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All Italian butchers' shops and supermarkets must now offer the consumer clear information about the provenance of the beef and veal they are selling, according to a European Union law which came into force in Italy on 1...
Private traffic, including mopeds, will be banned from circulating in Rome on Sunday 21 March. The no-go area, which is in operation 10.00-17.00, will encompass most of the historic centre including Esquilino and Trastev...
On the first weekend of spring, Sat 20 -Sun 21 March, it will be possible to visit 380 monuments not usually open to the public in 196 Italian cities. The openings, which are free of charge, are organised by the Fondo pe...
Protestors against Italian troops in Iraq will be out on the streets in Rome on Sat 20 March. The march for peace, which is expected to attract a large turn-out, will start at 14.00 from Piazza della Repubblica, near the...
Italy's culture ministry has released details of the numbers of visitors to 30 of its museums and archaeological sites in Rome and Lazio during 2003.
The most popular site by a long way was the Colosseum and Forum compl...
On Sat 20 March there will be a demonstration in Rome in favour of the withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq. The march, which is supported by most of the left wing political parties and by two of the major trade un...
In an attempt to stop unregistered taxis offering their illegal services at Rome Fiumicino airport, there is now a tourist information point in terminal B distributing tourist information and giving advice about public t...
More than in most countries, Italian politics, especially in the Berlusconi era, needs adrenaline to fuel debate; big and supposedly critical issues dominate over the everyday ones. The prime minister has made it very cl...
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is not a magic spell, though it sounds like one and seems to work like one. This exotic-sounding string of words is the core of the doctrine of the 13th-century Buddhist sage, Nichiren Daishonin, who...
Romes city council is calling for ideas from citizens to improve the quality of life in the capital. The council is looking for project proposals to solve concrete problems in the city, rather than complaints or generic...
The British Chamber of Commerce for Italy (BCCI) this year celebrates 100 years as the main point of reference for the British business community in the country. The oganisation was founded in Genoa in 1904, transferring...
The film industry is an important part of Romes economy, providing work for thousands of people, but it is facing increasing financial competition from all over the world.
The citys mayor Walter Veltroni (well-known for...
Industrial action can bring out the worst in people. Sometimes it triggers verbal abuse or violence. Sometimes it produces thought-crime. Stranded recently in the rain on the wrong side of town by a transport workers wal...
For the first time in the history of Rome, 289 immigrants from a plethora of states are now fighting each other invisibly to most Romans for 24 brand-new chances to get their voices heard in the citys seats of power....
The Irish and their friends in Rome are once again preparing to get out their dancing shoes for their 13th annual Celtic Ball for Charity. As W.B. Yeats wrote "For the good are the merry, and the merry love the fiddle, a...
Tourism in Rome was up by 0.53 per cent last year over the previous year. Of the more than 16 million tourists who visited the city and province in 2003, 6.4 million were Italians, an increase of 4.56 per cent over the y...
Computer sales in Italy are now outstripping television sales for the first time. Last year 3,658,000 new computers were bought, compared with 3,529,000 new television sets. Most of these computers were bought by profess...
Romes two metro lines, the red line A (Battistini-Anagnina) and the blue line B (Rebibbia-Laurentina), received substandard marks in security, information and comfort, according to a new report by the agency for the city...
The long-awaited new back exit to Florence's Uffizi Museum opened 3 March. Visitors are now led through the museum to the new exit in the rear at Piazza del Grano rather than back to where they began at the entrance.
Th...
After years of indecision work has begun on a new glass exhibition space on the Capitoline hill. When completed it will house some of the museums most famous treasures, It is to be built between Palazzo Senatorio (the ce...
Work is due to start in mid-April on a new trade exhibition centre, or Fiera di Roma, in Via Portuense near the Roma-Fiumicino motorway at Ponte Galeria. The development of the 92-ha site will cost 500 million; 38,5 mill...
Antonio Pappano, newly appointed conductor of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra will lead his musicians for the first time on 24 April at the Auditorium, Parco della Musica in Rome, in a concert of works by Haydn, Kordaly and...
A series of country-wide strikes are scheduled at the beginning of March. University teachers and students have called for protests on Thurs 4 March against the reforms proposed by the education minister Letizia Moratti....
Although Via del Teatro di Marcello, which runs into Piazza Venezia, is a big street with a lot of traffic, theres no traffic light. One day, while hoping to cross, I saw some young tourists step into the street and, wit...
If youve ever dreamed of living in a castle, this could be your chance. A young family from Rome took the plunge a few years ago. They moved to the Gran Sasso national park in Abruzzo and opened a restaurant in Rocca Cal...
On a hill overlooking Rome in the Castelli Romani, 15 ageing monks are about to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the foundation of an unusual abbey.
It is the abbey of S. Nilo, which dominates the tiny village of G...
At a stones throw from the concrete ring of the Gran Raccordo Anulare, wedged between Via Nomentana and Via Salaria in north-east Rome, is an oasis of lush fields, dusky woods and gentle hills on which flocks of plump sh...
A holiday on a working farm, or agriturismo, is a bit like holding a friends baby: you can enjoy the good bits without any of the responsibility. You can eat locally-grown food without having to work the fields; enjoy th...
Welsh people around the world celebrated Wales and its patron saint on Mon 1 March, St David's Day. British ambassador to Italy Sir Ivor Roberts marked the occasion by hoisting the Welsh flag outside the British embassy...
The Vatican is preparing for another busy spring. Pope John Paul II has almost completed his ambitious plan to visit all of the parishes in the Rome diocese. There are only 33 parishes left unvisited of the 336 in the ci...
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