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Anyone over 18 not in possession of a normal driving licence who drives a low-powered motor vehicle (motorcycle, tricycle, quad or one of the low-powered mini cars) must now obtain a licence to do so. The licence may be...
Owners of the 1,700 commercial internet points and telephone centres in the province and the city of Rome should have applied to the police by the 26 September for a special register to record customers identities and de...
Romes political leaders have been promising action for years to tackle the epidemic of double-parking in the city. From Monday 17 October the traffic authorities will be redoubling their efforts to tackle the problem alo...
The Rome city council and the national institute of geophysics and vulcanology are evaluating the possibility of using hot water from natural geothermal cisterns below 100 metres in certain areas of Rome. Hot water from...
Mussolinis former residence at Villa Torlonia, along the Via Nomentana, is coming to the end of a 4 million facelift. Around 60 specialists in everything from marble to frescos are at work every day at the villa, restori...
Rubbish collection in the Trastevere area of Rome has altered in the past months, since AMA, the city rubbish collection company, instituted an experimental system. Instead of communal bins on the street, the rubbish, wh...
There are now 6.8 million unattached Italians between 25 and 64, and one in three has tried online dating in the search for a new companion. So says the latest survey from Parship, www.parship.it. The company based these...
Anyone with an electoral voting card, wanting to vote in the primary elections for the leader of the centre-left LUnione political coalition on Sunday 16 October, can get information on www.unioneweb.it.
The number on t...
Blood Runner is Lazios answer to a blood donor crisis. Now in its fourth year, the event starts on the Piazzale del Gianicolo at 09.00 on Sunday 9 October, kicking off with a 300 m corsa delle goccioline for children age...
Italian professional football has a new and serious problem. Every year less people buy a season ticket to see their home team play and less people are turning up in general to see the matches live, preferring to stay at...
With the opening-up of the telephone information service to competition, the number 12, which was once the only service available, has been replaced with a series of numbers offered by the various telephone networks, bot...
The ZTL, the limited traffic zones in the historic centre of Rome, S. Lorenzo and Trastevere, will be closed to private traffic on Friday and Saturday nights beginning Friday 7 October from 23.00 03.00. The closure, whi...
The IKEA shops in Italy have closed their financial year 2004/2005 with sales 883 milllion, an increase of 23.7 per cent on the previous years sales. IKEA has announced that in 2006 it intends to open three more stores...
The Geneva-based World Economic Forum has released annual figures about 117 countries worldwide in which Italy remains in 47th place for the second year running, the worst position of any member state of the European Uni...
The bruised reputation of Italian finance has taken another battering in recent months because of a row about the conduct of Antonio Fazio, the governor of Italys central bank, the Bank of Italy (BOI).
The affair has l...
The Via Ceri winds through pine woods, dells, hillocks and hummocks for some 8 km off Via Aurelia about 32 km north of Rome. Road signs all the way along make sure that the traveller cannot go wrong.
Suddenly the little...
When composer William Walton and his young bride, Susana, came to the island of Ischia in 1949, they had no idea that they would end up staying there forever. Walton was simply looking for somewhere quiet where he could...
In Turins historic Piazza Castello a huge clock counts the days and hours until 10 February 2006, when the Olympic torch will make its way into the newly-refurbished Olympic stadium. In two futuristic pavilions in a near...
All eyes are trying to focus on that date some time in April or early May next year when Italians will elect a new parliament. Every politicians most frivolous utterance or action is aimed at squeezing the last drop of e...
=The exhibition Only one Painting at Most is in its fifth edition at the German Academy. The artists chosen to display their work in this two-person, two-piece show are Domenico Bianchi and Sean Scully, with Without Titl...
Two Italian parliamentarians, both members of the Northern League political party, have proposed a law which would institute classes for immigrant children who do not speak Italian. To be admitted into the Italian stat...
The Flaminio obelisk, which stands in the middle of the Piazza del Popolo, has been covered with scaffolding to check damage from pollution and the environment and to see if it is earthquake-proof. The inspection will ta...
On Monday 3 October there will be an anti-terrorist exercise in the heart of Rome. The Colosseum, Piazza Navona, Campo de Fiori, the central railway station, the underground and other key cultural and public service site...
The bicycle is the most modern way of getting around because its quicker than a car about town and doesnt pollute. You can also see where youre going and stop and greet other people, said Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, in...
A battle is raging in the senate about how far proposed exemptions to the Imposta Comunale Immobiliare (real estate council tax) should go. A majority in government want to extend the ICI exemption to ecclesiastical prop...
Italians worked fewer hours in the first six months of 2005 than during the same period in 2004 all because of strikes. From January to June this year, over 3.4 million working hours were lost as a direct result of labo...
Teenage tearaways can forget skipping their least-favoured classes and getting away with it. At least, that will soon be the case for students attending schools in Romes 13th municipality, which includes the seaside reso...
On Saturday 1 October, 106 buildings belonging to 55 Italian banks will open their doors and offer free guided tours of their cultural assets to the general public. The buildings, in 59 cities all over Italy, vary from m...
If you have never attended an Italian countryside wine festival this could be a good one to try. The Sagra dellUva 2005 will take place in Marino in the Castelli Romani, 25 km from Rome, on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 Octobe...
It is now possible to visit the complex of S. Spirito in Sassia, attached to the hospital of the same name on Lungotevere in Sassia, close to St Peters. The original foundation is attributed to King Ine of Wessex, who ab...
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