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A giant advertisement on a building visible from the central Piazza Venezia may have to come down according to a recent court ruling. The judge has accepted that tenants living in the building could suffer physical and p...
A collection of memorabilia, which once belonged to the late Duke of Windsor and his wife Wallace Simpson, is to go on sale at an auction at Christies in Rome on Thursday 17 June.
The collection, which is being sold by...
Every year in Italy more than 600,000 wild boar cause more than 5 million of damage to agriculture. The largest numbers are concentrated in Tuscany, with around 130,000 causing damage amounting to 3 million per year. At...
Roman Catholics are still the predominant Christian group in Rome, but those of Orthodox denominations are now a major presence in the holy city, according to the findings of a report released by the Rome diocese section...
Saturday 12 June marks the start of Euro 2004 football championships in Portugal. Italy, under coach Giovanni Trapattoni, has assembled the countrys best squad in a long time.
Del Piero and Vieri with Cassano should pr...
Newly privatised Italian electricity supplier, Terna (formerly Enel), is planning its launch on the Italian stock market on 23 June. The company owns 94 per cent of the high-tension electricity distribution grid in the c...
Until 27 June it is possible to visit one of the largest deposits of prehistoric elephants skeletons in Europe.
The extraordinary remains were discovered by archaeologists and palaeontologists in 1984, in the western pa...
There will be a free concert at the Circo Massimo in Rome on Friday 11 June from 17.00 - 24.00, the first in a season sponsored by Algida, makers of the well-known Italian cornetti ice-creams. The concert will feature Ru...
The eating habits of the Italians are changing. The ritual of sitting down at table twice a day is disappearing and more and more Italians are eating on the run, in the car, in front of the computer and in the office. T...
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Rome an exhibition has opened at the Vittoriano at the Piazza Venezia in Rome of previously unpublished photographs and films taken from American and British militar...
If living in a city with a cinematic heritage as rich as Romes brings out your inner Fellini, Rossellini or Dario Argento talents, then perhaps you may want to try your hand at making a short film. You may have seen film...
Its a beautiful day! The group called The Semaphore had just plunged into the last, catching lyric of the evening, by then perspiring under blue, red and yellow spots trained on their tense faces. They were performing in...
If living in a city with a cinematic heritage as rich as Romes brings out your inner Fellini, Rossellini or Dario Argento talents, then perhaps you may want to try your hand at making a short film. You may have seen film...
Most people who go to visit the famous monastic complex of St Benedict and St Scolastica at Subiaco do not realise that they are actually in the heart of Lazios biggest park.
The town of Subiaco is one of the gateways i...
When in Rome go to the Alexanderplatz! reads one of the numerous inscriptions that embellish the walls of the oldest jazz club in Italy. Its an invitation that countless musicians and aficionados have taken up over the p...
Praise the green earth.
Chance has appointed her
home, workshop, larder, middenpit.
Her lousy skin, scabbed here and there by cities
provides us with name and nation.
(From the poem Something Missing by Basil Bun...
As the academic year draws to a close, fine arts scholars at the British School at Rome are exhibiting their work in Fine Arts 2004, 12-19 June. The exhibition opens on 11 June at 18.30, with a performance by Juho Laitin...
This weekends elections for the European parliament will be fought over many issues, but none of them are directly relevant to the mandates Europeans will be granting their 786 new members of parliament (MEPs).
For man...
Most of the prize winners from the Cannes film festival will be showing in Rome until 10 June, the only exception being Golden Palm winner Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore, which wont be in distribution until the end of...
The holiday season is about to begin and the confederation of retailers and small businesses has completed a survey which shows that 34 million Italians are expected to go away between June and September of this year. Of...
From 1 July young people, from 14 18 years old, must have a licence (or patentino) to drive a motorino or a micro car, even the lowest powered ones. 702,500 out of 1,500,000 students have applied to take the necessary c...
Romes eleventh edition of the festival Jazz and Image opens at the Villa Celimontana park near the Colosseum on Friday 4 June. The annual event, organized by the Villa Celimontana cultural association will offer outdoor...
European parliamentary elections will be held from 10 to 13 June across the European Union, but only on 12 and 13 June in Italy. Also on those days in Italy there will be regional elections in Sardinia and local election...
New legislation regulating the protection and use of Italys cultural heritage became law last month. The complex Codice dei beni culturali e del paesaggio, which has 184 articles, integrates and extends previous legislat...
The traditional concert on 1 May in Piazza S. Giovanni in Rome is back again this year. Seven hours of free live music from Italian and international artists attract hundreds of thousands of spectators every year. The li...
The annual Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation Rome 5-km mini marathon and a 2-km walk will be held Sun 16 May starting at the Terme di Caracalla Stadium at 10.00. The event will raise funds and promote awareness for...
Via Tiburtina, between Rome and Tivoli, is the most dangerous of the citys roads, according to a study by Romes traffic authority, Sta, of traffic accidents in the capital last year, with just over 250 accidents that res...
Michelangelo's famous statue of David in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence is on show again after two years of restoration. The statue was subjected to ten years of research by more than 33 scientific institutes ar...
The Torre Argentina cat sanctuary in Rome will hold its 7th annual fund raising gala on Friday 28 May at 19.00 at Villa S. Urbano, Via Appia Pignatelli 65. As in previous years a silent auction and grand raffle will be h...
The Open University is holding an open day in Rome on Sat 29 May, 12.00-14.30. The university is an acknowledged expert in helping people study in their own time. Teaching is in English, and no previous qualifications ar...
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