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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...
For addresses and telephone numbers see Directory/religious. For the Popes programme see www.vatican.va, consult the Vatican newspaper LOsservatore Romano or contact the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household, tel. 06698...
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...
Agreement has been reached between the Vatican museum and the Rome city council to prepare a project for the building of a new entrance to the Vatican museums. The entrance would be in the Piazza Risorgimento, probably t...
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...
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