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lWork by women Egyptian artists Merfat Azmi (photographer), Sherine El-Saied (potter), Fairouz Samir (painter) and Heran Awad (sculptor) are on display at the Egyptian Academy in an exhibition entitled Female Creativity,...
Do you know your past perfect from your present continuous? Can you pick out a zero conditional from a catalogue of first, second and third conditionals? If yes, then the chances are youre among the hundreds, if not thou...
Smart, hip, amiable, gifted, with an extraordinary painters facility, Raphael, ascending like a comet, became the darling of the Renaissance. But there was no nonsense about him. Growing up as a courtier serving Federico...
An oasis of peace amid the havoc of Rome, one of the most enchanting corners of the city, today holds the unenviable award of being classified by the UNESCO World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 most endangered monument...
A referendum will be held in Italy on the 25 and 26 June, offering Italian voters the opportunity to vote on the reform to the constitution passed by the previous parliament in which the centre-right coalition Casa della...
Italian identity cards are being issued at a rate of only 50 a day in the first municipality thanks to a shortage of council workers. The situation is even worse in the third municipality where as few as 20 a day are bei...
The 2006 World Cup has arrived at last and the endless waiting for millions of football fans is over.
Thirty-two nations are competing in soccers showpiece event in Germany, which takes place every four years and is enj...
The Rome University of Tor Vergata is celebrating its first 25 years. The university was founded outside the Roman ring road on the south-east side of the city and has quickly grown into the best equipped, if the most di...
According to statistics published by Caritas the Catholic relief organisation there were over 3 million legal immigrants living in Italy at the end of 2005 (compared to 2.786.340 in 2004). This figure includes the 180,...
The number of Caesarean births in Italy is the highest in Europe and is even ahead of the United States of America, according to research recently released by ISTAT, the Italian statistics institute. Slightly more than o...
This year has been characterised by a particularly high diffusion of lice among children in Rome, which began promptly at the start of the school term in January, reached its peak in May and is on the rise again this mon...
Work is set to begin on a four-month-long restructuring of Via Veneto on 8 June. The main aim of the project is to reclaim the road, once a symbol of 1960s Dolce Vita but now a characterless traffic artery, as a pleasant...
Trenitalia is charging 2 for rail journeys in the Rome area which cost only 1 if you buy a BIT (biglietto integrato a tempo) ticket from a bar, a report in Il Messaggero has revealed. The reason for the double fare is th...
Around 50,000 people are expected to attend the gastronomic fair Gusti dEuropa taking place at the Fiera di Roma from 8 June-11 June. The European Union has provided financial backing for the fair, which will showcase 2,...
S. Lorenzo, Romes popular student area, will be a limited traffic zone at night throughout the summer period.
Traffic restrictions are effective from 7 June and will continue Wednesday to Saturday between 21.00-03.00 ho...
Vice premier and minister for the cultural heritage, Francesco Rutelli, has blocked the 300 per cent rent increase planned for bathing establishments along Italys coast this summer.
The previous government had approve...
The number of adults and children suffering from plant allergies in the last few weeks has increased by between 20 and 30 per cent compared to last years figures. The estimate is based only on reported cases of allergies...
The Rome city council has approved a plan to make 1,200 parking spaces available on the roof of the central railway station, Stazione Termini, and is now considering adding a heli-pad to the project. The helipad would be...
A public tranport strike on 5 June, beginning at 21.00 and ending at midnight will halt buses, trams and metro trains in the city as well as the Roma-Lido, Roma-Pantano and Roma-Viterbo rail service. For more information...
A new monument dedicated to those who died during the liberation of Rome from Nazi occupation in 1944 was unveiled on 4 June in Piazza Venezia. The ceremony took place on the 62nd anniversary of the Allies arrival in the...
Professor Guido Rossi, appointed two weeks ago to sort out Italys football scandals, says that the situation is much worse than he anticipated. Match fixing, false accounting and transfer fixing has hit the big names in...
The governor of the Italian island of Sardinia, Renato Soru, has applied a new luxury tax on boats and private jets landing in Sardinia from the 1 June. The Sardinian airport at Olbia is the busiest airport in Europe dur...
Restoration work on historic monuments in Rome is often the cause of disappointment to tourists who find the church or palace that they want to see wrapped in scaffolding and often covered with a gaudy advertisement.
To...
The minister for universities and research in the new government headed by Romano Prodi announced in Brussels this week that Italy will no longer support the ethical declaration against research on stem cells in Europe....
We have to start with the past in order to get to know our future, says Francesco Innamorati, head architect overseeing the restoration of Palazzo della Civilt Italiana in the EUR area in south Rome. Originally conceived...
The Italian national holiday on 2 June marks the 60th anniversary this year of the declaration of the Italian republic. As usual there will be a military parade in the morning in Via dei Fori Imperiali and this year ther...
When the Flemish artist Rubens was commissioned by a member of the Pallavicini family to paint Christ and the twelve apostles the completed pictures were hung in the chapel of the family palace in Antwerp. At the end of...
Marino Polvani meets me outside Via Carlo Alberto 53 with a briefcase in hand. Its a Friday night and he has just got back from work but he wants me to see the outside of the building where one night almost two years ago...
I remember very well lunching at a restaurant near Anzio, south of Rome. In the garden was a mesembryanthemum plant loaded with the brightest orange flowers I had ever seen. In the West country accent of my birthplace I...
We have to start with the past in order to get to know our future, says Francesco Innamorati, head architect overseeing the restoration of Palazzo della Civilt Italiana in the EUR area in south Rome. Originally conceived...
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