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A total 78 per cent of Italians have a positive opinion of Joseph Ratzinger, according to a survey from independent Italian research institute Eurisko. Thirty four per cent say he is doing an excellent job, while just 12...
This year the Italian ministry of the national heritage will open all the state-owned sites and museums free of charge from 16-22 May. Last year a million people took advantage of the ministrys annual culture week. In th...
In what looks to be a landmark case, the family of a victim of passive smoking will receive a 400,000 compensation settlement from her former employer, the Italian ministry of education. Maria Sposetti, who died in 2000...
Prices continue to soar across the country, according to a report from Italian national consumer body Adoc. Comparing figures from January 2001 and May 2005, prices have risen across the board: from travel to rent to foo...
Gap-year travellers are being urged to stop off at a new British Foreign and Commonwealth Office website before heading further afield.
Advice ranges from the relatively simple setting up an email address, to the rathe...
One winters day the ants were drying their store of grain when they were approached by a cicada. Could I please beg a few grains to eat, Im so hungry and there is no food to be found. Why didnt you think of that in the s...
Malevich invented pure abstraction. Born in Kiev in 1878, he came to Moscow around 1908 and was drawn into the circles of young avantgarde artists around Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. They were interested in t...
An advertising company wanting to make a statement about ethnic diversity and integration in Italy today couldnt have come up with a better concept. The 18-piece Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio brings to the stage three rel...
With the approach of summer, does curiosity suggest a quick trip to Krakow? Have you business to do in Brescia? Or what about a weekend in Prague? From now on, the probability is that you will be leaving from Ciampino ai...
For years prime minister Silvio Berlusconi seemed *to lead a charmed life. Now his luck is running a trifle thin and previous certainties have begun to shake. In March he was not sure whether to campaign hard for the reg...
Raising money and awareness of breast cancer are the aims of the sixth Susan Komen Foundation Race for the Cure, which takes place on 22 May (10.00).
The 5 km run starts from the Terme di Caracalla stadium; money raised...
"An attempt to open up the Czech Republics rich culture to a new audience" this is how director Miloslav Hirsch has described the aim of the new Czech Cultural Institute.
The institute will offer a chance to learn more...
Rome should not shun contemporary architecture, argues New York architect Peter Eisenman in an interview with Corriere della Sera. The man behind Berlins Holocaust Memorial says Rome should welcome new architectural styl...
The United States, Britain, Holland, Finland and Spain are among 24 nations contributing to the second international "Rome art documentary festival" a platform for films and documentaries.
Productions this year include...
Villa Gregoriana, the cliff-side park at Tivoli beside the great waterfall on the river Aniene, has reopened to the public thanks to two years of restoration carried out by the Fondo per l Ambiente Italiano (FAI). Visito...
Two advertisements for Fiat cars are currently being shown on Italian television; in the first, French people look at the camera and say merci, and in the second Germans look at the camera and say danke to the Italian pu...
Month-long holidays are all but a distant memory for most Romans, according to recent figures from national consumer association Adoc. Only two per cent of Romans in the survey sample now manage four weeks or more, while...
Weathering a recession and the bursting of the internet bubble, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has seen his personal fortune triple in his 11 years in politics. In early 1994, before Forza Italia won the nation...
The city of Rome has a famous rose garden, which occupies a gentle slope on one side of the Circus Maximus with a fine view of the ruins of the Palatine hill. Created in 1950 on land that was a Jewish cemetery until 1934...
Stphane Lissner from France has taken up his new post at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, not just as superintendent as had originally been announced, but also as artistic director. The reason for the dual post is that Li...
Lottomatica Roma ended the regular basketball season with a loss against Bipop Carire RE, but that didnt stop the squad from sneaking into the sixth seed for Legabaskets Serie A play-offs, which kick off on 11 May. Lotto...
Since the swearing in of Lazios new regional president, Mario Marrazzo, who was elected during last months regional poll, a major knock-on effect has seized the local health service, according to reports in Italian daily...
Italian hospital doctors have revealed that half their elderly and frail patients, who make up 70 per cent of the total being treated, would rather stay on in hospital than go home to a lonely and empty house with no-one...
The director Giorgio Barberio Corsetti has moved the action of this Tosca, which opens this years Maggio Musciale festival in Florence, to the 1960s, giving rise to inconsistencies such as the references to Napoleon but...
Lazios economy goes foreign
Foreign investment in Rome and Lazio has grown steadily over the past five years. At the beginning of the decade there were 391 foreign-owned companies in the region. The figure for 2005 is e...
Parking in Rome is, in theory, set to get easier. The city council, has announced that it will test a parking payments system that, in Europe at least, has only been introduced successfully in Amsterdam and Dublin. From...
Antonio Pappano, the new musical director of the Accademia di S. Cecilia, has been in Rome to present his programme for the 2006-2007 season. Pappano, who is taking over the post from Myung-Whun Chung, will conduct nine...
The tree peony, a shrub from the remotest regions of China with the most beautiful and often highly-scented flowers, has increased in popularity in Italy in the past few years. The Centro Botanico Moutan, a specialist...
Its like a cheese cutter, isnt it? The two stone cutters laughed and nodded. In the middle-distance, silhouetted against a blue April sky, the town of Tivoli was tumbling over its hill. Around us, down on the plain in Ba...
Romes city council has decided that the hot air balloon operating from the Villa Borghese park cannot be used as an advertising billboard, either now or in the future, thwarting the balloon operators hopes of opening up...
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