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Anyone who wishes to drive a low-powered motorcycle and does not hold any other sort of driving licence, will have to take a test to get a patentino or mini driving licence.
The test was previously required only by youn...
An exhibition entitled Luigi Moretti: La Casa delle Armi, le sue opere e il suo archivio, has opened at the Italian central state archives EUR. Luigi Moretti (1907-1973) was an Italian architect, famous for his design fo...
The Italian council for refugees will present a series of exhibitions and performances in Rome to mark the United Nations (UN) day for the support of torture victims on 26 June.
There will be an exhibition entitled Linf...
Italy is making headway in IT use but can still do more, according to a report from the Associazione per la convergenza nei servizi di comunicazione or Anfov, an association that promotes and reports on internet use in I...
Say goodbye to boredom on the metro this summer Romes literary jukebox is back in town. Literary Subway 2005 is the fourth edition of the event in which booklets of short stories and poetry are distributed free in metro...
The Protestant cemetery in Rome has been listed by the World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 most endangered monuments in the world. Inclusion on the WMFs list for 2006 not only gives the beautiful cemetery close to the...
Romano Prodi, leader of the left-wing political alliance LUnione, has announced that primary elections will be held on 8-9 October 2005 to choose a leader for the alliance. Only four people are so far standing as candida...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, has formed a new team to work on the Decoro Urbano. In all, 48 people divided into teams of three will work two shifts a day, six days of the week in various key areas of the city. These tea...
On 21 June Parma officially becomes the home of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which advises the European Commission on food production methods and safety for all European member states. Silvio Berlusconi, th...
The fifth edition of Rome Hip Hop Parade, the festival dedicated to hip hop and street culture, opens on 20 June. Featuring hip hop dancers from all over Italy, an Italian rap competition, a writing (graffiti) competiti...
The president of the Italy, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, has asked the supreme court to clarify two possibly contradictory articles in the countrys constitution: whether he has the overall power to sign an act of clemency for a...
Celebrated English writer Tim Parks has just published a new book: Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. It tells the story of the Medici family, and the intriguing, often bloody story...
The tortured and improbable tale which unfurls in this opera is a further rehash of that so beloved of Christian hagiographers, the wayward harlot who in one way or another sees the light, of whom the two best-known exe...
In a recent development, the Italian supreme court ruled that speed cameras provide sufficient evidence for issuing fines. In this way, penalties are valid against speeding motorists even when they have not been stopped...
With the arrival of the Italian summer the countrys forestry service is stepping up its campaign against forest fires. Although anti-arson measures have been reinforced and the time it takes to put fires out has decrease...
A chance meeting resulted in Anthony Majanlahti penning a book on Rome that is earning favourable reviews. Majanlahti, originally from Toronto, was working as a history researcher at the British School at Rome when he me...
A man walking his dog recently near Capena, in the countryside to the north of Rome, came across what appeared to be a strangely shaped stone. When the dog sniffed it the stone turned into a very aggressive alligator ter...
Fewer Italians are dying from drugs but they are experimenting at ever-younger ages, says a government report. Italian kids are smoking joints from the age of 11, and by 15-16 many are regularly abusing marijuana. Part o...
Three people who have contributed to life here in Rome will be recognised at an award ceremony on 17 June in Rome.
American Edna Goldfield founded the Economy Book and Video Center, an international bookshop, which clos...
Its a scene often played out in Rome sightseers wandering the city and looking on in awe at its treasures, bored children straggling behind. Now a map-guide, newly-translated into English, called Rome for Kids and Famil...
In 2000 the richest one per cent of Italians owned 17.2 per cent of the countrys national wealth compared with just 10.6 per cent in 1989, according to a Bankitalia study published in Italian daily La Repubblica. The nex...
This year, the British Council celebrates its 60th anniversary in Italy, and while it is assessing its changing role over the years, the organisation is about to experience transition of a different kind: the lease on it...
The men stand in a line, adorned in feathered caps and fishing vests, preparing to cast. Eleven oclock and two oclock they say, back and forth. The lines snap forward then back, and then finally release, sending the bait...
Most people would be amazed to learn that Rome has its own tango underworld. A small community of about 800-1,000 people are either learning to tango or going regularly to the hidden milongas, or dancehalls, that are sca...
A major battle begun in 1953 is still being waged today to beat off incursions into and to consolidate the stupendously evocative countryside of ancient Rome. Thanks to past victories, a vast pastoral landscape of peace...
Italys referendum to change the highly conservative 2004 legislation on assisted fertility has not reached the necessary quorum of 50 per cent of the voters plus one. Across the country the turnout average about 26 per c...
Each year the Keats-Shelley House in Rome holds a poetry competition in both English and Italian for young people. This year the prizes in the English section were won by Adrian Moore, 9 years, in the 5-9 age group, Han...
Not to be outdone by Paris and Berlin, Rome is bringing the seaside into the city, onto the banks of the river Tiber. From 18 June it will be possible to go to the beach below the walls of the Castel S. Angelo, hire an u...
The Rome city council has decided that the areas of the city centre of Rome closed to unauthorised traffic during the day, known as the ZTL (zona a traffico limitato), will also now close on Friday and Saturday nights fr...
Ikea 2 is expected to open in Rome at 07.00 on 15 June.
Its home will be the biggest shopping centre in Europe, which is being built at Via delle Vigne Nuove beside the ring road (GRA), near the beginning of the Rome-F...
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