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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...
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.
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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...
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