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The mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, has announced the start of a programme of public and private investment aimed at rejuvenating nine municipalities in the Rome suburbs. The sums are equal to the amounts spent on spruci...
Coinciding with the European Day of Parks on 24 May, the World Wildlife Fund released its first white paper on the state of Italys parks, detailing the merits and flaws of the countrys nature management. With 777 protect...
As Rome's football team, Roma, flirts with a trip to Serie B, its upstart basketball squad is racing toward the Legabasket championships. Lottomatica Roma defeated defending Italian league champion Montepaschi Siena in f...
Whether you wish to party like a rock star, bop to the latest chart-topping hits or chill to the sound of a live band, a party to be held on Weds 1 June in aid of Students for Africa promises something for everyone.
Th...
The third edition of the childrens film and literature festival opens in Rome on 23 May. The festival, entitled Alice nella citt will have a jury of 600 children between 8 and 18 years old. They will be asked to judge a...
Italian women are discriminated against at work and when they look for work. These are the findings of a recently-published World Economic Forum survey on the gender gap index in 58 countries 30 developed and 28 emergin...
After years of improvements, pollution is rising again in several coastal regions, according to a leaked report from Italys ministry of health. Swimming is now banned along 433 km of Italys shores, Campania being the wor...
For every 100 earned by Italian workers, their employers pay 45 in social security contributions, according to figures published by Confindustria, the Italian employers association. With workers forking out a further 13...
Rome city council has introduced more rules to make recycling rubbish easier. The council and AMA, the refuse disposal company, have plans to provide the whole of Rome with the various bins necessary for the differentiat...
The no-smoking law brought into force in Italy on 10 January 2005, which prohibited smoking in public places, restaurants, bars and offices, has brought down cigarette sales by nine per cent in the first four months of t...
A nationwide eight-hour strike of local public transport workers has been declared throughout Italy for Friday 20 May. In Rome the strike will begin at 08.30; there will be no buses or trams until 16.30 and the metro sta...
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...
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