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l The Dutch Institute in Rome is staging an exhibition of work by the graphic artist M.C. Escher as part of its centenary celebrations. Escher (1898-1978) is most famous for his so-called impossible structures such as As...
Politics is always a roller coaster so after three and a half years as prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi has learnt to hold tight on the downs and enjoy the view on the ups. Over the summer, he was sitting precariously o...
The Rome councillor responsible for traffic, Mario Di Carlo, has announced that measures will soon be taken to discourage the entrance of big four-wheel-drive vehicles into the city centre. The vehicles, which take up mo...
16 Oct marked the beginning of Ramadan in Italy this year. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, when Muslims believe that Allah revealed the first verses of the Quran to the prophet Muhammad. It is a...
Eurochocolate, a week dedicated to chocolate, takes place in Perugia 16-24 October. The city is host to chocolate in all its forms, classes for children, psychological debate, sculpture, theatrical performances based on...
A survey conducted by the Osservatiorio sulla Terza Et a group which oversees the concerns of the aged on how much medicine Italians keep in their homes, shows that all the Italian families questioned had large quantit...
From 18 Oct, the Zoological Museum of Rome is extending its opening hours until 19.00. "Cooperativa Myosotis", the educational and social-service co-operative, has set up an "after school" initiative to encourage childre...
From 15 Oct Rome's Trastevere area will be closed to traffic every Fri-Sat evening between 21.00-03.00 for one year. Rome now has two such zones: S. Lorenzo, near the main railway station, is closed Wed-Sat between 21.00...
Italy comes out badly in the classification for global competitiveness in this year's World Economic Forum report. In its review of economic conditions in104 countries, Italy is now standing at 47, six places down from l...
The Romans are getting better at recycling their rubbish. Three years ago only 4.5 per cent of the rubbish collected had been divided into glass, plastic, metal and paper; this year the amount has risen to 18.5 per cent....
The regional health authorities in Italy's region of Lazio have begun the 2004 influenza vaccination campaign. 12 million has been set aside for the campaign which aims to protect at least 70 per cent of the population...
Angelo Bernardini, headmaster of one of the largest secondary schools in central Italy, at Avezzano in the mountainous Abruzzi region, has upset his students because he has asked them to cover up their navels. In a circu...
A report released by Romes municipal police in early October shows that less fines are being issued in the city. A total of 2,664,341 fines were given out in the period July 2003-June 2004, showing a decrease of 873,105...
15-16 Oct. If Fidelio sets the tone for this season at the Teatro dellOpera di Roma under Mauro Trombetta, the artistic director appointed last year, the opera-lover will have much to be happy about, as this production i...
Italy, which has the largest number of world heritage sites in the world, 39 sites in all, has no historic document considered by UNESCO worthy of entry in the United Nations organisation's register of the world's memory...
On 24 October the Italian Touring Club will celebrate its 110th anniversary with festivities in some of the most important squares in 26 cities throughout Italy. All over the country the TCI will set up stands to welcome...
While protest continues in Rome over the renewal of stay permits for foreigners living in Italy, (see Hungry for rights in "articles") figures have been released by Italy's biggest trade union federation, CGIL, which sho...
Tues 12 Oct marks World Arthritis Day. This year's theme is "early diagnosis" and sees a campaign by "People with arthritis / rheumatism in Europe" (PARE) with manifestos to rally national governments and policy makers t...
On Thurs 14 Oct, British poet Roger McGough will read from his work at the British Council in Rome. Valerio Magrelli, poet and teacher of French language and literature at the University of Pisa will present his work. Th...
Restorers in the mediaeval hospital of S. Maria della Scala in Siena have removed plaster from an arch in a chapel and have revealed previously unknown frescoes, painted by two Sienese artists in 1370. The newly found fr...
The Lazio regional government of has just completed a survey of the eight main commuter railway routes to the capital run by Trenitalia. Eight hundred local trains carry 300,000 passengers a day and the survey found that...
Thousands of immigrants from more than 30 different organizations are preparing for a demonstration in Rome on Sunday 10 October. They are protesting against the bureaucratic delay for the renewal of permits to stay in I...
A prestigious prize for sacred architecture has been awarded to the American architect Richard Meier for the church of Dio Padre Misericordioso at Tor Tre Teste in Rome. The award from the Pavia based Franciscan foundati...
The city council modern art gallery, MACRO, is to open for a token entrance fee of 1 for the next two years. Danilo Eccher, who has been director of the gallery for the past two years, hopes to see the rebuilding of the...
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...
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