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The number of Rom Romany people originally coming from eastern Europe living in Rome has risen from 10,000 in 2001 to 15,000 in 2005. They live in 26 encampments around the city and in the past few days the city counci...
From the end of September it should be possible to visit the building site at the Ara Pacis on Lungotevere in Augusta on weekends, ahead of the official unveiling of American architect Richard Meiers museum complex in ap...
Plans for a new nine-day international film festival in Rome next year were officially announced by Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, during the Venice film festival.
However the mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, is concer...
In an effort to improve relations with Italys large Muslim community, the minister of the interior, Giuseppe Pisan, is setting up an Islamic consultative committee to find concrete solutions to the problems of integratio...
Four leading Italian consumer associations have organised a day of protest and a strike on Wednesday 14 September. Italians are being urged not to do any shopping, not to go to the post office or the bank, not to buy pet...
Hussain Osman, also known as Hamdi Issac, one of the suspects in the failed bomb attacks on the London underground on 21 July who was arrested in Rome on 29 July, has lost his appeal in the Italian courts against extradi...
The annual edition of Rome's Notte Bianca, or White Night, will take place from the evening of 17 September until dawn on Sunday 18 September. It is the one night of the year when the city stays awake all night and this...
Laws for motorcycle riders, introduced by the Italian parliament in August, are proving too severe, according to the national union of local and city police. The laws allow the police to confiscate a motorcycle under cer...
For the third year running, on 17 September, Romes all-night happening, the Notte Bianca (White Night), will see the citys museums, parks, galleries, theatres, cinemas, sports centres, shopping centres, libraries, nightc...
Keen to improve cultural and social integration in the capital, Rome city council has announced it will be offering free courses in Arabic to adults and children in Rome. Lessons will start within a month at the S. Loren...
For the first time for several years the number of dogs adopted from the city council dog pound in August exceeded the number of strays taken into care. A total of 168 dogs were found homes, while 157 abandoned animals w...
The infamous prison, the Regina Coeli, in the Trastevere area of Rome, has become so overcrowded that 50 prisoners have been transferred to Palermo in Sicily. The maximum number of prisoners that can be accommodated in t...
Rome may have a new ruota for foundling babies a place where new mothers, who feel that for some reason they cannot keep their baby, may leave them to be cared for. Up until the 19th century, unwanted newborn babies wer...
There will be an 11 km race in Rome at midnight on Sunday 11 September starting from the Campidoglio and ending under the Arch of Constantine. The "Corriroma" competition is organised by the Italian Marathon Club and it...
Data collected by Italys Guardia della Finanza (financial controllers/tax Inspectors) and published on www.miaeconomia.it reveal that in three out of four cases property rents are not being declared to the authorities. I...
Teatro Studio, the fourth and final hall in Romes Parco della Musica, is now finished and ready to seat 350 people for shows, lectures, meetings and festivals. The 500,000 construction work was carried out over August; t...
Cut-price cars and instant degrees too good to be true? Via phone, internet, or simply door-to-door, fraud is on the rise and now accounts for just under four per cent of all crimes committed in Italy. Sergio Scicchitan...
A tough year awaits parents and teachers in Italy, as kids return from the summer break. The first issue is whether Italy can provide a decent level of education with ever-lower levels of resources, following reforms pus...
Cut-price cars and instant degrees too good to be true? Via phone, internet, or simply door-to-door, fraud is on the rise and now accounts for just under four per cent of all crimes committed in Italy. Sergio Scicchitan...
Three months and 50 million have been dedicated over the summer to improving the state of the roads in the city of Rome. When the city schools closed for the summer holidays, work began on 101 roads and piazzas, and more...
The president of Met.ro, the company running the underground railway in Rome, has promised to increase security on the network to reduce the numbers of beggars and pickpockets. Unaccompanied Romany children who are beggi...
Every Sunday anybody wanting a fresh look for the traditional Italian late-afternoon stroll can pop along to Parco della Resistenza, just off the Aventino, and have their hair cut in the open air according to Italian da...
Rome is to be granted 500 million for its three universities by INAIL, the national insurance company to which all employers have to make compulsory payments to cover employees against work-related injuries. The money fo...
There is good news for Italian wildlife according to Fulco Pratesi, president of the Italian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Despite forest fires, illegal building in protected areas, hunting and shooting...
Italian schools will open in the next few days with the average age of the teaching staff one of the oldest in Europe. According to the trades union organistation UIL, of the 680,000 teachers working in state schools, 34...
Second only to London, the cost of renting a flat in Rome has gone through the roof, suggests a new study by the national real estate federation of France (FNAIM). On average, renting an apartment in the eternal city cos...
Following an investigation by Italys telecoms watchdog, the Autorit per le telecomunicazioni, fixed-to-mobile phone calls will cost around a third less from 1 September. The Autorit concluded that Italys main mobile oper...
The Italian civil aviation authority, ENAC, has released the names of five airlines that are not allowed to fly to or over Italy. They have been added to the two airlines which were banned in 2004, (a third airline was o...
The Venice film festival, which opened on 31 August, is screening 19 films in the annual competition this year from 1-9 September. Candidates for the Leone dOro (the Venetian equivalent of an Oscar) come from Europe, Nor...
Italys most famous football referee Pierluigi Collina has retired after all. Collina, who was the referee at the last World Cup final in Korea in 2002, should have retired already since he reached his 45th birthday in Fe...
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