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The power of Address Unknown lies in the simplicity of its telling. It is a story of friendship and its disintegration, and of the bitterness and tragedy that unfolds as a result. Published in 1938, it is also a damning...
After more than half a century, and years of negotiations, the Circolo degli Ufficiali (officers club) is finally preparing to move out of Palazzo Barberini into nearby Palazzina Savorgnan di Brazza. The move will mean t...
Builders redeveloping a former wasteland on the north-eastern outskirts of Rome unearthed a second century AD necropolis containing several sealed sarcophagi. Local historians and archaeologists were aware of the existen...
The new winter timetable for the Italian state railways comes into effect on 11 December. All the new train times are visible on the website of trenitalia, www.trenitalia.it.
A new station will be opened on the line bet...
Thursday 8 December is the religious feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and an Italian public holiday. Pope Benedict XVI will conduct mass to celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conceptio...
The Olympic torch for the 2006 Winter Olympic games, which open in Turin on 10 February, will arrive in Rome on 8 December and will be lit in the Piazza del Quirinale by the president of the republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciamp...
A voucher payment system for occasional workers will be experimented in ten Italian cities, starting in the new year. The vouchers will bring many people, who currently work illegally with no social security contribution...
The Teatro alla Scala opera house in Milan will open for the 2005-2006 season, at 18.00 on 7 December, (the feast of the citys patron saint, S. Ambrogio) with a production of Idomeneo King of Crete by Wolfgang Amadeus Mo...
Several hundred Italian police and carabinieri held an early morning raid on demonstrators against a project for a new high-speed railway line from Turin to Lyon in France.
Demonstrators were taken away from their Vena...
Italian towns and cities produced 31.1 tonnes of household rubbish in 2004, a 3.7 per cent increase on the previous year. This is according to the latest report from environment watchdogs, the Agenzia per la Protezione d...
There are 1,026 medals ready for the winners of the Winter Olympic Games, which open in Turin on 10 February. As large as a CD and slightly concave, the medals are like doughnuts (or Olympic rings) with a hole in the mid...
Two key transport arteries servicing the Rome metropolitan area the Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA) ring road and the Rome-Fiumicino motorway could become toll-paying roads. Drivers accessing the GRA from four main motor...
An information desk has opened at the immigration offices in Via Teofilo Patini in the Tor Cervara area of the city. It is designed to help any immigrants going home for the Christmas holidays who need information, regar...
Petrol prices in Italy are notoriously high, with the average price of a litre of unleaded at 1.25, slightly above the European Union average of 1.23, and well above the price in France (1.18) and Spain (1.01). Part of t...
Anyone caught picking up a prostitute in Romes densely populated VII municipality will be fined 500, according to a new proposal put forward by the areas president, Stefano Tozzi. He hopes this measure will stop, or at l...
A new bookshop called Libreria Punch selling English books has opened in the Monteverde Vecchio area of Rome. The shop sells books in English and Italian, CDs, films, cards and gifts.
Piazza Rosolino Pilo 6. Tel. 06580...
Rome will be hard hit this year by the exemption of church property and non-profit organisations from payment of ICI, a local-property tax. In Rome, the Catholic Church owns extensive property, not just church buildings...
Roadworks have been completed on one of Romes busiest thoroughfares, Via del Tritone, between Largo Chigi and Largo Tritone. The works, which began in August, meant that part of the street became one-way only and that th...
Although the expensive public works project to save the Venice lagoon, called Moses, is already under construction, the mayor of Venice doubts whether this system of hydraulic dams will be sufficient to cope with rising...
The water in the Tiber has reached danger levels for the first time in several decades because of heavy seasonal rain and snow along its basin. The water has reached 15 metres at Fidene (around 10 km north of the city ce...
There were scenes from the Far West on Romes ring road at the end of November when a young buffalo escaped onto one of the citys busiest thoroughfares from a nearby farm. The animal, frightened by the traffic, galloped a...
Italy hasnt exactly been at the forefront of the radical changes civil aviation has undergone in recent years. Nevertheless, things have moved gradually and Wanted in Romes readers will have sampled the benefits, in term...
From now until spring, Italian politics will have three intertwined campaigns to excite the minds and submerge the media. The first two are the general election for a new parliament and government (likely date 9 April) a...
Baked beans, chocolate-chip cookies, pancakes, vegemite, peanut butter: theres no end to the number of goodies that bring home comfort to the thousands of ex-pats living in Rome.
No friend coming to visit is spared the...
The Teatro Olimpico in the Flaminio area of Rome reopened in November after six months restoration. The inaugural event, a performance of Pasiones Tango y musical, marked the start of a new chapter in the history of the...
A rebellion has broken out among artists facing eviction from Piazza Navona. The rebels vowed open confrontation with the authorities if they were forced out. Well never leave this square. Well leave our skin on its cobb...
=The 42nd Festival di Nuova Consonanza continues with two concerts at the French Academy.
At the first, on 15 Dec at 19.00, the trio Roberto Fabbriciani (flute), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) and Roberto Prosseda (pian...
Sunday 30 October sees the end of European summer time for 2005 when clocks will go back from 03.00 02.00 on Sunday morning. Clocks will revert to European summer time once more, going forward on hour on Sunday 26 March...
Before the end of 2005 new health cards will be sent out to 58 million people resident in Italy. The card, or tessera sanitaria, looks just like a credit card. On one side it has the name of the holder, place and date of...
Tickets will be on sale until 15 December for the two rugby matches to be played in Italy in the Six Nations Cup competition, which is played every year between England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy. The tw...
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