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Rome will be hard hit this year by the exemption of church property and non-profit organisations from payment of ICI, a local-property tax. In Rome, the Catholic Church owns extensive property, not just church buildings...
Roadworks have been completed on one of Romes busiest thoroughfares, Via del Tritone, between Largo Chigi and Largo Tritone. The works, which began in August, meant that part of the street became one-way only and that th...
Although the expensive public works project to save the Venice lagoon, called Moses, is already under construction, the mayor of Venice doubts whether this system of hydraulic dams will be sufficient to cope with rising...
The water in the Tiber has reached danger levels for the first time in several decades because of heavy seasonal rain and snow along its basin. The water has reached 15 metres at Fidene (around 10 km north of the city ce...
There were scenes from the Far West on Romes ring road at the end of November when a young buffalo escaped onto one of the citys busiest thoroughfares from a nearby farm. The animal, frightened by the traffic, galloped a...
Italy hasnt exactly been at the forefront of the radical changes civil aviation has undergone in recent years. Nevertheless, things have moved gradually and Wanted in Romes readers will have sampled the benefits, in term...
From now until spring, Italian politics will have three intertwined campaigns to excite the minds and submerge the media. The first two are the general election for a new parliament and government (likely date 9 April) a...
Baked beans, chocolate-chip cookies, pancakes, vegemite, peanut butter: theres no end to the number of goodies that bring home comfort to the thousands of ex-pats living in Rome.
No friend coming to visit is spared the...
The Teatro Olimpico in the Flaminio area of Rome reopened in November after six months restoration. The inaugural event, a performance of Pasiones Tango y musical, marked the start of a new chapter in the history of the...
A rebellion has broken out among artists facing eviction from Piazza Navona. The rebels vowed open confrontation with the authorities if they were forced out. Well never leave this square. Well leave our skin on its cobb...
=The 42nd Festival di Nuova Consonanza continues with two concerts at the French Academy.
At the first, on 15 Dec at 19.00, the trio Roberto Fabbriciani (flute), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) and Roberto Prosseda (pian...
Sunday 30 October sees the end of European summer time for 2005 when clocks will go back from 03.00 02.00 on Sunday morning. Clocks will revert to European summer time once more, going forward on hour on Sunday 26 March...
Before the end of 2005 new health cards will be sent out to 58 million people resident in Italy. The card, or tessera sanitaria, looks just like a credit card. On one side it has the name of the holder, place and date of...
Tickets will be on sale until 15 December for the two rugby matches to be played in Italy in the Six Nations Cup competition, which is played every year between England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy. The tw...
When the Inter Milan football team took to the pitch to play a Champions league match against Artmedia Bratislava there was not one Italian footballer in the team; all eleven players were non-Italian and only one, midfie...
When the lights go down at the beginning of the next concert you attend, look carefully at what the conductor is wearing; you might find that fashions are changing. The black tailcoat, or frac as the Italians call it, is...
Compulsory military service in Italy came to an end on 24 December 2004 but since then there has been a boom in young people volunteering to join the services for a 12-month period. A total 100,000 applications have been...
Originally produced in Milan in 1831, Bellinis fairy tale opera has never been out of the repertoire and has always had a very particular place in the heart of the lovers of belcanto. This is certainly not for the dramat...
Musicians in Italy are drawing attention to the general strike on 25 November with simultaneous productions of requiem masses in opera houses and theatres all over Italy from Trieste to Cagliari. In Rome the S. Cecilia o...
Bob Geldof criticised the Italian governments record on aid to Africa when he received Romes Man for Peace 2005 award on 24 November, in recognition of his anti-poverty campaigning for Africa. He labelled the bel paese t...
Italy has a long tradition of unauthorised building to which officialdom often turns a blind eye; as recently as March 2003 a general amnesty was granted to thousands of such abusive constructions, freeing their owners f...
In the first nine months of 2005, the top ten Italian banks made profits of 8,625 million. This is compared to 5,520 million in the same period in 2004. Although a large amount of this profit has come from capital gains,...
Legambiente, Italys environmental watchdog, has released figures and information on the quality of life in the 103 provincial capitals throughout the country. The report took into account the quality of the air, systems...
Originally produced in Milan in 1831, Bellinis fairy tale opera has never been out of the repertoire and has always had a very particular place in the heart of the lovers of belcanto. This is certainly not for the dramat...
Italy is preparing for a four-hour general strike to take place on Friday 25 November. The leading trades unions, CGIL, CISL, UIL, Faisa and Ugl have called the strike in protest at the governments budget for 2006, which...
Romes 5,000 registered blind people will now have the added assistance of audible signals at many of the citys key junctions. The number of audible traffic crossings is set to rise from 60 at present to some 470 over the...
Fathers from two Italian associations demonstrated at Romes Fiumicino international airport mid November, warning foreigners not to marry in Italy. The men members of associations for divorced and separated fathers cla...
The multinational food company Nestl was smarting today over the confiscation and withdrawal of 30 million litres of its baby-milk products from the supermarket shelves in Italy. The products in question Mio, Mio Cereal...
A new Jewish museum has opened in Rome.
The old museum, which was on the first floor of the Roman synagogue on the Lungotevere Cenci, has been moved into five rooms, 600 square metres in all, on the garden level of the...
Via Veneto,one of the most famous streets in Rome during the 1950s and 1960s, in the glorious hey-day of La Dolce Vita, is due to be restyled. A project that has been ready since 2002 is about to be dusted off and implem...
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