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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...
Foreigners can now apply for and renew their permit of stay (permesso di soggiorno) at the post office and then track the progress of the application process online at www.portaleimmigrazione.it. The website also gives i...
The Christmas tree for St Peters square was donated by Italy, from the southern region of Calabria, this year and transporting it to Rome from the south of Italy was no easy feat.
The tree, which is some 33 m high, took...
The city of Rome will be offering guided tours of five outstanding examples of Romes contemporary architecture starting in December. Sites include Renzo Pianos Auditorium Parco della Musica (Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30...
Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational, is moving its Italian headquarters from Milan to Rome at the beginning of 2007. The company explains the move as a necessary rationalisation which will bring the headquarters near...
The northern city of Padua in the Veneto regions the first Italian city officially to recognise de facto couples, both heterosexual and homosexual.
The predominantly centre-left city council passed a motion this week th...
Five bus lines designed especially for Christmas shoppers will run from 8-23 December (except for 17 December), Romes transport authority Atac has announced. The five bus lines will link the ex mercati generali in Via Os...
Around one worker in ten in Rome is non-Italian, according to a report released by city authorities statistics office. Some 75 per cent of the 155,000 foreigners resident in Rome are in employment compared to the 62 per...
The season opens at La Scala in Milan on 7 Dec , with the prima of Zeffirellis new production of Aida; tickets for all performances were sold out on the first day. However, although Italy is where opera was invented, it...
Vive la Peinture!!! Amitis Matisse. This exultant battle cry is sprawled over a postcard addressed to Monsieur P. Bonnard art peintre. Matisse jotted it down when he came out of a museum in Amsterdam on 13 August 1925. T...
Intimidation and violence lurk like a shadow in the background of an increasingly acrimonious tussle now building up between Romes city hall and its angry taxi drivers, who are up in arms over controversial council decis...
If you take Via Salaria out of the capital and turn left after Monterotondo onto the SP313 towards the heart of Sabina, the green and hilly countryside becomes more and more alluring. Up into Poggio Mirteto and towards P...
On 10 December immigrants in Rome will go to the polls for the second time to elect their representatives to the city government. In total 155,547 people are eligible to vote in the elections (see box), which will see 41...
There was a sharp increase in the number of cars sold in Italy in November 2006 according to the ministry of transport figures. In November this year sales of cars totalled 190,460 compared with 179,411 during the same m...
The number of Italians who approve of euthanasia is rising, according to the 40th annual report on the social situation of Italy by Censis (Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali), published at the beginning of December. Now...
Rome's university La Sapienza, in conjunction with Italys health and emergency organisations, has launched a first of its kind Master's course in dealing with "extreme emergency" situations.
The aim of this course is to...
The Fondazione Moravia has announced that it will donate the apartment in which Alberto Moravia lived to the city of Rome so that it may be opened to the public. The apartment on Lungotevere dell Vittoria (Rome) in which...
It is difficult quite to appreciate today the excitement in Rome, and soon in the whole of Europe, when, on 14 January 1506, Felice de Fredi came across the sculptural group known as the Laocon in his vineyard by the Ter...
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-...
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