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More than 47 million Italians will go to the polls on 9 and 10 April to elect a new chamber of deputies (618 deputies plus a further 12 voted for by Italians living abroad) and a new senate (309 senators plus a further 6...
The new drug laws recently passed through the Italian parliament came into effect on 5 April following publication of the amount of drugs that may be carried for personal use. The amounts are as follows:-
Heroin 10 dos...
More than 1,500 museums, monuments and archaeological sites across Italy will be free to the public from 2-9 April during the eighth annual settimana della cultura. All state museums in Rome will participate, although it...
Panafricana, the Rome pan-African film festival, is currently underway and will continue until Sun 9 April, showing feature films and documentaries by established and emerging African directors. Teatro Palladium, Piazza...
With the Italian general election imminent, the mayor or Rome, Walter Veltroni, has written to the leaders of the two political coalitions, Romano Prodi of L'Ulivo and Silvio Berlusconi of the Casa delle Libert asking wh...
An environmental impact report for the ministry of the environment has given its approval for the route for the extension of the A12 motorway along the Tyrrhenean coast from Tarquinia , north of Rome to Talamone near Po...
There will be the 11th annual spring gardening exhibition at the Giardini della Landriana Fri 21 April-Sun 23 April, 10.00-19.00. Famous names in the world of gardening will be present to give the public ideas on how to...
Rome will celebrate the anniversary of when Romulus is commonly thought to have founded the city on 21 April, 753BC. The historical association and gladiator school, Gruppo Storico Romano, will mark the capitals birthday...
ANZAC Day memorial
Australians and New Zealanders in Rome will celebrate ANZAC day on Tues 25 April. The day is a public holiday in their respective countries and commemorates the men of the Australia and New Zealand Ar...
Both amateur and professional runners are being encouraged to keep fit and discover new areas of Rome on Sat 8 April by participating in a six-kilometre race in the Laurentino area south of Rome. This will be followed on...
While Romes grand museums tend to get all the publicity and the queues, the city has an abundance of smaller-scale exhibition spaces waiting to be explored. Size certainly isnt everything. Some more modest museums, such...
Giulio Ciarrocca, a physicist and health consultant for various hospitals throughout Italy, first became interested in the English poet Edward Lear when he was a student at Imperial College, London, in 1964. Ciarrocca wa...
Italians are going to the cinema less than ever according to Italian research company Cinetel. Yet, ironically, aficionados of the silver screen in Rome have rarely had things as good. The Cinema Trevi (near the eponymou...
A random poll of Romans and foreigners living in Rome conducted during a week in mid-March mainly foresaw a close finish precluding a clear majority and strong government in this months general election.
A common denom...
Next week Italy will have a new parliament, and the polls have been putting Romano Prodis centre-left LUnione consistently ahead of prime minister Silvio Berlusconis Casa delle Libert (CDL). Since the campaign began in e...
A new, pedestrianised Piazza di Spagna was inaugurated on 3 April after nine months of reconstruction work at a cost of 860 thousand. Traffic has been diverted so that Piazza di Spagna and Piazza Mignanelli now form one...
There will be national railway strike on Wednesday 5 April for 10.00 until 17.00. Anyone planning to travel by train on that day is advised to look at www.trenitalia.it or telephone the Trenitalia call centre number 8920...
There will not be a repeat of the beach along the Tiber this summer if the superintendent at the ministry of fine art and culture for Roman archaeology, Maurizio Galletti, has his way.
Galletti explained that in 2005 th...
The use of credit in Italy is growing steadily, with more and more families planning their spending and paying gradually for expenses such as cars, furniture, holidays, registration in gyms and health care schemes. The I...
The stretches of Lazios 361 km coast which are not fit for swimming have increased from 3,500 m in 2005 to 8,900 m this year, according to a survey by Arpa, the regional environment protection agency. The coast off-limit...
Fifteen homosexual and heterosexual couples living in stable relationships have asked to be listed in the first Rome register of Civil Unions which was started in the X municipality , the densely populated areas of Cinec...
City authorities have decided that bars and restaurants must not put out street furniture in 29 historic squares in Rome. Among the areas where it is forbidden to take over any public space are Piazza di Spagna, Piazza d...
More than 1,500 museums, monuments and archaeological sites across Italy will be free to the public from 2-9 April during the eighth annual settimana della cultura. All state museums in Rome will participate, although it...
Automatic ticket machines are to be installed on a third of Romes buses over the next three months, enabling passengers to buy tickets on board. Some 1,000 new machines will be introduced on all electric buses and tram l...
The British foreign office has issued a new guide to its services for UK tourists and nationals resident abroad. The guide sets out comprehensively what the foreign office can and cannot do for those in difficulty as a r...
Around one in three commuter trains arriving at Romes Termini station are late, according to a survey conducted by Legambiente in March. Over a five-day period, 110 out of 340 trains monitored between 06.30 and 09.30 in...
Thanks to a proposal by the foreign minister Gianfranco Fini, Italy has offered political asylum to Abdul Rahman, the Afghan citizen who risked being sentenced to death in his home country because he had converted from t...
The Palazzo Anagrafe in Via Luigi Petroselli 50 has been reopened to the public after more than a year of restoration. The building, which belongs to the city council, is the registry office for all births, marriages and...
Spring has arrived and Romes transport authorities are doing everything possible to encourge people to leave cars at home and take a bicycle instead. There are already 150 km of cycle track in and around the city and a f...
The Giornata FAI di Primavera, held on 25 and 26 March, began auspiciously with generous lashings of springtime sun bathing the Eternal City. The Giornata FAI is one weekend (and not, as the name confusingly suggests, on...
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