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The Romanian consulate in Rome will now open five days a week, instead of three, to cope with the large numbers of nationals trying to obtain exit visas so that they can be sure of being allowed to return to Italy at the...
Summer holidays are a dream come true for Italians but a nightmare for their pets.
According to a report by the Zoomark market reserach unit into pet supplies and pet ownership at least 150,000 dogs and 200,000 cats wi...
The Italian summer holidays are starting seriously this weekend with thousands of people leaving the city to get away from the intense heat. The two international airports that serve the city are expected to see 400,000...
Rockers Bryan Adams and Billy Joel are the ospiti donore at this years free-entry Telecomcert to be held at the Colosseum on Monday, 31 July at 21.00.
Canadian-born Bryan Adams will take the stage first and will sing fo...
Rome has become the Italian capital of bank robberies. While the number of attacks on banks in the rest of Italy diminish, in Rome the first five months of 2006 show an increase of 55 per cent. Surprisingly most attacks...
Throughout Italy, boys pull down their baseball caps, women flap open dainty fans and men whip out their handkerchiefs and mop their glowing faces.
The summer heat beats down mercilessly on Italy, particularly in the la...
Rome is preparing for 24 hours of high security, mostly in the centre and to the west of the city for the international peace summit on the Middle East, due to be held at the Italian ministry for foreign affairs on 26 Ju...
After many years the public can once again enjoy theatre productions at the historic Teatro dellAngelo. Situated in Via Simone de Saint Bon 17 (close to Viale delle Milizie, Ottaviano area in Prati), Teatro dellAngelo is...
Swimming has been banned on a 20 km stretch of beach on the Rome coastline which runs from Focene, close the international airport at Fiumicino, north through Fregene and Maccarese. All are very famous and popular bathin...
Crime is on the rise in the capital according to the regional safety watchdog LOsservatorio Tecnico Scientifico per la Sicurezza e Legalit.
Rome has, in fact, registered a 9.6 per cent increase in overall crime between...
Crime is on the rise in the capital according to the regional safety watchdog LOsservatorio Tecnico Scientifico per la Sicurezza e Legalit.
Rome has, in fact, registered a 9.6 per cent increase in overall crime between...
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...
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