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A range of activities for children will be organised in Villa Borghese, Romes most central park, on 6 January, the day of the Epiphany, better known as La Befana. As legend has it, on this day an old witch comes to fill...
Italian postal rates for internal ordinary mail went up from 41 to 45 cents on 1 January and priority mail rates came down from 62 to 60 cents. The changes have caused chaos among tobacconists, one of the main suppliers...
Over 9,000 cases of fraud and deception carried out by astrologers and so-called mediums or magicians (maghi) have been reported to the anti-consumer fraud (antiplagio) phone-line in its nine years of activity. The most...
"Roma non spreca" is the city councils slogan for a new campaign destined to reduce the wastage of food waste in the city and to help the needy. Romes wholesale fresh produce market, located east of the city and known as...
A new law aims to increase safety levels on Italys ski-slopes. Under regulations just approved by the Senate, children under 14 will have to wear a helmet while skiing otherwise they will get a fine of 30 to 150. Priori...
Rome will host a series of free concerts around the edge of the city on New Years Eve. At the Metro A Anagnina parking lot, the Italian rapper artist Frankie Hi Nrg will perform with a host of others in a Hip-Hop festiva...
Italy's state-run TV channels have regained the largest audience figures for the coveted prime time slot after years of suffering at the hands of the Berlusconi-owned Mediaset network. The results for the so-called perio...
One in three Romans is enrolled at one of the city’s local libraries according to Rome’s daily paper Il Messaggero. With the inauguration of a new library in Via Zabaglia in the Testaccio district (replacing...
According to a survey conducted at the beginning of December at two primary schools in Rome 83 per cent of the children who were driven to school by their parents did not wear their safety belts. This compares with 64 pe...
The traditional “Adopt a Pigotta” campaign by the Italian branch of the United Nations Fund for Children (Unicef) is underway. A “pigotta” is a handmade doll made by people of all ages all over It...
Rome's city council has launched another initiative in time for Christmas as part of its popular Romaspendebene campaign designed to contain prices. From now until Christmas 35 neighbourhood markets are selling seasonal...
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is celebrated in Rome with the lighting of candles in a menorah (candelabrum) in Piazza Barberini. The first candle will be lit on Sun 21 Dec at 18.00 in the presence of Rome's mayor Walter...
On three days over the festive season Rome residents can dispose of their empty packaging at 27 recycling points across the city, and in return enter a draw to win one of 19 environmentally-friendly mopeds. On 27 Dec, 2...
Non-EU citizens living in Rome have an extra month both to register to vote for their representatives for city and local councils and to present their candidates for these elections. The deadline is now 31 Jan 2004 inste...
On a fine noon on 9 June 1311 all the shops were shut and all the bells were ringing in the fortified Tuscan town of Siena. There was a sound of drums and fifes and trumpets and castanets. All the people were singing. In...
What would Georgina Masson, author of The Companion Guide to Rome, and John Fort, who has recently revised her text, have said to one another if they had ever met? Possibly Fort might have asked her about her dog Willy;...
One of the delights of an Italian Christmas is going to churches to see the presepi, or Christmas cribs. Many of these are authentic works of art, with spectacular scenic effects reproducing picturesque corners of old Ro...
For the Popes programme contact the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household, tel. 0669883114, or see the Vatican daily newspaper "Osservatore Romano", available at newsstands.
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The Italian government is offering a financial bonus to encourage people to have more children. A 1,000 payment will go to mothers who have at least one child already and have another by the end of 2004. The bonus will a...
The next time you dial 12 to get information on phone numbers and addresses in Italy, the operator could be someone serving time in Milans S. Vittore prison. As part of a project by Telecom Italia and prisoners associati...
Believe you me, theyre waiting for whats going to happen here like manna from heaven, exclaimed Natalino Gasbarro, the foreman of a work team heading the citys project to bring drains, light and new housing to Salone, on...
The summer of 2003 was dramatic for the majority of Europeans. The elderly suffered, crops withered, water was scarce and accusations of administrative bungling abounded throughout the continent. However not everyone wa...
Rome's city police have cleared out a squatters' haven in abandoned shops along the Tor di Nona, across the river Tiber from Castel S. Angelo. The city property, which consists of the remnants of 12 shops along a narrow...
The 16th century Villa Poniatowski is open to the public once again after a long period of restoration. Originally a part of the Villa Giulia complex built for Pope Julius III, it was renovated by Giuseppe Valadier at th...
The first national TV viewers' strike has been proclaimed from Friday 12 Dec until Sunday 14 Dec. Though a regular occurrence in Milan since 1995, this year the initiative has spread to 12 cities across the country, inc...
Police in Italy are trying to find saboteurs who have been injecting poisonous substances into bottled water. About a dozen people across the country have ended up in hospital after drinking contaminated mineral water, a...
Trade unions in Italy are not allowed to strike during the holiday period 17 Dec-8 Jan but stoppages in the transport sector are scheduled before these dates. Railway workers belonging to the Orsa trade union have announ...
The Teatro La Fenice in Venice is finally coming back to life after the fire that destroyed it on 29 January 1996. The reconstruction of the theatre began just a year after the fire, but was interrupted in 1998 due to pr...
The first exhibition space has opened at the Museo delle Arti del XXI Secolo, or MAXXI as it is called, in the Flaminio area of Rome. Ravenna-born Margherita Manzelli is showing work depicting emaciated young women, and...
The city council is hoping to encourage shoppers heading to Rome1s city centre during the festive period to leave their cars behind, with the following arrangements in force 6-23 Dec. For more information tel. 060606, or...
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