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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...
The MTV European Music Awards will take place at a live concert to be held at Tor di Valle in Rome on 18 Nov. The ceremony, which will be broadcast all over the world to an audience of more than a billion people, is attr...
In line with a European Union directive to all member states, the Italian government has created a national office against racial discrimination. The office has a contact centre, with a free phone number, which will begi...
Italy and Greece are at the bottom of the list of European Union countries when it comes to palliative care to alleviate pain for people suffering from terminal and chronic illnesses and for post-operation conditions in...
If the majority in the Italian chamber of deputies has its way Rome will not receive the extra capital funding that it has requested, to pay for special projects such as improvements to the public transport infrastructur...
Italy is clamping down on absenteeism from work, as has been demonstrated recently by the case of three women teachers from a school near to Naples. Every year for seven consecutive years from 1991-1997, the three went t...
Popular wisdom has it that taxi drivers in Rome are dubious, unreliable characters with an eye for quick money. The service has never been popular with residents or tourists of the eternal city, who claim that drivers ov...
l Rome Collects is an exhibition of contemporary Italian art at the American Academy in Rome that investigates art collecting in the city over the past 25 years. Significant works from the collections of various individu...
In ancient Rome there were 11 public baths, but as many as 951 were in private hands. In their publicity some of the private ones stressed their elegance and respectability, implying, a pool of modern experts has conclud...
The story is easy to tell. The prime minister had a loyal, but sometimes prickly, supporter of his government. He wanted to reward him for his services in a suitable but not too elevated place. He decided to move him out...
Its recent 40th birthday went largely unnoticed and uncelebrated. Yet the Autostrada del Sole is the longest motorway in Italy, hosts an average of over 58,000 vehicles a day along its 803.5 km, and has a lovely, almost...
Popular wisdom has it that taxi drivers in Rome are dubious, unreliable characters with an eye for quick money. The service has never been popular with residents or tourists of the eternal city, who claim that drivers ov...
Forget about the Colosseum and Trajans markets, get yourself into one of the citys many archives to unearth the hidden historical secrets of Rome on paper. From the wealthy noble family to the local bar in Campo de Fior...
After a legal battle, lasting for ten years, the customers seem to have won a case against Italian banks over the payment of interest.
Until the year 2000, all Italian banks calculated interest on accounts in credit on...
The last day of the Islamic fast of Ramadan in Italy, will be on Saturday 13 Nov. The festival Eid al-Fitr, literally meaning "Festival of Breaking the Fast", marks the end of Ramadan.
Prayers will be held at the Rome...
On Sunday 14 November All Saints Anglican Church in Via del Babuino 153/b is holding an inter-faith Remembrance Day ceremony at 11.00. info tel. 06036001881
On the same day there will be a Mass of remembrance organised...
The presidents of the 42 series A and B Italian football clubs failed to elect a new president for the Italian football league when elections were held in Milan on 5 Nov. It had been expected that Adriano Galliano, actin...
The Rome city authorities have agreed to crack down on illegal street traders in the city. The decision to take firm action follows complaints from shop keepers in the central areas of the city that they are losing custo...
Night time vandalism at some of Rome's most popular tourist spots has prompted the city authorities to order the installation of 20 new, infrared closed-circuit television cameras. They are to be placed at the places mos...
Achille Serra, the prefect of Rome, has warned of an imminent housing shortage in the city where more than 15,000 Roman families are threatened with losing their homes if a legal block on evictions is not renewed, when i...
Employment in the public sector is still regarded as highly desirable by large numbers of Italians and anyone hoping for one of these jobs is expected to take part in a competition or examination (concorso) for the desir...
A partnership agreement has been reached between the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Palazzo Te Museum in Mantova. The Palazzo Te was built in by Giulio Romano in the 16th century for the ruling Gonzaga family...
Girolamo Sirchia, Italian minister for health, has reached an agreement with producers, wholesalers and retailers of powdered baby milk to reduce the price to consumers by an average 13 per kilo. The price cuts are expec...
A day walking around the streets of Rome is the equivalent of smoking five to six cigarettes. This is according to an investigation carried out by the hospital Sesto S. Giovanni in Milan.
The most polluted cities...
Speeding up permits
The new immigration office in Via A. Pasini has agreed to speed up the issuing and renewal of permessi di soggiorno for foreigners and has taken on 40 extra temporary staff to make the system more ef...
When the governments pension reform bill was approved by the chamber of deputies in July, the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera ran a cartoon spoofing the reactions of centre-left politicians. Good news! Berlusconi has...
As we raised our glasses high, nonnos words sang out over the dining table, Salut per chinto anno, his deep, rich voice as hardy and pure as the red wine he held in his glass. Good luck, for a 100 years, his dinner guest...
The train from Roma Termini only took an hour to reach Terracina, a town situated on the coast between Rome and Naples. The climb up to the cave started at the base of the small mountain that slopes upwards from the town...
At any time of day Rita and Lallos fruit and vegetable shop was the place to meet everyone in the village. It was the social centre. All sorts of people the locals, the second-homers, the cook from the trattoria on the...
An earthquake hit a small place of 1,300 souls in Slovenia called Kobarid on 12 July this year. Nobody was killed but 353 homes were damaged, the worst shock for the village in decades. In neighbouring Italy, nobody noti...
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Aperitif at the organic restaurant
Join Club Tutti Expats & Locals of Roma (https://www.meetup.com/clubtuttiroma) for a delightful aperitif which will be held on Friday April 26th at 6:30 PM at the organic restauran...
