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Sangiuliano was speaking at book festival in Sicily.
Italian culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano came under fire on Sunday over a gaffe involving the explorer Christopher Colombus and the scientist and astronomer Galil...
Rome hosts music festival overlooking Colosseum.
A music festival offers open-air jazz and blues concerts with panoramic views of the Colosseum by night this summer, from 21 June until 22 September 2024.
The Live @...
Visitors can walk along beach as it was in ancient Roman times.
Herculaneum, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, has opened its once hidden beach to visitors after major conservatio...
Joyce may have been inspired to write The Dead during his unhappy time in Rome.
Rome was rather tense in 1906. Pope Pius X, still smarting from his loss of the papal states some 30 years earlier, refused to move beyond...
Opera stars sing in world's largest open-air theatre.
Italy is to stage a gala concert at the Verona Arena on Friday night to celebrate the inclusion of Italian opera singing on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural He...
Baths of Caracalla hosts summer opera festival under the stars.
Rome's opera house, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, will stage more than 60 events at its summer festival among the ancient Roman ruins at the Baths of Caracall...
Rome's summer 2024 concerts at a glance.
Rome will host dozens of concerts this summer, most of them taking place outdoors as part of various live music festivals featuring Italian and international pop, rock and jazz a...
Italy marks Festa della Repubblica on 2 June.
Italy's state museums and archaeological sites will open their doors for free on Sunday 2 June to mark Festa della Repubblica, a national public holiday.
The second editi...
Italy and US collaborate to repatriate stolen artefacts.
Some 600 antiquities stolen from Italy and returned with the help of authorities in the US went on display in Rome on Tuesday in a repatriation valued at around €...
CVTà Street Fest returns to Molise village this summer.
The ninth edition of CVTà Street Fest takes place in the village of Civitacampomarano, in the heart of the Campobasso countryside in Italy's Molise region, from 14...
Siena unveils "the most beautiful, largest and most magnificent floor that ever was made".
Each year the Italian city of Siena unveils the extraordinary inlaid marble mosaic floors of the city's cathedral as part of an...
Celebrating the Barberini Bees in Rome.
The Barberini family, an aristocratic Italian dynasty, attained enormous riches, power and influence in 17th-century Rome, peaking with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini a...
Rome gives Villa Aldobrandini a new lease of life.
Rome has launched a major restoration project at Villa Aldobrandini as part of efforts to redevelop the park and make it more accessible to visitors.
Despite its cen...
Museums in Rome celebrate Notte dei Musei on 18 May 2024.
Rome's city-run museums will stay open until 02.00 on the night of Saturday 18 May as the capital celebrates Notte dei Musei or Night of Museums.
The 2024 ed...
Multimedia light shows conjure up ancient Rome by night.
Ancient Rome comes to life thanks to the Viaggio nel Foro di Cesare project, a multimedia display screened at the Forum of Caesar every night from 22 May until 22...
Italy culture minister welcomes court ruling.
A European court on Thursday upheld Italy's right to claim an ancient Greek bronze statue from the Getty Villa Museum in California.
The European Court of Human Rights (E...
Festa della Liberazione is a public holiday in Italy.
Italy will open its state museums and archaeological sites for free on Thursday 25 April for the 2024 edition of Liberation Day, or Festa della Liberazione.
A nat...
2024 marks bicentenary of Lord Byron's death.
The bicentenary of the death of English Romantic poet Lord Byron is being marked in Rome with a year-long programme of events organised by the Keats-Shelley House.
The mu...
Israeli pavilion shut amid calls for Gaza ceasefire.
The artist and curators representing Israel at the Venice Biennale say the Israeli pavilion will not open until "a ceasefire and hostage release agreement is reached"...
Frescoes hailed as among the finest ever found in Pompeii.
A black banquet hall with pristine frescoes depicting Greek mythological figures has been unveiled in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption of V...
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