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Italian detained by police following daylight incident in Rome fountain.
A naked man paraded through the waters of Rome's Trevi Fountain during the afternoon on 12 April before being detained by police.
The man cla...
Two candelabra vandalised at Pantheon on 26 March.
Two 18th-century wooden candelabra in Rome's Pantheon were badly damaged after being thrown to the ground in an apparently motiveless attack on 26 March.
The cande...
Museum closures and protests in Rome on 25 March.
Two areas of central Rome will be off-limits to pedestrians and traffic on Saturday 25 March as 40 heads of state or government converge in the Italian capital to comm...
Police apprehend illegal "centurions" in Piazza del Popolo area.
Rome police have fined two men €400 each for dressing as centurions and charging tourists for photographs — a practice banned recently by the capital's...
Three generations of biscuit specialists in the heart of Trastevere.
Paula Berner Magalhaes
On a narrow street in Rome's Trastevere neighbourhood, the blending of gastronomic and family traditions can be tasted, and...
Paolo Berdini ninth senior figure to leave Raggi team.
Rome's urban planning chief Paolo Berdini has become the latest high-profile figure to abandon the administration of the capital's mayor Virginia Raggi of the ant...
Valentine's Day map aims to help victims of domestic violence.
A new map showing Rome's police stations in their proximity to the capital’s metro stations has been released on Valentine's Day by the website Giulia sot...
Mayor Raggi celebrates as revised Rome budget wins approval.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi hailed the "historic" approval of the capital's 2017-2019 budget on 30 January, a month after an earlier budget was rejected by th...
Rome's Chinese new year returns for the seventh time.
On 28 January 2017, the centre of Rome saw a colourful and cheerful festival that celebrated the first day of the lunar year, according to the traditional Chinese...
Rome transport initiative causes disbelief on social media.
Roman survivors of the Holocaust are to be granted free annual bus passes in an initiative announced on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January,...
Lions Club fund restoration of artists' fountain on Via Margutta.
The Fontana degli Artisti on Via Margutta has been restored following a €10,000 cleaning programme funded by the Lions Club Roma Aurelium.
The marbl...
British tourist regrets stealing “souvenir” in Rome last year.
A British tourist has mailed a stolen Roman cobblestone, or sampietrino, back to Rome in the hope that it could be returned to its rightful home near Piaz...
Retake Roma "adopts" Rome metro station with street art.
Rome's S. Giovanni metro station is being decorated with street art following a collaboration between Retake Roma – a volunteer movement which tackles urban dec...
Religious feast forms backdrop to day of cultural festivities and shopping in Rome.
Italians celebrate the religious feast of the Epiphany, or the more popular one of La Befana, on Friday 6 January. It is a public hol...
ANAC says Raggi aware of Marra conflict of interests.
Italy's anti-corruption authority (ANAC) accuses Rome mayor Virginia Raggi of being "aware of the obvious conflict of interests" when her former right-hand man and...
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Sponsors pull out following scandals in Rome city hall.
There will be no New Year's Eve concert in Rome this 31 December after sponsors pulled out following the ongoing scandals i...
New lights for Rome's controversial Christmas tree.
Rome city council has redecorated its Christmas tree in Piazza Venezia, giving in to criticism on social media that it was "the ugliest Christmas tree in Italy" and...
No Christmas tree at Colosseum this year.
Rome city council installed a Christmas tree in Piazza Venezia on 5 December, ahead of its traditional illumination on 8 December, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception....
Raggi extends law banning Rome’s illegal “centurions” until July.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has banned costumed “centurions” and rickshaws from operating around historic tourist sites in the capital, with effect from...
Police launch enquiry into fire at auditorium building site.
The auditorium in Rome's Pineta Sacchetti district, which has been in construction on and off for the last 13 years, was destroyed by a fire on the morning...
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