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Italian fire stations are to be opened to the elderly for six weeks in the height of the summer. The initiative comes following the exceptionally hot summer of 2003, when elderly people, who had remained in towns and cit...
With 36 shipped-wrecked Sudanese and one other African national now waiting a decision as to whether or not they will be allowed to disembark in Sicily, the figures from the countrys statistics institute, ISTAT, show tha...
The S. Susanna lending library in Via XX Settembre 15 is switching to summer opening hours. Between 16-31 July and 1-15 Sept the library will be open Tues 10.00-13.00, Wed 15.00-18.00 and Sun 10.00-12.30. In August openi...
A new law has been passed for the protection of animals in Italy. In future anyone killing, abandoning, ill-treating, using in cruel competitions or betting on a domestic animal will be committing a criminal offence, pun...
Are you petrified of giving presentations, or do you harbour secret aspirations as a stand-up comedian? A new club is being formed in Rome to help people improve their public-speaking abilities. The toastmasters club rec...
A new express bus service between EUR Fermi metro station and Ostia Lido was inaugurated on 10 July. The 070 express will run every ten minutes from EUR to Castelfusano between 09.00 and 11.000 and then on the return jo...
This great Etruscan work, attributed to Vulca, will be back on display on 16 July in the Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, after its first major cleaning since it was excavated in 1916 near Veio, close to Rome.
The terraco...
Romes city authorities have stepped up provisions for the elderly in the summer months. Six newly-opened oases in addition to 18 green areas which have been running for the past two years will serve as meeting points for...
There are 188,000 millionaires in Italy. Those who that have at least $1 million or e820,000, at their disposal now make up one in every 300 Italians; the average sum of one of these bank accounts is in excess of e1.8 mi...
A beach party at Ostias Corallobeach on Fri 9 July will raise funds for Arch, an organisation that helps HIV-positive children. Guests can dance the night away on the atmospheric, torch-lit beach to music from the 1970s...
Private swimming pools are usually connected to hotels and admission generally includes towels, sun beds and umbrellas. Ask about discounts for children and season tickets. Hotel Shangri L Corsetti, Viale Algeria 141 (EU...
AVIS (Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue) is currently running a blood donation campaign aimed at reducing the annual country-wide shortfall of blood experienced in Italy during the summer period when most people go...
South-east Asian cuisine is linked together by common underlying food philosophies, ingredients, flavours and preparations, although it can vary widely. It is comparable to the idea of Mediterranean food: the countries s...
Every art scene in the world has its own snobberies, rules, mafias, impenetrable market machinations. Every opening exists on a different level with a different clan of admirers and, if possible, regimented buyers. Of co...
Michael Burns, a 31-year-old Irishman from Belfast, confessed why he now had more Italian friends than fellow-foreigners. To be honest, I now realise people of my own tongue will inevitably move on at some time. The Ital...
The chips are down for Italys most famous car-maker, Fiat. The firm is up to its eyebrows in debt, struggling to withstand the pace of an increasingly competitive market and facing restless trade unions worried about an...
The summer sales' season in Rome and Lazio begins on Saturday 10 July and will run for six weeks. The Confcommercio, the confederation of retail shopkeepers, has proposed a set of rules for sales shopping.
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As from1 July everyone in Italy between the age of 14 and 18 must have a licence to drive a moped or a 50 cc miniature motorcar. To obtain the licence it is necessary to pass an oral but not a practical driving exam.
Th...
Immigrants in Italy from outside the European Union who are waiting for a renewal of their permesso di soggiorno (permit of stay) will be able to travel home this summer, thanks to a special ruling from the ministry of t...
The run off voting in Italian provincial and city elections on 26 and 27 June was a blow to Silvio Berlusconi's Casa della Libert coalition. The opposition centre-left gained ground, winning 51 provinces compared with 1...
Rome will be hosting the second stage of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) golden league championships at the Stadio Olimpico on Fri 2 July, 14.30-23.00. At stake is $1 million jackpot to be s...
Less than six years ago the Anglican Centre in Rome moved into sumptuous new premises in the south wing of Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. The interior was designed by Sally Thomas, a consultant from California, who has recently...
In the run off vote for provincial and city council administrations 22 provinces and 6 provincial capital cities will reopen their polling booths on Saturday 27 June from 15.00 - 22.00 and on Sunday 28 June from 07.00 -...
A new church at S. Giovanni Rotondo in Puglia, dedicated to San Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, will be inaugurated on 1 July at 16.30. The church, commissioned by the Capuchin brothers in the town, which...
There has always been a sumptuously rich literary culture in Romes plethora of libraries and bookshops. However, there is a discrepancy between the abundance of these literary offerings and their accessibility to the gen...
Englishman Arthur Acton and his American wife Hortense created a garden for all seasons, independent of flowers, at the villa of La Pietra on Via Bolognese, near Florence. Their son, Harold Acton, the last private owner...
In the old days, art lovers had to creep into the dark, dusty corners of churches or walk through miles of indifferent works in museums to find their favourite masters. Today, blockbuster shows tear work from the surroun...
One down and two more to go. For Italy more than anywhere else in Europe the elections to the European parliament on 12 June were the first round of a two-year campaign. With very few exceptions, the personalities of the...
A fig-tree that grows in the Forum itself, the meeting place of Rome,
is sacred because things struck by lightning are buried there,
and all the more so for being a reminder
of the fig-tree under which the nurse o...
One down and two more to go. For Italy more than anywhere else in Europe the elections to the European parliament on 12 June were the first round of a two-year campaign. With very few exceptions, the personalities of the...
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