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This year has been characterised by a particularly high diffusion of lice among children in Rome, which began promptly at the start of the school term in January, reached its peak in May and is on the rise again this mon...
Work is set to begin on a four-month-long restructuring of Via Veneto on 8 June. The main aim of the project is to reclaim the road, once a symbol of 1960s Dolce Vita but now a characterless traffic artery, as a pleasant...
Trenitalia is charging 2 for rail journeys in the Rome area which cost only 1 if you buy a BIT (biglietto integrato a tempo) ticket from a bar, a report in Il Messaggero has revealed. The reason for the double fare is th...
Around 50,000 people are expected to attend the gastronomic fair Gusti dEuropa taking place at the Fiera di Roma from 8 June-11 June. The European Union has provided financial backing for the fair, which will showcase 2,...
S. Lorenzo, Romes popular student area, will be a limited traffic zone at night throughout the summer period.
Traffic restrictions are effective from 7 June and will continue Wednesday to Saturday between 21.00-03.00 ho...
Vice premier and minister for the cultural heritage, Francesco Rutelli, has blocked the 300 per cent rent increase planned for bathing establishments along Italys coast this summer.
The previous government had approve...
The number of adults and children suffering from plant allergies in the last few weeks has increased by between 20 and 30 per cent compared to last years figures. The estimate is based only on reported cases of allergies...
The Rome city council has approved a plan to make 1,200 parking spaces available on the roof of the central railway station, Stazione Termini, and is now considering adding a heli-pad to the project. The helipad would be...
A public tranport strike on 5 June, beginning at 21.00 and ending at midnight will halt buses, trams and metro trains in the city as well as the Roma-Lido, Roma-Pantano and Roma-Viterbo rail service. For more information...
A new monument dedicated to those who died during the liberation of Rome from Nazi occupation in 1944 was unveiled on 4 June in Piazza Venezia. The ceremony took place on the 62nd anniversary of the Allies arrival in the...
Professor Guido Rossi, appointed two weeks ago to sort out Italys football scandals, says that the situation is much worse than he anticipated. Match fixing, false accounting and transfer fixing has hit the big names in...
The governor of the Italian island of Sardinia, Renato Soru, has applied a new luxury tax on boats and private jets landing in Sardinia from the 1 June. The Sardinian airport at Olbia is the busiest airport in Europe dur...
Restoration work on historic monuments in Rome is often the cause of disappointment to tourists who find the church or palace that they want to see wrapped in scaffolding and often covered with a gaudy advertisement.
To...
The minister for universities and research in the new government headed by Romano Prodi announced in Brussels this week that Italy will no longer support the ethical declaration against research on stem cells in Europe....
We have to start with the past in order to get to know our future, says Francesco Innamorati, head architect overseeing the restoration of Palazzo della Civilt Italiana in the EUR area in south Rome. Originally conceived...
The Italian national holiday on 2 June marks the 60th anniversary this year of the declaration of the Italian republic. As usual there will be a military parade in the morning in Via dei Fori Imperiali and this year ther...
When the Flemish artist Rubens was commissioned by a member of the Pallavicini family to paint Christ and the twelve apostles the completed pictures were hung in the chapel of the family palace in Antwerp. At the end of...
Marino Polvani meets me outside Via Carlo Alberto 53 with a briefcase in hand. Its a Friday night and he has just got back from work but he wants me to see the outside of the building where one night almost two years ago...
I remember very well lunching at a restaurant near Anzio, south of Rome. In the garden was a mesembryanthemum plant loaded with the brightest orange flowers I had ever seen. In the West country accent of my birthplace I...
We have to start with the past in order to get to know our future, says Francesco Innamorati, head architect overseeing the restoration of Palazzo della Civilt Italiana in the EUR area in south Rome. Originally conceived...
It was a boiling hot afternoon in Pasadena, California, and sporting temperatures were soaring as Italian football hero Roberto Baggio ballooned a penalty kick high above the goal. The miss haunted Baggio for years, hand...
The little mountain town of Saracinesco, some 20 km east of Tivoli, has several claims to fame. Founded by Saracens, it is Lazios smallest comune or municipality with a mere 160 inhabitants. It also has a unique outdoor...
I insisted from the word go it had to be in Piazza Venezia and nowhere else. Otherwise, it would have been like plonking the Cenotaph in the middle of Shepherds Bush Common, explained Harry Shindler with a grin.
A vete...
Mayors heading centre left-coalitions have easily won re-election in Rome, Turin and Naples confirming the swing to the left of the general elections in April. The popular mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, has been returne...
The local councils of the 19 municipi of Rome have all gone to the centre-left in the local elections of 28 and 29 May. Most were won by over 60 per cent with the only close call being Municipio XX around the Cassia nor...
The Italian government is proposing to re-open the quoti flussi a controlled legalisation system for immigrants from countries outside the European Union. The quota is set annually for immigrants who are living illegally...
It had long been assumed that most of todays Tuscans were directly descended from the Etruscans who settled in the area in the eighth century BC. That was until Guido Barbujani, professor of biology at the University of...
A newly discovered asteroid has been named Romaplanetario to celebrate the second anniversary of the reopening of the Rome Planetarium. The decision to baptise asteroid 66458 in the museums name was made by Gianluca Masi...
Istat, the state statistics institute, describes Italy as a country of great inequality in its latest annual report. More than almost any other country in Europe, there is a growing margin between people who are discreet...
New bus shelters for Romes historic centre will be green with a design reminiscent of classic 1930s and 1940s shelters, city authorities have decided. "Intelligent" panels informing passengers about bus arrivals, traffic...
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