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To celebrate the festivals of All Saints and All Souls, Italians traditionally visit their family tombs; Cemeteries all over Italy fill with people carrying flowers for the graves and in Rome there are two days of guided...
The department of contemporary art and architecture of the Italian ministry of fine art and culture has presented a list of 92 buildings, constructed in Rome within the last 50 years, which it considers to be architectu...
The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) based in Rome has launched an educational video game for children aged 8-13, called Food Force. The game takes children to a fictitious island in the Indian Ocean where drough...
A species of fresh-water crabs (Potaman fluviatile) is to be found in Italy in rivers from Sicily to Tuscany but they are becoming rare, or so it was thought. Now three zoologists, Massimiliano Scalici, Daniele Macale an...
The estimated number of foreigners officially registered in Italy doubled between the years 2000 to 2004 and now stands at nearly 2.8 million, according to the latest figures from Caritas-Migrantes. The Rome diocese-base...
The European Commission is taking Italy to task over its plan for the Messina Straits bridge, following a formal complaint by the World Wildlife Fund. Brussels is concerned that the Italian government skimped on environm...
The finances of Lazios public health service are close to 2 billion in the red. Back in May, shortly after his election, regional president Piero Marrazzo raised concerns about the hole in the budget for the azienda sani...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, has announced that the city council will debate a special package of laws to empty Piazza Navona of stall holders and artists, whether they have a permit to be there or not.
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Top businesses are moving out of the capital to places like Milan, Parma, Caserta even as far as Bangalore and other cities around the world. Companies in the telecoms, food, banking, insurance, and IT sectors are packi...
The life of domestic animals in the city of Rome should be revolutionised by the introduction of numerous new animal-protection rules passed by the city council. These forbid the use of electric or strangler collars and...
In an effort to curb tourist coaches laying siege to Romes historic centre, deputy mayor Mariapia Garavaglia has announced new parking rules to apply as of January 2006. Extending the rules in force for Jubilee 2000, the...
Protests have broken out in several Italian cities against the governments university reform package, being voted on in the chamber of deputies on Tuesday. In Rome it is estimated that over 50,000 students and professors...
The readers of the American magazine Travel and Leisure have voted Rome Best European capital city for 2005 for the quantity and quality of the cultural sites on offer. It is the second time that the American publicatio...
The Rome and Lazio economy may be running well compared to the rest of Italy, but CNA, the confederation of artisan and small and medium businesses fear that it is beginning to slow. At their annual provincial conference...
A new low-cost airline, Blu-express a part of Blue Panorama airlines, will begin operations out of Romes Fiumicino airport on 21 November with two flights daily to Bari and three flights daily to Milan Malpensa. From...
Yet more changes to the Italian laws regarding the use of motorcycles and the fines for traffic offences have been passed through the Italian senate. From the 1 January 2007 14-year-olds will no longer be allowed to driv...
Since the end of conscription in January this year, there has been fewer young people signing up for community service, once the official alternative to military service. Now a national civil voluntary service has been s...
Every year children from Rome's elementary and junior secondary schools are taken on school trips between October and May.
In the past four years the number of children participating has risen from 4,000 in 2000 to 18,...
Between 1991 and 2002, the number of foreigners paying into INPS (Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale), Italys state-run pensions scheme, rose from some 209,000 to over 1.4 million individuals. The figures, from...
The Italian anti-trust body has concluded a second investigation into powdered baby-milk prices in five years and has imposed a fine of almost 10 million on seven international companies who provide baby milk to the Ital...
Recent research by a monthly magazine Riza Psicosomatica has found that 42 per cent of Italians carry patent medicines with them just in case they feel ill or have pain. They most fear suffering from sudden toothache, a...
There are food festivals all over Italy for those who have a fat pocketbook and a passion for truffles. The national white truffle festival will run until 6 November in Alba, Italys most famous town for truffles. A truf...
Avian flu is a global threat, according to a joint declaration released yesterday by EU foreign ministers. As the alarm was raised, Italian consumer protection group Codacons urged national authorities to clear our citie...
A festival for chocoholics is currently under way in Perugia in the Umbria region of Italy. The annual Eurochocolate festival, which transforms the Umbrian city into the chocolate capital of Europe, includes exhibitions,...
Figures released by ISTAT, the Italian national statistics institute, on the eve of the opening of the international book fair in Frankfurt, show that in 2004 there was a drop in the number of publishing houses in Italy...
Das Rheingold, prologue to the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, is notoriously difficult to stage, with enormous differences of settings between one scene and the next and the necessity of a huge orchestra. This new prod...
Air traffic controllers at Romes Fiumicino International airport have declared a four-hour strike on Wednesday19 October from 12.00 - 16.00. The strike has caused the cancellation of 102 Alitalia flights and may well put...
The director general of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Jacques Diouf, reminded those present at the meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the organisation that 13 people in e...
Why the long face? Is the thought of disposing of your lightweight, barely-there summer wardrobe unbearable? Are you feeling out of sorts because theres no other choice but to store away halter necks, tank tops, flowery...
When the then centre-left city mayor Francesco Rutelli commissioned American architect Richard Meier to design a new pavilion for the Ara Pacis in Piazza Augusto Imperatore in 1996, he could never have imagined that it w...
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