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Villa Borghese will host the Concorso Ippico di Piazza di Siena, the international showjumping competition, from 22-25 May. This year the tournament, now in its 71st year, will be part of the new "Super League" circuit o...
More than 40 mayors from all over the world will be in Rome on 24 May for the second "Glocal Forum", a conference to promote the concept of re-balancing the global and the local through a worldwide network of cities, coo...
Lazio has found a place in the heavens with the naming of a star after the region. First spotted by the observatory at Campo Catino in Ciociaria in 1999, the asteroid's presence was recently verified by the Minor planet...
Aspiring heartthrobs are needed to appear in the 2004 calendar "I Belli di Roma". Photographer Loretta Mariani is looking for 12 good-looking male Romans aged 20-40 who fancy being models for a day, purely for the pleasu...
Rome-Milan, city centre to city centre, in only three hours? Comfortable, brand new regional trains which run on time? Smart new stations with deluxe facilities? If all that sounds like a commuters mirage, think again. A...
Of course no-one is going to sell the Colosseum, says Stefano Lenzi of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Italia, one of the organisers of the campaign to protect Italys cultural and environmental assets from recent le...
They will be laughing every Friday during May when The Gin Game, a play by D. L. Coburn, is staged. Trailed as a bitter-sweet comedy, it centres on a buffoonish and sarcastic clash between two quarrelsome guests at a res...
Cycling fans will be hoping for a hard-fought, scandal-free Giro dItalia to help lift the sport out of its drug-inspired doldrums when the epic road race sets off on 10 May.
The Giro, which follows a different route eac...
The Italian constitution prohibits the countrys involvement in war, and in March the president of the Italian republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, made it very clear that Italy could not send troops to fight in Iraq. However,...
Some of the worlds top tennis players are taking part in the Telecom Italia Masters tournament at Romes Foro Italico. The first week of the clay court event (5-11 May) is devoted to the mens competition, while Serena Wil...
The humble 0.77 public transport ticket, which entitles you to 75 minutes travel on Romes buses, metro and trams, could also give you a 1 discount at the cinema on the day you stamped your ticket. Fifty-six cinemas with...
From 5-11 May the public has an opportunity to enjoy free admission to state-owned museums, archaeological areas and cultural heritage sites, as well a programme of special events throughout the country. The occasion is...
Nearly a million people are expected to attend the traditional May Day concert in Piazza S. Giovanni organised by the main Italian trades unions. The annual event, which will feature seven hours of music starting from 16...
The city council has announced stricter controls on the access of private vehicles to Villa Borghese, which is currently celebrating its 100th year as a public park. According to the new rules, cars and motorbikes are no...
Weary travellers waiting for flights at Fiumicino can treat themselves to a pick-me-up following the opening of a health club at the airport. The new branch of the "Tonic Beauty Club" chain that opened in Terminal B (She...
A public river boat service has finally set sail on the Tiber after lengthy delays. However, the project, run by the Italian-French Ponte S. Angelo company, is still in an experimental phase and there are currently only...
Four of Rome's metro stations are to be renamed to give tourists using the underground system a better idea of where to get off for certain attractions. Barberini and Flaminio stations on line A are to become known as Ba...
In the days before Lonely Planets and Rough Guides became ubiquitous, many visitors to the Eternal City relied on a rather different kind of handbook: Georgina Masson's much-loved "Companion Guide to Rome". With no lists...
A new kind of literary event hit the Roman scene on the first Sunday in April. At a cafe in Trastevere packed with Italians and foreigners, an Australian, an American and an Italian writer read from their work, accompani...
In Umbria spring is particularly welcome. Spring and autumn are our high times. Soil here is thin and mean, and it takes loads of compost and organic additives to make a garden grow. Many plants will not survive in the c...
These three very rich offerings in three prestigious museum sites were put together to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the installation of the French Academy at Villa Medici, and to highlight the role of Rome as the a...
The business of being a Roman centurion, earning money by posing for photographs with tourists outside major sites such as the Colosseum, is set to become more professional with plans for new rules on costume, behaviour...
Almost as soon as prime minister Silvio Berlusconis government hoisted Italys green, white and red tricolore to the mast of war in mid-winter, the multi-coloured rainbow flag of peace began to flutter over the streets of...
Anyone who feels they have been the victim of excessive charges, poor service or inefficiency can take their gripe to a new consumer complaints office in the city or telephone the complaints line.
Late buses, stiff rest...
Monte Amiata, the highest mountain in southern Tuscany at 1,738 metres, is a tame, almost extinct volcano. There is sufficient activity to run a geothermal power station at Piancastagnaio and to heat the baths of Bagno V...
The central post office in Piazza S. Silvestro closed mid-March for major modernisation work which is expected to take at least 18 months to complete.
Customers who hold savings or Bancoposta accounts will be served in...
I just wanted to do something useful, says Evelyne De Crescenzo, explaining her decision to sponsor eight-year-old Fiorella in Peru. Fiorella lives with her parents and four brothers and sisters but her family cannot aff...
Matera in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, once made famous by Carlo Levis book "Christ stopped at Eboli", is fast becoming a celebrity-city thanks to Mel Gibsons film "The Passion". Fans of "The Passion" are n...
The coastal road outside Reggio Calabria, along the Ionian Sea, boasts two imposing sights: a grandstand view over the Mediterranean and a long stretch of lush coastal orchards, primarily between Villa S. Giovanni and Ro...
The war in Iraq might be a long way away geographically but the political dangers are close to home. Most Italians are against using war to disarm Saddam Hussein and for more than two months a vast majority of them has t...
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