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More than 47 million Italians will go to the polls on 9 and 10 April to elect a new chamber of deputies (618 deputies plus a further 12 voted for by Italians living abroad) and a new senate (309 senators plus a further 6...
There will be the 11th annual spring gardening exhibition at the Giardini della Landriana Fri 21 April-Sun 23 April, 10.00-19.00. Famous names in the world of gardening will be present to give the public ideas on how to...
Rome will celebrate the anniversary of when Romulus is commonly thought to have founded the city on 21 April, 753BC. The historical association and gladiator school, Gruppo Storico Romano, will mark the capitals birthday...
Panafricana, the Rome pan-African film festival, is currently underway and will continue until Sun 9 April, showing feature films and documentaries by established and emerging African directors. Teatro Palladium, Piazza...
Both amateur and professional runners are being encouraged to keep fit and discover new areas of Rome on Sat 8 April by participating in a six-kilometre race in the Laurentino area south of Rome. This will be followed on...
With the Italian general election imminent, the mayor or Rome, Walter Veltroni, has written to the leaders of the two political coalitions, Romano Prodi of L'Ulivo and Silvio Berlusconi of the Casa delle Libert asking wh...
An environmental impact report for the ministry of the environment has given its approval for the route for the extension of the A12 motorway along the Tyrrhenean coast from Tarquinia , north of Rome to Talamone near Po...
More than 1,500 museums, monuments and archaeological sites across Italy will be free to the public from 2-9 April during the eighth annual settimana della cultura. All state museums in Rome will participate, although it...
A new, pedestrianised Piazza di Spagna was inaugurated on 3 April after nine months of reconstruction work at a cost of 860 thousand. Traffic has been diverted so that Piazza di Spagna and Piazza Mignanelli now form one...
There will be national railway strike on Wednesday 5 April for 10.00 until 17.00. Anyone planning to travel by train on that day is advised to look at www.trenitalia.it or telephone the Trenitalia call centre number 8920...
There will not be a repeat of the beach along the Tiber this summer if the superintendent at the ministry of fine art and culture for Roman archaeology, Maurizio Galletti, has his way.
Galletti explained that in 2005 th...
The use of credit in Italy is growing steadily, with more and more families planning their spending and paying gradually for expenses such as cars, furniture, holidays, registration in gyms and health care schemes. The I...
The stretches of Lazios 361 km coast which are not fit for swimming have increased from 3,500 m in 2005 to 8,900 m this year, according to a survey by Arpa, the regional environment protection agency. The coast off-limit...
City authorities have decided that bars and restaurants must not put out street furniture in 29 historic squares in Rome. Among the areas where it is forbidden to take over any public space are Piazza di Spagna, Piazza d...
More than 1,500 museums, monuments and archaeological sites across Italy will be free to the public from 2-9 April during the eighth annual settimana della cultura. All state museums in Rome will participate, although it...
Spring has arrived and Romes transport authorities are doing everything possible to encourge people to leave cars at home and take a bicycle instead. There are already 150 km of cycle track in and around the city and a f...
ATAC has introduced a new service that allows cyclists to take their bike on the 791 bus every Sunday and on public holidays. The bus line runs along the Dorsale-Tevere route, which offers 35 km of green, cyclable paths...
The French bank BNP Paribas moved nearer to taking over Italys Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) when its bid was approved on 21 March by the central Bank of Italy. The decision by the BOI was taken based on information t...
The Bank of Italy has published a spring bulletin which paints a gloomy picture of the state of the Italian economy. The number of people in full time work has fallen for the first time in ten years by 0.4 per cent; alth...
To mark the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq a peace march is due to take place in the centre of Rome on Saturday 18 March. It will start at the Piazza Esedra at 14.30 and will follow a route which...
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