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Elections for the Rome mayor and city council are due to be held on 28 and 29 May. The lists of candidates for the elections for the city councillors and for the mayor have now all been screened by the city electoral off...
The Italian society for palliative care, Sicp, have conducted a survey on the close relations of 1,271 patients who have recently died of cancer. They found that 63 per cent of the patients had been unaware of their dia...
The Internazionali dItalia, the annual tennis tournament held at the Foro Italico in Rome opens on Saturday 6 May. The qualifying rounds for the mens tournament begin in earnest on 8 May, with the finals on 14 May. The...
Seriously considering letting your wardrobe have a spring fling or a summer affair? First, lets take a closer look at what this entails. Having a fling or an affair isnt long term and can actually be quite brief. You are...
There are spectacular panoramas at Guadagnolo (1,218 m), the highest village in Lazio. The narrow road up may not look particularly promising, but as you climb it leads past a series of villages and small towns Saracine...
Walking into Valle Giulia in Villa Borghese you are met with the imposing villas which house the various foreign academies. Although some have been built only recently, their architecture has been kept along Roman lines...
While the human inhabitants of Rome busy themselves with the commute to work or school, dodging motorini or tourist crocodiles, downing an espresso at a bar and a dozen other daily rituals, most are oblivious to the fact...
Most Romans have never even heard of an area of the city called Quartaccio, yet it is a dazzling little pocket-mirror of the problems facing nearly all the less well-off areas on the outskirts of Rome. It is also an exam...
Effective antitrust authorities are crucial to the working of all modern economies. But Italy, where competition is still a dirty word to many, needs them more than most.
Italy was a late starter in this field. The Ital...
The Rome city council has launched an initiative for newborn babies in Rome, a Baby Kit. The city councillor responsible for children and the family described it as a small gift to parents of babies born in one of the 31...
With the captain of the Roma football team, Francesco Totti, back in the game last weekend after damaging his ligaments in a match on 19 February, Italian football supporters are hoping that he will be in good enough for...
Muslims in Lazio prisons will now be provided with assistance and spiritual comfort from Muslim clerics and volunteers, thanks to an agreement signed between the regions prison administration and Romes Islamic centre.
T...
Silvio Berlusconis announcement that he will officially hand in his resignation as Italys prime minister on Tuesday 2 May, leaves the way open for the possible nomination of a new head of government before the end of the...
The latest parking novelty has just come into effect in Rome. The city has allocated 85 pay-parking spaces in 33 areas around the city for women who are pregnant, and to people with babies iunder a year old in the car. T...
In time for the 1 May-day public holiday weekend, the Rome bus company ATAC is re-introducing buses to the beach.
The 062 Mare 1 which runs from the tourist port at Ostia Lido to the public beaches on Lungomare Amerigo...
The gardens of La Landriana at Tor San Lorernzo near Ardea will be host, from 28 April1 May, to Green Life an exhibition of garden furniture, games, swimming pools, lighting and decorative suggestions for gardens and ter...
Visitors to Rome can now buy useful three-day discount cards to museums and public transport. Thanks to a new initiative backed up the city council, the ministry of fine art and culture and the city public transport comp...
The Palazzo del Quirinale will open to the public for ten days in May to show off the restoration of 17th century friezes that have hidden from view for over a century. The discoveries were made over the last seven years...
There will be national strike of local public transport in Italy on Friday 28 April. In Rome and Lazio the strike will begin at 8.30 and end at 16.30 and there will be no buses, trams, metro trains or local trains to Ost...
Dutch artist Johanne Vermeers 1667 work The Love Letter is on show for the first time in Rome, at Palazzo Barberini, which houses Italys national collection of ancient art.
The event marks the opening of space returned...
Almost every visitor to Rome passes through the Piazza Venezia and admires the city policeman who stands on a round platform directing the apparently chaotic traffic. What few people know is that over the years the roun...
The Teatro Capranica has had a chequered career since its inauguration in 1679 within the magnificent Palazzo Capranica, a palace dating back to the fifteenth century and one of the few pre-Renaissance buildings of impor...
25 April is a public holiday in Italy to celebrate the liberation of the country from nazi and fascist control at the end of world war two. In Rome there will be a series of events beginning at 09.00 when the president o...
When Silvio Berlusconis government pledged 1,000 to every baby born in Italy in 2005 to families with income of less than 50,000 in 2004, his coalition allies in the Northern League insisted that this money should only b...
Unesco has named Turin and Rome as world book capitals for 2006 and from Saturday 22 April until Tuesday 25 April Rome will be offering a large programme in libraries all over the region of Lazio, the province and the ci...
As of 15.00 Friday 21 April until 21.00 Romans and tourists can visit the restored Ara Pacis monument free of charge following the official inauguration Friday morning of its smart new home designed by American Architect...
Euroflora, Italys grandest and largest flower show, opens at the Fiera di Genova on 21 April, it is being held for the first time since 2001. This enormous exhibition will take up 13 hectares (more than 30 acres) of show...
Pope Benedict XVI is to visit Poland from 25 to 28 May when he will visit Wadowice, the home town of his predecessor Pope John Paul II, and the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz as well as Czestochowa, Polands holiest...
On 21 April, Romes birthday, the first eight pavilions of the new Fiera di Roma will be officially inaugurated. The new complex when completed will have 22 pavilions occupying 186,000 sqm, a head office, a conference cen...
Victory in Italys general election has finally been confirmed to the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi, following a review of electoral returns and disputed ballot papers by the Supreme Court. Some members of the...
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