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On average four pedestrians a day are knocked over by a vehicle in Italys capital city.
This alarming figure has recently emerged from traffic police reports.
One of the principal causes is that pedestrian crossings...
City authorities have begun a 300,000 clean-up campaign to remove illegal posters from walls around the city. The Mura Pulite, or Clean Walls, initiative will continue until mid July, with 28 three-man squads working thr...
The active volcano on the holiday island of Stromboli, one of the Aeolian islands, has been provided with six bunkers to protect tourists from lava bombs. Stromboli is part of the region of Sicily and has a volcano which...
The Rome University of Tor Vergata is celebrating its first 25 years. The university was founded outside the Roman ring road on the south-east side of the city and has quickly grown into the best equipped, if the most di...
The Italian national holiday on 2 June marks the 60th anniversary this year of the declaration of the Italian republic. As usual there will be a military parade in the morning in Via dei Fori Imperiali and this year ther...
It had long been assumed that most of todays Tuscans were directly descended from the Etruscans who settled in the area in the eighth century BC. That was until Guido Barbujani, professor of biology at the University of...
A newly discovered asteroid has been named Romaplanetario to celebrate the second anniversary of the reopening of the Rome Planetarium. The decision to baptise asteroid 66458 in the museums name was made by Gianluca Masi...
Istat, the state statistics institute, describes Italy as a country of great inequality in its latest annual report. More than almost any other country in Europe, there is a growing margin between people who are discreet...
At midnight on Saturday 27 May the Doges clock tower in Venice which stands next to the Basilica S. Marco and across the square from the bell tower will be re-opened following a complete restoration lasting on and off si...
A new initiative is underway to give more of taxpayers money to charity. Introduced by finance minister of the Berlusconi government, Giulio Tremonti in his 2006 budget, 5x1000 is estimated to give 270 million to social...
There are almost six thousand towns and villages in Italy with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants and the newly installed government is planning to revive a law originally proposed in 2003 but never passed, designed both to p...
A special initiative open free for all Roman residents over the age of 65 is beginning at the Bioparco ( the Roman zoo in the Villa Borghese) from 1016 May. Promoted by the city council and supported by the Italian asso...
The Papal Swiss Guard celebrates its 500th anniversary at the Vatican on Saturday 6 May and the oldest regiment in the British army will be participating in the festivities. The Honourable Artillery Companys pikemen and...
25 April is a public holiday in Italy to celebrate the liberation of the country from nazi and fascist control at the end of world war two. In Rome there will be a series of events beginning at 09.00 when the president o...
When Silvio Berlusconis government pledged 1,000 to every baby born in Italy in 2005 to families with income of less than 50,000 in 2004, his coalition allies in the Northern League insisted that this money should only b...
Euroflora, Italys grandest and largest flower show, opens at the Fiera di Genova on 21 April, it is being held for the first time since 2001. This enormous exhibition will take up 13 hectares (more than 30 acres) of show...
Pope Benedict XVI is to visit Poland from 25 to 28 May when he will visit Wadowice, the home town of his predecessor Pope John Paul II, and the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz as well as Czestochowa, Polands holiest...
On 21 April, Romes birthday, the first eight pavilions of the new Fiera di Roma will be officially inaugurated. The new complex when completed will have 22 pavilions occupying 186,000 sqm, a head office, a conference cen...
The Italian supreme court has ruled that parents must help pay for the maintenance of their children even when they are qualified and have a degree.
The court ruled that the financial responsibility of the parents could...
Thousands of tourists and pilgrims have filled the city for Holy Week, sightseeing and attending the religious celebrations at the Vatican city.
The Via Crucis, the 14 stations of the cross, will take place as usual on...
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