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The Rome marathon will take place this year on 18 March, with athletes setting off at 09.00 from Via dei Fori Imperiali on the 42k run on a course yet to be announced. A record 12,500 participants were already registered...
Rome mayor Walter Veltroni was triumphant in the primaries on Sunday 14 October for the leader of the nascent Democratic Party (PD), which will unite the two largest centre-left parties, the Margherita and Democratici di...
The man police suspect was responsible for pouring red dye into the Trevi fountain on Friday Oct 19 has spoken out about the incident. Graziano Cecchini, who has far right sympathies, insists he is innocent but says he a...
Italy is likely to grind to a halt on 30 November because of a transport workers
Christian charities Caritas and the Community of S. Egidio have signed a deal to give free funerals to 50 of the city
The Italian government, which has promised greater severity towards illegal foreigners, has decided to take a census of Roma people from eastern Europe living in illegal camps in Italy, a plan which, in its original form...
The bike sharing scheme launched in mid June with 19 automated stations in the historic centre will expand to other areas of Rome beginning with Prati. The news of the expansion was announced on 22 September by the city...
Drivers in Rome centre can expect more disruptions over the coming weeks due to new roadworks on Via Nazionale.
The road is being resurfaced for the second time in less than a year after contractors did a poor job firs...
Fishermen in Italy are protesting about new European regulations banning shellfish fishing within 600 m of the coast. The provision, contained in the so-called Mediterranean Regulation, risks cutting catches of razor cla...
37 of Rome's bus routes will be diverted on the morning of 17 March, due to state celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
At 09.00 the president of the republic, Giorgio Napolitano, pays his...
On 29 February the American Academy in Rome is holding a special viewing of the improbable tower created by the Russian sculptor Dmitry Kaminker during his fellowship last year.
Made out of cardboard boxes this whims...
Above: Texan vocalist Ruthie Foster opens this year's line-up on
15 July. Photo
by Scott Newton.
Left: the waterfall in Isola Liri provides a spectacular backdrop for
the annual festival dedicated to
blu...
Drive south from Arusha in north Tanzania for about fours hours (you calculate travel in terms of time rather than distance in many parts of east Africa). Then climb for another four hours into the hills above the small...
Rome celebrates fashion with a series of fashion shows and related events from Monday 10 July to Friday 14 July.
The majority of the events will be held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, however the Campidoglio, Tem...
Rossinis musical invention throughout this sparkling comedy is always delicious and often sublime, with a wonderful array of those witty ensembles he so excelled in. The overture may not be one of his most inspired, but...
This guide gives information on how to tour Rome cheaply (updated September 2004). Backpackers are not Romes typical tourists so the city may seem inhospitable at times, especially accommodation-wise. The best zone to st...
The editor and owner of a newspaper catering for what he called the most maligned immigrant community in Italy acknowledged: In the beginning, there was a real press campaign against us. We were attacked and held respons...
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...
Finding just the right gift for someone can be as much fun for the giver as for the recipient. However, if you dont enjoy shopping it can bring on a nasty case of the bah humbugs. To aid the shopping-challenged here are...
Tivolis prosperity is evident from the immaculate state of the cobbled streets and the bustle of its numerous shops and eating places. This wealth derives from the great travertine quarries in the plain below and from th...
The idea of moonlight strolls through the dark ruins of Pompeii has been a long-cherished dream of curator Pietro Giovanni Guzzo. This dream has finally become reality with the launch of a spectacular audio-visual experi...
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MULTILINGUAL COMEDY & APERITIVO
Parallel to its successful run in Madrid, the versione romana of this multilingual comedy finally lands in Rome! Four roommates in an apartment near the center of the city decide t...
