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, included fingerprinting for all, including...

The Italian government has declared a year-long state of emergency at the archaeological site of Pompeii in a bid to save the crumbling ruins from poor management, looting and lack of maintenance. Culture minister Sandro Bondi said a special commissioner will...

Police in Rome have launched an experimental bicycle squad to patrol the city’s network of hike and bike trails. While bike riding police are already in service in a number of cities in Italy such as Bolzano and Ferrara, this is...

According to a report released on 2 July by the ministry of health 96.2 per cent of Italy's coastline is suitable for swimming and 93 per cent conforms to European standards of safe swimming water. The top-ranking regions are Tuscany, Basilicata,...

Police in Rome have launched an experimental bicycle squad to patrol the city’s network of hike and bike trails. While bike riding policem are already in service in a number of cities in Italy such as Bolzano and Ferrara, this is...

Levels of the airborne pollutant ozone in the capital exceeded Italian air quality standards four times in the last week of June, according the Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Lazio (ARPA). Italian law fixes the maximum acceptable level of...

Confcommercio, the national confederation of retail traders, has announced that the summer sales of retail goods will begin in Rome on 5 July. The only cities that precede Rome in opening the sales are Naples (2 July) and Genoa (4 July)....

After years of bitter arguing, an agreement on the controversial high-speed railway line between Turin and Lyons was announced this week following a breakthrough meeting between the rail line’s planners, known as the Osservatore tecnico,and the mayors of the Val...

The Italian actress, Sophia Loren, has made an impassioned appeal for a trash cleanup in Naples and in her birthplace, the Naples suburb of Pozzuoli. "I beg you to free Campania, the province of Naples and my own Pozzuoli, the house...

Right-wing Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno has ditched two luxury cars used to ferry the mayor about the city in another show of one-upmanship against predecessor Walter Veltroni. Alemanno inherited the two €110,000 spacious grey Lancia Thesis cars - equipped with tinted...