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The hill town of Zagarolo in the province of Rome is to be the home of the first Jewish university in Italy. The Palazzo Rospigliosi, built in the town in the 16th century, will become the Italian headquarters of Touro C...
The Teatro Olimpico in the Flaminia area of Rome has reopened after a six-month restoration project by a team of four architects, Francesca Argentero, Barbara Deledda, Carlotta Montefoschi and Martina Murzi. The work has...
Rome is going through a Renaissance, according to a new book published by Il Sole 24 Ore journalist Massimo Mascini, who claims that the capital is home of Italys best success stories. In his book Futuro Italiano, he tra...
Fifty additional police and traffic wardens took to the streets of central Rome last Tuesday and will be on duty every day from 07.00 to 21.00 until the festive period ends. The extra personnel are part of a seasonal tas...
The 4th-century BC Asteas vase from Campania, a 6th-century BC funerary stele from Selinunte in Sicily and a precious Etruscan bronze candelabra are the first returns on a long list of historical works of art that Italy...
The world roller-skating championships will take place at Palalottomatica in the EUR area of Rome from 17-27 November. More than 1,000 competitors from 35 countries are expected to take part. Italians currently hold seve...
A treat is in store for lovers of gold and jewellery at a special exhibition from 11 November-26 February entitled I Castellani e oreficeria archeologica italiana.
In the second half of the 19th century, the rich in Rom...
Lucky parents can receive a 1000 baby bonus for every child born or adopted in 2005 (and not just for second children as first planned), alongside a cheque for 160 for any children under three years of age (those born or...
Fifteen teams of Italians, specialists in fine art and archaeological restoration are at work in seven countries in the Middle and Far East, thanks to an international convention, signed 1972, for the protection of the w...
Striking Italian journalists brought news agencies, printing presses and radio and television broadcasting to a halt this Wednesday and Thursday. Members of the FNSI, the main journalists union, organised a two-day strik...
Giancarlo DAlessandro, the Rome city councillor responsible for public works, has asked the citys electricity utility, ACEA, to prepare a plan to economise on Romes street lighting and on public lighting in general.
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An autumn campaign is about to promote Roman food. Some 50 restaurants will offer a three-course lunch or dinner for 19.50. The menus will offer strictly local, old-fashioned specialities such as artichokes prepared in t...
A multi-faith service will be held on Remembrance Day Fri 11 Nov to commemorate the dead of two world wars and subsequent conflicts. The ceremony, organised by the British Embassy, takes place at 10.45 at the Rome Comm...
The MedFilm festival will take place in Rome from 7-13 November with more than 200 films from 40 countries in Europe and the Middle East. The most important competition, known as the Premio Amore a Psiche, is only open t...
Hundreds of Chinese Buddhists from all over Europe were in Rome on 6 November for the opening of the first Chinese Buddhist temple in Europe in Via Ferruccio 8, near the Piazza Vittorio in the Esquilino area of the city....
Italian Vino Novello was released onto the market officially at midnight on 6 November. Wine makers all over the country have been producing Vino Novello since it was legally recognised in 1987 and this year there will b...
The 6 November will be the last ecological Sunday of the year in Rome, with central areas of the city normally only open to limited traffic (the Ztl) closed to all private traffic from 10.00 18.00.
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First the price of an espresso coffee went up, then a basket of vegetables at the supermarket, now the cost of funerals is in the spotlight. According to Italian consumer association Codacons, the average burial costs fo...
Trenitalia is launching a new high-speed train service on 3 November, T-Biz between Rome and Milan to compete with the airline companies. The trains, designed for business people will make only one stop, in Bologna, and...
A collection is taking place of mens jackets, shoes, hats and gloves for distribution to the homeless around the area of Stazione Ostiense in Rome. Anyone wishing to contribute second-hand clothes (only the items stipula...
Scuffles broke out at the start of a geological survey in the mountainous area of the Val di Susa to the west of Turin on Monday (31 Oct).
The survey followed European Union approval of a project for a new high-speed tr...
A report on Romes economy has revealed that the city is the capital of audio-visual production in Italy. In 2004 there were 1,486 production companies in Rome and they made 101 films, 69 short films, 193 advertisements a...
The Vatican City may be the heart of Catholicism but as anyone who has ever been there knows, it is also the centre of a thriving and ruthless tourist trade. This is nothing new pilgrims have meant big business for hund...
lJaques-Yves Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-Andr-de-Cubzac in France. [], then when he was training to be a pilot a serious accident ended his aviation career. So it was the ocean that would win this adventu...
=To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Mann, there will be an exhibition entitled Heinrich and Thomas Mann in Italy at the Casa di Goethe in Rome. The two German writers moved to Italy in 1895 to visit Rome...
It is rare to witness a mould-breaking* political event but the centre-lefts primary elections in October to choose the leader of the Unione coalition fitted the bill. There was no revolution, to be sure, no blood on the...
Do you fancy a weekend, a week or a few months out of Rome? Then why not email a complete stranger on the other side of the world and ask to stay on his or her couch for a while, free of charge?
It may sound fanciful, b...
A special train is to pull out of Romes Termini station in December and launch a revolution in the Italian railway system, today regarded by Italian railway operators as stuck in the stone age.
An ITR-500 Eurostar wil...
Trouble is brewing in theatres and opera houses all over Italy, where workers are anxious about their future in view of threatened cuts to state funding for the arts, known as FUS (Fondo unico per lo spettacolo). The cli...
A new agreement has been reached between the tour operators, the bus companies and the Rome city council to regulate the numbers of tourist buses entering the city centre daily. From 1 January 2006, 300 permits will be i...
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