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Achille Serra, the prefect of Rome, has warned of an imminent housing shortage in the city where more than 15,000 Roman families are threatened with losing their homes if a legal block on evictions is not renewed, when i...
Employment in the public sector is still regarded as highly desirable by large numbers of Italians and anyone hoping for one of these jobs is expected to take part in a competition or examination (concorso) for the desir...
A partnership agreement has been reached between the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Palazzo Te Museum in Mantova. The Palazzo Te was built in by Giulio Romano in the 16th century for the ruling Gonzaga family...
Girolamo Sirchia, Italian minister for health, has reached an agreement with producers, wholesalers and retailers of powdered baby milk to reduce the price to consumers by an average 13 per kilo. The price cuts are expec...
A day walking around the streets of Rome is the equivalent of smoking five to six cigarettes. This is according to an investigation carried out by the hospital Sesto S. Giovanni in Milan.
The most polluted cities...
Speeding up permits
The new immigration office in Via A. Pasini has agreed to speed up the issuing and renewal of permessi di soggiorno for foreigners and has taken on 40 extra temporary staff to make the system more ef...
When the governments pension reform bill was approved by the chamber of deputies in July, the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera ran a cartoon spoofing the reactions of centre-left politicians. Good news! Berlusconi has...
As we raised our glasses high, nonnos words sang out over the dining table, Salut per chinto anno, his deep, rich voice as hardy and pure as the red wine he held in his glass. Good luck, for a 100 years, his dinner guest...
The train from Roma Termini only took an hour to reach Terracina, a town situated on the coast between Rome and Naples. The climb up to the cave started at the base of the small mountain that slopes upwards from the town...
At any time of day Rita and Lallos fruit and vegetable shop was the place to meet everyone in the village. It was the social centre. All sorts of people the locals, the second-homers, the cook from the trattoria on the...
An earthquake hit a small place of 1,300 souls in Slovenia called Kobarid on 12 July this year. Nobody was killed but 353 homes were damaged, the worst shock for the village in decades. In neighbouring Italy, nobody noti...
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
himself. It struck him dead. And serve him right!
It is the duty of the wealthy man
to give employment to the artisan!
Hilaire Belloc, from More Peers 1911.
One of th...
This first of Rossinis mature opere serie was first put on at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in February 1813, to enormous acclaim. In addition to its musical felicities, the work is important as being at the beginning o...
Entry to the Capitoline Museums will be free of charge from 2 - 6 November from 16.00 - 20.00 as compensation to tourists and Romans for the museums having been closed on 29 October during the signing of the new Europe...
Sunday 7 November will be the last traffic free day in Rome for this year. The historic centre is closed to all traffic, even that of residents, from early morning to early evening on these ecological Sundays, as well as...
To celebrate the All Saints, All Souls' holiday, when Italians traditionally visit the graves of their loved ones, AMA the company responsible for the famous city cemetery at the Verano have arranged a series of guided t...
Sun 31 Oct sees the end of European summer time for 2004 and clocks go back one hour. In Italy clocks will change from 03.00 to 02.00 on Sunday morning.
The Fiat 500, the car which was launched in 1957 and became an Italian legend, has been declared exempt from the anti-pollution laws on Italian cars under 1000 ccs and over 25 years old.
The Fiat motor company made 3. 2...
From 15 November it will be possible to have bulky rubbish collected from your home even if it is on the 6th floor. AMA, the company that collects Rome's rubbish, is introducing a new service whereby old sofas, washing m...
According to figures on road accidents released by Urban Audit, which collects information on the living conditions in189 cities in the 15 European Union countries, Rome is the most dangerous of the 15 capital cities exa...
On 21 October Giuseppe Pisanu, Italian minister for the interior announced that there were 2,200.000 legally registered immigrants, from outside the European Union, living in Italy.
On 27 October the Rome branch of Cari...
Rain on a wedding in Italy is regarded as good luck - a blessing from above - and on 25 March 1957 when the six founding members of the European Union signed the first treaty in Rome there was a thunderstorm. In those da...
The Sicilian regional assembly has allowed an exception to the local planning laws and granted permission for the construction or extensions to 8 hotels, new access roads and swimming pools on the islands of Lipari and V...
The Italian anti-vivisection league, LAV, has published a report which shows an increase in the number of animals, fish, reptiles and birds being kept in Italian homes, 45,5 million in total this year, 1.5 million more t...
A list of the top 80 websites of Italian businesses has been published by a Swedish company, Halvarsson and Halvarsson, in collaboration with the Financial Times and the Corriere della Sera newspapers. The list takes int...
The new constitution of the European Union will be signed in Rome on 29 October at 09.00 at the Campidoglio, in the Palazzo Senatorio, home to the Rome city council.
The prime ministers of all 25 member-countries are e...
Italys transport trade unions have announced a national public transport strike on Friday 22 October from 08.30-17.00 and from 20.00-24.00. Normal services are only guaranteed between 04.10-08.29 and 17.00-20.00. The sto...
This concert performance of Idomeneo, re di Creta at the Accademia S. Cecilia in Rome (16-19 Oct) epitomized everything for which the Rome musical public has to thank Myung Whun Chung and Bruno Cagli; young and attractiv...
There is still time for overseas Americans to fill in their absentee ballot paper to vote for the US federal election on 2 Nov. Ballot return deadlines vary according to the state you are registered in. Some states also...
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