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Italy, which has the largest number of world heritage sites in the world, 39 sites in all, has no historic document considered by UNESCO worthy of entry in the United Nations organisation's register of the world's memory...
On 24 October the Italian Touring Club will celebrate its 110th anniversary with festivities in some of the most important squares in 26 cities throughout Italy. All over the country the TCI will set up stands to welcome...
While protest continues in Rome over the renewal of stay permits for foreigners living in Italy, (see Hungry for rights in "articles") figures have been released by Italy's biggest trade union federation, CGIL, which sho...
Tues 12 Oct marks World Arthritis Day. This year's theme is "early diagnosis" and sees a campaign by "People with arthritis / rheumatism in Europe" (PARE) with manifestos to rally national governments and policy makers t...
On Thurs 14 Oct, British poet Roger McGough will read from his work at the British Council in Rome. Valerio Magrelli, poet and teacher of French language and literature at the University of Pisa will present his work. Th...
Restorers in the mediaeval hospital of S. Maria della Scala in Siena have removed plaster from an arch in a chapel and have revealed previously unknown frescoes, painted by two Sienese artists in 1370. The newly found fr...
The Lazio regional government of has just completed a survey of the eight main commuter railway routes to the capital run by Trenitalia. Eight hundred local trains carry 300,000 passengers a day and the survey found that...
Thousands of immigrants from more than 30 different organizations are preparing for a demonstration in Rome on Sunday 10 October. They are protesting against the bureaucratic delay for the renewal of permits to stay in I...
A prestigious prize for sacred architecture has been awarded to the American architect Richard Meier for the church of Dio Padre Misericordioso at Tor Tre Teste in Rome. The award from the Pavia based Franciscan foundati...
The city council modern art gallery, MACRO, is to open for a token entrance fee of 1 for the next two years. Danilo Eccher, who has been director of the gallery for the past two years, hopes to see the rebuilding of the...
To the north-east of Rome, about an hour's drive out of the city, off the beaten tourist track, is an area of exceptional natural beauty, archaeological importance, artistic interest and religious mysticism.
This is wh...
On Sunday 10 October the Rome city refuse disposal department, AMA in collaboration with TG3 Lazio, the regional television news of RAI 3, is offering free disposal of any large items of rubbish to the residents of the...
Free dental check ups are available in Italy during October for those making an appointment with one of the more than 10,000 dentists all over Italy who are members of ANDI (the national association of dentists). Members...
The cars pass incessantly and twirl around the fountains of Piazza della Repubblica in Rome. Young couples come out of the Warner Theatre after watching Hollywood flicks and most tourists and Romans ignore the protestors...
Autumn is the time when all serious gardeners tidy up after the summer and prepare for the coming year. To help them, the gardens of La Landriana created by Russell Page and Lavinia Taverna are holding their third annu...
The theological lectures organised for lay people by the Vincent Pallotti Institute will begin again on 14 Oct with an eight-week course on the subject Dying and rising with Christ. The course will cover such topics as...
The S.Susanna Lending Library in Via XX Settembre 15 is holding a book sale featuring hundreds of English-language works 23-24 Oct, from 10.00-12.30. Most titles will cost under e5. The library has just finished catalo...
Sat 16 Oct marks World Food Day (WFD). Over 150 countries will take part in the day that commemorates the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945.
The theme for this years celebr...
The last stage of the American presidential elections has seen the often overlooked constituency overseas Americans turning out in higher numbers than ever before to register to vote. There has never been an official c...
There are many opportunities for volunteer work around Rome. The Samaritans provide confidential, emotional support over the telephone and via email for the suicidal and the depressed. In Rome, volunteer training begins...
I have always thought that it is good for both men and women to groom themselves. Today, the average male or female devotes a precious 45 minutes each day in front of a mirror in search of a look. The man wants the magic...
One woman out of nine will develop a malignant growth in her breasts at some point in her life. Women from wealthier parts of society and industrialised countries, as well as those over the age of 50, are most at risk, a...
With landfill sites in the Campania region full to the brim and no one wanting to have new garbage deposits on his or her doorstep, the refuse-collection problem has recently hit crisis point:
l In March, schoolchildren...
Bitter yet unspoken warfare is reaching a climax in Rome between rival armies fighting for control over a vulnerable target the flocks of foreign tourists pouring into Rome. Feelings are running high, and at stake are l...
What a joy it is to ride around the streets of Rome. Cycling in this kamikaze city seems more dangerous than romantic but in fact it is both, and as one man shouted in a spirit of camaraderie it is the mode of transport...
All flesh is grass, yet today many of us live
our lives so far removed from agriculture that
this oft quoted statement has little real meaning.
David Bellamy in Botanic Man.
One morning, in December, I paid my usu...
Low cost airlines are offering new destinations for travellers to and from Rome and some of the regular airlines have introduced special low price tickets for the low season winter months.
Wizz, the Hungarian-based line...
The presidents of three of Rome's largest immigrants communities, Albanian, Bangladeshi and north African, have started a hunger strike in protest against the length of time it takes to renew a permesso di soggiorno in R...
Thanks to a campaign in favour of breast feeding, 95 per cent of Rome's mums now say they will breast feed their babies when they leave hospital, an incease of 20 per cent since the campaign started about 18 months ago....
Rome is getting ready for the arrival of some 4 million starlings that migrate from north to south Europe with the arrival of winter. Many Romans will remember them from the magnificent patterns they make in the sky as t...
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