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Friday strike to affect ATAC, Roma TPL and Cotral.
Rome commuters face disruption to public transport services due to a four-hour strike on the night of Friday 16 December.
The strike, scheduled from 20.00 until midn...
Merry or happy Christmas in Italian are Buon Natale.
Christmas is the annual Christian feast that occurs on December 25 to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Its Italian name “Natale”, refers in fact to the Christia...
St Francis is best associated with Assisi but there are also important sites in Lazio where he left his mark.
Greek is no longer spoken in upper Sabina, as it might have been more than a thousand years ago if the legend...
Rome promotes green energy this Christmas.
The Christmas tree outside Rome city hall buildings in Piazza del Campidoglio will be lit with pedal power this year, the capital has announced.
The lights on the tree will...
Rome's independent English bookshops survive and, some, even flourish.
A few months ago, with the closure of the celebrated Feltrinelli in the Galleria Sordi on Rome's Via del Corso, local Italian newspapers published d...
Irish poet Michael Longley spoke at Marymount International School Rome during his visit to Italy to receive top poetry prize.
The word of choice when describing the talk given by the Irish poet Michael Longley at Marym...
Subway station to open during Jubilee Year.
Rome's Metro C station at the Colosseum is set to open in February 2025, the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced on Saturday following a visit of the construction works....
Victims included friend of Italian premier.
Italian police arrested a man on Sunday after he opened fire during a condominium meeting in north-east Rome, killing three women and injuring four others, one seriously.
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Mattarella cancels his appointments this week.
Italian president Sergio Mattarella has tested positive for covid however apart from a mild fever is "basically asymptomatic", his office said in a statement on Saturday....
Cut-price tickets for Lazio Terra di Cinema Days.
Cinemas in Rome and the Lazio region will offer tickets with a special discounted price of just €3 from 11-13 December as past of the Lazio Terra di Cinema Days event....
Pompeii takes a green approach to site maintenance.
Pompeii has drafted in a flock of 150 sheep to trim the grass in green areas around the archaeological site in an experiment aimed at maintaining the Italian landmark...
Several international and national investors are interested in buying a refinery in Sicily run by Russian oil giant Lukoil, Italy's industry ministry said Friday.
The government decided earlier this month to place the...
An Italian court has ordered the state to restore a German charity vessel seized in 2017 over migrant rescues in the Mediterranean, a lawyer told AFP Friday.
The Iuventa, owned by non-governmental organisation Jugend...
Pope Francis was unable to hold back tears as he offered prayers for Ukraine Thursday during a traditional ceremony in central Rome.
He briefly broke down during the afternoon ceremony at the city's Piazza di Spagna to...
Giotto's Nativity scenes will be projected onto the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi this Christmas.
The Italian town of Assisi, in the central Umbria region, will project images of Giotto's Nativity frescoes onto the f...
Last missing person found after 11-day search.
The body of the last person missing after the 26 November landslide on the Italian island of Ischia was recovered on Tuesday, bringing the final death toll to 12.
The vi...
This autumn marks the half-centenary of John Cabot University of Rome. We sat down with the university’s president, Franco Pavoncello, to discuss the university’s achievements, his vision for the future, the difficulties...
Pre-bookings for La Dolce Vita from 6 December.
The new Orient Express ‘La Dolce Vita’ luxury train is set to take passengers across Italy from 2024, with the first pre-bookings available from 6 December.
The five-st...
After Spelacchio comes a new controversy.
Rome's Christmas tree was in the news for the wrong reasons again on Tuesday amid complaints over two giant solar panels at its base in the central Piazza Venezia.
The tree,...
Ischia's landslide, possible causes.
Ischia, the little Italian island hit by a deadly landslide last weekend, is a victim of geography and weather but also of illegal construction, experts and politicians agree.
El...
Italy's capital comes ahead of Paris in poll.
Rome has been named as the number one European city that travellers from the UK want to visit over the Christmas season, reports British newspaper The Mirror.
The Italian...
Rome subways already have Tap&Go system.
Rome commuters will soon be able to avail of contactless ticketing on the city's entire transport network thanks to "Tap&Go".
The cashless system, which allows passeng...
Millions on the move for Italy's Ponte dell'Immacolata.
This year more than 12 million people in Italy are expected to take a short break around the Festa dell'Immacolata on 8 December, according to projections by Itali...
Waste-to-energy plant set to open in 2026.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri is moving ahead with his plans to build a giant incinerator south of the capital, calling for expressions of interest to construct the plant, the c...
Zaki was released from jail in Egypt one year ago.
Rome has conferred honorary citizenship on Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian human rights activist and researcher of gender studies, the Italian capital announced on Thursday....
Search continues for last missing person.
The bodies of three of the last four people missing after Saturday's landslide on the Italian island of Ischia were found on Thursday, raising the death toll to 11.
The bodie...
Rome's environment councillor, Sabrina Alfonsi, says city looks worse than it is in reality.
Sabrina Alfonsi, Rome's councillor with responsibility for the environment, responds to Wanted in Rome’s questions about the c...
Rome faces a venerdì nero due to transport strike.
Rome commuters face widespread disruption to public transport services on Friday 2 December as part of a 24-hour national general strike.
The industrial action will...
Free screening in Rome for HIV and Hepatitis C.
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, Rome's Villa Maraini Foundation will offer free screening for HIV and Hepatitis C at Via Torre Annunziata 1 on 1 December.
A mobile t...
Christmas tree returns to Piazza Venezia in 2022.
Rome's Christmas tree arrived in the Italian capital before dawn on 29 November, with technicians at work to set it up in its traditional base in Piazza Venezia.
The...
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