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Italian workers with collective contracts get 40 days' holiday a year if public and religious feast days are taken into consideration. This is more than workers in any other country in the European Union.
Francesco Storace, president of Italy's Lazio region was in New York early in April on a marketing mission to increase awareness of what the region has to offer in the way of industry, finance, design, fashion, film, foo...
The last thing you would expect to see in Rome on a warm Saturday afternoon is a band of kilt-clad pipers marching across a bright green field. Against all odds that was exactly what an audience of over 20,000 saw at the...
The first phase of the new Uffizi project, an expansion and modernisation of Florences grand museum, opened in early March with six new rooms, the relocation of some masterpieces, an academic bookshop and a new exit at t...
Villa I Tatti in Fiesole, in the hills above Florence, was for over 60 years the home of renaissance art entrepreneur Bernard Berenson and his wife Mary.
Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Edith Wharton, the Sitwells, Rosamund...
Three years shy of its 50th birthday, Alitalia is in a bad way coughing, spluttering, shivering with fever and getting worse by the day. The national airline has been in poor health for some time, ending ten out of the...
A young, up-and-coming Italian press baron waxed militant over the right of the countrys immigrants to vote in local and national elections.
"Never relent," he urged them. "The future belongs to you. Win this battle for...
This year's Telecom Italian Masters tennis tournament takes place at the Foro Italico in Rome from 1-16 May. Now in its 61st year, the tournament is Italy's most important tennis competition and features many of the worl...
A two-week campaign in the Lazio region has ended with a 27 per cent increase in blood donations. The initiative aimed to make Lazio self-sufficient in its blood supplies; the region currently imports nearly 30,000 units...
Tuscany the region that is home to some of Italy's most popular wines is experimenting with new ways to increase awareness about the effects of alcohol, in a month-long campaign.
Three-quarters of Italians drink alcoh...
A peaceful and colourful demonstration was held in the Piazza Venezia in Rome on Sunday by the supporters of Romulo Sabio Salvador. Salvador, from the Philippines, is the man who won the most votes in the elections, hel...
A weekend of good weather and the first round of the national kite surfing championships caused chaos on the Roman coastline around the Lido di Ostia. An estimated 300,000 people went to the beach and not everyone was sa...
More than 2,000 doctors attended a meeting last week in Forli in the Marche region to discuss "Palliative Care" - the alleviation of pain - a medical speciality which has, until now, been little talked about in Italy. Re...
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Free legal support is available to tourists and Italians who want to report unfair practices in the citys service industries. Rome-based lawyer Sergio Scicchitano is the city councils delegate for consumer rights. He say...
In an attempt to shake up the sluggish economy and increase government popularity prior to the forthcoming European parlimentary elections, the Italian government, led by Silvio Berlusconi, is proposing to reduce income...
Corallobeach, a bathing establishment on the beach at Ostia near Rome, hosts this weekend 2-4 April "Beach for fun", an event which will include the first leg of the Italian championships of the "Wind Kitesurf Cup". The...
There will be no more burials, at least for some time, in the commonly known Protestant cemetery in Rome, last resting place of the English poets Keats and Shelley. There is no more space in this popular and beautiful bu...
Representatives of European diversity
This year, Genoa is a European capital of culture. The European Union established the programme in 1985 in order to highlight European diversity. It started with cities symbolic of...
Ancient Roman history is full of contradictions. The apparent inconsistency is between accounts of the glorious splendour and wealth of the empire on the one hand, showcased in the capital, and the tales of squalor and f...
The editor and owner of a newspaper catering for what he called the most maligned immigrant community in Italy acknowledged: In the beginning, there was a real press campaign against us. We were attacked and held respons...
Bankers are never the most popular of people. But in Italy at the moment they rank somewhere below politicians and traffic wardens in the publics esteem, with their collective nose perhaps just in front of drug-pushers....
After the Lutheran revolution, which set out to bring the Church back to its basic values, the backlash of the baroque period began. The aim of the art of the Counter-Reformation was to project itself, to stun, to exhort...
In the municipality elections 17 of the 19 seats were won by candidates from Asia; nine by candidates from the Philippines, six from Bangladesh, two from Sri Lanka. One seat was won by a candidate from Africa, a Mali na...
In the Rome city elections for immigrant representatives to sit on the city and the municipal councils, 18,918 people voted out of the 33,000 registered voters, a turnout of 57.33 per cent. The four (non-voting) seats on...
Italian trades unions have confirmed a general strike for Friday 26 March in protest against proposed pension and education reforms and the increase in the cost of living. It will involve public employees at regional a...
Clocks go forward one hour during the night between Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March.
The annual Rome spring marathon will take place on Sunday 28 March. The race, 42 kms long, has attracted more than 9,200 competitors and it will start and finish in the Via dei Fori Imperiali. The race goes to the centra...
Italy, the country with one of the lowest birth rates in the world, has the most expensive baby milk powder in Europe . (1 Kg of Nestles milk powder costs 32 in Milan and 16,60 in Berlin). It is so expensive that the min...
Death and injury from traffic accidents in Italy is down by 18 per cent since the introduction, in July 2003, of a new highway code which included the deduction of points on driving licences for various driving offences...
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