Cinecittà World theme park project unveiled
by Caroline Prosser (staff) | Friday, November 20th, 2009
Plans have been unvieled for a new theme park in Rome, based upon classic film titles. Cinecitta World, as it is set to be known, is projected for competion in 2014 after work begins next year. The estimated cost is some €500 million.
Race insults shock Rome
by Caroline Prosser (staff) | Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
After asking two fourteen-year-olds to stop smoking on a city bus, a forty-year-old Nigerian woman was subject to racist language and alleged physical attack in Rome’s Tor Bella Monaca, a neighbourhood in the city’s southern outskirts.
Mayor demands answers after Fiumicino grief
by Antonino John Scoppettuolo (Staff) | Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Mayor Gianni Alemanno got a taste of the real world this week when delays in luggage handling and forwarding at Rome Fiumicino airport – Italy’s biggest international hub – forced him and other passengers into hour-long waits.
Obama family takes Rome by storm
by Anthony Smith (staff) | Thursday, July 9th, 2009
As Roman and Italian state politicians met with G8 leaders and their families, mayor Gianni Alemanno apologised to local Romans for the heavy security presence’s disruption to daily life.
Mayor: “Alcohol ban for under 16s”
by Anthony Smith (staff) | Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno has tabled a proposed alcohol ban for under 16s and a limit on the age for alcohol-serving barmen who will have to be at least 18 years old.
