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Tourism in Rome was up by 0.53 per cent last year over the previous year. Of the more than 16 million tourists who visited the city and province in 2003, 6.4 million were Italians, an increase of 4.56 per cent over the y...
Computer sales in Italy are now outstripping television sales for the first time. Last year 3,658,000 new computers were bought, compared with 3,529,000 new television sets. Most of these computers were bought by profess...
Romes two metro lines, the red line A (Battistini-Anagnina) and the blue line B (Rebibbia-Laurentina), received substandard marks in security, information and comfort, according to a new report by the agency for the city...
The long-awaited new back exit to Florence's Uffizi Museum opened 3 March. Visitors are now led through the museum to the new exit in the rear at Piazza del Grano rather than back to where they began at the entrance.
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After years of indecision work has begun on a new glass exhibition space on the Capitoline hill. When completed it will house some of the museums most famous treasures, It is to be built between Palazzo Senatorio (the ce...
Work is due to start in mid-April on a new trade exhibition centre, or Fiera di Roma, in Via Portuense near the Roma-Fiumicino motorway at Ponte Galeria. The development of the 92-ha site will cost 500 million; 38,5 mill...
Antonio Pappano, newly appointed conductor of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra will lead his musicians for the first time on 24 April at the Auditorium, Parco della Musica in Rome, in a concert of works by Haydn, Kordaly and...
A series of country-wide strikes are scheduled at the beginning of March. University teachers and students have called for protests on Thurs 4 March against the reforms proposed by the education minister Letizia Moratti....
Welsh people around the world celebrated Wales and its patron saint on Mon 1 March, St David's Day. British ambassador to Italy Sir Ivor Roberts marked the occasion by hoisting the Welsh flag outside the British embassy...
The Vatican is preparing for another busy spring. Pope John Paul II has almost completed his ambitious plan to visit all of the parishes in the Rome diocese. There are only 33 parishes left unvisited of the 336 in the ci...
"Cinecitt Campus", an artists' academy inside Rome's film studios Cinecitt, was presented to the public last week by city mayor Walter Veltroni, television personality Maurizio Costanzo and Cinecitt enterprises.
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The number of fake euro notes in circulation in Italy is on the rise, according to figures from the treasury. In 2003 there were nearly four times as many fakes changing hands as in 2002, the first year of the currency....
The Carnival trends for adults this year are dictated by Hollywood, with many costume-rental shops offering outfits used in film productions.
Cart'Incanto, Viale Tirreno 265 (Montesacro). Costumes for renaissance cou...
One of the most spectacular carnival celebrations in Rome this year will be organised by the fifth municipio (Tiburtina area); last years event was attended by 20,000 people. The aim is to recreate the atmosphere of the...
So far 89 immigrants have registered as candidates for the elections to Rome's city and municipal councils. Potential candidates have until 29 February to present their papers. The election takes place on Sunday 28 March...
Think twice before leaving your car with one of the many street car-parking attendants in the centre of Rome. You may return to find no attendant and no car. Two men were stopped by the police early in February in the a...
A new law on assisted reproduction for infertile couples passed through the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian parliament on 10 February with 277 votes in favour, 222 against and 3 abstentions. The fiercest opposition ca...
Applications to hire non-EU workers can be made following the announcement of the 2004 quotas for work permits for non-EU immigrants in Italy. This year there will be jobs for 50,000 seasonal workers, plus 29,500 places...
On Sat 14 Feb couples in Rome will be trying to break the world record in simultaneous kissing in Piazza Farnese. The current record was set in Chile, where in early Jan over 4,400 couples kissed at the same time. The St...
An exhibition on Ketty La Rocca runs 3-26 Feb at the American Academy in Rome. La Rocca, who died in 1976, was an Italian artist who produced photocollages and multimedia drawings embracing political protest, feminism an...
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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...
