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Morricone pulls out of three Rome performances over back problems.
Celebrated Italian composer Ennio Morricone has cancelled three concerts in Rome due to two collapsed spinal vertebrae, according to the Accademia S....
Night visits at the Vatican Museums until October.
The Vatican Museums open every Friday evening from 19.00-23.00 from 6 May to 29 July, and from 2 September until 28 October.
Online booking is mandatory, with last...
Street art by Alice Pasquini, Gaia and Fintan Magee in Rome.
Roman street artist Alice Pasquini has created a new mural in the capital featuring a couple kissing based on the famous image taken in Paris by Italian pho...
Rome museums enlivened by night with music, theatre and dance.
The nationwide Notte dei Musei returns on Saturday 21 May, involving the opening of museums, galleries, monuments and archaeological sites in Rome and thr...
Fifth edition of Open House Roma features 200 buildings around Rome.
Many of Rome’s museums, libraries, galleries and contemporary buildings to which there is normally limited public access are open free of charge ove...
Night tours and light shows in English of newly-illuminated Roman Forum.
Two outdoor spectacles with music, light projections and historical commentary will be held at the Forum of Caesar and the Forum of Augustus eve...
Daily tours in English of normally off-limits areas of Rome's Castel S. Angelo fortress.
Visitors to the Castel S. Angelo museum in Rome can take the new Castello segreto (secret castle) tour which includes areas usua...
Gaby Ford's English Theatre of Rome celebrates 20th anniversary.
The English Theatre of Rome celebrates its 20th anniversary on 9 April. Formerly known as Off Night Repertory, the company was founded in 1996 and is ba...
Rome's MAXXI museum in mourning over death of Zaha Hadid.
Giovanna Melandri, the president of Rome's MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, has paid tribute to the museum's architect Zaha Hadid who died of a...
Noted Italian buildings open for Giornate FAI di Primavera on 19 and 20 March.
Some 900 libraries, palaces, archaeological sites and religious buildings across Italy are open to the public free of charge on 19 and 20...
Pixelpancho creates mural in Rome's Primavalle district.
Turin street artist Pixelpancho has completed a 10m-high mural depicting the Greek mythological tale of Theseus stabbing the Minotaur, in the disadvantaged west...
Residents use smartphones in audiovisual project documenting real Rome.
An audiovisual project uniting footage made by Rome residents, showing the “real Rome”, will be presented as part of an installation titled React...
Celebratory events at French Academy in Rome to mark 350th anniversary.
To mark its 350th anniversary the iFrench Academy in Rome – Villa Medici is staging a series of cultural events, free to the public, over the wee...
MAXXI to unveil giant work by Korean artist in Piazza S. Silvestro.
Rome’s MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI will display a giant work by Korean Choi Jeong-Hwa in the capital's Piazza di S. Silvestro from 29 Ja...
Collapse of top floors causes temporary closure of Rome's Teatro Olimpico.
Rome's Teatro Olimpico has been closed after the top three floors, above the entrance to the theatre's bar, collapsed on Friday 22 January. Th...
Portuguese artist transforms Rome train station with street art.
Portuguese street artist and sculptor Bordalo II is currently creating one of his mixed-media murals at Rome's S. Pietro train station near the Vatican....
Farnesina opens its contemporary art to the public.
Italy’s foreign affairs ministry at Palazzo della Farnesina opens its doors from 17-22 December, between 09.00 and 16.00, putting its significant art collection on f...
Privately owned palaces open for Palazzi di Roma a Porte Aperte.
Some of Rome’s most magnificent houses will be open to the public from 1-30 November as part of the third edition of Palazzi di Roma a Porte Aperte, org...
Special Italian task force to save world cultural sites.
UNESCO has accepted the project of Italy's prime minister for a specialist unit of Italian experts to save world historic and cultural sites under threat of des...
Rome's MAXXI to manage L'Aquila contemporary art museum.
A new modern art museum is set to open in the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila, under the management of the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome's mu...
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