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Rome and the rest of Italy are holding their breath for tonights soccer World Cup final in Berlin. Streets and squares will be eerily deserted of Italians as the Azzurri play France for the most famous trophy in world sp...
Traffic will be banned from the historic centre in Rome following Sunday 9 Julys Italy-France World Cup final in an effort to curb vandalism. The sale of drinks in cans and bottles has also been banned during the match a...
The advertisement opens with a group of young women dressed in black who quite suddenly begin to dance the haka, the New Zealand Maori dance which the All Black Rugby team performs before a game. When they have finished...
There will be a national public transport strike on Saturday 8 July. In Rome the strike begins at 8.30 and involves buses, trams, trolley buses, underground lines A and B as well as the trains running Roma-Lido, Roma-Pan...
A 1.5 million project to repave Piazza Venezia started on 7 July and is expected to continue until September. The repaving will be true to the squares original design by Corrado Ricci and will eliminate holes and uneven...
The Ara Pacis was forced to close to the public on 5 July when staff walked out after temperatures inside the museum pavilion reached 32 degrees by 10.00. Organisers said the problem was due to the air conditioning syst...
Taxi drivers have called off wildcat strikes over the governments new law that will liberalise the issuing of taxi licences. Rome and other major cities in Italy had suffered for four days from the suspension of taxi ser...
On 9 July the cruise liner, Costa Concordia, will sail from the port of Civitavecchia for a brief inaugural Mediterranean cruise, taking in Tunis, Malta, Tripoli, Civitavecchia and Savona.
The giant boat, built by Ital...
The Rome summer sales are due to begin on Saturday 8 July. These will be the first under the government's new regulations to ease-up on the previously strict requirements controlling the such seasonal promotions. There w...
Italys taxi drivers were continuing protests on 5 July against the governments new liberalization laws after talks with the ministry of economic development failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Taxi drivers have sa...
The Aeolian archipelago, to the north of Messina in Sicily, is suffering a more severe water shortage than usual. During July and August the resident population of 12,120 permanent residents increases to about 100,000, a...
It was an ecstatic night of celebrations for Italians everywhere, with the Azzurris 2-0 win over Germany in last nights semi final match.
In Rome there were 50,000 transfixed in front of Circo Massimos maxi screen, with...
After its comfortable 3-0 win against Ukraine, Italy gets ready for tonights match in the semi-final against World Cup host country.
In Rome the city has set up giant screens in Circo Massimo for the Italy-Germany game,...
Chaos in Rome continues as taxi drivers protesting against new liberalisation laws announced on 30 June stage wildcat strikes and demonstrations, blocking streets, causing severe delays for traffic and leaving passengers...
Taxis are vehemently protesting against the liberalisation of taxi licences and rates approved by the government on Friday, causing havoc countrywide including Fiumicino, where hundreds of tourists were left stranded yes...
Prime minister Romano Prodi has unveiled a 7 billion emergency mini-budget in a bid to bring Italys struggling public accounts under control and tide over the economy until the next budget at the end of the year. Include...
The town council of Taormina, one of the most beautiful towns on the east coast of Sicily, particularly famous for its Greek-Roman theatre, has decided to make tourists pay a small visitors tax; an extra 1 when parking a...
The Italian minister of health, Livia Turco, has announced that she will make use of an administrative procedure to change the tough drug law passed through parliament by the previous government earlier in this year. Kno...
The town council of Taormina one of the most beautiful towns on the east coast of Sicily, particularly famous for its Greek-Roman theatre, has decided to make tourists to the town pay a small visitors tax. An extra 1 whe...
Italian minister for the environment, Pecoraro Scanio, the head of the Italian WWF, Fulco Pratesi and other Italian environmentalists have protested the killing of Bruno the bear in Germany on 26 June.
Bruno, a young S...
The Temple of Vesta at the Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli has been completely restored in only three months at a cost of 100,000. The restoration, which was presented to the public on 26 June, has been done by the FAI, a pri...
The Democratici di Sinistra, one of the political parties making up the governing alliance LUlino began its annual Festa dell Unita in Rome on 28 June in and around the Stadio Flaminio. The Festa offers 14 restaurants...
Rome is experiencing record temperatures, with thermometers registering over 37 degrees in the past few days nine degrees over the seasonal average of 28 degrees. Humidity is also high, reaching 91 per cent even in the...
Following the victory of Romano Prodis centre-left coalition in Aprils general election, his new government was sworn in on 17 May. The government comprises 102 people, including ministers with and without portfolio, dep...
It looked like a lop-sided pine cone except that instead of a cluster of leaf panels there was a clump of uneven stalks in pure silver, encrusted with tiny rain drops of glinting diamonds and pearls, fresh from final dus...
Many people in Rome were perplexed when the Islamic cultural centre of Italy was inaugurated 11 years ago. The idea of having Europes largest mosque in the very heart of Christendom was considered at best inopportune and...
For all you beach lovers looking to keep cool this summer here are nine possibilities all within the region of Lazio. Each beach on the list, ordered from north to south, offers either stabilimenti (private beaches with...
This is a shattering show beautifully represented. It is an incomparable record of the last throes of the 20th century. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is the father of modern photography. He was French, astute, civili...
Thursday, 29 June is a public holiday in Rome as it is the commemoration day of the citys patron saints, Sts Peter and Paul.
To celebrate this occasion an evening devoted to Rome and its music will take place on at Piaz...
A week after the Rome prefect, Achille Serra, has imposed new rules on taxis taking passengers from Romes international airport at Fiumicino into the city, the local police are being firm with the illegal cabbies who are...
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