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It was an ecstatic night of celebrations for Italians everywhere, with the Azzurris 2-0 win over Germany in last nights semi final match.
In Rome there were 50,000 transfixed in front of Circo Massimos maxi screen, with...
After its comfortable 3-0 win against Ukraine, Italy gets ready for tonights match in the semi-final against World Cup host country.
In Rome the city has set up giant screens in Circo Massimo for the Italy-Germany game,...
Chaos in Rome continues as taxi drivers protesting against new liberalisation laws announced on 30 June stage wildcat strikes and demonstrations, blocking streets, causing severe delays for traffic and leaving passengers...
Taxis are vehemently protesting against the liberalisation of taxi licences and rates approved by the government on Friday, causing havoc countrywide including Fiumicino, where hundreds of tourists were left stranded yes...
Prime minister Romano Prodi has unveiled a 7 billion emergency mini-budget in a bid to bring Italys struggling public accounts under control and tide over the economy until the next budget at the end of the year. Include...
The town council of Taormina, one of the most beautiful towns on the east coast of Sicily, particularly famous for its Greek-Roman theatre, has decided to make tourists pay a small visitors tax; an extra 1 when parking a...
The Italian minister of health, Livia Turco, has announced that she will make use of an administrative procedure to change the tough drug law passed through parliament by the previous government earlier in this year. Kno...
The town council of Taormina one of the most beautiful towns on the east coast of Sicily, particularly famous for its Greek-Roman theatre, has decided to make tourists to the town pay a small visitors tax. An extra 1 whe...
Italian minister for the environment, Pecoraro Scanio, the head of the Italian WWF, Fulco Pratesi and other Italian environmentalists have protested the killing of Bruno the bear in Germany on 26 June.
Bruno, a young S...
The Temple of Vesta at the Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli has been completely restored in only three months at a cost of 100,000. The restoration, which was presented to the public on 26 June, has been done by the FAI, a pri...
The Democratici di Sinistra, one of the political parties making up the governing alliance LUlino began its annual Festa dell Unita in Rome on 28 June in and around the Stadio Flaminio. The Festa offers 14 restaurants...
Rome is experiencing record temperatures, with thermometers registering over 37 degrees in the past few days nine degrees over the seasonal average of 28 degrees. Humidity is also high, reaching 91 per cent even in the...
Following the victory of Romano Prodis centre-left coalition in Aprils general election, his new government was sworn in on 17 May. The government comprises 102 people, including ministers with and without portfolio, dep...
It looked like a lop-sided pine cone except that instead of a cluster of leaf panels there was a clump of uneven stalks in pure silver, encrusted with tiny rain drops of glinting diamonds and pearls, fresh from final dus...
Many people in Rome were perplexed when the Islamic cultural centre of Italy was inaugurated 11 years ago. The idea of having Europes largest mosque in the very heart of Christendom was considered at best inopportune and...
For all you beach lovers looking to keep cool this summer here are nine possibilities all within the region of Lazio. Each beach on the list, ordered from north to south, offers either stabilimenti (private beaches with...
This is a shattering show beautifully represented. It is an incomparable record of the last throes of the 20th century. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is the father of modern photography. He was French, astute, civili...
Thursday, 29 June is a public holiday in Rome as it is the commemoration day of the citys patron saints, Sts Peter and Paul.
To celebrate this occasion an evening devoted to Rome and its music will take place on at Piaz...
A week after the Rome prefect, Achille Serra, has imposed new rules on taxis taking passengers from Romes international airport at Fiumicino into the city, the local police are being firm with the illegal cabbies who are...
Rome is the worlds 21st most expensive city to live in, while Milan is the 13th, according to the annual survey released by Mercer Consulting that classifies the cost of living in 144 major cities in six continents. Both...
Italians, many of whom have now been to the polls three times in just over two months, have voted no to the constitutional amendment passed through parliament last November by the parties in the centre-right coalition le...
Two months ago ATAC, the company responsible for running the Rome city buses, began installing special telephone columns all over the city where the public could telephone to get a taxi from the nearest rank. So far 50...
Two new giraffes have arrived in a shroud of secrecy at the Bioparco in Rome. For the past ten months, male giraffe Rocco has been living alone in the Rome Bioparco after his female companions Stella and Pallina went to...
Researchers surveying a volcano off the southern coast of Sicily have discovered that it is much bigger than expected. The existence of the volcano has been known since the 19th century but its size has come as rather a...
Pope Benedict XVI has announced the appointment of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the archbishop of Genova, as the new secretary of state of the Vatican. Cardinal Bertone will replace Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who is retiring...
British artist Marc Quinn has filled the Museo DArte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO) with skeletons, mutilated sculptures and genetically modified flowers for his first major exhibition at an Italian state museum. One of the...
Cars without catalytic converters and diesel vehicles are banned from driving in the city between 07.30 and 20.30 on Friday 23 June due to unacceptable levels of pollutants in the air. The ban applies within the fascia...
Four football clubs, Juventus, Milano, Fiorentina, and Lazio, some of which are publicly quoted companies, and as many as 26 so far unnamed individuals, have been charged with match fixing and will appear before a specia...
Italian prisons are hopelessly overcrowded with the countrys 207 prisons now holding 61,392 inmates instead of their official capacity of 42,959, according to Antigone, a prisoner rights group. The group is calling on...
The sisters of the Instituto del Sacro Cuore will leave Rome by August this year. The nuns in the French order housed at the top of the Spanish Steps since 1828 say that the reason they are leaving is because of a voca...
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