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The gardens of La Landriana at Tor San Lorernzo near Ardea will be host, from 28 April1 May, to Green Life an exhibition of garden furniture, games, swimming pools, lighting and decorative suggestions for gardens and ter...
Visitors to Rome can now buy useful three-day discount cards to museums and public transport. Thanks to a new initiative backed up the city council, the ministry of fine art and culture and the city public transport comp...
The Palazzo del Quirinale will open to the public for ten days in May to show off the restoration of 17th century friezes that have hidden from view for over a century. The discoveries were made over the last seven years...
There will be national strike of local public transport in Italy on Friday 28 April. In Rome and Lazio the strike will begin at 8.30 and end at 16.30 and there will be no buses, trams, metro trains or local trains to Ost...
Dutch artist Johanne Vermeers 1667 work The Love Letter is on show for the first time in Rome, at Palazzo Barberini, which houses Italys national collection of ancient art.
The event marks the opening of space returned...
Almost every visitor to Rome passes through the Piazza Venezia and admires the city policeman who stands on a round platform directing the apparently chaotic traffic. What few people know is that over the years the roun...
The Teatro Capranica has had a chequered career since its inauguration in 1679 within the magnificent Palazzo Capranica, a palace dating back to the fifteenth century and one of the few pre-Renaissance buildings of impor...
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...
Unesco has named Turin and Rome as world book capitals for 2006 and from Saturday 22 April until Tuesday 25 April Rome will be offering a large programme in libraries all over the region of Lazio, the province and the ci...
As of 15.00 Friday 21 April until 21.00 Romans and tourists can visit the restored Ara Pacis monument free of charge following the official inauguration Friday morning of its smart new home designed by American Architect...
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...
Victory in Italys general election has finally been confirmed to the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi, following a review of electoral returns and disputed ballot papers by the Supreme Court. Some members of the...
The Italian spring is crowded with important elections. Once the general election results have finally been confirmed the senate and the chamber of deputies have to vote for a new president of the Italian republic. Two w...
The Italian ministry for fine art and culture has recently announced that it is now in a position to buy the part of the Palazzo Altemps which is not already owned by the state. Palazzo Altemps, just north of the Piazza...
Rome hosts the biggest rubbish dump in Europe, claimed to be now nearly full to overflowing, the fulcrum of a rubbish crisis facing all of Italy today. Yet plans are afoot to exploit the unlovely tip further, with public...
Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-1479) is one of the most enigmatic of early Renaissance painters. He came out of nowhere. His life was short, his travels wrapped in mystery. That dear old gossip in Arezzo painter and biog...
Work by Romanian photographer Mihaela Marin is on show in the exhibition The Portrait of Dorian Gray at the Romanian Academy. 27 April-12 May.
The photographs were taken during a performance of Dragos Galgotius ballet...
In the south-east suburbs of Rome, past Anagnina, lies the eighth municipality of Roma delle Torri, or Rome of the towers so called because of the mediaeval towers which once characterised the landscape. Now what you se...
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...
Franco Alfano (1876 -1954), the composer of this evenings attractive tragic fairytale, was a highly respected musical figure in Italy throughout the first half of the 20th century, composing operas, chamber works, ballet...
Under a new law, number 150 of 13 March, which came into effect on 14 April, bus, taxi and lorry drivers must now wear safety belts when driving their vehicles. Bus passengers on long journeys and commuter buses will als...
A new monument will be erected in the gardens of Piazza Venezia in memory of those who died during the liberation of Rome from Nazi occupation. The work, created by sculptor Alessio Paternesi, will be placed where the cu...
City authorities have presented the plan for a new metro line, the so-called metro D, which would link EUR in the south of the city with Montesacro in the north. The line, which would run for 20 km through 22 stations, w...
Rome is full of tourists for the Easter weekend, the city authorities claiming that the numbers are 20 per cent up on last Easter. The streets are thronged and the coffee shops and bars, particularly those with tables on...
The contested ballot papers in the Italian elections last week have turned out to be lower than expected according to the ministry of the interior. There are now only about 2,000 disputed ballots rather than the 45,000 e...
The mandate of the president of the Italian republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, expires on 18 May so he may not be the person who nominates the countrys new prime minister.
The first appointment for all of the newly elected...
A reassessment of some ballot papers was set to take place by 22.00 on Thursday evening following the refusal by centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi to accept defeat in the elections. Around 43,000 ballot papers for th...
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