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The president of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, was presented with honorary citizenship of Rome by the citys mayor Walter Veltroni at a ceremony on the Capitoline Hill on 27 September.
The president, who c...
The Rome city council, the confederation of shop keepers and retailing associations have joined forces once again to offer Romans a basket of 60 food items at specially-reduced prices. The products in the basket include...
Although this is a review of the fourth night with the second cast, it must be said that, in this most popular of Mozarts comic operas, beloved both for the exquisite invention of the music and the humour of the action,...
The Italian minister of the environment, Altero Matteoli, has announced that transport vouchers may soon be available in Rome. According to a scheme devised in agreement with Romes public transport company, ATAC, transpo...
The value of black market labour in Italy has increased by at least one per cent of GDP over the last decade, according to the latest figures from Italys national institute for statistics, Istat. The level of undeclared...
The cost of current accounts offered by Italian banks are the most expensive of 130 financial institutions in 19 countries, says a report. The study, World Retail Banking, carried out by Capgemini, EFMA and Dutch bank IN...
Italians have a burgeoning love-hate relationship with their telefonini (mobiles phones) according to a report published by market researchers, Astra Ricerche, for Finnish company Nokia. The study, based on the responses...
Residents in the town of Ciampino, next to Romes second airport on the outskirts of the city, are calling for a round table to discuss the future of the airport and for an inspection of safety standards.
At a crowded an...
Trenitalia the Italian national railway company has launched Happy Train, a new promotion offering 10 tickets for last-minute bookings made on its website or at its call centre. Passengers may book up to seven days in...
The European car-free day will be held on 22 September, but in Rome it will be marked on 25 September when the city has programmed an ecological Sunday. From 10.00-18.00 on Sunday, all private traffic will be banned from...
If you are in Rome for longer than a tourist visit, youll want to start feeling like a Roman and being treated as one as soon as possible. It is common for newcomers to pay over the odds for the many things they need wh...
The design for the museum is highly innovative but construction is actually much more straightforward than it might seem, begins architect Margherita Guccione, one of the people responsible for overseeing the ambitious p...
One Roman who did not go on holiday this year was Roberta. She and her husband never go on holiday. Roberta explained that they always spend the summer in Rome because the stress of clearing the decks to leave, and then...
Finding somewhere to live can be a difficult process at the best of times. Add to that a foreign language, a different culture and related bureaucracy and its easy to see why some people are tempted to board the next pla...
Having seen a two-line mention in a Rome daily, and wondering whether a visit would amuse my seven-year-old grandson during the semi-closure of Rome in August, we set off for the Vittoriano, otherwise known as Altare del...
One Roman who did not go on holiday this year was Roberta. She and her husband never go on holiday. Roberta explained that they always spend the summer in Rome because the stress of clearing the decks to leave, and then...
More than 60 per cent of homeopathic medicines currently on sale in Italy will no longer be legally allowed, if a draft law published by the ministry of health passes both houses of parliament. The measure proposes that...
Beach trains from Romes Porta S. Paolo to Lido di Ostia will be getting more than just a facelift from 1 October. Their frequency will increase from every 10 to every eight minutes, and by the end of the year they are ex...
Pay-and-display car parking will be introduced around the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Aventino from 19 September, costing 1 per hour. In S. Saba the area from Piazza di Porta S. Paolo...
Plans have been published for a Shoah museum to be built in Rome near Villa Torlonia in the Nomentana area of the city close to some Jewish catacombs.
The ground floor of the building will be of glass and there will be...
The number of Rom Romany people originally coming from eastern Europe living in Rome has risen from 10,000 in 2001 to 15,000 in 2005. They live in 26 encampments around the city and in the past few days the city counci...
From the end of September it should be possible to visit the building site at the Ara Pacis on Lungotevere in Augusta on weekends, ahead of the official unveiling of American architect Richard Meiers museum complex in ap...
Plans for a new nine-day international film festival in Rome next year were officially announced by Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, during the Venice film festival.
However the mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, is concer...
In an effort to improve relations with Italys large Muslim community, the minister of the interior, Giuseppe Pisan, is setting up an Islamic consultative committee to find concrete solutions to the problems of integratio...
Four leading Italian consumer associations have organised a day of protest and a strike on Wednesday 14 September. Italians are being urged not to do any shopping, not to go to the post office or the bank, not to buy pet...
Hussain Osman, also known as Hamdi Issac, one of the suspects in the failed bomb attacks on the London underground on 21 July who was arrested in Rome on 29 July, has lost his appeal in the Italian courts against extradi...
The annual edition of Rome's Notte Bianca, or White Night, will take place from the evening of 17 September until dawn on Sunday 18 September. It is the one night of the year when the city stays awake all night and this...
Laws for motorcycle riders, introduced by the Italian parliament in August, are proving too severe, according to the national union of local and city police. The laws allow the police to confiscate a motorcycle under cer...
For the third year running, on 17 September, Romes all-night happening, the Notte Bianca (White Night), will see the citys museums, parks, galleries, theatres, cinemas, sports centres, shopping centres, libraries, nightc...
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