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The summer sales will begin officially in Rome on Saturday 9 July and will end on Friday 19 August. Shop keepers are expected to reduce their prices by as much as 33 per cent from the start of the sales, hoping to sell a...
Horses in Rome may have to wear red and grey knicker-type garments from the beginning of July. If a city ruling comes into force, the horses that pull the brightly-coloured tourist carriages will be wearing these underpa...
Most votes allow the losers some crumbs of comfort*, ways of salvaging some pride, or glimmers of support that can be cultivated into a winning combination in the future. Italys fertility referendum in mid-June gave no s...
Feeling pasty and white, like a big blob of mozzarella cheese? Tired of peeling off the clothes plastered to your body? Does the idea of the beach sound great but a million kilometres away? Well, consider your problems s...
Young Flavio Burattin is sitting in a small aeroplane that is ascending to 4,000 m. The cabin is cramped and filled with seven other Italian men, all smiling and wearing tights. The door opens and the sound of wind and t...
Enisa Bukvic is a remarkable woman. President of the community of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Italy and a member of the council of the international diaspora, she has worked tirelessly for 13 years on behalf of the victims of...
There were angry protesters and shattered glass in the corridor leading to the office of Nicola Galloro in the EUR district of Rome. The protesters must have broken into the building earlier because two glass-fronted not...
From the 1 July 2005, holders of Italian driving licences who have not had any points removed since the penalty system was introduced in 2003 will receive a bonus of two points.
All Italian driving-licence holders have...
Organisers of the Criss Cross exhibition at the Swiss Institute say that it provides an opportunity to see that Switzerlands achievements extend beyond traditional images of designer clocks, military knives and chocolat...
Anyone who has a passion for Ferrari motorcars and a big bank account, should hasten to Maranello, home of the Ferrari racing team. On Tuesday 28 June at 18.00 Sotheby's, the fine art auctioneers, are holding a sale of F...
The cost of calls from fixed to mobile phones in Italy is among the highest in Europe and must fall, according to the Autorit per le comunicazioni (AC), the countrys communications authority. A study by London-based cons...
Anyone who wishes to drive a low-powered motorcycle and does not hold any other sort of driving licence, will have to take a test to get a patentino or mini driving licence.
The test was previously required only by youn...
An exhibition entitled Luigi Moretti: La Casa delle Armi, le sue opere e il suo archivio, has opened at the Italian central state archives EUR. Luigi Moretti (1907-1973) was an Italian architect, famous for his design fo...
The Italian council for refugees will present a series of exhibitions and performances in Rome to mark the United Nations (UN) day for the support of torture victims on 26 June.
There will be an exhibition entitled Linf...
Italy is making headway in IT use but can still do more, according to a report from the Associazione per la convergenza nei servizi di comunicazione or Anfov, an association that promotes and reports on internet use in I...
Say goodbye to boredom on the metro this summer Romes literary jukebox is back in town. Literary Subway 2005 is the fourth edition of the event in which booklets of short stories and poetry are distributed free in metro...
The Protestant cemetery in Rome has been listed by the World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 most endangered monuments in the world. Inclusion on the WMFs list for 2006 not only gives the beautiful cemetery close to the...
Romano Prodi, leader of the left-wing political alliance LUnione, has announced that primary elections will be held on 8-9 October 2005 to choose a leader for the alliance. Only four people are so far standing as candida...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, has formed a new team to work on the Decoro Urbano. In all, 48 people divided into teams of three will work two shifts a day, six days of the week in various key areas of the city. These tea...
On 21 June Parma officially becomes the home of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which advises the European Commission on food production methods and safety for all European member states. Silvio Berlusconi, th...
The fifth edition of Rome Hip Hop Parade, the festival dedicated to hip hop and street culture, opens on 20 June. Featuring hip hop dancers from all over Italy, an Italian rap competition, a writing (graffiti) competiti...
The president of the Italy, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, has asked the supreme court to clarify two possibly contradictory articles in the countrys constitution: whether he has the overall power to sign an act of clemency for a...
Celebrated English writer Tim Parks has just published a new book: Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. It tells the story of the Medici family, and the intriguing, often bloody story...
The tortured and improbable tale which unfurls in this opera is a further rehash of that so beloved of Christian hagiographers, the wayward harlot who in one way or another sees the light, of whom the two best-known exe...
In a recent development, the Italian supreme court ruled that speed cameras provide sufficient evidence for issuing fines. In this way, penalties are valid against speeding motorists even when they have not been stopped...
With the arrival of the Italian summer the countrys forestry service is stepping up its campaign against forest fires. Although anti-arson measures have been reinforced and the time it takes to put fires out has decrease...
A chance meeting resulted in Anthony Majanlahti penning a book on Rome that is earning favourable reviews. Majanlahti, originally from Toronto, was working as a history researcher at the British School at Rome when he me...
A man walking his dog recently near Capena, in the countryside to the north of Rome, came across what appeared to be a strangely shaped stone. When the dog sniffed it the stone turned into a very aggressive alligator ter...
Fewer Italians are dying from drugs but they are experimenting at ever-younger ages, says a government report. Italian kids are smoking joints from the age of 11, and by 15-16 many are regularly abusing marijuana. Part o...
Three people who have contributed to life here in Rome will be recognised at an award ceremony on 17 June in Rome.
American Edna Goldfield founded the Economy Book and Video Center, an international bookshop, which clos...
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