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Mayors heading centre left-coalitions have easily won re-election in Rome, Turin and Naples confirming the swing to the left of the general elections in April. The popular mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, has been returne...
The local councils of the 19 municipi of Rome have all gone to the centre-left in the local elections of 28 and 29 May. Most were won by over 60 per cent with the only close call being Municipio XX around the Cassia nor...
The Italian government is proposing to re-open the quoti flussi a controlled legalisation system for immigrants from countries outside the European Union. The quota is set annually for immigrants who are living illegally...
It had long been assumed that most of todays Tuscans were directly descended from the Etruscans who settled in the area in the eighth century BC. That was until Guido Barbujani, professor of biology at the University of...
A newly discovered asteroid has been named Romaplanetario to celebrate the second anniversary of the reopening of the Rome Planetarium. The decision to baptise asteroid 66458 in the museums name was made by Gianluca Masi...
Istat, the state statistics institute, describes Italy as a country of great inequality in its latest annual report. More than almost any other country in Europe, there is a growing margin between people who are discreet...
New bus shelters for Romes historic centre will be green with a design reminiscent of classic 1930s and 1940s shelters, city authorities have decided. "Intelligent" panels informing passengers about bus arrivals, traffic...
At midnight on Saturday 27 May the Doges clock tower in Venice which stands next to the Basilica S. Marco and across the square from the bell tower will be re-opened following a complete restoration lasting on and off si...
Rome city mayor, Walter Veltroni, has been admitted to hospital, just five days before the council elections on 28 and 29 May. Veltroni has been unwell for some time but had hoped that he would reach the end of the elect...
Italy, famous for food with flavour has lost almost 6,000 varieties of fruit and vegetables over the past 100 years. A campaign has now begun, promoted by the Confederation of Italian agriculture, the Federation of Itali...
Italys chamber of deputies returned a vote of confidence in Romano Prodis new government on 23 May after the prime minister outlined his plans for the country, which included rescuing the nations ailing economy, withdraw...
The local elections for 1267 town and city councils, 8 provincial governments and 1 regional government will take place in Italy on Sunday 28 May and Monday 29 May. Electioneering stops at midnight on Friday 26 May and t...
City authorities have published a new book entitled I Nonni di Roma Raccontano, the result of a project begun in 2004 by six students at Roma Tre university who collected interviews, stories and photographs from city res...
There are about 300,000 cats in Rome of which 120,000 live wild in almost 2,000 cat colonies, according to research by the Centro studi investimenti sociale Censis on wild and domestic cats living in the city. Most of th...
A new initiative is underway to give more of taxpayers money to charity. Introduced by finance minister of the Berlusconi government, Giulio Tremonti in his 2006 budget, 5x1000 is estimated to give 270 million to social...
City bus company Atac has opened a ticket office in Termini station from which it is possible to buy daily, weekly, monthly and yearly tickets in addition to the 75-minute biglietto integrato a tempo (BIT). Tickets are v...
The Fondo per l Ambiente Italiano (FAI),a non-profit making organisation that helps to protect Italys natural and artistic heritage, has signed an agreement with the council of the Tuscan town of Manciano and with the ow...
When the annual equestrian show opens at the Piazza di Siena in Rome on 24 May along with the usual traditional events there will be some novelties.
This year there will be two new events, the first event which will ta...
There are almost six thousand towns and villages in Italy with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants and the newly installed government is planning to revive a law originally proposed in 2003 but never passed, designed both to p...
The number of immigrants undergoing abortions in Rome is on the increase, according to new data released by the Lazio public health agency.
The number of abortions by foreigners living in the capital has risen by almost...
Work started 16 May on the construction of Romes third metro line running between Piazzale Clodio and Pantano (Casilino). According to the company managing the project, Roma Metropolitane, the first archeological investi...
Rome city police have raided a pub in the Prati area of the city and have taken away the first prize in a raffle which was being organised by the owner of the bar. The prize, a regal python, the largest of the python spe...
Romano Prodi, the leader of the LUnione centre-left coalition, which won the general elections on 9 and 10 April, has presented his government to Giorgio Napolitano, the new Italian president. The new government is made...
It is hard to believe that the magnificent and recently restored 1930s villa standing in a vast pine-studded park across from the Porta Ardeatina section of the Aurelian walls in south Rome was once owned by Enrico Nicol...
If you thought that election fever was over, think again. Italy will be back at the polling booths once more on 28 and 29 May to elect 1,267 new town and city councils, eight provincial governments and the regional gover...
Romans on the whole appear to approve of what Romes left-wing mayor, Walter Veltroni, has done for the city over the past five years of his tenure, but even supporters attack him for failings, at least according to a ran...
As the Giro dItalia cycle race gets into full swing and the national football season draws to a close, it seems an appropriate moment for Silvio Berlusconi to hand over the reins of government to Romano Prodi. Berlusconi...
A nation-wide strike of local public transport in Italy has been called on Friday 19 May. It will involve buses, trams, filobuses, the metro railways and local railway lines that are not part of the national network. In...
The number of doctors in Italy has risen by 25,000, or 4.4 per cent, compared to the figures in 2003. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) there is now one doctor for every 165 pe...
Two new topless buses have joined the Rome tourist routes. The new Archeobuses will join the small fleet that runs from the Termini station to the most important archaeological sites in the Appia Antica Park, and back....
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