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Traffic in Rome at Christmas goes from chaotic to mad and every year the city authorities do their best to encourage residents to leave their cars at home.
This year, the four public transport companies, ATAC, Met.Ro, S...
The Rome city council has approved new measures to raise money to help to pay for a 60 million shortfall for public transport in the city.
The new rules include an annual payment of 36 to be made by all residents in the...
When the Italian federation of paediatricians met in Rome recently it painted a mixed picture of the state of health of the nation's children. The incidence of asthma and food allergies in babies between 12 and 23 months...
The presidents of 42 Italian series A and B football clubs met at the end of November in a second attempt to elect a president for FIFA, the Italian football federation. At the first attempt on 5 November the outgoing pr...
The Rome city authorities have approved new rulings concerning the final destination of ashes following cremation. Previously ashes could only be kept in consecrated ground, in an authorised cemetery. The new ruling allo...
Wed 8 Dec is the Italian public holiday for the religious feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is the day when the pope traditionally visits Piazza Mignanelli near Piazza di Spagna to pray at the foot of the monument...
The Economy Book and Video Center has announced that it will close on 31 Dec after almost 40 years of serving the English-speaking community in and around Rome. All stock, including cards, books and videos, is being sold...
Volunteers who work for the Italian association against Leucemia (AIL) will be present in 3,000 Italian squares on 10, 11, and 12 Dec selling poinsettias to raise money for medical research into blood-related illnesses....
In the next few weeks olive oil presses all over Italy will be working day and night to process what the Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori (CIA) says will be a very high-quality crop. The CIA also believes that the oli...
Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of light celebrated for eight days in the Hebrew month of Kislev (usually mid to late Dec). It commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees o...
La Scala opera theatre in Milan, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, will re-open on 7 December following three years of reconstruction. The stage has been completely modernised and a 56 m tower has been bu...
Quick counters have been introduced for travellers arriving at the railway station less than 15 minutes before their train departs. Trenitalia has opened counters at the following stations: Roma Termini, Napoli Centrale...
The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) shop in Via Torino 96 is selling Christmas cards Mon-Fri 09.30-18.20. Cards may also be ordered on-line at www.prodottiunicef.it. For information, tel. 0647809264.
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Whisper it softly if youre among their fans, but Roma and Lazio may have a lot more in common than either would care to admit.
After reasonable success in the 2003-04 season, both now find themselves in troubled times....
The Teatro dellOpera in Rome the second most prestigious opera house in Italy after La Scala in Milan has just staged a miracle never before performed in its 124-year history. However, its superintendent and chief-cond...
Sabina is a beautiful country retreat within easy reach of Rome
Just ten years ago there was nothing here, says Luciana Pancera. She points to the rolling green countryside stretching out as far as the eye can s...
It may be autumn but the colours of Italian politics are strong and dramatic. The seasonal appointment to pass the budget has drawn into relief all the divisions in the government coalition and has even threatened to bri...
Though there are a great many masterpieces and surprises in this exhibition, it is a hotchpotch because it is a theme show. Theme shows are notoriously dangerous, because more often than not the works are gathered and sq...
Musicians from all over the world will be in Rome between 9-17 December for the fourth edition of the International Festival of Young Musicians. The festival is organised by the Rome-based association Musicaeuropa with f...
A famous round painting of the Adoration of the Christ child, which has puzzled art historians for more than a century, has been restored and put back on display at the Borghese Gallery in Rome. At the end of the 18th c...
On Sun 5 Dec the Rome city refuse disposal department, AMA, in collaboration with TG3 Lazio, the regional television news of RAI 3, is offering free disposal of any large items of rubbish, to the residents of the odd-num...
Trenitalia has announced that it is to dedicate one high-speed train every day to Milan, and back, at the special price of 9 each way. The new service is not a temporary offer and will be included in the trenitalia timet...
All Italian public sector workers are to strike all day on 30 Nov. Government offices, schools, banks, post offices and airports are expected to close and demonstrations are planned in 70 different towns and cities all o...
Magistrates in Rome are investigating irregularities regarding fines issued by assistant traffic police in the city. The complaints include fines being given to the same car in two different areas of the city at the same...
The company that runs Rome's buses and trams, ATAC, has announced that it will improve its Sunday services to get passengers to places of culture and entertainment more easily.The alterations will come into effect from...
An evening of undiluted pleasure and stimulation. Although the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan, brought together by the impresario Richard DOyly Carte and extremely profitable for all three, finally came apar...
Consumers worldwide are invited to stop shopping for 24 hours on 26 Nov. "Buy nothing day" is promoted by Canadians who claim that excessive consumption is doing irreparable damage to the environment. The group is again...
They call them "unaccompanied foreign minors" and they estimate that there at least 8,000 of them in Italy. They are children who arrive illegally from outside the European Union without parents or anyone who is legally...
Oscar Wildes dramatic study in necrophilia and general perversion, Salom, was originally written in French, a language the author regarded as more suitable for so shocking a subject. It came out in 1893, to be published...
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