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Italians put other nationalities in the shade when it comes to wearing sunglasses, with 56 per cent of citizens wearing theirs every day, according to the Associazione Nazionale Fabbricanti Articoli Ottici (Anfao). Last...
The Golden Gala athletics meeting takes place in Rome 11 July and looks set to attract many of the biggest stars of track and field. The meeting is one of six single-day events that are held over the summer and make up t...
Canadian singer Alanis Morisette will be headlining a free concert in Piazza del Popolo on 12 July, which will also see performances by Britain's Craig David and Will Young and Italian stars Velvet and Nicol Fabi. The mu...
The final of the first eight-a-side football tournament "Senza frontiere" (without borders) takes place on 16 July. The event was organised by the Associazione Senza Frontiere and the Associazione Romana Pro Juventute to...
Footballer Francesco Totti, captain of Roma, star of the Italian national team and butt of innumerable jokes based on his alleged lack of brain power, is enjoying the last laugh. His book, "Tutte le barzellette su Totti....
An Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) has opened in the Vatican that gives instructions to users in Latin. "Inserito scidulam quaeso ut faciundam cognoscas rationem", the initial screen commands. The cashpoint can only be us...
The city council has opened an office of "Decoro Urbano" which is open Mon-Fri, 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-16.00, to receive residents' complaints about urban decay by telephone and e-mail. Office staff locate the problems, t...
Italians are among the unhappiest people in the world, according to a survey of 40 countries conducted by the research institute Censis, with 26.4 percent dissatisfied with the quality of their lives compared with a glob...
Richard Alford, the director of the British Council in Italy, has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queens Birthday Honours List. Alford has been director of the British Council...
On 20 June the international community will turn its attention to the 20 million men, women and children worldwide who are currently under the protection of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees having been for...
Hollywood superstar George Clooney is due in Rome on 24 June to donate ten "superscooters" to the Running Heart Foundation. The scooters are designed to get emergency equipment to heart attack victims quickly through tra...
Britain has a new ambassador to the Quirinale, Sir Ivor Roberts. He replaces Sir John Shepherd, who has retired after three years in Italy.
Sir Ivor has been in the British diplomatic service since 1968, starting his ca...
The 40th anniversary of the acquisition of Villa Doria Pamphili by the city council will be marked by a four-day festival in what is now the largest public park in Rome. The celebrations will include music, dance and the...
The beautiful Greek bronze of a dancing satyr, fished from the sea off Sicily in 1998, is on show at the Capitoline Museums until 7 July after a successful spell at Palazzo Montecitorio. Dated 3rd-2nd century BC, it took...
Lyric opera will be performed at the baths of Caracalla this summer for the first time in ten years. George Bizet's "Carmen" will echo around the Roman ruins on eight dates beginning 24 July, directed by Michel Plasson a...
If you receive an e-mail or an SMS message to your cell phone from an unknown source instructing you to dial a number beginning with the digits 899, beware: the call could cost you as much as 10 and maybe more. Easily c...
The fifth annual wine Oscars, organised by the AIS (Associazione Italiana Sommelier), will be held on Saturday 7 June at the Cavalieri Hilton, Via A. Cadlolo 101, at 16.00. The prize-giving ceremony will be followed by a...
Two new post offices have opened in the suburbs of Rome, one in Nuovo Salario (Piazza F. de Lucia) and the other in Tor Bellamonaca (Via Cambellotti). The new outlets are equipped for receiving disabled customers, have c...
Students at the Universit La Sapienza will soon be able keep up with classes even when too exhausted to make it out of bed, by logging onto a live broadcast of their lectures. The Dipartimento di Scienze della Communicaz...
The city council is setting up a "discrimination observatory" in collaboration with the Istituto Psicoanalitico per la Ricerche Sociali to monitor how its services apply to foreign residents. The office will also promote...
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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...
