...
Holidaying Italians lose 14 million worth of personal effects on beaches in August according to a survey carried out by Eta Meta Research, an Italian trend and research company, which interviewed beach resort management...
The government has approved a measure that will halve the time from ten to five years needed for foreigners to obtain citizenship.
It is predicted that this will affect 3 million legal immigrants, 30 per cent of whom h...
False banknotes are on the rise in Italy. According to a Banca d Italia report to parliament the circulation of fake notes in Italy increased 26 per cent in 2005 compared with 2004, while in other euro-currency countries...
6,000 prisoners walked free from Italian jails in the four days following the amnesty approved by italy's parliament last week. In Lazio 960 Italians and 546 foreigners have said goodbye to a life behind bars.
In order...
More and more Italians are putting biological food on their tables. According to research done by Coldiretti, the largest agricultural oganisation in Italy, 6 per cent more Italians choose biological products compared to...
The government is taking a hard line with southern Italy in an attempt to solve the ongoing trash crisis.
While in the rest of Italy particularly in the northern regions there has been an increase in rubbish recycling...
Francesco, Alessandro, Andrea and Matteo for boys and Giulia, Martina, Chiara and Sara for girls.
These are the most popular names among Italian mammas and paps, according to a study by Istat (Italy s national statistic...
The city councils announcement that the historic cobblestones or sampietrini on Via Nazionale are to go has sparked off protests from residents and various associations in the area, who want to save the historic air of t...
The last weekend of July and the first of August is when most Itlians set off for their holidays.
According to Losservatorio di Telefono Blu, in August there will be between 23-25 million Italian holidaymakers out of th...
Air Ones cancelled 87 flights early this week, which left 9, 000 passengers stranded.
At Milans Linate airport 10 flights were cancelled on Monday and passengers at Rome Fiumicino, Bari Palese and Torino Caselle all su...
Italys parliament has passed an amnesty to release of 12,000 criminals from Italian prisons. It will apply to crimes committed up to 2 May 2006 and will give prisoners three years off their sentences and 10,000 off fin...
Enough of kitsch gondolas. This is the message from Venices gondola association, which have drawn up rigid guidelines to be placed before the city council shortly. Once new norms are approved, gondoliers will have to sti...
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