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According to statistics published by Istat, the national Italian statistics agency, and INPS, the national social security institute, there were 16.5 million people receiving a pension in Italy in 2004, a 1.2 per cent in...
The first cases of avian flu have been confirmed in Italy, in two swans found dead near Messina and Catania in Sicily. Another dead swan near Lecce in Puglia is suspected of having the H5N1 virus although this has still...
Sunday 12 February is the second a traffic-free Sunday in Rome of the year. All cars and motorcycles will be banned from the green zone (zona verde) of the city, most of the area within the Gran Raccordo Anulare (the mai...
A 14 km stretch of triple carriageway on Romes traffic-packed ring road, the Gran Raccordo Anulare (GRA) between Via Aurelia and Via Cassia, was officially opened at the beginning of February. Now only four km remains f...
There was not a seat free in Romes opera theatre, because Verdi's Rigoletto is one of those works so loved by the opera-going public for its heartrending storyline and wonderful melodies that none want to miss it. But th...
The official opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, in which 2,500 athletes from 85 countries are participating in 15 different sports, kicked off on 10 February amid high security, and controversy about drug...
The Italian authority responsible for over-seeing fair play on the television during the current election campaign has fined Rete4, a commercial TV channel belonging to the Berlusconi family- owned company Mediaset, 150...
A discount card for tourists in Rome, costing 18 and valid for three days, will go on sale from 21 February. The card is valid for all public transport, for entry into two city museums and for discounts on various cultur...
A new exhibition recording some of the most notorious crimes in Rome opens on 10 February at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere. Roma in Nera. I Grandi Delitti tra Cronica, Storia, Costume presents the stories and graphic i...
The BBC World Service programme Newshour is being broadcast across the city of Rome and its province every evening 22.00-23.00. A number of BBC news and current affairs programmes in English can be heard by tuning into t...
Though the Romantic poets each found their way to Italy in their own time, and each for their own reasons, what drew them here, instead of to Spain or Greece, was Italys rich sense of pathos. Accurate or not, this visio...
Ever since I was a young girl I have attended weddings and witnessed families get into huge debt and spend months preparing for the event, says Jole Rotello, a communications and marketing consultant who lives in Marino,...
The dress rehearsal of the 20th winter Olympics opening ceremony is set to get underway in Turin on 8 February amid heightened concerns over security. Around 3,000 volunteers and 250 staff, including 100 dancers and acro...
Local covered food markets in Rome's historic centre will close later from March to allow workers more time to do their shopping. The city council has decided that the mercati rioni within the first municipio (1st distri...
The winter sports season is well underway and usually continues until April. Italians traditionally take time off work and school in mid-February for what is known as a settimana bianca. Clearly, the higher you go, the m...
A Roman Catholic priest from Lazio was murdered outside his church in the Black Sea port of Trabzon in Turkey on Sunday 5 Febuary. Father Andrea Santoro is thought to have been shot by a teenage boy seen fleeing from the...
How deep is it? The question was shouted from a railing overlooking a Roman forum near Piazza Venezia in January this year.
A young archaeologist in a bush-hat stepped out of the shallow well with a tape measure.
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More and more Italians are making online purchases according to a report on communications services in Italy 2001-2005 conducted by the Censis research institute and the Unione cattolica stampa italiana. Of Italys 18 mil...
Ticket sales for the winter Olympics in Turin had reached over 690,000 by 31 January. The figure falls far short of the initial 830,000 target, although the organising committee claim that the tickets sold amount to arou...
Ever since I was a young girl I have attended weddings and witnessed families get into huge debt and spend months preparing for the event, says Jole Rotello, a communications and marketing consultant who lives in Marino,...
A huge, fat, spearmint-blue house currently sits in the courtyard of the Museo dArte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), which is exhibiting work by installation artists Erwin Wurm and Leandro Erlich. Puffy, life-size and spread...
The Rome city council is making progress in its efforts to empty Piazza Navona of the many street vendors and artists who have their stalls in the square.
The illegal sellers moved on after the famous Christmas Fair whi...
The Metropolitan Museum in New York has agreed to return to Italy some of the greatest classical treasures in its collection. It has been proved that the pieces were sold illegally to the museum in the 1970s and 1980s, a...
The cost of local services can be a lottery, according to CittadinanzAttiva, Italys Active Citizenship network. A recent study points out discrepancies of up to 150 for services such as health and transport between citie...
Hiring a stranger to provide live-in childcare seldom involves a cheerful song-and-dance Mary Poppins style. Instead, the very idea can provoke a hypothetical nightmare reminiscent of a lurid scene from the film The Hand...
A youth orchestra of 4-17 year olds is being formed by the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia in Rome, with subsidies from the city and the charitable organisation Isma. More than 100 children auditioned for the orchest...
From 13-21 October Parco della Musica will be transformed into a Parco del Film. The Auditorium, along with Piazza del Popolo, Via Veneto and other high profile locations, will host the first Festa del Cinema in Rome. Le...
A new law is set to blur the distinction between soft and hard drugs in Italy, with steeper fines and prison terms for dealers in particular. The new measures were approved by the Italian senate at the end of Jnuary and...
The long-awaited railway ring around Rome (anello ferroviario) is to be completed by 2010 and is being dubbed as a new metro line for the city. Work on the north section of the ring in the Tor di Quinto area of the cit...
On Thursday 2 February only vehicles with licence plates ending in an odd number will be permitted to circulate in the "fascia verde or green zone. This will be the third Thursday in a series of ten when, to help reduce...
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