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04/02/2012 - Schools to stay closed Monday

Schools in Rome will stay closed also on Monday, mayor Gianni Alemanno has announced. The prefect will make the same decision for public administration offices, but those providing essential services will remain open, he added, in view of heavy snowfall predicted for... [more]

04/02/2012 - St Peter's under the snow www.agenziamobilita.roma.it

As Rome awoke to a thick blanket of snow, up to 10 cm in some areas, many of those in the S. Pietro district made their way to St Peter’s Square. Almost all were armed with cameras, aimed primarily at a... [more]

03/02/2012 - Snow closes Rome’s schools and museums

Rome's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, has ordered the closure of the city's schools and offices on Saturday 4 February. Many of Rome’s schools were already deserted on Friday, apart from teaching and administrative staff. The city’s cultural sovrintendenza ordered the closure of... [more]

03/02/2012 - Snow causes traffic problems in Rome www.agenziamobilita.roma.it

Snowfall in the city of Rome is seriously affecting traffic and public transport, with long tailbacks along the Lungotevere and fewer buses circulating. Crowds are gathered at bus stops in the centre and it is almost impossible to hail a cab.... [more]

03/02/2012 - Bread for the needy

Rome bakers have begun donating unsold bread and bakery products at the end of each day’s trade to the homeless and to the “families of the fourth week” – those whose income doesn’t stretch to the end of the month. The project... [more]

03/02/2012 - Six Nations Rugby in Rome www.shamrockpubroma.it

As a busy weekend of rugby approaches, with the beginning of rugby's Six Nations tournament, Wanted in Rome publishes the fixtures below. In the first weekend, Italy take on France in Paris, England face Scotland in Edinburgh and Wales cross the... [more]

03/02/2012 - Theft and vandalism at Rome’s Villa Medici www.villamedici.it

Vandals have attacked and stolen several statues from the gardens of Villa Medici in Rome, the seat of the French Academy, situated between the Spanish Steps and Villa Borghese. The academy’s director Éric de Chassey confirmed that the vandals had come on... [more]

03/02/2012 - Rome’s Comunità di S. Egidio celebrates 44 years www.santegidio.org

Rome-based charitable organisation Comunità di S. Egidio celebrated its 44th anniversary on 1 February with a Mass in the Basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano. In attendance, alongside the many needy people helped by the charity, were bishops, cardinals, ambassadors and... [more]

03/02/2012 - Charles Dickens bicentenary opens at Keats-Shelley House www.keats-shelley-house.org

On 7 February, the day of the anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth in 1812, the classic film Great Expectations (1946), directed by David Lean, will be shown at the Keats-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna 26 at 14.30 (118 mins). The film is... [more]

02/02/2012 - Another public transport strike in Rome www.agenziamobilita.roma.it

There is a 24-hour public transport strike scheduled in Rome for Monday 6 February. Organised by trade unions, the protest involves all of Rome’s public transport services including buses, trams, A and B metro lines, and the Rome-Giardinetti and Rome-Civitacastellana-Viterbo light... [more]

01/02/2012 - Rome targets dirty dog owners

Rome has stepped up its campaign to catch dog owners who fail to remove their animal’s excrement from the capital’s pavements, streets and parks. After the city’s refuse collection facility AMA identified the worst-affected streets, plain-clothes agents from the urban police’s Pics... [more]

31/01/2012 - Below zero temperatures forecast for Rome

Rome is bracing itself for an unusually cold spell from 31 January, with an icy wind from Siberia known as the Buran bringing temperatures that could reach as low as -10 in central Italy during the first week of February. In... [more]

30/01/2012 - Louis Vuitton cinema-fashion house in Rome www.altaroma.it

The Maison Louis Vuitton Roma Etoile opened in the centre of Rome on 27 January, with actors Cate Blanchett and Catherine Deneuve among the celebrities at the launch party. Billed as a combination of fashion and celluloid, the Roma Etoile concept store... [more]

30/01/2012 - Rome’s Venerable English College celebrates 650 years www.englishcollegerome.org

Rome’s Venerable English College, a Catholic seminary for the training of English and Welsh men for the priesthood, celebrated its 650th anniversary on 27 January. Many of the bishops who attended celebrations on Sunday 29 January were former students of the college... [more]

27/01/2012 - Rome gives go-ahead for Holocaust museum

Rome’s city council has finally approved the construction of a €13 million Holocaust museum, to be located in the grounds of Villa Torlonia, the neoclassical former residence of Mussolini from 1925-1943. On 26 January the asssembly voted unanimously in favour of... [more]

20/01/2012 - Rome’s Etruscan collection expands

The National Etruscan museum in Rome’s Villa Giulia has inaugurated four new exhibition spaces dedicated to the ancient city of Veio, as well as opening the nearby Villa Poniatowski, thus concluding a long-term project to expand the Etruscan museum network in... [more]

19/01/2012 - Rome’s Villa Carpegna park reopens

The historic Villa Carpegna park between the Aurelian hill and Via Gregorio VII was reopened on 15 January after being closed for more than seven months for renovation and redevelopment works. Dating from the 17th century, the villa closed last summer when... [more]

18/01/2012 - New head of UN’s World Food Program

Ertharin Cousin, the current US ambassador to the United Nation’s Rome-based food agencies, is to become executive director of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP). The office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon confirmed on 17 January that Cousin would take over... [more]

18/01/2012 - Costa Crociera captain released on house arrest

The death toll from the shipwreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio north of Rome has risen to 11, following the discovery of a further five bodies during the afternoon of 17 January, four days after the Costa Concordia ran aground... [more]

18/01/2012 - Taxi drivers protest in Rome

Hundreds of taxis have been gathering around the Circo Massimo from mid-morning on 18 January, causing possible diversion of public transport in the area. There are reports of long queues for taxis at Fiumicino airport with many people opting to take... [more]

News in Europe

Paris, France: France goes for bicycling

published on 03/02/2012

The French ministry of transport is to encourage schemes to promote...

Milan, Italy: Affordable Art Fair 2012 opens

published on 03/02/2012

For the second year running, the Affordable Art Fair (2-5 Feb)...

London, United Kingdom: London’s literacy drive

published on 03/02/2012

The department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in London is providing...

Barcelona, Spain: Spanair workers approached by Ryanair and Vueling

published on 02/02/2012