Some 24 per cent of young Italians are unemployed, according to the latest report from the Assembly of European Regions (AER). In terms of 18-30 year olds, Italy is well behind the EU jobless average (19 per cent), thoug...
Lazios regional government is setting up a film commission to encourage production companies to make movies in the countryside around the capital. The city of Rome has always been a favourite location for film makers and...
In Greenland, the polar ice-cap, now 11,000 years old, has begun breaking up at as a result of global-warming and is now pouring 12 cubic miles of freed water into the north Atlantic every year, raising sea-levels around...
The Fondazione Symbola, which promotes Italian quality, is trying to encourage the development and production of high-quality inimitable Italian goods and services, and the movement appears to be gaining support.
The fo...
The Jewish catacombs are set to become the new archaeological wonder of Rome following a 1.4 million grant from Italys Ministero dei beni culturali (ministry of cultural heritage). First unearthed in 1918, forgotten for...
Italy has charged a man wanted by the London police in connection with the failed bombing attempts on the London underground on 21 July. The suspect, known in Italy as Hamdi Issac, but called Osman Hussain in the United...
Works on the road surface of Via del Tritone between Largo Chigi and Largo Tritone, one of the busiest intersection in Romes historic centre, started at the beginning of August. The works, which are due to be completed i...
Ancient statue unearthed in Rome.
Even after centuries of plunder by popes, princes and foreign invaders, archaeological treasures are still being unearthed in Romes historic centre. Ongoing excavations in Trajans Forum...
It will eventually be the first new bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice for more than 150 years. Designed by the famous Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava, who has already created bridges for London, Buenos Aires an...
A small sprint to St peters while learning the history of Berninis colonnade? A stretch on Piazza di Spagna while learning the secrets of the Barcaccia fountain? A jog along Via dei Fori Imperiali surrounded by two thous...
More than 13 million Italians live in condominiums, and in each one of these, of which there are more than 830,000, the various owners hold regular meetings, usually presided over by the building administrator. Such meet...
Lazios regional government has released funds to the Rome city council to improve housing and living conditions in some of the most under-privileged areas of the city. The money will be spent on providing economical hous...
In an international operation Rome police have arrested a suspect wanted by London police in connection with the failed bombings on the London underground on 21 July. Osman Hussain was traced to an apartment in the Casil...
The rest of Italy may be suffering from high unemployment but the capital is proving to be the exception. According to the city council statistics office, employment among the Roman working age population, 15 to 64 year...
In the wake of the London bombings, senior city officials met in Rome last Saturday to hammer out new security measures for the citys transport network. Romes mayor Walter Veltroni discussed options with transport leader...
Every summer the Isola Tiberina, the island in the river Tiber where it passes through Romes historic centre, becomes a focal point of the citys seasonal arts and entertainment programme with the annual Isola del cinema...
Italy has been threatened with terrorist attacks on several occasions, the latest warning coming soon after the bombings in London. But Italians have already been feeling the brunt of terrorism abroad. One Italian woman...
The city of Rome owns some of the greatest archaeological treasures in the world and the most important collections are housed in the museum complex on the Capitoline hill. One collection, the epitaphs, which has not bee...
Fatal traffic accidents in Italy have dropped by 9.7 per cent since the introduction of the driving licence points system in 2003. However, the number of drivers caught driving while under the influence of alcohol or dru...
Although stylistically a descendant of the spectacular tradition of French Grand Opera, with its multifarious ballets, huge choruses, numerous singers, lavish sets and orchestration, Aida from the start was effortlessly...
Giant locusts are now causing damage and anxiety in parts of northern Italy. In the summer of 2004 swarms of these insects arrived in the southern regions of Puglia, Basilicata and Reggio Emilia where they are still caus...
There are 18 times more suicides in Italian prisons than in the rest of the country, with one Italian prisoner committing suicide every 5 days. Most suicides are among newly imprisoned men between the age of 25 and 34 wh...
Now in its sixth month, a car-sharing experiment run by the Rome city council is slowly but surely gathering steam. Some 200 registered car sharers, of whom about half are frequent users, in Romes third municipio (boroug...
Italian wedding clothes stylists are looking abroad to fill their order books because of the constant fall in the number of Italians getting married. From almost 400,000 weddings in Italy in 1971, the numbers of couples...
New security measures have been rolled out to protect key monuments in Rome in the wake of recent terrorist threats. Police have been put on high alert around the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Campidoglio, Trevi Fountain and P...
Devotees of Dan Browns book "Angels and Demons" should hasten to the Castel S. Angelo where a summer evening festival called Sulle Terrazze di Castel S. Angelo is taking place. The festival is a mixture of different perf...
An advertisement will soon be running on Italian state television to advise elderly people about the dangers of swindlers who often take advantage of the summer months when the elderly are at home alone. The film, using...
Cobblestones are to be removed from some of Romes main streets. The embankments along the Tiber and some of the roads going into Piazza Venezia, such as Via delle Botteghe Oscure, will be resurfaced with special sound-ab...
Some 26 per cent of web searches performed by the 20 million Italians online are about health and well-being, says a new survey from Italian biomedical research group Censis-Forum. The findings were based on a study of 1...
Holidays in mountainous areas or natural parks are now all the rage in Italy. But ecotourism, or sustainable nature-based tourism, may be developing into a victim of its own success. On the one hand, the sector is good f...
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