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Industrial action can bring out the worst in people. Sometimes it triggers verbal abuse or violence. Sometimes it produces thought-crime. Stranded recently in the rain on the wrong side of town by a transport workers wal...
For the first time in the history of Rome, 289 immigrants from a plethora of states are now fighting each other invisibly to most Romans for 24 brand-new chances to get their voices heard in the citys seats of power....
The Irish and their friends in Rome are once again preparing to get out their dancing shoes for their 13th annual Celtic Ball for Charity. As W.B. Yeats wrote "For the good are the merry, and the merry love the fiddle, a...
Tourism in Rome was up by 0.53 per cent last year over the previous year. Of the more than 16 million tourists who visited the city and province in 2003, 6.4 million were Italians, an increase of 4.56 per cent over the y...
Computer sales in Italy are now outstripping television sales for the first time. Last year 3,658,000 new computers were bought, compared with 3,529,000 new television sets. Most of these computers were bought by profess...
Romes two metro lines, the red line A (Battistini-Anagnina) and the blue line B (Rebibbia-Laurentina), received substandard marks in security, information and comfort, according to a new report by the agency for the city...
The long-awaited new back exit to Florence's Uffizi Museum opened 3 March. Visitors are now led through the museum to the new exit in the rear at Piazza del Grano rather than back to where they began at the entrance.
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After years of indecision work has begun on a new glass exhibition space on the Capitoline hill. When completed it will house some of the museums most famous treasures, It is to be built between Palazzo Senatorio (the ce...
Work is due to start in mid-April on a new trade exhibition centre, or Fiera di Roma, in Via Portuense near the Roma-Fiumicino motorway at Ponte Galeria. The development of the 92-ha site will cost 500 million; 38,5 mill...
Antonio Pappano, newly appointed conductor of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra will lead his musicians for the first time on 24 April at the Auditorium, Parco della Musica in Rome, in a concert of works by Haydn, Kordaly and...
A series of country-wide strikes are scheduled at the beginning of March. University teachers and students have called for protests on Thurs 4 March against the reforms proposed by the education minister Letizia Moratti....
Although Via del Teatro di Marcello, which runs into Piazza Venezia, is a big street with a lot of traffic, theres no traffic light. One day, while hoping to cross, I saw some young tourists step into the street and, wit...
If youve ever dreamed of living in a castle, this could be your chance. A young family from Rome took the plunge a few years ago. They moved to the Gran Sasso national park in Abruzzo and opened a restaurant in Rocca Cal...
On a hill overlooking Rome in the Castelli Romani, 15 ageing monks are about to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the foundation of an unusual abbey.
It is the abbey of S. Nilo, which dominates the tiny village of G...
At a stones throw from the concrete ring of the Gran Raccordo Anulare, wedged between Via Nomentana and Via Salaria in north-east Rome, is an oasis of lush fields, dusky woods and gentle hills on which flocks of plump sh...
A holiday on a working farm, or agriturismo, is a bit like holding a friends baby: you can enjoy the good bits without any of the responsibility. You can eat locally-grown food without having to work the fields; enjoy th...
Welsh people around the world celebrated Wales and its patron saint on Mon 1 March, St David's Day. British ambassador to Italy Sir Ivor Roberts marked the occasion by hoisting the Welsh flag outside the British embassy...
The Vatican is preparing for another busy spring. Pope John Paul II has almost completed his ambitious plan to visit all of the parishes in the Rome diocese. There are only 33 parishes left unvisited of the 336 in the ci...
"Cinecitt Campus", an artists' academy inside Rome's film studios Cinecitt, was presented to the public last week by city mayor Walter Veltroni, television personality Maurizio Costanzo and Cinecitt enterprises.
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The love affair between Italy and Egypt is centuries old, although today the military and commercial links dating back to ancient times have been replaced by tourism. During the 19th century co-operation between the two...
For smokers in Italy, the rules are changing. Come January 2005 smoking will be banned in all bars and restaurants, unless the owner is prepared to provide a specially ventilated area for smokers. But in a country where...
Every morning at about 09.00 the market at Piazza Campo de Fiori loses the last semblance of a street market for locals and shows its true colours as a tourist trap. Coach-loads of Germans file past the stalls, while Ame...
The ivory face
Its among the most precious objects ever found in Italy. And: a figure which is certainly one of the most important which the ancient world has given us. Antonio Giuliano, professor emeritus at Tor Vergat...
The number of fake euro notes in circulation in Italy is on the rise, according to figures from the treasury. In 2003 there were nearly four times as many fakes changing hands as in 2002, the first year of the currency....
The Carnival trends for adults this year are dictated by Hollywood, with many costume-rental shops offering outfits used in film productions.
Cart'Incanto, Viale Tirreno 265 (Montesacro). Costumes for renaissance cou...
One of the most spectacular carnival celebrations in Rome this year will be organised by the fifth municipio (Tiburtina area); last years event was attended by 20,000 people. The aim is to recreate the atmosphere of the...
In its efforts to keep air pollution under control Rome's city authorities are cutting the number of private vehicles allowed on the roads mid-week. Admission to the area within the city's ring road (Gran Raccordo Anular...
So far 89 immigrants have registered as candidates for the elections to Rome's city and municipal councils. Potential candidates have until 29 February to present their papers. The election takes place on Sunday 28 March...
Think twice before leaving your car with one of the many street car-parking attendants in the centre of Rome. You may return to find no attendant and no car. Two men were stopped by the police early in February in the a...
A new law on assisted reproduction for infertile couples passed through the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian parliament on 10 February with 277 votes in favour, 222 against and 3 abstentions. The fiercest opposition ca...
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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...
