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"Cinecitt Campus", an artists' academy inside Rome's film studios Cinecitt, was presented to the public last week by city mayor Walter Veltroni, television personality Maurizio Costanzo and Cinecitt enterprises.
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The love affair between Italy and Egypt is centuries old, although today the military and commercial links dating back to ancient times have been replaced by tourism. During the 19th century co-operation between the two...
For smokers in Italy, the rules are changing. Come January 2005 smoking will be banned in all bars and restaurants, unless the owner is prepared to provide a specially ventilated area for smokers. But in a country where...
Every morning at about 09.00 the market at Piazza Campo de Fiori loses the last semblance of a street market for locals and shows its true colours as a tourist trap. Coach-loads of Germans file past the stalls, while Ame...
The ivory face
Its among the most precious objects ever found in Italy. And: a figure which is certainly one of the most important which the ancient world has given us. Antonio Giuliano, professor emeritus at Tor Vergat...
The number of fake euro notes in circulation in Italy is on the rise, according to figures from the treasury. In 2003 there were nearly four times as many fakes changing hands as in 2002, the first year of the currency....
The Carnival trends for adults this year are dictated by Hollywood, with many costume-rental shops offering outfits used in film productions.
Cart'Incanto, Viale Tirreno 265 (Montesacro). Costumes for renaissance cou...
One of the most spectacular carnival celebrations in Rome this year will be organised by the fifth municipio (Tiburtina area); last years event was attended by 20,000 people. The aim is to recreate the atmosphere of the...
In its efforts to keep air pollution under control Rome's city authorities are cutting the number of private vehicles allowed on the roads mid-week. Admission to the area within the city's ring road (Gran Raccordo Anular...
So far 89 immigrants have registered as candidates for the elections to Rome's city and municipal councils. Potential candidates have until 29 February to present their papers. The election takes place on Sunday 28 March...
Think twice before leaving your car with one of the many street car-parking attendants in the centre of Rome. You may return to find no attendant and no car. Two men were stopped by the police early in February in the a...
A new law on assisted reproduction for infertile couples passed through the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian parliament on 10 February with 277 votes in favour, 222 against and 3 abstentions. The fiercest opposition ca...
Applications to hire non-EU workers can be made following the announcement of the 2004 quotas for work permits for non-EU immigrants in Italy. This year there will be jobs for 50,000 seasonal workers, plus 29,500 places...
On Sat 14 Feb couples in Rome will be trying to break the world record in simultaneous kissing in Piazza Farnese. The current record was set in Chile, where in early Jan over 4,400 couples kissed at the same time. The St...
For anyone with a weakness for betting, there exists a magic sextet of numbers in Rome that plucks a winner out of the hat almost without fail. And it doesnt cost you a penny either. All you
have to do is ask it a quest...
Italys international rugby union side has been steadily improving over the past few years, but faces a daunting opening match in this years Six Nations tournament when it takes on world cup winners England on 15 February...
Dear Juliet, writes 32-year-old Davide. Im writing to tell you about a love story that has filled my heart for the last ten years. Only you can understand Davide goes on to define himself as a worker, poor and a bit unfo...
The sage and happy sculptor and scholar Peter Rockwell has lived in Rome for decades. On a recent visit to New York two shows made an impression on his fertile and lively mind. One consisted of the drawings of Pieter Bru...
If you have noticed some upheaval in the centre of Rome of late, it is probably not an isolated piece of maintenance work but rather part of a master-plan to pedestrianise many of the citys squares and streets and modern...
An exhibition on Ketty La Rocca runs 3-26 Feb at the American Academy in Rome. La Rocca, who died in 1976, was an Italian artist who produced photocollages and multimedia drawings embracing political protest, feminism an...
Rome ranked eighth among Italian cities for quality of life in 2003, according to an annual survey conducted by the Italian economic newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. Romes rating in the top ten marks a quick rise for the city,...
On Sat 7 Feb the Democrats Abroad is holding its national caucus in Rome to select delegates to represent Italy in the regional caucus in Scotland (26-28 March), at which nine representatives will be selected to represen...
Applications to hire non-EU workers can be made following the announcement of the 2004 quota for the number of non-EU immigrants who will be allowed to work in Italy: a total of 50,000 seasonal workers plus 29,500 places...
Never before had this writer looked down on the Romans as regards their haircuts, dining habits, even their habitat and bedrooms; never, that is, until he boarded Topless and saw everything from a completely different a...
I got my job through sheer good fortune. I had come to Rome intending to pay the rent by teaching English. I left my CV at the Keats-Shelley museum in Piazza di Spagna and two weeks later the curator asked me if I would...
Virginia, a young woman living in Rome who needs to learn English for her secretarial job in an international firm, was born and raised in Argentina. I was born and raised in the United States and have been earning my li...
The peasants eat thistles, Goethe wrote disdainfully of the artichoke in his book Travels through Italy. Pliny the Elder, a first-century AD Roman scholar, called it one of life's monstrosities. And even recently one coo...
Owners of Rome's motorbikes, mopeds and scooters that were registered in 1993 or before are hurrying to obtain a certificate called a bollino blu to state that their vehicles emit acceptable levels of gas. If they don't...
The contemporary art gallery at the British School at Rome will re-open after three years' restructuring work on 3 Feb. The new, 180-sqm exhibition space was designed by Rome-based architects Francesco Garofalo and Sharo...
Advertising in Italian films is now legal as the result of a new measure approved by the government to reform the public funding of Italian cinema. Product placement in films has been banned until now in Italy although i...
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