Rome's city council has launched another campaign to free the city's streets and parks of dog excrement and litter. The recently created office for urban decorum is working with the city's environmental agency, AMA, to s...
If you're in desperate need of a cultural fix after a long summer at the beach, try visiting one of Rome's many foreign academies, which offer a wide range of concerts, conferences and exhibitions that attract artists an...
A memorial stone inscribed with the names of some 600 victims of the Mafia since the end of the second world war will be placed at the entrance of Villa Osio in Viale di Porta Ardeatina, Romes mayor Walter Veltroni has a...
23 Sept-9 Oct. 2003. A collection of Italian aereonautical posters from 1910 to 1943 from the Massimo and Sonia Cirulli Archive in New York, plus graphic work by Mario Sironi and Bruno Munari.
20 Sept-30 Nov. 2003 Romes richest festival, organised by the French Academy and the city council, runs for longer than usual this year. The 350 artists from 15 different countries who are participating in the avant-gard...
As part of the park's centenary celebrations there are free fitness lessons at Villa Borghese every Sunday morning. There are qualified instructors for stretching, low-impact aerobics, walking, self defence and more. Les...
A plan to build floating homes for artists and students along the banks of the river Tiber has been given an 85 per cent approval rating in an online referendum launched by the city council. The project envisages a serie...
As part of its 2003 centenary programme, the Keats-Shelley House is holding a three-day literary festival in collaboration with the British School at Rome.
The festival focuses on the relationships between Romanticism...
Top-flight football has returned to Italy on schedule, but yet again the start of the season was marred by controversy, with Serie B matches delayed following a row over the expansion of the division and television right...
The number of road deaths in Italy this summer is down by 35 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to figures published by the interior ministry. Between 30 June and 28 August there were 698 fatal acc...
The Go.Card scheme, which enables 18 to 30-year-olds to claim discounts at certain cinemas, theatres, museums and shops in Rome, has been extended to young people who live outside the city and now costs 6. Launched on an...
Mystery writers are often a mystery themselves, and few more so than Donna Leon. Until her latest book Uniform Justice appeared, her author profile was exceedingly discreet: she lives near Venice and teaches at a univers...
The summer months of July and August have seen a baby boom in Milan. Births were up 10 per cent in these two summer months over the same period last year. There is a similar trend in Rome. So far this year births in priv...