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Joan Marble Cook died in Rome on 30 April at the age of 84 after a short illness. In international gardening circles she will be remembered most for her two best sellers "Notes on an Italian Garden" and "Notes from a Rom...
Next week Rome celebrates the 60th anniversary of the citys liberation from German occupation. The 4 June celebration should have been for everyone, but instead the past has become entangled with two very contemporary el...
A festival of international films and documentaries about art, painters, sculptors and architects, centres around Palazzo Venezia until Wed 2 June. 140 contemporary films and documentaries from 19 countries are competing...
A concert to celebrate Ascension Day, the third of a series of seven concerts of sacred music, will take place at 21.00 on Sunday 23 May in the Chiesa del Ges. The Rome Opera House orchestra and choir will perform Schube...
The Italian national heritage ministry holds its annual culture week from 24 - 30 May. During the week entry to all state museums and archaeological sites throughout the country is free. Guided tours, exhibitions and con...
The citys rose gardens on the Aventine hill, behind the Circo Massimo, are open until the end of July, 08.00-19.00 daily. The 10,000-sqm park was once a Jewish cemetery, a fact that is marked by the paths laid out in a...
For the third year in a row the beach at Otranto in Italy's southern region of Puglia has been named the country's best beach. It has received a rating of five "sails" from Italy's environmental organisation, Legambinete...
Assoindustria, the association for small and medium-sized companies, has awarded a prize for efficiency to Rome's mayor, Walter Veltroni, and to the city authorities. Three achievements have motivated the award: the buil...
Rome city authorities have arrived at an agreement with the residents and shop and restaurant owners in the area of S. Lorenzo to close the zone to all but local traffic four nights a week after a successful experimenta...
The introduction by Italian traffic police of "telelaser" machinery, small cameras which register the speed at which a vehicle is travelling has meant an increase in speeding fines of 21 per cent since the introduction o...
On Wednesday 19 May, city transport workers are striking from 21.00 until the end of the evening shift and there will be a severe reduction of buses, trams and metropolitan trains.
From 21.00 on Thursday 20 May, until t...
Pope John Paul II will proclaim six new saints on Sunday 16 May in a ceremony to be held in S.Peters Square. Four of the new saints are Italian, don Luigi Orione (1872-1940) padre Annibale Maria di Francia (1851 -1927)...
It promises to be a very busy weekend in Rome and there is something for just about everyone.
On Friday 14 at 21.00 about 2,000 young people will take part in a show in Piazza Navona to mark the anniversary of the attem...
Sotheby's the fine art auctioneers are holding a sale in Rome for the first time on Tuesday 18 May. The contents of a luxurious apartment in Piazza Farnese will be sold off in 553 lots including marbles, busts, bronzes,...
After five months' of discussion the prefect of Rome, Achille Serra, has reached an agreement with the trade unions, political parties, city and provincial authorities to reduce the amount of inconvenience caused to citi...
The Duke of Kent will represent the Queen at two services to commemorate those who were lost in Allied action in Italy in1944. The first, and smaller service, will take place at the beachhead cemetery at Anzio on Sunday...
Sunday 16 May will be the last traffic free day in Rome until late in the summer. The areas of the city which will be closed to private traffic, including mopeds, will be the historic centre, Trastevere and the Esquilino...
The last 14 piano concertos composed by Mozart in Vienna between 1784 and 1791 will be performed in chronological order in a series of six concerts at the Sala Sinopoli and the Sala S. Cecilia at the Auditorium, Parco de...
A small crucifix carved in lime wood, believed to be by Michelangelo, has gone on display at the Museo Horne in Florence. The carving, only 41.3 centimetres high, is anatomically correct and extremely beautiful. Experts...
A celebration that had been planned to take place in Rome's Piazza Venezia on 4 June to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation has been moved to Sunday 6 June. The mayor of Rome exp...
Rome, with its legendary history and its breathtaking collection of art extending across the city in museums, churches and galleries, has always been a major tourism centre. This has brought a mix of different cultures a...
The angelo bello (beautiful angel) that fascinated archaeologists and art historians during the first excavations, carried out at the church of S. Maria Antiqua in 1900, peeps out from behind the scaffolding screening th...
Although most of the museums in Rome are free for those under 18 or over 65 and reduced for those from 18-25, they are not so for the majority who are outside those categories. The unfortunate truth is, however, that the...
A dark stone fortress looms in the shadows beyond an unmarked dirt parking lot. After crossing a bridge and walking through a dark tunnel one is greeted by a number of stray dogs and hippies with piercings. They are some...
The third annual Glocalization Conference, organised by the Glocal Forum, takes place 16-17 May at Circo Massimo in Rome. The campaign, entitled We are the future, brings together mayors, celebrities, public and private...
The Amphitheatre Flavio of Vespasian, known to all as the Colosseum, is the most popular tourist attraction in Rome, a distinction that makes city officials worry that it might be a potential terrorist target. The huge s...
A survey of the work experience and expectations of 1,400 Italians aged 18-30 has revealed that although 64 per cent of those interviewed had encountered great difficulty in finding employment, 77 per cent had some work...
As the summer approaches and the beaches fill up with weekenders and tourists, the seasons first report on the state of Italys seas has been released. The report, prepared for the environment ministry over the last three...
The number of accidents in Italian homes has increased by 60 per cent in the last ten years, with 4 million accidents causing 8,000 deaths a year. In a survey conducted by Censis (the Centro studi investimenti sociale) i...
The craftspeople of Italy, famous around the world, are decreasing in numbers. High rents and taxes have pushed their work places from city centres to the suburbs, and a lack of interest among the young means these trade...
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