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The recent collapse of the House of Gladiators in Pompeii has once again put into focus the upkeep of many ancient monuments throughout Italy, not only in Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius i...
During Rome's International Film Festival, the city has paid homage to the Italian stage and film actress Anna Magnani by dedicating a square in Villa Borghese to her, in recognition of the contribution she made to Itali...
28 October - 5 November 2010. Established in February 2007, the Fondazione Cinema per Roma organises the International Rome Film Festival. Celebrating its fifth edition, the International Rome Film Festival includes 22 f...
Recently released figures show that MAXXI, the national museum for 21st-century art and architecture, welcomed 140,000 visitors in the first hundred days after it opened in May of this year. In addition, the museum
The ministry of cultural heritage has announced that from the second week in October a third level of the Colosseum will open to the public. The provisional opening date for the completely restored underground section of...
To coincide with the European Days of Patrimony, Rome is hosting a weekend of art, with free entry to state museums on 25 and 26 September. Held annually across Europe since 1991, the European Days of Patrimony are desig...
Google, the leading internet search-engine, is continuing to document the world's streets as part of its grand-scale photographic project Street View. They have now embarked on a photographic series of Italian "art citie...
The Vatican's Apostolic Library reopens on 20 September after a three-year renovation programme which cost
13 - 19 September 2010. Rome celebrates the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival with a parallel event titled 'The route of cinema from Venice to Rome'. Over the course of a week film lovers in the city are treated t...
For four consecutive Sundays from 18 September to 17 October the Auditorium Parco della Musica presents the literary event Save The Story. Under the subtitle Great writers, immortal Stories, audiences can listen as four...
The Colosseum is the latest monument to feature in the work of two international video installation artists. After four years of planning and negotiating with city authorities, Thyra Hilden from Denmark and Pio Diaz from...
Analysis of the Sistine Chapel carried out during the summer has provided evidence that the ceiling is being damaged by polluted air caused by the combined body temperature of the thousands of visitors the chapel receive...
Urban Contest at Circo Massimo from 10-12 September offers a platform for Rome
1 Sept-31 Nov 2010. The special visits to the beautiful frescoed and stuccoed rooms of Palazzo Spada continue every first Sunday of the month. During the next appointments on Sun 3 Oct and Sun 7 Nov (at 10.30, 11.30 and...
The Colosseum and the Baths of Caracalla are now open for guided tours every Saturday night until October.
The tours, conducted by archaeologists, bring to life the workings of the Colosseum, from its functionality to...
Five prisoners from Rebibbia jail are involved in a project to clean some of Rome
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