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Clowning is a passion for me, says Claudio Ceccarelli. During a show, I get an adrenalin rush I cant explain. It doesnt matter how anxious and shy you feel beforehand, as soon as you put on your outfit you become your a...
FIFA, the Italian Football Federation, must elect a new president by the end of March but so far the representatives of the 42 Italian series A and B football clubs have failed to reach agreement. Half of those voting,...
A new museum dedicated to Rudolf Valentino, one of the worlds first film stars, opened on 6 March in the ex monastery of S. Chiara in his birthplace, Castellaneta.
The museum, near Taranto in Puglia, southern Italy, wil...
There are currently 5,821 cabs in the capital but there may soon to be 6,121. The news was broken by the mayor Walter Veltroni, who announced a decision that has been taken by the city council. The number of taxis in the...
Coldiretti, the association representing more than 50 per cent of Italian farmers, has released figures showing changes in Italian dietary habits. The consumption of bread has dropped from 1.4 million tons in 2000 to 1 m...
The team with the task of guaranteeing the privacy of Italians has published a code of rules to cover the regional elections due to take place on 3 and 4 April.
Candidates and political parties may send campaign literat...
Clowning is a passion for me, says Claudio Ceccarelli. During a show, I get an adrenalin rush I cant explain. It doesnt matter how anxious and shy you feel beforehand, as soon as you put on your outfit you become your a...
l Violinist Wolfgang David will perform a concert entitled Le tracce austriache di Bach at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura a Roma on 9 March at 20.00. A former child prodigy who was admitted to the Musikhochschule in Vien...
In a humble room at a cheap boarding house in a part of Rome which is now one of the most exclusive shopping centres in the world, a desperately ill, poor boy from London breathed his last hours. Around the traces of his...
It was New Years Eve and the mood was sombre in Helgas Folly, a crazy hotel plastered with dream-sequence murals overlooking Kandy in Sri Lankas central hill country. A hefty Dutch social worker recalled it being breakfa...
An estimated 10,000 people will set off from the Colosseum in Via dei Fori Imperiali on Sunday 13 March embarking on the 11th city of Rome marathon. The 42 km journey will take them through the main historic sites, as w...
A collision between a passenger train and a freight locomotive at Bolognina di Crevalcore near Bologna in mid-January killed 17 people. The accident was Italys worst rail disaster in 25 years and triggered an outcry.
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Free vaccination against meningitis is being offered to all children up to five years old in Tuscany. There have been 15 cases of the illness reported in the region since the beginning of the year.
A fashion show in aid of Amnesty International is being held on 8 March.
A collection of 30 caftans will be on show at 12.30 in Rome's Piazza del Campidoglio.
The caftans, made by immigrant women living in Rome, wi...
Sunday 27 February.
More than 7,000 athletes run the 21 km Roma-Ostia Marathon. Of the 7,400 people taking part in the race, 5,634 complete the course.
Following the deaths of nine young people in road accidents when t...
Take a good look at your Rome bus ticket as it may give you a discount. The companies that run the Rome city public transport system are offering promotions to encourage the public to leave their cars at home. The most r...
The body of Nicola Calipari, the Italian police office who was shot dead by United States security forces in Baghdad on Friday 4 March, will lie in state at Italys Vittorio Emanuele monument in the centre of Rome until h...
International Womens Day on 8 March is dedicated by the United Nations to equal rights for women. In Italy, it is known as "Festa della Donna", with men traditionally giving mimosa flowers to women.
Georges Prtre is such an old hand at Carmen, having conducted his first performance of it some 60 years ago and made the famous recording with Maria Callas 41 years ago, that we can but be amazed at the energy and freshn...
On Sunday 6 March all private traffic, including motorcycles, will be banned from the "green zone" in Rome from 10.00 until 18.00. (see page 114 of the Tutto Citt city guide distributed with the telephone directories for...
The Lazio regional government and Co.tral, the company that runs the regional bus service, have bought a hydrogen-powered bus. Large enough to carry 94 passengers (37 seated), the bus, which cost 250,000, can travel up t...
Double-parkers beware. As of 21 March police cars in Rome will be out photographing cars that are double-parked, across 17 kms of the citys streets. This is the mayors latest experimental measure to make traffic flow mor...
Vehicles with number plates ending in an odd number are banned from Romes roads on Thursday 3 March from 09.00-12.00 and 15.00-19.00. Sunday 6 March is a traffic-free day in the city. No vehicles can circulate from 10.00...
The European Alpine Ski Cup finals organised by the Italian ski federation will take place from 7 14 March in Roccaraso and Rivisondoli, 150 km from Naples and 220 km from Rome in the Abruzzo region. It will be the firs...
Mario Luzi, one of the most important Italian poets of the 20th century, died in Florence on 28 February. He was 90 and had been nominated a life senator only a few months ago. Many Italians considered that he should ha...
The festival of Sanremo, Italys most popular song contest, starts 1 March. It is week-long jamboree for television viewers, but audiences no longer reach the viewing records of the festivals heydays in the 1960s and 70s....
Monday 21 February.
Hostesses and stewards working for the Italian state airline Alitalia held a 24-hour strike over work and safety conditions, causing the cancellation of 176 flights.
Hundreds of starlings that sleep...
One Roman taxi driver in five is willing to change to an electrical-powered car, and city mayor Walter Veltroni has announced that the first 100 should be in service in the city this year. A further 300 will be on the ro...
The wooden spoon is once again within Italys grasp after an 18-10 spanking on Saturday against Scotland in the Six Nations rugby championship. Odds makers wager that it will take a near miracle for the inexperienced Azzu...
It may soon be possible for civil wedding services to take place almost anywhere in Rome. At present couples not wishing to marry in a church ceremony have only a choice of three places to make their marriage vows at th...
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