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Sad but jubilant crowds held centre-stage along with the simple wooden coffin of Pope John Paul II at his funeral on Friday 8 April.
The pope and his pilgrim people have been the protagonists of this intense week of mo...
Pilgrims and Romans will be able to watch the funeral rite of Pope John Paul II on large screens in at least 11 locations in the city: S. Maria Maggiore, S. Giovanni in Laterano, S. Paolo, Tor Vergata, Circo Massimo, Pia...
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If you think that the immense line of people waiting to pay their last respects to John Paul II is too much for you, you wont be joining the lines to buy commemorative souvenirs either. Ho...
House prices in Italy continued their upward trend in 2004, according to a recent report from the large real estate agency Tecnocasa. Prices in the second half of last year rose by an average of six per cent in major cit...
Sandwiched between Piazza Vittorio and S. Maria Maggiore, residents of a small Roman palazzo have been opposing a mobile phone mast since July 2004.
The furtive night-time installation was only prevented when local poli...
Rome Baptist Church will start its third term of English classes on Tues 12 April at 18.30. There are currently four levels available taught by English mother-tongue teachers. Classes last for ten weeks and are free. All...
The name of Rome's central station, the "Stazione Termini", may be changed in memory of Pope John Paul II. City mayor, Walter Veltroni, announced that he had asked the state railways to consider this request, at an extra...
The American International Club of Rome is an international group that meets regularly to provide its members with an opportunity to enjoy mutual interests and experiences through cultural, educational and social exchang...
The 40th edition of the Agriturist, a guide to farms offering holiday accommodation in Italy, is out now. There are more than 13,500 farms all over Italy offering restaurants and accommodation. Many have swimming pools a...
The Rome Independent Film Festival (RIFF) will take place from 15-21 April at the Nuovo Olimpia cinema in Via in Lucina 16/g. Over 50 films will be shown from all over the world including the Czech Republic, France, Iran...
''No, I've never seen anything like it, admitted Captain Giovanni Cimotti from Rome's municipal police, the man in charge of handling the movement of the massive deluge of visitors pouring into Rome for the funeral of Po...
The college of cardinals set Monday 18 April as the date for the beginning of the conclave to elect the new pope to succeed Pope John Paul II.
Meanwhile, detailed planning continues for the funeral at 10.00 on Friday, w...
Fencing may be the only sport in the world in which you can strike your opponent on the head with a sword and get a handshake when youre done. Such a blow would surely draw the whistle in a basketball game, while swordpl...
At 08.00 on Tuesday, the people queuing to pay their respects to the body of John Paul II stretched from Vicolo delle Palline near Borgo S. Angelo, snaking through for about a kilometre to Via Conciliazione and finally t...
Italys opposition centre-left coalition scored an overwhelming victory in regional elections this Sunday and Monday. Initial fears that turnout would be low following the death of Pope John Paul II on Saturday proved unf...
Riccardo Muti resigned as musical director of the Teatro alla Scala, the famous Milan opera house, on 2 April. In his resignation letter Muti, who was appointed to the position in 1986, explained that hostility towards h...
Italy is Europes number one for freelancers, with 28 per cent of the workforce registered as self-employed. The new finding comes from the recently released OECD Factbook 2005: Environmental and Social Statistics, which...
Just beyond the extreme western boundary of Rome, a new so-called city of the future is taking shape, heralded by its inventors, with a dash of hyperbole, as a modern version of the famed ideal cities of the Renaissance....
Fencing may be the only sport in the world in which you can strike your opponent on the head with a sword and get a handshake when youre done. Such a blow would surely draw the whistle in a basketball game, while swordpl...
Italys recent sharp slide down the international competitiveness stakes has prompted a national crisis of confidence. The Italian economy came 47th in the World Economic Forums (WEF) 2004 competitiveness rankings, six pl...
If you go to Rome to pay homage to the pope, use public transport. Expect to find organised but very long queues. Hot during the day, cool at night. For info tune into 103.3. This is the message the civil protection unit...
Employees of the Vatican, including Vatican radio staff, have been queuing for several hours to pay their last respects to the body of Pope John Paul II in the Clementine hall inside the Vatican. Large numbers of people...
Thousands of mourners gathered in St Peter's square this morning for a commemorative mass for John Paul II.
Pilgrims and tourists listened then applauded as Cardinal Angelo Sodano, secretary of state under Pope John Pau...
The first decision that the college of cardinals will take when it meets in the Vatican on Monday 4 April is to decide the time of the transfer of the body of Pope John Paul II to St Peters basilica where it will lie in...
People have already started arriving in Rome to pay their respects to John Paul II, who died on Saturday evening and whose body will lie in state in St Peters basilica from Monday afternoon to the funeral which is expect...
Italian politicians and officials, Vatican clerics and members of the diplomatic corps paid their respects throughout Sunday 3 April to the late Pope John Paul II, whose body is lying in state in the Vatican.
The pope...
lThe sixth annual Trend season of plays by new British writers performed by Italian theatre companies is now under way at Teatro Belli, produced by Rodolfo di Giammarco and promoted by the British Council.
This seasons...
Imagine exotic, mouth-watering aromas that you have not experienced in months. Then imagine your taste buds soaking up forgotten flavours in the way that dry earth absorbs a downpour. Although I still enjoy a delicate sa...
''He was one of us. I've been coming to see him since 1986. I was 18 then. I was and am a boy scout. There was a scout-rally in the Abruzzo, a mountainous region to the east of Rome. There were 13,000 of us. He came by...
It was as I sat at a friends house in Borgo Vittorio, just a few streets from St Peters, that I heard the bell toll. There had been so many false alarms over the last few days, but the heaviness of this ring was differen...
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