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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...
Three Middlesbrough fans in Rome for the Uefa Cup match against AS Roma were stabbed during clashes with Roma supporters late on 14 March. Around 200 English fans had been drinking in two bars in Campo de Fiori when a gr...
Cinema Farnese in Campo de Fiori has reopened after 22 months restoration and remodernisation. It now holds 300 people
The cinema will screen films in original language and time is being set aside in the mornings for sc...
The first round of the pre-election face-to-face encounters between Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the Casa della Libert coalition, and the leader of the opposition LUnione coalition, Romano Prodi,...
The universities of La Sapienza, Tor Vergata and Roma Tre will open to the public on 21 March from 20.30 into the early hours of the morning for a night of lessons, shows and concerts. Professors at the universities acro...
A car sharing system which is on trial in the III municipality in Rome, around the area of the Piazza Bologna,is proving so popular that plans are being made to introduce a similar system in the historic centre of the c...
Local elections in Italy for 11 provincial governments, councils for 28 provincial capitals, including Rome, and the Sicilian regional government will be held on 28-29 May. In all 1,307 cities, towns and villages will be...
The United States state department has published a report on human rights worldwide on its official website www.state.gov. The part of the report devoted to Italy, states that Italy generally respects the rights of the p...
The Italian rugby football team playing against Wales in the Six Nations championship
won its first ever point in an away match, when they drew 18-18. The two sides fought hard to gain the upper hand, in what was a sket...
The total traffic ban, programmed in Rome for Sunday 12 March, has been postponed. Recent weather conditions have been blustery and wet which has helped to disperse the poisons in the air, making the day unnecessary. Dar...
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