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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...
The supply of marble in the historic quarries of Massa Carrara is close to being exhausted. The quarries in north-east Tuscany have provided some of the most highly-prized white marble for sculpting for hundreds of years...
Italian women are delaying motherhood to 30 or beyond an age when counterparts around Europe are already trying for a second. A new survey from the commissione igiene e sanit del senato (senate committee for health and...
When it comes to old family businesses still run by the direct descendents of the founder, Japan can claim the two oldest in the world, founded before 750 AD. However Italy is not far behind with five family businesses i...
From 1 September parents of children at secondary and superior school (the old scuola media and the liceo and technical schools) should be able to order their children's books via internet. The books will then be deliver...
The gradual unfolding of the news about last Thursdays horrific terrorist attacks in London bore terrible echoes to that of previous tragedies in other parts of the world.
First came the news of one bomb exploding, then...
The writers of a newly-translated book on shopping in Rome insist it is more than just another run-of-the-mill guide.
Nina -Your Guide to Shopping in Rome includes features such as walking itineraries, which take in arc...
In a sign of its increasingly important role as a regional transport hub, work is under way at Romes Leonardo Da Vinci Airport in Fiumicinoto to build a second large hotel. The Hilton chain, which owns Fiumicinos sole h...
Step forward stars of the future. Lettere Caff Gallery is inviting artists including musicians, actors, designers and poets, to perform at its venue in Trastevere.
Over the coming months the gallery aims to provide a pl...
Every year many English-speaking families from all over the world come, for one reason or another, to live and work in Rome. Most of them will not, at first, know Italian very well or even at all, and when these families...
There are no literal translations in Italian for surfs up or hang loose, dude. But there is always the smile that wide-eyed, open-mouthed look of pure joy that every surfer gets when catching that first wave of the day....
In 17 BC Augustus, his rule firmly established after a century of devastating civil wars, celebrated the Secular Games. For these he commissioned an official hymn from the 48-year-old poet and former adversary, Horace. T...
This survey is unscientific, not at all comprehensive, and will doubtless annoy many with a favourite gelateria sotto casa. Although true aficionados those who succumb to the urge for a cono even in the middle of a cold...
In a recent survey carried out by Romes Agenzia per il controllo e la qualit dei servizi pubblici (public services quality control watchdog), just 81 per cent of the 1,200 streets examined in the second quarter of 2005 m...
What a marvellous tear-jerker this opera is. Puccini pulls out one affecting melody after another with masterly invention and ensures that the listener can never relax and forget the tragedy around the corner for a momen...
There has been an increase in book reading in Italy over the past two years, according to market research company Ipsos.
A study looked at how many books had been bought over the last 12 months compared to at the same...
La Sapienza, the largest university in Rome, is celebrating the 700th anniversary of its foundation with a series of evening events. From 10-17 July there are concerts, tango dance classes, demonstrations of martial arts...
Following the London bombings, Italy has tightened security on trains, public offices, ports, stations airports and at likely targets such as St Peters square where large crowds gathered on Sunday to hear Pope Benedict a...
The Rome city council has announced that it will issue 450 new taxi licences. A total 300 will go to people who are already driving taxis as substitute drivers, when the licence holder is ill or on holiday. The other 15...
Villa Strohl Fern is currently open to the public on alternate Sundays until the end of October. The 80 sqm-park between Villa Borghese, the Galleria dArte Moderna and the Etruscan museum was bought by French nobleman...
Explain the legacy of Rome's seven kings in just 40 minutes and make it funny. It's the ideal challenge for Rome's English-speaking theatrical group, The Miracle Players, and as usual it is pulled off with aplomb.
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