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A large fire broke out in Rome on Wednesday on a hill near the Italian capital's court of justice and a public TV broadcasting centre, forcing the evacuation of several buildings and offices ...
People admire the 18th century Trevi Fountain, one of Rome's most iconic landmarks, as it reopens to the public after undergoing maintenance, just on time for the start of the Jubilee Year, an ...
Trevi is the 2nd rione of Rome, Italy, identified by the initials R. II, located in Municipio I.The origin of its name is not clear, but the most accepted theory is that it comes from the Latin trivium (meaning 'three streets'), because there were three streets all leading to the current Piazza dei Crociferi, a square next to the modern Trevi square.
Municipio I is an administrative subdivision of the municipality of Rome, encompassing the centre of the city.. It was first created by Rome's city council on 19 January 2001 and has a president who is elected during the mayoral elections.
A map of the center of Rome (the centro storico, roughly corresponding to the walled city) with its rioni. A rione of Rome (Italian:; pl.: rioni of Rome) is a traditional administrative division of the city of Rome. Rione is an Italian term used since the 14th century to name a district of a town. [1]
A fire broke out in a hospital on Rome's outskirts, killing at least three people and forcing the overnight evacuation of the smoke-filled facility and its nearly 200 patients, officials said ...
As visitors' coins splash into Rome's majestic Trevi Fountain carrying wishes for love, good health or a return to the Eternal City, they provide practical help to people the tourists will never meet.
The first public firefighting organization in the western world was probably the "Vigiles", a military structured body with fire control and rescue duties that protected the city of Rome in the early centuries A.C. Two stations can be still visited in Rome (The "VII Coorte" and the "Ostia Antica" barracks).