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The Italian football season is drawing to an end in a confused state. The Turin club Juventus, which needs only one point in its match on 14 May to win the Italian championship, is under threat and the entire board of th...
From 13 May the chapel of Villa Doria Pamphilj housed in the Villa Doria Pamphilj park close to the Gianicolo will be reopened for Sunday Mass. The funerary chapel was built along mediaeval and gothic lines with byzant...
The limited traffic zone (ZTL) in Trastevere is to be expanded to include the final section of Via della Lungara and the Ripa quadrant in order to minimise traffic jams that have been plaguing residents. Blue line metre...
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 Rome city race course, Le Capannelle, is to become a public park. The area which adjoins the Rome ring road (Gran Raccordo Anulare) and the Via Appia is 140 hectares of unspoilt countryside which until now has been u...
In contrast to the national elections, non-Italians can vote in the local elections on 28 and 29 May if they are a European Union (EU) citizen and have residency in Rome. EU citizens without Rome residency can only vote...
A new museum of contemporary art was inaugurated at the Aranciera in Villa Borghese on 10 May as part of the city authorities project to recover and make public use of Romes historic buildings. The Museo Carlo Bilotti ho...
The Rome city rose garden has opened to the public once again with more than 1,200 roses on display in the park which was once a Jewish cemetery overlooking the Palatine hill. This year the city authorities have decided...
The combined houses of the Italian parliament have elected Giorgio Napolitano the new president for the Italian republic. He won with 543 out of a total of 990 votes counted on the fourth ballot when only a simple majori...
The restored Limonaia (an orangery, but one designed for lemon trees) in the grounds of the Villa Torlonia has been reopened to the public. It has been turned into a focaccia bar, with tables in the garden for coffee, re...
Piazza S. Cosimatos 3 million facelift has been unveiled after 18 months of restoration and building work. The 10,000 sqm piazza in Trastevere is now semi-pedestrianised (with access to vehicles only at entrances and exi...
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, one of Romes major exhibition centres which has been under reconstruction for years is now due to re-open in September 2007. The huge Palaexpo building in the Via Nazionale is next to the paleo...
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...
The Rome city bus company ATAC has installed a new telephone call-system for taxi ranks in the city The new system, which went into operation on 5 May at 36 of the city ranks, has a single telephone number, 199 106 601....
A festival of philosophy will be held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome from 11 14 May. Promoted by the Rome city council, Progetto Telecom and the Fondazione Musica per Roma there will be four days of encoun...
The Italian civil aviation board has decided that Alitalia cannot run flights from the Italian mainland to the island of Sardinia. The routes have been assigned to two other Italian airlines, Air One and Meridiana. The...
Elections for the Rome mayor and city council are due to be held on 28 and 29 May. The lists of candidates for the elections for the city councillors and for the mayor have now all been screened by the city electoral off...
The Italian society for palliative care, Sicp, have conducted a survey on the close relations of 1,271 patients who have recently died of cancer. They found that 63 per cent of the patients had been unaware of their dia...
The Internazionali dItalia, the annual tennis tournament held at the Foro Italico in Rome opens on Saturday 6 May. The qualifying rounds for the mens tournament begin in earnest on 8 May, with the finals on 14 May. The...
Seriously considering letting your wardrobe have a spring fling or a summer affair? First, lets take a closer look at what this entails. Having a fling or an affair isnt long term and can actually be quite brief. You are...
There are spectacular panoramas at Guadagnolo (1,218 m), the highest village in Lazio. The narrow road up may not look particularly promising, but as you climb it leads past a series of villages and small towns Saracine...
Walking into Valle Giulia in Villa Borghese you are met with the imposing villas which house the various foreign academies. Although some have been built only recently, their architecture has been kept along Roman lines...
While the human inhabitants of Rome busy themselves with the commute to work or school, dodging motorini or tourist crocodiles, downing an espresso at a bar and a dozen other daily rituals, most are oblivious to the fact...
Most Romans have never even heard of an area of the city called Quartaccio, yet it is a dazzling little pocket-mirror of the problems facing nearly all the less well-off areas on the outskirts of Rome. It is also an exam...
Effective antitrust authorities are crucial to the working of all modern economies. But Italy, where competition is still a dirty word to many, needs them more than most.
Italy was a late starter in this field. The Ital...
The Rome city council has launched an initiative for newborn babies in Rome, a Baby Kit. The city councillor responsible for children and the family described it as a small gift to parents of babies born in one of the 31...
With the captain of the Roma football team, Francesco Totti, back in the game last weekend after damaging his ligaments in a match on 19 February, Italian football supporters are hoping that he will be in good enough for...
Muslims in Lazio prisons will now be provided with assistance and spiritual comfort from Muslim clerics and volunteers, thanks to an agreement signed between the regions prison administration and Romes Islamic centre.
T...
Silvio Berlusconis announcement that he will officially hand in his resignation as Italys prime minister on Tuesday 2 May, leaves the way open for the possible nomination of a new head of government before the end of the...
The latest parking novelty has just come into effect in Rome. The city has allocated 85 pay-parking spaces in 33 areas around the city for women who are pregnant, and to people with babies iunder a year old in the car. T...
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