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Rome is full of fountains. There is one for almost every square in the historic centre, gushing, sprinkling and sparkling, to the delight of passers-by. Among them is the newly restored Turtle Fountain in Piazza Mattei n...
Sunday 24 September will be a traffic-free day in Rome, city authorities have announced. All cars and motorcycles will be banned from the historic centre, Trastevere, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Via Cola di Rienzo and Via Ap...
Entry to state and city museums and archaeological sites throughout Rome will be free on Saturday 23-Sunday 24 September as part of the European Heritage Days initiative. State museums throughout the rest of Italy will a...
The city's safety and order committee has given the go ahead for the installation of videocameras on Rome's most notorious prostitution streets.
Stricter security measures, more street lights, tighter traffic controls a...
I undertake to ensure that MAXXI is finished by the end of 2008, said culture minister Francesco Rutelli at the opening of an exhibition on contemporary museums at the site of the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secol...
From Friday 22 to Sunday 24 September Italy's "Clean up the World" initiative will take place, an event in which ordinary citizens of all ages play their part in ridding their local city streets, parks, piazze and rivers...
Italian postal service Poste Italiane announced the end of the generic postcode for Rome and 27 other cities on 20 September. Until now people posting to a Rome address for which they did not know the postcode could use...
Smog kills more than 8 000 Italians each year.
This was the conclusion of research conducted by Italy's environmental protection agency APAT in conjunction with the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The study, carried o...
In a further tightening of the interpretation of the legal responsibilities of the car driver, the high court (Corte di Cassazione) has ruled that, if the driver of a car does not ensure passengers fasten their seatbelts...
From 17 September, according to a ruling by the high court (Corte di Cassazione), it is obligatory to keep all dogs which are more than eight months old and stand more than 30cms high at the shoulder-blades on a leash wh...
According to an analysis on Reading, media and cultural interests among the Italians over the last ten years commissioned by the ministry of fine arts and culture from the research institute, Eurisko, Italian women read...
There will be a public transport strike on Friday 15 September affecting all of Romes buses, metros, trams and local railways. The strike will begin at 0.00 on Friday morning and will conclude at 23.59. Normal service is...
Romes answer to the Hollywood Oscars, the prizes to be awarded for best film, best actor and best actress at Romes film festival, which will run from 13 21 October 2006, have been designed by Bulgari, the prestigious Vi...
City underground authority Met.Ro is to install 45 antiterrorism cameras on board carriages of the metro A line in October. The new security measure is aimed at helping to prevent possible terrorist attacks on the citys...
People are getting away with illegal behaviour in the city's public parks and gardens, according to an article in Leggo, one of Romes free daily papers.
It is prohibited to drive motorbikes in pedestrian areas, let dog...
Readers will almost certainly remember where they were and what they were doing on Tuesday 11 September 2001.
The horror of the terrorist attacks against the United States, together with the fact that the modern media...
Ouzeri
Fiona Winward
Of the handful of Greek restaurants in Rome, the tiny ten-table Ouzeri is often touted as the best. Overshadowed by rowdier Trastevere restaurants around the corner, its easily missed watch ou...
In the wake of this summers terrorist alerts at British airports, the fatal bomb attacks in London (2005) and Madrid (2004), the daily reports of death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan and the crises in Iran and L...
The Mediterranean Shipping Line (MSL), owned by the family of one of Italys most discreet billionaires, Gianluigi Aponte, born in Sorrento in 1940, resident in Geneva, but with Italian passport, is reported to be plannin...
The head of a statue representing a water deity, stolen last December from Villa Celimontana's Fontana del Fiume has been found in Civitavecchia.
Investigators believe that the statue's head was stolen by professionals...
The autumn season of public transport strikes is about to begin, with the following announced as the official strikes in September:
7 September. Alitalia's 24-hour strike for this date has been called off until later i...
Stabbed twice in the back and once in the throat, a 24-year-old Roman student, Angelo Frammartino, was killed in the old city of Jerusalem in August. Ten days later Israeli police told the media that his self-confessed k...
This summers referee-fixing scandal centred around Turin giants Juventus threw Italian football into disarray and reinforced unpleasant stereotypes about Italy and corruption. But the furore also seemed to help the Azzur...
The Latin poet, Horace, wrote in rapturous terms of the country retreat in the valley of Ustica, which his millionaire patron, Maecenas, had given him: A shady valley, hidden amongst mountains... where the generous plum...
2.5 million turn out for Notte Bianca
City authorities are hailing the Notte Bianca which took place on Saturday night (9 Sept) as a great success for culture and the economy. Around 2.5 million people filled the capita...
Romes limited traffic zones will be completely pedestrianised between 21.00-06.00 on Sat 9 September during the capitals third Notte Bianca, which sees the citys museums, art galleries and shops stay open throughout the...
In a series of moves that will not surprise those Italians who aspire to the highest ranks of the state cultural bureaucracy, a competition to select 11 superintendents for the minister of culture and fine arts has been...
There have been 752 road accidents in the Lazio region between 1 July and 3 September resulting in 12 deaths. These are the statistics provided by the local traffic police, who reported that there have been over traffic...
Two thirds of Italian employees earn less than 1,300 a month, with 35 per cent earning less than 1,000 a month.
This is what emerged from a research conducted by IRES (the national institute for social and economic res...
The number of tourists in Rome has increased by almost 25 per cent between 2004 and 2006, according to regional tourism bureau Ente Bilaterale del Turismo. The number of tourists staying in the capitals hotels has steadi...
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