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Rome city council is setting up a car-sharing scheme. It plans to buy 300, four-seater electric cars; these will be hired out from stands at the major car parks near the city centre, to people who park their vehicles and...
Rome city mayor, Walter Veltroni, presented a 60 million project for a sports complex to be built by 2008 at the Rome University campus at Tor Vergata, on the southern outskirts of the city. The project includes one outd...
The Rome city council will soon begin a complicated move in which 5,000 employees will be transferred into premises in the Ostiense area. Six council departments, currently in offices all over the city, will come under o...
The Capitoline Museums have introduced a facility for visitors who are blind or partially-sighted. A special itinerary has been laid out, with information in Braille and a free audio guide; visitors are also provided wit...
The Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse gases came into force at midnight on Tuesday 15 February. But four European Union countries, including Italy, have yet to receive approval for their plans to reduce the polluting c...
This opera, first performed in 1823 at La Fenice in Venice, was the last Rossini wrote for an Italian theatre before taking off to try his fortune in Paris, and was an enormous success. Although its overture and one of t...
The children's department of Rome city council and the city police have joined forces to encourage children to walk to school. More than 700 children from 22 city junior schools are taking part in the first stage of this...
On Thursday 17 February vehicles with licence plates ending in an odd number will not be able circulate in the "fascia verde" in Rome. This is the sixth Thursday when private traffic on the city roads in the "green zone"...
After weeks of negotiations and rumours of imminent legal action, the board of Fiat, the Italian vehicle-makers, and that of General Motors, one of Americas leading car manufacturers, have announced that they have reache...
According to the Italian national research councils institute of meteorology, more than 90 per cent of Italian adults consult a weather forecast every day and 18.4 per cent do so more than once a day. With the public bec...
Andrea Carandini, an expert on Roman archaeology, has announced two important discoveries in the Roman Forum. The professor, who has been studying and excavating in the Forum for more than 20 years, revealed that one exc...
Sunday 6 February.
Pope John Paul II, suffering from complications of influenza, appeared at the open hospital window to bless pilgrims and patients waiting below.
Ireland beat Italy in the first match of the Six Nat...
Police were called in on 11 February to dislodge protesters from outside the civic museum in Mazara del Valle in Sicily, which houses the beautiful 3rd century BC bronze statue called the Dancing Satyr.
The demonstrati...
The Italian government has given the go-ahead for an internet link to connect all the countrys public administration centres. It is estimated that about 15,000 offices will be involved at both the local level and oversea...
Since the January introduction in Italy of a law that forbids smoking in public places, Rome has developed a new pavement society. Smart restaurants have furnished the pavements outside their establishments with benches,...
On Sunday 13 February all private traffic, including motorcycles, will be banned from circulating within the "green zone" in Rome from 10.00 until 18.00. This is a large area of the city and extends well beyond the histo...
The European Union laid down guidelines on gas emissions and pollution in 1999 that came into effect in Italy on the 1 January 2005. The rules say that levels polvere sottile (fine dust) must not exceed 50 micrograms per...
Railway workers unions have confirmed a 24-hour train strike, starting at 21.00 on 10 February until the same time on Friday 11 February. The walkout is in defiance of a ruling by the government's minister for infrastruc...
Research conducted recently on assisted reproduction in Italy indicates that the number of couples seeking treatment has dropped since a new law came into effect on 10 March 2004. According to the survey, which covered t...
Selective memory can be very dangerous both for those who remember and those who are forgotten. Its effects are particularly insidious when the selector is a government. This week, Italy is indulging in just that.
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With the news late on 1 February that Pope John Paul II had been admitted to the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome with breathing complications, the city once again woke up to the realisation that it is home to one of the worl...
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the area around Piazza di Spagna was known by the Romans as il ghetto degli inglesi because of its popularity amongst British and American artists, writers and poets resident...
Dangerous, noisy and dirty just three of the reasons people warn you never to even think about getting a motorino in Rome. Of course theyre right: one glance at the casualty wards on any evening gives hard evidence of t...
It could seem inappropriate to remember the reopening of the Italian opera theatres La Fenice in Venice and La Scala in Milan at the end of last year in the context of the catastrophic and profound effects of the earthqu...
l The French Academy is celebrating the completion of a restoration project with an exhibition by German artist Anselm Kiefer. Work on the 16th-century villa, including the refurbishment of the bar and cinema room, has b...
The number of licences requested by Chinese manufacturers to import their goods into Italy more than doubled in January, when quotas on imports from China into the European Union were dropped. The increase in demand for...
The Rome city council has given final planning permission for a new 225 million congress centre and hotel in EUR. Designed by the Roman architect Massimiliano Fuksas, the centre has been dubbed La Nuvola or The Cloud bec...
Sunday 30 January. A study on the Italian family conducted by the national research council has revealed that between 1990 and 2000 the number of young people staying at home and living with their families increased. Tho...
Pope John Paul II, who was taken to hospital late on Tuesday evening, is expected to stay in the Policlinico Gemelli for a few days to undergo observation and medical tests. An official Vatican spokesman said that there...
The minister of culture and fine art, Giuliano Urbani, has accepted a request from residents of the centre of Rome that the Campo de Fiori be made into legally-protected area, under a law introduced in 2002 especially fo...
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