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Romes police, the city prefect and representatives of the ministry of fine art and culture have now drawn up a list of heritage sites and museums most at risk from possible terrorist attacks. At the beginning of August n...
With its 184 hectares of terraced Renaissance gardens, rolling pasture, sparsely wooded hilltops and verdant ravines, Villa Pamphili is the largest green space in the Italian capital. The vast park would seem the perfect...
The high price of oil may put plans to save Italys flagship airline Alitalia at risk. The airline, which has been working on a restructuring programme to cut costs, has thrashed out difficult agreements with the trades u...
Police investigating a spate of arson attacks in Rome have arrested two men, aged 28 and 29, following one of the latest incidents last Saturday night. Since the end of June, some 300 parked cars, vans and scooters have...
The night-time traffic ban in the centre of Rome comes into effect again on Saturday 20 August after a short summer break. From 23.00 until 03.00 on Friday and Saturday nights, the zones of the city, which are restricted...
Italys burgeoning budget deficit is not the only source of tension between Rome and Brussels. According to Italian financial daily, Il Sole 24 Ore, some 13 per cent of the European Court of Justice's time and resources g...
Piazza Testaccio in Romes quarter of the same name is to undergo a major facelift. Home to an open-air market for years, the square is to be freed from the stalls and the squalor of market day and made into an open recre...
Pope Benedict XVI is in Cologne for World Youth Day on his first visit abroad and his first return to his home country since his election as pope. The visit began with a boat trip on the Rhine from where he greeted thous...
The first submarine to have been built in Italy after world war two, the "Enrico Toti", (built in 1967 and named after an Italian hero of world war one), has found a new home in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum for Science a...
With risk of terrorist attacks in Italy still considered high following the July bombings in London and Sharm el Sheik, Italys minister of the interior Giuseppe Pisanu has given an update of the government's record of th...
An Italian court has agreed to the extradition of Osman Hussain also known as Hamdi Issac who is wanted by British police in connection with the failed bomb attacks in London on 21 July.
Hussain, 27, was arrested in R...
Romes railway stations and airports were filled with young pilgrims leaving for Germany on Sunday 14 August, to be present at the first World Youth Day of the new papacy, in Cologne on Sunday 21 August. Pope Benedict XVI...
While the Italians enjoy their summer holidays, ISTAT, the Italian national institute for statistics, has released figures which show that inflation rose in Italy by 2.1 per cent in July and the rise cannot all be blamed...
The redevelopment of the old general markets on the Via Ostiense in Rome has been given the go-ahead by the city council. Archaeological surveys of the area should begin in September and building will start early in 2006...
Almost all of the museums in the city of Rome will be open on the public holiday on Monday 15 August. Making the announcement, Gianni Borgna, the city councillor responsible for culture, said that the days of Rome being...
At the beginning of August, another hurdle was cleared for making the capital a true city of sport, when ownership of the Foro Italico passed from the government to the Coni sporting services group. The firm plans to red...
Since the beginning of July, one or more piromaniacs have been setting fire to cars and motorcycles parked on Romes street. The first fires were all in the area of the Via Prenestina, where six cars and four motorcycles...
The Rome city council has awarded 1 million to 30 winners of a competition for immigrant entrepreneurs. More than 180 business people took part in the competition to win 40,000, half of which will not have to be repaid a...
Piazza del Colosseo and the surrounding roads are getting a new layer of make-up this summer. Work on tarmacking the ancient square began on 9 August and will also involve resurfacing the road from Via dei Fori Imperiali...
Standard and Poors, the international credit rating agency, has downgraded Italys rating from stable to negative in its most recent valuation. The reason given for the downgrade is that S&P believes that whichever politi...
What are the favourite names in Rome at the moment? The office where parents register the birth of their babies has just released figures that show that the most popular girls name is Giulia, for the fifth successive ye...
Rome is packed this August like never before. Fewer Romans are on holiday as many feel the pinch in the continuing economic crisis. Furthermore, the terrorist threat, after bombings in London and Sharm el Sheik, has not...
After a period of exceptionally hot weather, Rome was struck by thunderstorms of unusual violence. During the storms a whirlwind funnelled into the Colosseum and dashed one of the leading works on display, a marble statu...
Following the successful trial of 13 remote traffic control cameras on Italian roads, in use since July 2004, Italian police are set to install a further 16 cameras from Venice in the north to Sicily in the south of the...
Climate change is having a major impact on Italian agriculture. Cereals that need large amounts of water are in crisis, while fragile plants are threatened by alternating droughts and floods. Data collected by Italys ist...
The cost of fixed to mobile calls in Italy will drop by 20 per cent from 1 September, following a decision by the countrys Autorit per le Telecomunicazioni (telecoms authority). This means customers will save around 150...
Lazios emergency wards are on red alert this summer, and paramedics, doctors, and CPR specialists have all been put on reduced leave. The measures are justified on two fronts, say the authorities: first to cope with a po...
Anyone with a home in Rome near to one of the more recent architectural show-pieces is finding that the value of property in these areas is rising dramatically. Property owners at the Villagio Olpimpico, next to Renzo Pi...
Parking in Rome is set to get easier with a new car park along the Lungotevere, close to Piazza del Popolo. Construction of the Arnaldo da Brescia car park is due to start in September, having received a green light from...
The Rome city authorities have launched 15 broadband wireless points, called hot spots in the Villa Borghese park, from where the public may connect to the internet. At the launch city mayor, Walter Veltroni, he said tha...
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