On the riverbank, the summer saw ‘Lungo il Tevere…Roma’, the 24th edition of the festival of ‘events, culture, music and gastronomy’. The atmosphere is rather dreary, with stalls selling trinkets and the feeling of being at a village funfair.

Meanwhile, attention is focused on a number of very practical and local issues: the reopening of the Capannelle racecourse, scheduled for tomorrow; the acceleration of plans for the new stadiums in Rome and Lazio; and the handover of new social housing units at the River Port

The renderings do not merely depict buildings or squares: they portray a promise of happiness. Simply upload a photograph of a sun-drenched square and ask for it to be made ‘more liveable’. Within moments, trees, lawns, ponds and pergolas appear. Even the passers-by seem happier

But what noise? It’s the sound of life at the heart of the world. When Romans say, ‘I’ve had enough of the capital’, I simply can’t believe it. The broken drinking fountain

Mayor Roberto Gualtieri is offering free cinema screenings in Rome as a way to beat the heat, thereby breaking a taboo