A Great Information Resource
If you are looking for information regarding documents, events, work, health, or anything else in Rome, you can take advantage of a new efficient service offered by the 'Comune di Roma': 060606. All you have to do is pick up the phone and dial 060606. You will quickly find friendly operators ready to assist you. Some of them (only at selected hours) speak foreign languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Arabic.

Everybody whoys Italians have a problem for bureaucracy. To be more exact, they have a fetish for papers, stamps, certificates, and even faxes. The problem is not limited to the public administration; bureaucracy is imprignated in the Italian culture. The government, in the last ten years, has actually succeded in limiting bureaucracy and paperwork. Private companies haven't even thought about it yet. At the top of the list is another fetish: Lettera Raccomandata. It's a letter that's sent with the request for a receipt. Italians communicate with those letters, no matter what they do. You want to close a bank account? Instead of going to the bank to make a request, go to the post office. Wait half an hour in line, and compile endless paperwork with three times redundant information. When the bank receives the letter, they'll believe you. If you communicate face to face, they won't.