Culture
Rome's debt-laden public transport company leases its unused spaces.
Three long-abandoned bus depots in Rome have become centres of culture after the city's debt-laden public transport company ATAC leases its industrial...
Bastion of expat life in Rome closes down due to dwindling members.
The St Patrick's English-Language Lending Library, which is better remembered by Rome's expats as the S. Susanna Library, is to close its doors for goo...
Rome's state and city-run museums open for free on Sunday 3 November.
State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will be open for free on Sunday 3 November thanks to the ever-popular Domenica al Mus...
Quattro Fontane is to show some movies in original language.
Rome's Quattro Fontane Cinema reopens to the public on 30 October, after an extended period of closure, with an additional room.
The renovated cinema, loca...
Rome to display world's most important private collection of ancient art.
The legendary Torlonia Collection, considered by many as the world's most important private collection of ancient marble sculptures, will at long...
Disruption expected at Rome's city-run museums.A general strike on Friday 25 October could cause closures or disruption to services at Rome's city-run museums, according to a notice issued by Musei in Comune.
The strike...
Jacorossi dies just weeks after opening private art museum in Rome.
The Roman entrepreneur and art collector Ovidio Jacorossi has died in Rome aged 85, just weeks after opening Musja, the privately-run museum dedicated...
Eviction date postponed until end of January.
Caffè Greco, Rome's oldest coffee bar, has had its eviction date postponed, yet again, until the end of January 2020.
The historic bar near the Spanish Steps had expected...
Last-minute bid to save Rome's oldest coffee bar which opened in 1760.
Caffè Greco, the historic bar on Via dei Condotti near the Spanish Steps, opened to customers on the morning of 22 October on what could be its last...
Luca Signorelli and Rome. Oblivion and Rediscovery.
Luca Signorelli, most fortunate and most neglected among painters, was fortunate in his early patrons.
First there was Lorenzo de’ Medici; then came Sixtus IV for w...
Italy's culture minister welcomes the court's decision over Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man will now join several other works by the Renaissance master at a blockbuster exhibition in the...
Cultural marathon to save Rome's oldest coffee bar which opened in 1760.
Caffè Greco, the historic bar on Via dei Condotti near the Spanish Steps, faces closure on 22 October - after more than 250 years in business - fo...
Villa Farnesina hosts works created in da Vinci's Rome workshop.
Rome pays homage to Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci on the 500th anniversary of his death by showing restored works created in the artist's Roman wor...
Italy's culture minister hails "unprecedented discovery" in Pompeii.
An intact fresco portraying fighting gladiators has been unearthed by archaeologists in Pompei, the ancient Roman city buried under a thick carpet of...
Courts say da Vinci's Vitruvian Man too fragile to travel to Louvre.
Italy's culture minister Dario Franeschini is expected to challenge the ruling of an Italian court which blocked the loan of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitru...
Historic sites in Rome and across Italy open this weekend.
More than 700 noted Italian buildings and historic sites will open their doors to the public free of charge on 12 and 13 October as part of the Giornate FAI d'a...
Giornate delle Catacombe takes place on 12 October.
Catacombs around Rome will be open for the second edition of Giornate delle Catacombe, organised by the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology, on Saturday 12 Oct...
Exclusive tour company offers dawn tours of Vatican Museums.
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to be the first person to walk into the Sistine Chapel at dawn, and gaze in amazement at Michelangelo's ceiling as t...
Musja private art museum opens in central Rome.
Musia, the multi-functional space first opened in Rome's historic centre in 2017 by Roman entrepreneur and art collector Ovidio Jacorossi, has become a private museum....
Italy's state museums attracted 53 million visitors last year.
Italy's 358 state museums in 2018 generated €27 billion, or 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product, according to a report commissioned by the Italian cultur...
The Wanted Network
Latest What's on
Latest classifieds
St Geroges is seeking Teacher of French (Maternity Cover)
St Georgeʼs British International School is seeking an experienced Teacher of French to work in the Senior School as a maternity cover starting in September 2025. The ability to te...
Srilankan male housekeeper, Driver and carer
Experienced carer for old age, housekeeping with driving licence, since 2003 he has been working in Rome, looks for a full-time live-in job, good reference. Contact. 3346140595....
Violinist, soloist in tv Rai , plays for all events from pop, swing to classical,Irish/English folk,country,Neapolitan songs and film tracks, both as soloist and with Piano, singe...
AVENTINO and precisely in Piazza Albania, we offer the sale of a prestigious two-room apartment located on the first floor with elevator, internal and private view, completely RENO...
