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The Italian spring is crowded with important elections. Once the general election results have finally been confirmed the senate and the chamber of deputies have to vote for a new president of the Italian republic. Two w...
The Italian ministry for fine art and culture has recently announced that it is now in a position to buy the part of the Palazzo Altemps which is not already owned by the state. Palazzo Altemps, just north of the Piazza...
Rome hosts the biggest rubbish dump in Europe, claimed to be now nearly full to overflowing, the fulcrum of a rubbish crisis facing all of Italy today. Yet plans are afoot to exploit the unlovely tip further, with public...
Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-1479) is one of the most enigmatic of early Renaissance painters. He came out of nowhere. His life was short, his travels wrapped in mystery. That dear old gossip in Arezzo painter and biog...
Work by Romanian photographer Mihaela Marin is on show in the exhibition The Portrait of Dorian Gray at the Romanian Academy. 27 April-12 May.
The photographs were taken during a performance of Dragos Galgotius ballet...
In the south-east suburbs of Rome, past Anagnina, lies the eighth municipality of Roma delle Torri, or Rome of the towers so called because of the mediaeval towers which once characterised the landscape. Now what you se...
The Italian supreme court has ruled that parents must help pay for the maintenance of their children even when they are qualified and have a degree.
The court ruled that the financial responsibility of the parents could...
Franco Alfano (1876 -1954), the composer of this evenings attractive tragic fairytale, was a highly respected musical figure in Italy throughout the first half of the 20th century, composing operas, chamber works, ballet...
Under a new law, number 150 of 13 March, which came into effect on 14 April, bus, taxi and lorry drivers must now wear safety belts when driving their vehicles. Bus passengers on long journeys and commuter buses will als...
A new monument will be erected in the gardens of Piazza Venezia in memory of those who died during the liberation of Rome from Nazi occupation. The work, created by sculptor Alessio Paternesi, will be placed where the cu...
City authorities have presented the plan for a new metro line, the so-called metro D, which would link EUR in the south of the city with Montesacro in the north. The line, which would run for 20 km through 22 stations, w...
Rome is full of tourists for the Easter weekend, the city authorities claiming that the numbers are 20 per cent up on last Easter. The streets are thronged and the coffee shops and bars, particularly those with tables on...
The contested ballot papers in the Italian elections last week have turned out to be lower than expected according to the ministry of the interior. There are now only about 2,000 disputed ballots rather than the 45,000 e...
The mandate of the president of the Italian republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, expires on 18 May so he may not be the person who nominates the countrys new prime minister.
The first appointment for all of the newly elected...
A reassessment of some ballot papers was set to take place by 22.00 on Thursday evening following the refusal by centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi to accept defeat in the elections. Around 43,000 ballot papers for th...
Barring major upsets, Romano Prodi will be Italys next prime minister; but the road to Palazzo Chigi will not be simple and it certainly will not be rapid. At best, he might be given a mandate by president Carlo Azeglio...
Thousands of tourists and pilgrims have filled the city for Holy Week, sightseeing and attending the religious celebrations at the Vatican city.
The Via Crucis, the 14 stations of the cross, will take place as usual on...
There will be special Easter offers at supermarkets and markets in Rome thanks to another Roma spende bene campaign supported by the city council. The special offer, costing 15.90, will contain a traditional Easter cake...
The Vatican Museums will be closed for Easter on Sunday 16 and Monday 17 April. They will reopen as normal on Tuesday 18 April. Mon-Fri 08.45-16.45 (entrance to 15.20); Sat 08.45-13.45. Note that the museums are open on...
The Rome city councillor responsible for traffic, Mauro Calamante, has announced that work will begin on Romes new underground line C at the beginning of May. The underground, which will be one of the biggest constructi...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, expressed satisfaction when he presented the results of the ten Thursdays that vehicles with alternative number plates were banned in the city. The initiative was an attempt to keep air poll...
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In one of the toughest and closest-run elections in the countrys post-war history an unofficial projection now gives the centre-left LUnione coalition a majority of two seats in the senate. If this is officially confirme...
Italys most famous and wanted mafia boss, Bernardo Provenzano, was arrested on Tuesday 11 April in a farm house two kilometres from his home town of Corleone in Sicily. Provenzano has been in hiding since 1963. Fifty po...
As Italians went to bed on Monday 10 April there was the possibility that they might wake with the centre-right Casa delle Libert coalition, led by Silvio Berlusconi, back in control of the senate, and the centre-left LU...
Chinese is booming in Italy where more and more people are learning the language, even some children at junior schools are being given the opportunity of learning the most spoken language in the world. Fifteen Italian un...
The city has set up a register of babysitters in Rome who have taken its new accredited training course. Among the subjects studied are pedagogy, developmental psychology and health education. The course is open to resid...
The Italian ministry of health has set aside funding to create new centres for research into the prevention of cot deaths. The syndrome which has been recognised and studied in the United States of America for 30 years h...
There will be 1,000 new bus shelters throughout the city in the next three years. This month 200 will be added to the existing 440, another 145 in June, 245 before February 2007, and the remaining 410 by 2008. The cost w...
Rome will celebrate the Giornata Nazionale del Giardino on Saturday 8 April by opening the nursery of the citys Servizio Giardini to the public. The greenhouses of S. Sisto will be open from 11.00 to18.00. People will be...
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