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To the north-east of Rome, about an hour's drive out of the city, off the beaten tourist track, is an area of exceptional natural beauty, archaeological importance, artistic interest and religious mysticism.
This is wh...
On Sunday 10 October the Rome city refuse disposal department, AMA in collaboration with TG3 Lazio, the regional television news of RAI 3, is offering free disposal of any large items of rubbish to the residents of the...
Free dental check ups are available in Italy during October for those making an appointment with one of the more than 10,000 dentists all over Italy who are members of ANDI (the national association of dentists). Members...
The cars pass incessantly and twirl around the fountains of Piazza della Repubblica in Rome. Young couples come out of the Warner Theatre after watching Hollywood flicks and most tourists and Romans ignore the protestors...
Autumn is the time when all serious gardeners tidy up after the summer and prepare for the coming year. To help them, the gardens of La Landriana created by Russell Page and Lavinia Taverna are holding their third annu...
The theological lectures organised for lay people by the Vincent Pallotti Institute will begin again on 14 Oct with an eight-week course on the subject Dying and rising with Christ. The course will cover such topics as...
The S.Susanna Lending Library in Via XX Settembre 15 is holding a book sale featuring hundreds of English-language works 23-24 Oct, from 10.00-12.30. Most titles will cost under e5. The library has just finished catalo...
Sat 16 Oct marks World Food Day (WFD). Over 150 countries will take part in the day that commemorates the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945.
The theme for this years celebr...
The last stage of the American presidential elections has seen the often overlooked constituency overseas Americans turning out in higher numbers than ever before to register to vote. There has never been an official c...
There are many opportunities for volunteer work around Rome. The Samaritans provide confidential, emotional support over the telephone and via email for the suicidal and the depressed. In Rome, volunteer training begins...
I have always thought that it is good for both men and women to groom themselves. Today, the average male or female devotes a precious 45 minutes each day in front of a mirror in search of a look. The man wants the magic...
One woman out of nine will develop a malignant growth in her breasts at some point in her life. Women from wealthier parts of society and industrialised countries, as well as those over the age of 50, are most at risk, a...
With landfill sites in the Campania region full to the brim and no one wanting to have new garbage deposits on his or her doorstep, the refuse-collection problem has recently hit crisis point:
l In March, schoolchildren...
Bitter yet unspoken warfare is reaching a climax in Rome between rival armies fighting for control over a vulnerable target the flocks of foreign tourists pouring into Rome. Feelings are running high, and at stake are l...
What a joy it is to ride around the streets of Rome. Cycling in this kamikaze city seems more dangerous than romantic but in fact it is both, and as one man shouted in a spirit of camaraderie it is the mode of transport...
All flesh is grass, yet today many of us live
our lives so far removed from agriculture that
this oft quoted statement has little real meaning.
David Bellamy in Botanic Man.
One morning, in December, I paid my usu...
Low cost airlines are offering new destinations for travellers to and from Rome and some of the regular airlines have introduced special low price tickets for the low season winter months.
Wizz, the Hungarian-based line...
The presidents of three of Rome's largest immigrants communities, Albanian, Bangladeshi and north African, have started a hunger strike in protest against the length of time it takes to renew a permesso di soggiorno in R...
Thanks to a campaign in favour of breast feeding, 95 per cent of Rome's mums now say they will breast feed their babies when they leave hospital, an incease of 20 per cent since the campaign started about 18 months ago....
Rome is getting ready for the arrival of some 4 million starlings that migrate from north to south Europe with the arrival of winter. Many Romans will remember them from the magnificent patterns they make in the sky as t...
The emergency units in Italian hospitals are being over-used by people who do not need emergency treatment, according to the national tribunal for the rights of citizens. Only 17 per cent of the cases being dealt with in...
On Sunday 2 October the association of Italian bankers, ABI, will open some of its prestigious and historically-important buildings to the public for the third successive year.
Buildings all over Italy, varying from h...
A survey on the religious faith of 504 people living in Rome has found that 77 per cent of those questioned were Roman Catholic, 12.3 per cent were atheist or did not belong to any religious group, 8.3 per cent believed...
Rome's metro line A will be closing early from October 2004 to October 2007. The exact date to the start of the project has yet to be announced. The 21.00 closure, which has been announced by Rome's office for mobility,...
Figures released by Italy's federation of hoteliers and tourist agencies and by the confederation of small businesses show a drop of 800 million in spending on tourism and 15 per cent fewer foreigners visiting the count...
A barrier in the river Tiber, to protect the Tiber island and the surrounding area from erosion, was inaugurated by the president of the Lazio region, Francesco Storace, on 21 September. The barrier which cost more than...
The documentary film clip before the show gives a flashback of the first encounters with the boys in their habitat. They were nesting in garbage heaps of Nairobi's dumping site in Dandora, with dirty clothes and unkempt...
Many foreigners are lured to Rome by the pleasures of the Italian lifestyle, only to find that the stress of the rat race they left behind is easily matched by the stress of finding a job here. It is the lucky few who ar...
When I moved to Rome in January, I found myself living in a small, but decent shared flat near Castel S. Angelo within a week. I'd been warned that house-hunting would be a nightmare in Rome and I should be braced for a...
"We all wanted to get out. We all dreamt of one day being in Paris, New York or Rome. Curiosity devoured us."
Ilir Zefi, an Albanian, chose Rome and took his life in his hands getting here, thrust across the Adriatic by...
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