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The Teatro Olimpico in the Flaminio area of Rome reopened in November after six months restoration. The inaugural event, a performance of Pasiones Tango y musical, marked the start of a new chapter in the history of the...
A rebellion has broken out among artists facing eviction from Piazza Navona. The rebels vowed open confrontation with the authorities if they were forced out. Well never leave this square. Well leave our skin on its cobb...
=The 42nd Festival di Nuova Consonanza continues with two concerts at the French Academy.
At the first, on 15 Dec at 19.00, the trio Roberto Fabbriciani (flute), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) and Roberto Prosseda (pian...
Sunday 30 October sees the end of European summer time for 2005 when clocks will go back from 03.00 02.00 on Sunday morning. Clocks will revert to European summer time once more, going forward on hour on Sunday 26 March...
Before the end of 2005 new health cards will be sent out to 58 million people resident in Italy. The card, or tessera sanitaria, looks just like a credit card. On one side it has the name of the holder, place and date of...
Tickets will be on sale until 15 December for the two rugby matches to be played in Italy in the Six Nations Cup competition, which is played every year between England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy. The tw...
When the Inter Milan football team took to the pitch to play a Champions league match against Artmedia Bratislava there was not one Italian footballer in the team; all eleven players were non-Italian and only one, midfie...
When the lights go down at the beginning of the next concert you attend, look carefully at what the conductor is wearing; you might find that fashions are changing. The black tailcoat, or frac as the Italians call it, is...
Compulsory military service in Italy came to an end on 24 December 2004 but since then there has been a boom in young people volunteering to join the services for a 12-month period. A total 100,000 applications have been...
Originally produced in Milan in 1831, Bellinis fairy tale opera has never been out of the repertoire and has always had a very particular place in the heart of the lovers of belcanto. This is certainly not for the dramat...
Musicians in Italy are drawing attention to the general strike on 25 November with simultaneous productions of requiem masses in opera houses and theatres all over Italy from Trieste to Cagliari. In Rome the S. Cecilia o...
Bob Geldof criticised the Italian governments record on aid to Africa when he received Romes Man for Peace 2005 award on 24 November, in recognition of his anti-poverty campaigning for Africa. He labelled the bel paese t...
Italy has a long tradition of unauthorised building to which officialdom often turns a blind eye; as recently as March 2003 a general amnesty was granted to thousands of such abusive constructions, freeing their owners f...
In the first nine months of 2005, the top ten Italian banks made profits of 8,625 million. This is compared to 5,520 million in the same period in 2004. Although a large amount of this profit has come from capital gains,...
Legambiente, Italys environmental watchdog, has released figures and information on the quality of life in the 103 provincial capitals throughout the country. The report took into account the quality of the air, systems...
Originally produced in Milan in 1831, Bellinis fairy tale opera has never been out of the repertoire and has always had a very particular place in the heart of the lovers of belcanto. This is certainly not for the dramat...
Italy is preparing for a four-hour general strike to take place on Friday 25 November. The leading trades unions, CGIL, CISL, UIL, Faisa and Ugl have called the strike in protest at the governments budget for 2006, which...
Romes 5,000 registered blind people will now have the added assistance of audible signals at many of the citys key junctions. The number of audible traffic crossings is set to rise from 60 at present to some 470 over the...
Fathers from two Italian associations demonstrated at Romes Fiumicino international airport mid November, warning foreigners not to marry in Italy. The men members of associations for divorced and separated fathers cla...
The multinational food company Nestl was smarting today over the confiscation and withdrawal of 30 million litres of its baby-milk products from the supermarket shelves in Italy. The products in question Mio, Mio Cereal...
A new Jewish museum has opened in Rome.
The old museum, which was on the first floor of the Roman synagogue on the Lungotevere Cenci, has been moved into five rooms, 600 square metres in all, on the garden level of the...
Via Veneto,one of the most famous streets in Rome during the 1950s and 1960s, in the glorious hey-day of La Dolce Vita, is due to be restyled. A project that has been ready since 2002 is about to be dusted off and implem...
Rome city mayor, Walter Veltroni, is well known for his enthusiasm for the cinema and he has now revealed that he has recently played a part in the new Disney cartoon, Chicken Little, amici per la pelle which has just be...
Public transport will be free for all residents of Rome and Lazio over 70 or who are war invalids and who have an annual income of 15,000 or less for a trial period, in December and January.
To have access to this free...
Earlier this year the Italian courts decided that laws removing points from licences for driving offences was unconstitutional and that the law needed amending. On 16 November the centre-right government presented these...
The amount of counterfeit goods intercepted by Italian customs authorities at Romes Fiumicino airport and other arrival points in Lazio has risen by 1,300 per cent over the last two years. Despite the record seizures, ma...
Rome is the only Italian city still to feature in the top ten European tourist destinations, according to research carried out by Italys Buon Viaggio Network. Paris retained the number three spot, although Madrid and Lon...
On 16 November the Italian senate, the upper house of the parliament, voted in favour of a contentious devolution bill entailing the first changes to the countrys constitution since its drafting in 1947. However, as the...
A unique treasure has been found in archaeological excavations just beside the Via dei Fori Imperiali near the Basilica dei SS Cosma e Damiano. The ivory bust, 25 cm high, is thought to be that of a Roman emperor carved...
Four workmen were arrested in Rome on 14 November, accused of stealing part of the money thrown into the Trevi fountain by tourists. When they were stopped they were found to have two buckets full of coins in their vehic...
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