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Rome swaps cobbles for asphalt, and vice-versa, on streets in the city centre, causing much debate in the capital. Rome's historic cobblestones are in the news again as the mayor Virginia Raggi continues the city's proj...
Rome bestows honorary citizenship on Liliana Segre, Manuel Bortuzzo, and the Unknown Soldier. Liliana Segre, the 90-year-old Italian life senator and Holocaust survivor, received honorary citizenship of Rome during a ce...
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Level 2 heat warning in Rome and Lazio region for Wednesday 7 July. Rome is braced for mid-week temperatures in the high 30s as the second heatwave of the summer sweeps across Italy, according to Meteo 3B weather foreca...
Five people caught after running away from Piazza Navona fountain. Rome police fined five people, aged between 25 and 30, after the group jumped into the waters of Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona...
Rainstorm, hailstones lead to floods and transport problems in Rome. A violent rainstorm caused havoc on the streets of Rome on Tuesday afternoon, leading to widespread flooding, particularly in the northern parts of th...
Nobody injured in incident in Rome's Torpignattara suburb. Two cars ended up inside a large chasm after part of a street collapsed in the Torpignattara suburb of Rome. There was nobody injured in the incident which t...
Tiberis is expected to open from 1 June until 12 September this year. Tiberis, Rome's artificial beach on the banks of the river Tiber, is preparing to reopen again for the fourth summer in a row. The city is has put...
Onlookers surprised to see public city bus join funeral procession in Rome suburb. It is not every day that a public bus joins in the funeral cortege of a private citizen but this is what happened in a Rome suburb on th...
Sarcastic post by Rome mayoral candidate goes viral but city says project is work in progress. A newly asphalted bicycle track along Rome's river Tiber has become the target of derision since it was highlighted by a pro...
Rome mayor ridiculed for social media gaffe. Rome is hosting the Ryder Cup 2023 and in preparation for the major international golfing event the city's mayor, Virginia Raggi, launched a promotional video. Too bad tha...
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City takes advantage of lack of tourists to repave Piazza della Rotonda. Rome is undertaking works to repave the cobblestones, or sampietrini, at Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon. News of the 'redevelopm...
Cristina Corbucci becomes first female traffic conductor in Rome's Piazza Venezia. When Rome recently reintroduced the traffic conductor's podium in the central Piazza Venezia it was welcomed back by nostalgic Romans, h...
Italy's gap between births and deaths in 2020 widest since 1918 during the Spanish flu epidemic. Italy's population fell by almost 384,000 last year, following record low births and the highest number of deaths since wo...
New green space to "heal an open wound in the heart of Rome." Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has announced that works are underway to create a 'Baroque-style' garden above the underground car park on Via Giulia, the historic...
Podium used by traffic police is back in operation in central Rome. Romans have welcomed back the traditional sight of a traffic official conducting rush-hour transport from a podium in the city's central Piazza Venezia...
Our ultimate guide to Rome in March.  Rome sees a rise in visitors in March, who take advantage of the warming weather to explore archaeological sites at length and make a trip to the beach. March is not yet high season...
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