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Sunday 7 November will be the last traffic free day in Rome for this year. The historic centre is closed to all traffic, even that of residents, from early morning to early evening on these ecological Sundays, as well as...
To celebrate the All Saints, All Souls' holiday, when Italians traditionally visit the graves of their loved ones, AMA the company responsible for the famous city cemetery at the Verano have arranged a series of guided t...
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Sun 31 Oct sees the end of European summer time for 2004 and clocks go back one hour. In Italy clocks will change from 03.00 to 02.00 on Sunday morning.
The Fiat 500, the car which was launched in 1957 and became an Italian legend, has been declared exempt from the anti-pollution laws on Italian cars under 1000 ccs and over 25 years old. The Fiat motor company made 3. 2...
From 15 November it will be possible to have bulky rubbish collected from your home even if it is on the 6th floor. AMA, the company that collects Rome's rubbish, is introducing a new service whereby old sofas, washing m...
According to figures on road accidents released by Urban Audit, which collects information on the living conditions in189 cities in the 15 European Union countries, Rome is the most dangerous of the 15 capital cities exa...
On 21 October Giuseppe Pisanu, Italian minister for the interior announced that there were 2,200.000 legally registered immigrants, from outside the European Union, living in Italy. On 27 October the Rome branch of Cari...
Rain on a wedding in Italy is regarded as good luck - a blessing from above - and on 25 March 1957 when the six founding members of the European Union signed the first treaty in Rome there was a thunderstorm. In those da...
The Sicilian regional assembly has allowed an exception to the local planning laws and granted permission for the construction or extensions to 8 hotels, new access roads and swimming pools on the islands of Lipari and V...
The Italian anti-vivisection league, LAV, has published a report which shows an increase in the number of animals, fish, reptiles and birds being kept in Italian homes, 45,5 million in total this year, 1.5 million more t...
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A list of the top 80 websites of Italian businesses has been published by a Swedish company, Halvarsson and Halvarsson, in collaboration with the Financial Times and the Corriere della Sera newspapers. The list takes int...
The new constitution of the European Union will be signed in Rome on 29 October at 09.00 at the Campidoglio, in the Palazzo Senatorio, home to the Rome city council. The prime ministers of all 25 member-countries are e...
Italys transport trade unions have announced a national public transport strike on Friday 22 October from 08.30-17.00 and from 20.00-24.00. Normal services are only guaranteed between 04.10-08.29 and 17.00-20.00. The sto...
This concert performance of Idomeneo, re di Creta at the Accademia S. Cecilia in Rome (16-19 Oct) epitomized everything for which the Rome musical public has to thank Myung Whun Chung and Bruno Cagli; young and attractiv...
On Wed 28 Oct, the Vincent Pallotti Institute will celebrate the 40-year anniversary of the Second Vatican Councils document, Nostra Aetate, with a lecture entitled Forty Years Later: Catholic Education and the Reception...
There is still time for overseas Americans to fill in their absentee ballot paper to vote for the US federal election on 2 Nov. Ballot return deadlines vary according to the state you are registered in. Some states also...
Travels to Tuscany and Northern Lazio by Mary Jane Cryan is a collection of the 18th-century travel diaries of Henry Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, written by his secretary Don Giovanni Land. The cardinal was born and ra...
There is a childrens party as usual on 30 Oct (not on 31 Oct as appears in the current paper edition of Wanted in Rome) at the church of St Paul's within the Walls at 16.00. The party is organised by the Viminale Street...
This school year has finally seen the introduction of the Riforma Moratti, a series of reforms that have been under discussion since Silvio Berlusconi became prime minister in 2001 and that Letizia Moratti, Italian minis...
My name is Istandar. Im 26. Im from Somalia. We have civil war there. I am alone. All the people from my family are dead. Me and friends, we want to be refugee. I have no job, no money, no sleep. Last night, we sleep in...
Dan Browns The Da Vinci Code is a fast-paced, well-plotted murder mystery that takes the reader through the Louvre, a long night of murders and a police chase out of Paris to a wet morning in London. There the identity o...
If you look at the wine list in any Italian restaurant of class and this includes those in Rome ten to one youll find an abundance of Veneto and Tuscany wines, some from Fruili, Apulia and Sicily, and maybe the odd Fra...
l The Dutch Institute in Rome is staging an exhibition of work by the graphic artist M.C. Escher as part of its centenary celebrations. Escher (1898-1978) is most famous for his so-called impossible structures such as As...
Politics is always a roller coaster so after three and a half years as prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi has learnt to hold tight on the downs and enjoy the view on the ups. Over the summer, he was sitting precariously o...
The Rome councillor responsible for traffic, Mario Di Carlo, has announced that measures will soon be taken to discourage the entrance of big four-wheel-drive vehicles into the city centre. The vehicles, which take up mo...
16 Oct marked the beginning of Ramadan in Italy this year. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, when Muslims believe that Allah revealed the first verses of the Quran to the prophet Muhammad. It is a...
Eurochocolate, a week dedicated to chocolate, takes place in Perugia 16-24 October. The city is host to chocolate in all its forms, classes for children, psychological debate, sculpture, theatrical performances based on...
A survey conducted by the Osservatiorio sulla Terza Et a group which oversees the concerns of the aged on how much medicine Italians keep in their homes, shows that all the Italian families questioned had large quantit...
From 18 Oct, the Zoological Museum of Rome is extending its opening hours until 19.00. "Cooperativa Myosotis", the educational and social-service co-operative, has set up an "after school" initiative to encourage childre...
From 15 Oct Rome's Trastevere area will be closed to traffic every Fri-Sat evening between 21.00-03.00 for one year. Rome now has two such zones: S. Lorenzo, near the main railway station, is closed Wed-Sat between 21.00...
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