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Express shuttle train runs again between Fiumicino and Termini Station.
Rome's Fiumicino airport is once again connected by train to the city's central station Termini with the return of the Leonardo Express non-stop sh...
US excluded from list of countries allowed access to EU from 1 July.
The European Union will reopen its external borders to 14 countries from 1 July, however the US has been excluded from this travel list, released on 3...
Italy's daily death toll on 29 June was lowest since 28 February.Italy recorded 126 new positive coronavirus cases on Monday 29 June, down from 174 the day before, reports Italian news agency ANSA.There were six coronavi...
Rome marks Festa di SS. Pietro e Paolo on 29 June.
Rome celebrates its patron saints, Peter and Paul, with a public holiday in the capital on Monday 29 June, resulting in a long weekend for many Romans.
This year,...
US likely to be left off list of countries allowed access to EU.
The European Union is to reopen its external borders to citizens of 14 countries on 1 July, according to a report published by French newspaper of record...
Conte promises Italian schools will start again in "complete safety."
Italy's schools are to reopen on 14 September following a nationwide covid-19 lockdown that began on 5 March.
The news, announced by Italy's premi...
Piazza Navona restaurants honour Rome healthcare heroes in covid-19 crisis.
Four well-known restaurants in Rome's central Piazza Navona reopen officially after the covid-19 lockdown by offering 500 free dinners to the f...
Rome mayor says electric scooter users must respect the rules.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has added her voice to the growing controversy surrounding the dangerous use of electric scooters in the capital.
Raggi said th...
Located near the Amalfi Coast, Sorrento is a must-visit destination for tourists who want to immerse themselves in the Southern Mediterranean lifestyle. Sorrento is a small town with a population of 16,000, but its resid...
As from 26 June, Italy bans the use of overhead lockers for any kind of luggage, trolley suitcases included, on planes flying in and out of the country.
The only luggage allowed in the cabin will be handbags or any o...
Conte calls for patience after school reopening guidelines rejected.
Italian premier Giuseppe Conte has appealed for "a little more time" after regional governments and Italy's association of principals rejected propose...
Totti promises to retreive Rolex in person.
Francesco Totti, the former AS Roma football legend, has launched an appeal on social media requesting the public to assist him in finding his missing Rolex.
Totti took to...
The Segway was supposed to be the real revolution in city mobility, but in almost twenty years it failed to break through and become a popular mean of transport in a city environment.
The production of the iconic sel...
Rome residents have the city more or less to themselves.
Rome's tourist sites have never looked so beautiful.
The lack of international visitors due to the fallout from the covid-19 crisis means that the Eternal Ci...
Rome opera house moves outdoors to Circus Maximus for the summer.
Rome's 2020 summer opera season presented by the city's opera house will take place at the Circus Maximus, from 16 July to 13 August, the Teatro dell'Ope...
Rome's shops to hold summer sales in July and August.
The summer sales season in Rome and the Lazio region will be different than normal this year, due to the fallout from the covid-19 crisis.
The 2020 summer sales,...
Rome opens its food markets until late.
Rome's food markets are permitted to open until late - in some cases until midnight - under new legislation signed by the city's mayor Virginia Raggi.
The order simplifies exis...
Pontiff prays for seriously injured paralympic champion Zanardi.
Pope Francis has sent a handwritten letter of support to Alex Zanardi, the paralympic champion who is currently in a medically-induced coma following a se...
Behind the deceptively austere neo-classical frontage of the British School at Rome resides a lively multi-cultural community where ideas are swapped over the communal dining table.Since this is the year of EXPO Milan, i...
A culinary guide to Rome through its art galleries.
Painting and food: Rome, of course, abounds with both. But painting about food – and its sine qua non – wine? This article offers a sort of Gambero Rosso to just that...
In Italy, since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, at least 238,833 people have contracted the Sars-CoV-2 virus (+113 compared to 22 June).
Of these, 34,675 have died (+23 if compared to 22 June) and 184,585 w...
Rome and Milan veto 'Black Lives Matter' street murals.
The Sardines, the Italian grassroots political movement, has given up its plan to paint 'Black Lives Matter' on Rome's central Via del Corso after being denied per...
American tourists may be barred from Europe when EU reopens to outside world.
US travellers look set to be denied entry to the EU when the European bloc reopens its borders on 1 July, according to draft lists of countri...
Italians divided over coronavirus vaccine according to survey.
Almost one in two Italians - 41 per cent to be exact - say they would be unwilling to opt for the covid-19 vaccine once it becomes available, reports Italia...
Ups and Downs in the terrible saga of covid-19.
It’s up in New York, where residents are getting their first haircuts since mid-March, stores have reopened for shopping and restaurants and bars are again offering...
Tiberis returns to Rome river bank for third year.
Rome is seeking private sponsorship to reopen Tiberis, the city's artificial beach on the banks of the river Tiber, reports online newspaper RomaToday.
Sponsorship p...
A tabaccheria, or “tabacchi” for short, is a small quasi-convenience store that can simultaneously be a cafe, tourist trinket-shop, mini post office, and more--or none of the above. First time visitors in Italy will imme...
Rome dedicates 2020 music festival on 21 June to Ezio Bosso.
Rome's Festa della Musica, the annual event devoted to music in all its forms, will move online this year due to the covid-19 regulations against the gatherin...
Alex Zanardi was involved in a car accident in the province of Siena, during one of the stages of the relay race of "Obiettivo tricolore", a competition of Paralympic athletes participating in handbike, bicycle or Olympi...
After Milan, Rome becomes embroiled in Black Lives Matter statue debate.
A Rome street was symbolically renamed after George Floyd, the unarmed African American killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, by anti-r...
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