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Horse-drawn carriage drivers are protesting against a new regulation which aims to ban their circulation from 13.00-16.00 throughout the summer period.
Irate horse and coach drivers took to trotting their horses through...
As part of its 500 year celebrations, the Vatican Museums yesterday inaugurated the revamped Missionary Ethnological museum after five years of extensive renovation work.
The first section which is now open to the publi...
The Roseto Comunale di Roma will be open until 30 June. The extension to the period open for the public is thanks to the current mild climate in Rome which has not been too taxing on the 1.200 rose bushes planted there....
Alarm bells are ringing for voluntary organisations in the Lazio area, where funds have been drastically cut, numerous projects have been cancelled and 1.300 less voluntary positions are available.
This includes 93 few...
Next Sunday and Monday, 25 and 26 June, Italians will once again go to the polls, the third time in as many months for most of them. The first was for the parliamentary elections in April, then to vote for the city counc...
Nobel prize winner Jos Saramago has cancelled his scheduled appearance at the Rome Festival delle Letterature on 22 June due to serious and unforeseen personal problems. The Portuguese author was due to close the fifth e...
On 20 June there will be a 24-hour train strike in Italy starting at 21.00. The trades union Cobas is calling the strike and although Trenitalia, the national carrier, says that the strike will be limited, it advises pas...
Victor Emanuel di Savoia, the only son of the late last king of Italy, is under arrest and in prison in Potenza, in the southern region of Basilicata, accused of being the leader of a group involved in illegal activities...
A tomb raider has revealed the existence of probably the most important Etruscan necropolis ever found. The tomb is in the Parco de Veio, 18 km to the north of Rome, between the Via Cassia and the Via Flaminia, the neare...
From 17 June new rules apply for taxis at Fiumicino airport. The road for taxis waiting to pick up passengers will be narrowed to prevent illegal taxis jumping the queue. City police will control taxis waiting for passen...
Such has been the success of the opening of the newly restored Casino Nobile at the Villa Torlonia that instead of the visits finishing on 15 June, as had been the original plan, it has been decided to continue them unti...
Making it easier for immigrants to obtain Italian citizenship is one of the new governments priorities. The minister of the interior Giuliano Amato has promised a reform of the present laws, and government officials have...
The Italian national railway company, Trenitalia, has announced plans to offer new special rates for small groups made up of adults and children. From 1 July onwards, groups of from between three and five people with at...
The Pincio hill will be closed to private vehicles between 21.00 and 03.00 from 16 June until further notice. Traffic will instead be diverted along Via Sebastianello. The initiative is part of a scheme to make Rome safe...
On average four pedestrians a day are knocked over by a vehicle in Italys capital city.
This alarming figure has recently emerged from traffic police reports.
One of the principal causes is that pedestrian crossings...
Italys new minister for social solidarity, Paolo Ferrero, has spoken in support of the controversial shooting rooms which are designed to provide a safe place for drug addicts to shoot up. They have already been establis...
City authorities have begun a 300,000 clean-up campaign to remove illegal posters from walls around the city. The Mura Pulite, or Clean Walls, initiative will continue until mid July, with 28 three-man squads working thr...
The active volcano on the holiday island of Stromboli, one of the Aeolian islands, has been provided with six bunkers to protect tourists from lava bombs. Stromboli is part of the region of Sicily and has a volcano which...
The Keats-Shelley House McDonalds Piazza di Spagna poetry prize 2006 is divided into two sections, English and Italian, and into three age groups. This year the 5-9 age group was given the themes Hurricane or Message in...
At the beginning of the 18th century and the first years of the 19th the herring gull was considered a rarity in Rome. So much so that it was worth noting the sighting of a single bird on the 7th of March 1912.
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lWork by women Egyptian artists Merfat Azmi (photographer), Sherine El-Saied (potter), Fairouz Samir (painter) and Heran Awad (sculptor) are on display at the Egyptian Academy in an exhibition entitled Female Creativity,...
Do you know your past perfect from your present continuous? Can you pick out a zero conditional from a catalogue of first, second and third conditionals? If yes, then the chances are youre among the hundreds, if not thou...
Smart, hip, amiable, gifted, with an extraordinary painters facility, Raphael, ascending like a comet, became the darling of the Renaissance. But there was no nonsense about him. Growing up as a courtier serving Federico...
An oasis of peace amid the havoc of Rome, one of the most enchanting corners of the city, today holds the unenviable award of being classified by the UNESCO World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 most endangered monument...
A referendum will be held in Italy on the 25 and 26 June, offering Italian voters the opportunity to vote on the reform to the constitution passed by the previous parliament in which the centre-right coalition Casa della...
Italian identity cards are being issued at a rate of only 50 a day in the first municipality thanks to a shortage of council workers. The situation is even worse in the third municipality where as few as 20 a day are bei...
The 2006 World Cup has arrived at last and the endless waiting for millions of football fans is over.
Thirty-two nations are competing in soccers showpiece event in Germany, which takes place every four years and is enj...
The Rome University of Tor Vergata is celebrating its first 25 years. The university was founded outside the Roman ring road on the south-east side of the city and has quickly grown into the best equipped, if the most di...
According to statistics published by Caritas the Catholic relief organisation there were over 3 million legal immigrants living in Italy at the end of 2005 (compared to 2.786.340 in 2004). This figure includes the 180,...
The number of Caesarean births in Italy is the highest in Europe and is even ahead of the United States of America, according to research recently released by ISTAT, the Italian statistics institute. Slightly more than o...
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