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They were the years of Hollywood on the Tiber, when Rome gleefully found itself subjected to a riotous invasion of American film people, all the big stars and directors, mincing starlets and hangers-on, attracted by the...
"The Esquilino neighbourhood conquered by the Chinese" ran the title of a recent article in the Rome section of "Corriere della Sera" reporting a monitoring project of the area. The results were surprising. Of about 500...
Night-time public transport is under discussion in Rome 22 - 24 April at an international forum being held to compare the experiences of cities worldwide. With ever more people working in shifts around the clock, and wit...
The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) this weekend hosts an exhibition of tree peonies. At "Peonies for FAI" there will be more than 50 of these fascinating Chinese flowering shrubs on display. Landscape gardeners...
Shop owners in the historic centre of Rome and Ostia Lido will be allowed to stay open on 25 April (liberation day, a public holiday which falls on Sunday this year) after all. Retail sales were down over the Easter tour...
People travelling on Alitalia in the next few weeks should check that their flights are running normally before they leave for the airport. The management of Alitalia is working on a plan to save the ailing airline but w...
Take-away drinks in bottles and cans have been banned in the historic centre of Rome between 22.00.and 06.00 until 10 October. The ruling, which could prove difficult to enforce at the height of the tourist season, comes...
Australians and New Zealanders in Rome will commemorate the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915, on ANZAC Day, Sunday 25 April. A memorial service honouring the cou...
From 360,000 to 400,000 children between the ages of 7 and 14 work in Italy, according to research carried out by Italy's largest trade union federation, the CGIL. The children earn between 200 and 500 a month and 17,5 p...
Italian minister for infrastructure and transport, Pietro Lunardi, has confirmed that it is now legally possible to drive at a maximum of 150 kms an hour, instead of the normal maximum 130 kms an hour, on certain stretch...
Employees of Alitalia are meeting on 20 April to decide on future industrial action in the absence of any definite business plan from the government. Delays are expected at all Italian airports while these meetings are h...
Homicides were down, car thefts were down, bank hold-ups were down, even house burglaries were down. 2003 seems to have been a better year than 2002 for crime in Rome according to figures released by the prefect's office...
Italians are warming up slightly to public transportation, according to a study carried out by traffic observatory Isfort, on behalf of the local transport agency Asstra, based on a 15,000-strong sample group. The study...
The swallows are back in Rome, a bit later than usual this year, and so is the annual campaign against tiger mosquitoes, with the first warning from the city's hygiene and health department against these unpleasant insec...
The city, the region and the diocese of Rome have agreed to speed-up the commissioning and the construction of 26 new churches on the outskirts of the capital. The diocese had hoped to have 50 new places of worship open...
A demonstration to draw attention to poverty in Africa is scheduled for Saturday 17 April in Rome. The march from Piazza Barberini to Piazza del Popolo is due to begin at 15.00. ItaliaAfrica is supported by the city adm...
Italian workers with collective contracts get 40 days' holiday a year if public and religious feast days are taken into consideration. This is more than workers in any other country in the European Union.
Francesco Storace, president of Italy's Lazio region was in New York early in April on a marketing mission to increase awareness of what the region has to offer in the way of industry, finance, design, fashion, film, foo...
The last thing you would expect to see in Rome on a warm Saturday afternoon is a band of kilt-clad pipers marching across a bright green field. Against all odds that was exactly what an audience of over 20,000 saw at the...
The first phase of the new Uffizi project, an expansion and modernisation of Florences grand museum, opened in early March with six new rooms, the relocation of some masterpieces, an academic bookshop and a new exit at t...
Villa I Tatti in Fiesole, in the hills above Florence, was for over 60 years the home of renaissance art entrepreneur Bernard Berenson and his wife Mary.
Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Edith Wharton, the Sitwells, Rosamund...
Three years shy of its 50th birthday, Alitalia is in a bad way coughing, spluttering, shivering with fever and getting worse by the day. The national airline has been in poor health for some time, ending ten out of the...
A young, up-and-coming Italian press baron waxed militant over the right of the countrys immigrants to vote in local and national elections.
"Never relent," he urged them. "The future belongs to you. Win this battle for...
This year's Telecom Italian Masters tennis tournament takes place at the Foro Italico in Rome from 1-16 May. Now in its 61st year, the tournament is Italy's most important tennis competition and features many of the worl...
A two-week campaign in the Lazio region has ended with a 27 per cent increase in blood donations. The initiative aimed to make Lazio self-sufficient in its blood supplies; the region currently imports nearly 30,000 units...
Tuscany the region that is home to some of Italy's most popular wines is experimenting with new ways to increase awareness about the effects of alcohol, in a month-long campaign.
Three-quarters of Italians drink alcoh...
A peaceful and colourful demonstration was held in the Piazza Venezia in Rome on Sunday by the supporters of Romulo Sabio Salvador. Salvador, from the Philippines, is the man who won the most votes in the elections, hel...
A weekend of good weather and the first round of the national kite surfing championships caused chaos on the Roman coastline around the Lido di Ostia. An estimated 300,000 people went to the beach and not everyone was sa...
More than 2,000 doctors attended a meeting last week in Forli in the Marche region to discuss "Palliative Care" - the alleviation of pain - a medical speciality which has, until now, been little talked about in Italy. Re...
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