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Giant sardines floating mid-air over the lake in Villa Borghese, red giraffes stalking down Via Cavour and maverick Spanish hairdressers transforming hair into sculpture with feathers, stars, flowers and iron wires in Pi...
Romes taxi drivers and city authorities have agreed on a set fare between the capital and its two airports that will come into force on 1 October. The cost of a trip between the historic centre and Fiumicino airport will...
On 1 September Pope Benedict XVI is to make a whistle-stop helicopter tour to the small town of Manoppello in the Abruzzi region in order to pay homage to what many Catholic faithful believe to be the true veil of St Ver...
City authorities are to increase protection for 27 km of Romes bus, tram and taxi lanes by spring 2007. The selected priority traffic lanes will be delineated using a raised plastic strip in order to deter other motorist...
The mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, and the minister of fine arts and culture, Francesco Rutelli, have agreed to meet in the second half of October in order to discuss a calendar designed to put an end to bickering betwe...
Romes Sapienza University, which is part of the University of Rome, is number 100 in the academic ranking of the world universities. Harvard came top, followed by Cambridge and then Stanford in third place.
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Romes Bioparco is celebrating the birth of a baby giraffe. The babys mother is one of two female giraffes brought over to Rome in June from a zoo in the Czech Republic to keep Rocco, the Bioparcos resident male giraffe,...
The minister of fine arts and culture, Francesco Rutelli, has announced that, in addition to 3 million already set aside, a further 800,000 has been allotted for the works necessary for the reopening of Neros palace, th...
The weekend of 26 and 27 August saw an estimated 10 million Italians return home from their summer holiday according to the consumer association Telefono Blu. In Rome heavy traffic and long delays were registered on the...
Giorgio Lise, vice-postulator for the beatification of Albino Luciani, Pope John Paul I, has announced that the diocesan phase of gathering the information required for the process of beatification should be finished by...
Elderly and disabled people living in the IX municipio (local administrative area) can now make use of a free transport service to get to and from local health structures and public offices. The service, which is operate...
Rome city council is continuing to offer professional training for adults through a series of evening classes during the academic year 2006/2007. Registration opens on 4 September and continues until all places have been...
The Lazio regional government is to begin granting low-interest loans to marginalised people or groups as part of a policy of supporting micro-credit schemes favouring poverty reduction and social integration in the regi...
Data released by the ministry of education, universities and research show a widening gap between the number of women being awarded degrees at Romes universities and the number of men. In the year 1 January to 31 Decembe...
Anyone living in the centre of the Rome who has a passion for ice cream will be familiar with the bar and ice cream emporium in Via della Seggiola of Alberto Pica, president of the Italian association of artisan ice crea...
The number of tourists visiting Rome over the week of the Ferragosto holiday has been a record, with corresponding record figures at all the citys museums, monuments and sites. Some striking figures: on 15 August 1,164 p...
Rome residents who give blood in August or September will receive a special voucher which can be exchanged for two free tickets to one of the city museums. First-time donors also receive two free tickets for the Battello...
Agreement has been reached between the various transport entities in Lazio over an annual season ticket for Lazio commuters which will cover all forms of public transport in the region, including Atac and Acotral buses,...
In the middle of the 17th century, Pope Innocent X, the Pamphilj pope, employed Gian Lorenzo Bernini to build a magnificent fountain of the Four Rivers to beautify Piazza Navona, where he lived in Palazzo Pamphilj with h...
It is business as usual at many of Romes museums and monuments on the feast of the Assumption, or Ferragosto, on 15 August, which is a public holiday in Italy. One exception is the Vatican Museums, which are closed 15 an...
USA nuclear submarines will leave the tiny island of La Maddalena in Sardinia by 2008.
The United States department of defence, which has used the island as a base since 1972, has notified the Italian defence ministry o...
Long delays and high-alert security reigned at Italian airports after a major terrorist plot was foiled to blow up planes travelling between UK and USA.
Lengthy delays and last-minute cancellations of flights to London...
Enough of loud television ads. This is the message from communications minister Paolo Gentiloni on reports that sound levels soar by 83 per cent during advertising broadcasts on three Italian TV channels - state-owned Ra...
Rome is preparing to host children from war-torn regions of Israel and Lebanon. This initiative of the city, the Roman Catholic relief organisations, Caritas di Roma and S. Egidio, the Red Cross and the local Jewish and...
More Italians are staying at home due to family and economic reasons, many are taking briefer holidays and more are taking their vacanze in July or September.
This is what emerged from a study conducted by Federalberghi...
This summer has seen the rise of a romantic new urban legend involving one of Romes oldest bridges, Ponte Milvio.
Lovers of all ages and nationalities are choosing to pledge their undying love by fastening a chain with...
Coop Italia, one of the countrys largest supermarket chains is making plans to start selling its own brand of non-prescription drugs at about 25 per cent below pharmacy prices.
Although the cooperative has to wait for t...
Holidaying Italians lose 14 million worth of personal effects on beaches in August according to a survey carried out by Eta Meta Research, an Italian trend and research company, which interviewed beach resort management...
The government has approved a measure that will halve the time from ten to five years needed for foreigners to obtain citizenship.
It is predicted that this will affect 3 million legal immigrants, 30 per cent of whom h...
False banknotes are on the rise in Italy. According to a Banca d Italia report to parliament the circulation of fake notes in Italy increased 26 per cent in 2005 compared with 2004, while in other euro-currency countries...
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