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A draft of measures to clean up Rome and clamp down on litter-bugs has been introduced by the city council and waste disposal unit AMA.
These include
The Confcommercio (confederation of businesses) has specified that clothes and accessory summer sales in Rome will begin on 14 June and end on 24 August.
Rome is one of the last cities to begin its summer sales: shops i...
Following research carried out on the quality of life in 21 Italian cities, conducted by Altroconsumo, an Italian consumer guardian association, Rome (50.1 marks out of 100) registered a poor 16 th place, narrowly preced...
Builders digging space for a small, private garage in a Parioli have accidentally damaged the sole Roman aqueduct still in use, leaving several of the historic centre
The Olympic village, a series of boxy, mostly two-storey buildings on stilts, was built to house athletes for the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Situated beside the Flaminio quarter on the opposite side of the Tiber from the Fo...
Rome city council is planning to move some of its offices out of the Campidoglio to the Ostiense area of the city, freeing up some 30,000 sqm of the current buildings for new public museum areas. Only the offices of the...
The Policlinico Casilino in the eastern suburbs of Rome has started up a new service in answer to the increasing number of newborn babies abandoned in the city each year. The number of babies born outside hospitals and t...
A public transport strike will take place on Fri 17 Nov from 20.30 until 24.00 affecting all metro, tram and bus services in the capital as well as the local train services Rome-Lido, Rome-Pantano and Rome-Viterbo. The n...
Ninety people die every day in Italy due to medical "errors"according to the Italian Association of Oncology which is currently holding a national convention in Milan.
Overall, medical errors account for 30-35,000 death...
2.5 million turn out for Notte Bianca
City authorities are hailing the Notte Bianca which took place on Saturday night (9 Sept) as a great success for culture and the economy. Around 2.5 million people filled the capita...
More video cameras, more police, better rubbish collection and a complete block on cars in the area this is the mayors solution for the Trevi fountain and its surrounding streets. The crush of tourists around the worlds...
Bakers in Rome have announced they may go on strike on Wednesday 26 July in protest over the new liberalization laws introduced by the government at the end of June. The new decree for their sector, aimed at increasing c...
After a year of painstaking restoration work, the Turtle Fountain in Piazza Mattei in Rome was inaugurated on 20 July. The fountain was built between 1581 and 1588 by Giacomo della Porta and Taddeo Landini, but the turtl...
The Rome summer sales are due to begin on Saturday 8 July. These will be the first under the government's new regulations to ease-up on the previously strict requirements controlling the such seasonal promotions. There w...
The Roseto Comunale di Roma will be open until 30 June. The extension to the period open for the public is thanks to the current mild climate in Rome which has not been too taxing on the 1.200 rose bushes planted there....
Italian identity cards are being issued at a rate of only 50 a day in the first municipality thanks to a shortage of council workers. The situation is even worse in the third municipality where as few as 20 a day are bei...
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