Culture
Gorizia and Nova Gorica share first cross-border European Capital of Culture title.
The presidents of Italy and Slovenia on Saturday attended official ceremonies to inaugurate the European Capital of Culture, shared bet...
Moretto canvas was on display in Brescia when the accident occurred.
A 16th-century painting by Renaissance artist Moretto was damaged after a museum visitor in the northern Italian city of Brescia tripped and fell agai...
Mengs painting of Santa Cecilia was last seen in Italy 24 years ago.
Spain's Prado Museum has issued an online appeal seeking help to find an 18th-century painting which was last seen in Italy in 2001 but whose whereabo...
Praecones were imperial heralds at the Circus Maximus.
Rome's ancient Schola Praeconum, the seat of the guild of heralds who announced imperial processions and ceremonies at the Circus Maximus, has reopened after an eig...
Fellini's iconic film was previewed in Rome before its Milan premiere.
La Dolce Vita, a masterpiece by the great Italian director Federico Fellini, celebrates 65 years as a cult classic of Italian cinema.
The movie,...
Italian folklore celebrates the Giorni della Merla amid hopes for a beautiful spring.
One of Italy's best known folktales in winter revolves around a bird and the last three days in January, a tradition known as i giorn...
Agrigento, famed for its rich archaeological heritage, succeeds Pesaro as Italian culture capital.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella on Saturday will launch Agrigento as Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2025 with a cer...
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma returns to the Baths of Caracalla this summer with its opera festival under the stars.
Rome's opera house will stage a diverse programme of events at its summer festival held among the ancient...
Rome's oldest English-language bookstore opened near the Spanish Steps in 1953.
Rome's Anglo American Bookshop, a landmark for the English-speaking community in the capital for more than 70 years, closed its doors for g...
Tosca had its world premiere in Rome on 14 January 1900.
Rome's opera house will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with a series of productions of the opera classic which premiered in the Italia...
La Befana, which coincides with the feast of the Epiphany on 6 January, is a public holiday in Italy.
Italians celebrate the religious feast of the Epiphany, or the more popular folklore version of La Befana, on 6 Janua...
Passetto del Borgo reopens on the eve of Jubilee Year.
A centuries-old fortified passage between the Vatican and Castel Sant'Angelo reopened to the public on Monday with a new programme of special guided tours.
The P...
The spectacle of bagpipe-playing shepherds still exists in Naples and Rome.
Dressed in traditional sheepskin and woollen cloaks with peaked hats, the zampognari pipers come into the city from their mountain homes, perfo...
Bernini masterpiece restored in time for Jubilee Year.
Rome's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, the work of Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini, was unveiled on Thursday after a seven-month restoration.
R...
Pepper and spice warehouse was built during the reign of Emperor Domitian.
Rome's Horrea Piperataria, an ancient warehouse in the Roman Forum used to store pepper and spice in the imperial period, will open to the publi...
Verdi lived and composed in the villa for 50 years.
The Italian state has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Villa Verdi, home of the great composer Giuseppe Verdi, Italy's culture ministry announced on Monday....
Etruscans for Eternity on display in Terminal 1.
Travellers arriving into Rome's Fiumicino airport will be greeted with three Etruscan sculptures on loan from the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia.
The exhibit...
City launches Murales project in Piazza Venezia.
Rome has transformed the giant silos at the Metro C construction site in Piazza Venezia into an open-air art gallery as part of the Murales project launched on Monday....
Palazzo Farnese regains its original splendour.
A major restoration project at Rome's Palazzo Farnese, the seat of the French embassy to Italy and the École française de Rome, has been completed after more than three ye...
La Spezia mayor hails "extraordinary" discovery.
Two original pages from the "first edition" of Dante Alighieri's masterpiece The Divine Comedy, dating from the 14th century, have been found in the Italian city of La Sp...
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