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At night, Romes jobless immigrants and refugees sleep on strips of cardboard in public gardens, huddled in doorways, in carriages on railway sidings or, if lucky, on the back-seats of unlocked parked cars.
But where do...
The Italian prime minister and media tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi, was seen on most major television channels, on talk shows and even on the traffic news, for a total of three hours and six minutes during a 15-day period in...
100 years since the birth of journalist, painter and screenwriter, Dino Buzzati (1906-1972), Testaccio community library will host an exhibition in his honour. The show runs until 5 February at the Biblioteca Enzo Tortor...
Christian churches and communities of all denominations in Rome are taking part in a week of prayer for Christian unity among Christians. Pope Benedict XVI has stressed the need for all those who had been baptised to ref...
Some 27,000 adults in the Rome area attend classes at regional training centres to help adults complete unfinished high school diplomas or adult literacy courses for foreigners. Some 4,500 individuals are enrolled on nig...
The city is tightening the rules for advertising on Romes most famous monuments and buildings. Under recent new regulations the city will once again try to enforce the ruling that there can be only one structure under wr...
Disaster struck Romas football team when captain, Francesco Totti, was brought down last weekend by a foul and broke his leg six minutes into a game against Empoli. It was the day when the Roma football team won its tent...
Last year was a bumper one for mergers and acquisitions in Italy as the value of activity more than tripled from $40 billion in 2004 to close to $130 billion in 2005 according to a new study published by KPMG Corporate F...
The municipio (centro storico) has announced a new competition open to artists living and working in Romes centro storico. The Premio Culturale Roma Centro Storico is designed to promote contemporary art in the ancient h...
The Teatro dellOpera is offering a free baby sitting service while parents attend Sunday matinee performances. During 12 performances throughout the season, the Anchio vado a teatro programme will entertain 6-11 year-old...
If you missed the mass for the blessing of the animals at the church of S. Eusebio al Esquilino in Rome (see articles section for more details) you might like to go along to another mass to celebrate the feast of St Anth...
Money gained from prostitution is not income, but a form of damages or compensation to women, who suffer because they have to sell themselves. This was the opinion handed down in mid January by the Italian tax commission...
Romes first consignment of new methane buses will begin servicing some of the citys most polluted routes in February. Rome city bus company Atac expects to put around 30 new buses on the road each month until July, when...
The unique blend of the comic, the dramatic and the tragic, the rapidity of the action and music, the sublimeness and variety of that music, allied to the absolute fascination of the protagonist for both men and women, m...
The collection of Christmas trees has been extended by popular demand until 22 January. Old trees can be deposited at six ecological islands organised by the environment agency AMA at 7.00-13.00 and 14.00-18.30 on weekda...
The first edition of the newspaper entitled Metropoli, aimed at Italys multi-ethnic society was launched on Sunday. Published in conjunction with the Italian daily La Repubblica, the paper says that it intends to target...
Figures released by the civil courts in Rome show that fewer Roman couples turned to international adoption last year. With just 158 cases of international adoption in the first 9 months of 2005 the final total is expect...
Romes fraternity of skateboarders and roller-bladers will soon be able to grind, flip and olly to their hearts content. When complete the new Skatepark-Flaminio-Roma will be the largest of its kind in Europe featuring a...
The alternate number plate rule for traffic in Romes green zone (most of the city within the Gran Raccordo Anulare (GRA)) returns on Thursdays from 19 January for ten weeks until 23 March. Cars with even-numbered plates...
In the thesaurus of English words and phrases matter = material, substance, stuff, brute matter, rough raw materials, unpolished, physical nature, stocks and stones. To the acute observer of post world war two art, its s...
Walking up the stairs of the slightly dilapidated S. Eusebio church on the corner of Piazza Vittorio it is clear that this will be nothing like a regular mass. Highly uniformed members of the Corazzieri and Forestali cor...
A new scheme involving marital courses for couples planning to tie the knot in a civil wedding kicks off on 17 January. The first 100 places for the initial round of courses have already been filled, and family councillo...
Italys new banking and investment laws, passed on 23 December 2005, have given the banking antitrust authority new powers to ensure competition and fair-play in private banking. The president of the antitrust organisatio...
The new governor of the Bank of Italy, Mario Draghi, took up his appointment on 16 January. Draghi, 58 years old, graduated from Romes La Sapienza university and took a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Te...
A key discovery for archaeologists, historians, the Jewish community and the whole of Rome: a marble tombstone measuring 60 cm by 30 cm, complete with legible Hebrew inscriptions, has been found at the bottom of the Tibe...
The regional railways catalogue of delays, dirty carriages and cancellations in Lazio in 2005 could cost them 800,000 in fines according to a report in Italian daily La Repubblica. It will be the first time that the comp...
A digital revolution is set to clear the 250,000 appeals against fines brought every year by people living in Rome, some 80 per cent of which involve traffic offences. In this way, the council hopes to clear its backlog...
Every year the parish priest of the church of S. Eusebio al Esquilino celebrates a special mass for the feast day of St Antony Abbot, which falls on 17 January. This year the mass will be held on Sunday 15 January at 10....
Since smoking was banned in all public places and work places in Italy more than half a million Italians have given up smoking, according to figures from ISTAT, the Italian national statistics institute, and 21,9 per cen...
The number of organ transplants in Lazio in 2006 increased by 25 per cent compared to 2005 figures. Last year doctors in the region carried out a total of 298 transplants (up from 239 the previous year) including 163 kid...
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