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Rome offers shelter to homeless people in city's metro stations.
As night temperatures in Rome drop below 0°, the capital has introduced a piano freddo, or cold plan, in preparation for the "eventuality of snow, ice and...
Rome mayor announces "complete restyling" of Monti district.The Monti quarter of central Rome will have new pedestrian areas, wider pavements and reduced speed limits for traffic in 2019, according to the city's mayor Vi...
The Festa di Roma, Rome's celebrations for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, includes a 24-hour programme of free concerts and cultural events, beginning at the Circus Maximus at 21.00 on 31 December, known in Italy as...
Rome mayor bans use of firecrackers and bangers over New Year.
Rome has banned the use of firecrackers and bangers from 00.01 on 31 December 2018 until midnight on 1 January 2019, following an order signed by the city's...
Guide to celebrating the festive season in the Eternal City.
The Christmas season in Rome is a particularly festive experience thanks to the traditional display of Christmas street lights and Nativity scenes in churches...
Net around Rome's Netflix-sponsored tree to prevent accidents and theft.
Rome's Netflix-sponsored Christmas tree has lost a little of its magic following the installation of a large net under the base of the 20-m high f...
Rome replaces paper carte d'identità with electronic identity cards.
Rome is issuing plastic identity cards, or carte d'identità, replacing the existing paper format with a credit card-sized electronic card.
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Rome mayor says her concern is that capital is "cleaned as soon as possible."
Italy's environment minister Sergio Costa has stated that a "task force" has been set up to tackle Rome's rubbish crisis following the massiv...
Rome issues guidelines to cope with expected big freeze.
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi has issued guidelines to residents of the capital as the city prepares for a severe drop in temperature, expected towards the end of D...
Raggi said Rome had already planned to close the Salaria plant in 2020.
Rome's mayor Virigina Raggi has attracted criticism for her suggestion that the TMB Salaria waste treatment plant, destroyed by fire on 11 December...
Fire sends acrid fumes of burnt plastic into Rome centre.
Rome firefighters are battling a massive fire at a waste treatment plant on Via Salaria in the north-eastern outskirts of the capital.The blaze which broke out a...
20 brass cobblestones removed during night from Monti area of Rome.
20 brass cobblestone memorials to Jewish victims of the Holocaust have been stolen from a street in the central Monti district of Rome.The memorials, d...
Rome police arrest Italian driver at Spanish Steps in Rome.A 27-year-old motorist was arrested in the early hours of 9 December after driving his car, a Peugeot 206, down the first dozen steps of Rome's Scalinata di Trin...
Positive reaction on social media after rocky start for Rome's Netflix-sponsored Christmas tree.Romans have responded positively to the city's Christmas tree whose lights were switched on by the mayor Virginia Raggi on t...
Fire destroys Giulio Passami l'Olio in central Rome.
A fire broke out during the night of 6 December at Giulio Passami l'Olio, a well-known wine bar and restaurant on Via Monte Giordano, in the historic centre of the ca...
Vatican illuminates Christmas tree lights a day before Rome's Netflix Christmas tree.
The Vatican will switch on the lights on its Christmas tree in St Peter's Square at 16.30 on the afternoon of Friday 7 December.The 2...
Missing branches from Rome's Netflix-sponsored tree will be re-attached.
Rome's Christmas tree, sponsored by Netflix, has got off to an inauspicious start, already earning the nickname 'Spezzacchio' thanks to its "broke...
Rome's English tea rooms celebrates its 125th anniversary with a free Christmas concert on the Spanish Steps on 5 December.Babingtons, the historic English tea rooms in Rome, hosts a free Christmas concert at the Spanish...
Rome mayor to switch on lights on Netflix-sponsored Christmas tree.
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi will turn on the lights of the city's Christmas tree, sponsored by Netflix, in Piazza Venezia on 8 December.Raggi made the...
Landmark Rome bridge closed due to falling marble from Valadier Tower.
Rome's historic Ponte Milvio bridge has been closed to pedestrians after fragments of marble fell from Torretta Valadier, the gateway triumphal arch...
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Aperitif at the organic restaurant
Join Club Tutti Expats & Locals of Roma (https://www.meetup.com/clubtuttiroma) for a delightful aperitif which will be held on Friday April 26th at 6:30 PM at the organic restauran...
