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Illegal parking attendants continue to be a serious problem on the seafront at Ostia. These self-appointed foreign and Italian parking attendants demand money to park and look after your car as you head to the beach for...
Hungry bears.
Fruit- and vegetable-eating bears from the Marsica woods in the Abruzzi region of Italy are being threatened with extinction. The Marsica forest lies within the boundary of the Abruzzo National Park, in th...
There is a new garden open to the public in Rome, a hortus conclusus (enclosed garden) which has been recreated in a disused space inside the Museo della Civilt Romana at EUR by a group of about 30 criminal offenders. Fo...
As any student of Italian knows, sign language is second nature to the Italians. Why waste words when you can clearly express an emotion, a comment or make a suggestion with a hand movement? But in actual fact, sign lang...
Remember Esperanto? Back in the 1950s and 1960s, a lot of people believed that Esperanto would be the lingua franca all the nations of the world would learn in order to communicate with each other. Then English inexorabl...
It was just over a year ago that many Italian motorists found themselves putting on their seatbelts for the first time in their lives. The much-heralded points system had arrived.
The main novelty contained in the high...
Rome in summer
Once upon a time Rome used to be a city to avoid like the plague in August. In fact it was considered dangerously unhealthy by travellers and Romans alike until only about a decade ago. Then the city admi...
A young American and his girl were looking down into the Forum of Caesar, now excavated down to its foundations. There was not a blade of grass or a fallen column in sight.
You see, he told her, theyre getting ready to...
With the onset of summer, gone are the days of long, concealing winter coats and oversized, bulky sweaters. Gone is the ability to conceal our flaws with clothing and here are the days of baring as much as possible to ba...
The Rome city bus company ATAC is changing bus routes and adding new buses to some routes on summer Sundays and holidays from 25 July until the end of September. Mauro Calamante, the president of ATAC, has announced that...
Four large Italian consumer associations are asking all cell-phone owners to switch off their phones from 12.00 14.00 on Thursday 15 July in protest at what they describe as "Sky-high tariffs, unnecessary services and m...
A group of 37 Africans who were put ashore at Porto Empedocle in Sicily on Monday 12 July have been taken to a centre for illegal immigrants in Agrigento, Sicily, from where they may be repatriated under existing Italian...
Italian fire stations are to be opened to the elderly for six weeks in the height of the summer. The initiative comes following the exceptionally hot summer of 2003, when elderly people, who had remained in towns and cit...
With 36 shipped-wrecked Sudanese and one other African national now waiting a decision as to whether or not they will be allowed to disembark in Sicily, the figures from the countrys statistics institute, ISTAT, show tha...
The S. Susanna lending library in Via XX Settembre 15 is switching to summer opening hours. Between 16-31 July and 1-15 Sept the library will be open Tues 10.00-13.00, Wed 15.00-18.00 and Sun 10.00-12.30. In August openi...
A new law has been passed for the protection of animals in Italy. In future anyone killing, abandoning, ill-treating, using in cruel competitions or betting on a domestic animal will be committing a criminal offence, pun...
Are you petrified of giving presentations, or do you harbour secret aspirations as a stand-up comedian? A new club is being formed in Rome to help people improve their public-speaking abilities. The toastmasters club rec...
A new express bus service between EUR Fermi metro station and Ostia Lido was inaugurated on 10 July. The 070 express will run every ten minutes from EUR to Castelfusano between 09.00 and 11.000 and then on the return jo...
This great Etruscan work, attributed to Vulca, will be back on display on 16 July in the Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, after its first major cleaning since it was excavated in 1916 near Veio, close to Rome.
The terraco...
Romes city authorities have stepped up provisions for the elderly in the summer months. Six newly-opened oases in addition to 18 green areas which have been running for the past two years will serve as meeting points for...
There are 188,000 millionaires in Italy. Those who that have at least $1 million or e820,000, at their disposal now make up one in every 300 Italians; the average sum of one of these bank accounts is in excess of e1.8 mi...
A beach party at Ostias Corallobeach on Fri 9 July will raise funds for Arch, an organisation that helps HIV-positive children. Guests can dance the night away on the atmospheric, torch-lit beach to music from the 1970s...
Private swimming pools are usually connected to hotels and admission generally includes towels, sun beds and umbrellas. Ask about discounts for children and season tickets. Hotel Shangri L Corsetti, Viale Algeria 141 (EU...
AVIS (Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue) is currently running a blood donation campaign aimed at reducing the annual country-wide shortfall of blood experienced in Italy during the summer period when most people go...
South-east Asian cuisine is linked together by common underlying food philosophies, ingredients, flavours and preparations, although it can vary widely. It is comparable to the idea of Mediterranean food: the countries s...
Every art scene in the world has its own snobberies, rules, mafias, impenetrable market machinations. Every opening exists on a different level with a different clan of admirers and, if possible, regimented buyers. Of co...
Michael Burns, a 31-year-old Irishman from Belfast, confessed why he now had more Italian friends than fellow-foreigners. To be honest, I now realise people of my own tongue will inevitably move on at some time. The Ital...
The chips are down for Italys most famous car-maker, Fiat. The firm is up to its eyebrows in debt, struggling to withstand the pace of an increasingly competitive market and facing restless trade unions worried about an...
The summer sales' season in Rome and Lazio begins on Saturday 10 July and will run for six weeks. The Confcommercio, the confederation of retail shopkeepers, has proposed a set of rules for sales shopping.
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As from1 July everyone in Italy between the age of 14 and 18 must have a licence to drive a moped or a 50 cc miniature motorcar. To obtain the licence it is necessary to pass an oral but not a practical driving exam.
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