A Roman holiday will cost a little bit more now that local officials have introduced a room tax. Already in effect, the tax was created by Rome's city council to an effort to ‘financially assist the city's efforts in organizing urban services' and ‘ensure the standard
As Italy marks 150 years of unity, the nation faces an enormous backlog of work to restore and preserve countless monuments, symbols of Italy's vast historic, cultural and artistic heritage. Looking for ways to preserve these historic monuments, the regional boards of the ministry of cultural heritage
Officials recently introduced a three-year, 300-million-euro project to help the region’s thousands of jobless youth. ‘For the region, 2011 will the year of youth,’ region president Enrico Rossi said in ...
The city of Siena will apply to add its Palio to the UNESCO Representative List of Non-Material Cultural Heritage, those which, unlike an architectural site, are events or traditions that symbolize a populace or civilization. Citing the annual competition as a patrimony of the human race, Siena