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Spring has arrived and Romes transport authorities are doing everything possible to encourge people to leave cars at home and take a bicycle instead. There are already 150 km of cycle track in and around the city and a f...
The Giornata FAI di Primavera, held on 25 and 26 March, began auspiciously with generous lashings of springtime sun bathing the Eternal City. The Giornata FAI is one weekend (and not, as the name confusingly suggests, on...
Until the 24 March there were only 48 electronic notice boards on four bus routes at Romes bus stops but on 25 March the mayor, Walter Veltroni announced that a further 192 had gone into service and by 30 April there wil...
Registration for places in the 170 city council-run nursery schools in Rome opened on 27 March. Parents with children from three months to three years old may apply for a place in the area where they live, in the area wh...
Italys immigrants are beginning to establish themselves financially in the country, opening bank accounts and even owning houses, according to the socio-economic research institute Censis. A survey of 800 immigrants reve...
Rome 42 km marathon takes place on Sunday 26 March. The mayor, Walter Veltroni, will start the race at 9.00 from the Colosseum and the fastest runners are expected to take between three and four hours to complete the cou...
The 14th edition of the spring open day, Giornata della Primavera, organised by the Fondo per lAmbiente Italiano (FAI), will take place on 25 and 26 March. A total of 410 monuments many of which are not usually open to...
A new church in the Magliana area of Rome was consecrated by Cardinal Camillo Ruini on Saturday 25 March. S. Volto di Ges, at the corner of Via Caprese and Via della Magliana, was designed by the Italian firm Piero Sarto...
A year ago I could barely run for 20 minutes. Now I am enrolled in the 42 km Rome marathon on 26 March. I wanted to compete last April but a knee injury shattered my marathon hopes. I did the 5 km fun run instead, but se...
European summertime begins on Sunday 26 March with clocks going forward one hour at 03.00. The next time clocks change will be on Sunday 29 October when the clocks will go back an hour.
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni has opened the newly restored Casino Nobile, the main villa in Villa Torlonia park. The villa has been returned to its original splendor with marble, mouldings, chandeliers, frescoes and mosa...
Pope Benedict XVI has called his first consistory, a meeting of all cardinals, on 24 and 25 March, during which he will create 15 new cardinals. At present there are a total of 178 but only 110 under the age of 80, and t...
ATAC has introduced a new service that allows cyclists to take their bike on the 791 bus every Sunday and on public holidays. The bus line runs along the Dorsale-Tevere route, which offers 35 km of green, cyclable paths...
There is a new help line for gay, lesbian and transsexual people run by Arcigay Roma, the Italian lesbian and gay association, in collaboration with the city and province of Rome. The toll free number to call is 80071371...
On Thursday 23 March only vehicles with licence plates ending in an even number will be permitted to circulate in Romes "fascia verde the green zone. The restriction will be in force from 15.0021.00. 23 March will be the...
Three new public libraries are to open in Rome. On 31 March, library Sandro Onofri in the Acilia area, southwest of Rome will be opened, followed by the opening of libraries in ex-Vaccheria Nardi in the Tiburtina area an...
The French bank BNP Paribas moved nearer to taking over Italys Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) when its bid was approved on 21 March by the central Bank of Italy. The decision by the BOI was taken based on information t...
l Prof. Tomasz Mikocki, from the University of Warsaw, will give a talk on the excavations of the Polish archaeological team at Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, Libya, at the Polish Academy of Science on 22 March at 18.00.
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On 9-10 April Italians go to the polls to elect a new parliament. The competition is between the centre-right coalition Casa delle Libert, led by incumbent prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and the centre-left LUnione, h...
I like [centre-left leader] Romano Prodi and Im going to vote for him at election time, but if I met him, Id almost slap him in the face for that remark about us: you know, about the danger of the suburbs of Italy explod...
On the evening of 30 September 1975, a resident of Via Pola in Rome heard the muffled cries of a woman coming from the boot of a parked white Fiat and called the police. When they arrived and opened up the boot of the ca...
From 24 March until 2 April the city and province of Turin and the region of Piedmont are organising ChocolaTO a festival of chocolate. Turin has been a chocolate city for several centuries. The manufacture of drinking...
Unemployment levels in Rome dropped from 11.1 per cent to 6.5 per cent of the labour force between 2001 and 2005, according to a report carried out by Censis, the socio-economic research institute. The figures place Rome...
The Bank of Italy has published a spring bulletin which paints a gloomy picture of the state of the Italian economy. The number of people in full time work has fallen for the first time in ten years by 0.4 per cent; alth...
The Acqua Albule spa, one of the most important thermal baths in Italy, will re-open on 18 March following more than a year of restoration and rebuilding. The sulphur springs in the plain between Rome and Tivoli were men...
To mark the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq a peace march is due to take place in the centre of Rome on Saturday 18 March. It will start at the Piazza Esedra at 14.30 and will follow a route which...
Every year the Italian government issues regulations called "the decreto flussi" which specify the number of permits that will be offered to long and short time foreign workers from outside the European Union, who have b...
The annual Lenten Rice Bowl collection organised by English-speaking churches in the city is in aid of the European Womens Solidarity Fund and its work in Bosnia in particular. During the six-week period of Lent leading...
The recently restored Forte Portuense has opened to the public for the first time in its history. Built in 1884, it was one of 16 fortresses in a defence system circling the city between the Aurelian walls and todays Gra...
On Thursday 16 March only vehicles with licence plates ending in an odd number will be permitted to circulate in Romes "fascia verde the green zone. The restriction will be in force from 15.0021.00. 16 March will be the...
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