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Following the example of France, Switzerland and Belgium, Rome city council has set aside Saturday 7 May as its first "Neighbours Day". Condominiums all over the city are being invited to organise festive gatherings eith...
Atac and Metrobus, the Rome city council transport companies, launched eight new bus routes on Monday 21 March. The routes provide better links between metro and suburban train stations and makes access to the new immigr...
Both Michael Schumacher and Ferrari have for many years seemed unbeatable. The sight of the tall imposing German standing on the podium risked becoming repetitive, as did the smiling diminutive figure of Ferrari team bos...
Sunday 13 March.
Police discovered that 24 out of 100 petrol stations between Milan and Florence were delivering 49 litres of petrol for every 50 litres shown on the pump.
Monday 14 March.
Favourable weather conditi...
Pope John II will not be leading the celebrations of Holy Week as usual. The Vatican has announced that the pope will instead participate from his apartments. The pope is still recovering in the Vatican after a tracheoto...
Anti-terrorism, drug-trafficking, corruption. These are just a few of the reasons given for the increasing use of line tapping by the authorities in Rome. Echoing a nationwide change, listening in on phone calls in the L...
The great artist Patience Gray Mommens died in her home in Puglia on 10 March 2005. She was 87. She was a Delphic woman. She made beautiful drawings and beautiful jewelry in gold and iron and was known to the world as an...
In Italy the state holds vast amounts of data on its citizens thanks to a penchant for completed forms that borders on the paranoid. But if Italians thought that their personal details were 100 per cent safe in the state...
Mascagnis blockbuster Cavalleria Rusticana is very frequently coupled with I Pagliacci, to create the combination contemptuously known as Cav and Pag, and the Teatro dellOperas decision to resurrect the composers piece w...
Having claimed Italy's troops would be withdrawn from Iraq at the end of 2005, prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was forced to eat his words following international reaction.
After conversations with, among others, Unit...
With pollution levels in Rome once again over the permitted levels, Thursday 17 March will be the tenth day of restricted traffic in the city. Vehicles with licence plates ending with an odd number will not be allowed to...
Two years after publication of the novel, "The Da Vinci Code", and following worldwide sales of more than 25 million copies, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Archbishop of Genoa, has joined the ranks of other prominent theolog...
AS Roma, the Rome city football team, has changed coach for the fourth time in less than a year. The troubles began when Fabio Capello, who had trained the team since 1999, left at the end of the 2003-04 season to coach...
19-20 March FAI, Fondo per lambiente italiano, is opening more than 400 different places free of charge to the public in 190 venues all over Italy. Most of these monuments, palaces, churches, gardens, lighthouses are n...
The extreme right party of Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Italy's war-time dictator, is furious after being struck off ballot papers for upcoming regional elections in Lazio. All political parties taking part in...
With intermittent sunshine, a strong turnout along the roadside and over 10,000 participants in the 2005 edition of the Rome Marathon, this years 26 mile endurance test would have lived up to expectations but for the dea...
Sunday 6 March. Giancarlo Fisichella, Formula 1 racing driver who comes from the Tiburtina area of Rome, won the first race of the season, the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, driving for Renault.
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The city council has laid down new regulations for the Caldarroste the roast chestnut sellers in Romes historic centre. Traditionally the chestnut sellers sit in winter beside their low, red-hot braziers, rolling the d...
The Rome city council has announced plans to spend 320 million on its antiquated water mains. In particular, the pipes and infrastructure supplying water to areas on the outskirts will be completely renovated. The city m...
A new report by Italian environmental pressure group Legambiente has highlighted Romes growing problem with noise. Based on research carried out in the district surrounding the citys busy Via Casilina, noise levels were...
Walter Veltroni, mayor of the city of Rome, has paid a visit to the new police immigration office in Via Teofilo Patini on the eastern outskirts of the city. The office, which opened five months ago, is directed by Marce...
The ninth Thursday of restricted traffic in Rome is on 10 March. Vehicles with licence plates ending with an even number will not be allowed to circulate in the "fascia verde" - the green zone - between the 09.00 -12.00...
The Rome city council, the city's public transport company, ATAC and Legambiente, the environmental association, have introduced a new car-sharing scheme aimed at reducing the number of vehicles on the city's roads.
The...
This early piece by Verdi, written for La Fenice when the composer was 33, is quite honestly not of the very highest inspiration. It does have one outstanding aria and a number of very melodious ones, as well as pleasin...
Clowning is a passion for me, says Claudio Ceccarelli. During a show, I get an adrenalin rush I cant explain. It doesnt matter how anxious and shy you feel beforehand, as soon as you put on your outfit you become your a...
FIFA, the Italian Football Federation, must elect a new president by the end of March but so far the representatives of the 42 Italian series A and B football clubs have failed to reach agreement. Half of those voting,...
A new museum dedicated to Rudolf Valentino, one of the worlds first film stars, opened on 6 March in the ex monastery of S. Chiara in his birthplace, Castellaneta.
The museum, near Taranto in Puglia, southern Italy, wil...
There are currently 5,821 cabs in the capital but there may soon to be 6,121. The news was broken by the mayor Walter Veltroni, who announced a decision that has been taken by the city council. The number of taxis in the...
Coldiretti, the association representing more than 50 per cent of Italian farmers, has released figures showing changes in Italian dietary habits. The consumption of bread has dropped from 1.4 million tons in 2000 to 1 m...
The team with the task of guaranteeing the privacy of Italians has published a code of rules to cover the regional elections due to take place on 3 and 4 April.
Candidates and political parties may send campaign literat...
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