Culture
Special tours allow visitors to see The Legend of the True Cross frescoes from scaffold.
Visitors to the Tuscan city of Arezzo are to be offered up-close visits to one of the jewels of Italian art, a famed fresco cycle...
Hidden chamber to stay open to public until July.
Michelangelo's "Secret Room", a tiny chamber with sketch-filled walls at the Bargello Museum in Florence, is to remain open to the public until July.
The cramped spac...
Exploring the Rome sites most associated with the great film director Federico Fellini who was born in Rimini in 1920 and died in the Italian capital in 1993.
Trevi FountainThe landmark most readily associated with Fell...
Pesaro succeeds Bergamo and Brescia as Italian culture capital.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella on Saturday will attend a ceremony to launch Pesaro, a city on the Adriatic coast, as Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2...
Move follows spate of protests by activists targeting Italian cultural landmarks to draw attention to climate crisis.
The Italian parliament on Thursday approved tough new penalties on those who damage or deface monumen...
Rome awards Cortellesi the Lupa Capitolina.
Rome actress Paola Cortellesi on Tuesday received the Lupa Capitolina, the city's top honour, following the smash-hit success of her directorial debut C’è ancora domani.
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Pompeii director thanks visitor for returning stones and wishes her well.
A tourist who removed pumice stones from Pompeii has returned them by mail to the Italian archaeological site after blaming her illicit souvenirs...
Sgarbi denies any wrongdoing and says he will not resign.
Italian junior culture minister Vittorio Sgarbi is under investigation for his alleged role in a case involving a stolen painting that was allegedly altered to d...
Rome exhibition retraces a marvellous decade in the 17th century.
The first half of Urban VIII’s long papacy (1623-44) saw science and the arts proceed intertwined, the one complementing the other as perhaps never befor...
Christmas and New Year opening hours for Rome museums.
Rome's city-run museums will be open on 24 December, Christmas Eve, and on 31 December, New Year's Eve, from 10.00 to 14.00.
They will be closed on 25 December,...
Cortellesi movie scores record-breaking ticket sales at Italy’s box office, beating Barbie and Oppenheimer.
C’è ancora domani, the directorial debut of Rome actress Paola Cortellesi, has become one of the top 10 highest...
Schmidt to swap Uffizi for Capodimonte in Naples.
The Italian culture ministry on Friday announced the appointments of new directors of some of Italy's most important museums, following a public selection process.
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Culture minister hails news as "great success" for Italy.
Italian opera singing has been added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the UN cultural agency announced on Wednesday.
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84 historic sites in Lazio region open to visitors this weekend.
The Lazio region around Rome opens the doors of historic private homes and important cultural sites that are normally closed to the public on the weekend...
Italian state had lost track of Botticelli work valued at €100 million.
A painting by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, said to have been missing from state records for 50 years, has been recovered from a private ho...
Fidia exhibition from 24 November until 5 May.
Rome's Capitoline Museums pay tribute to Phidias, hailed as the greatest Greek sculptor of the classical age, with an exhibition of masterpieces by the fifth-century BC gen...
Safety experts raise alarm over Bologna tower.
The landmark Garisenda Tower in the north Italian city of Bologna is at high risk of collapse, experts warned on Wednesday, weeks after the mediaeval structure was sealed o...
Tolkien show in Rome runs until 11 February.
Italy is marking the 50th anniversary of the death of British fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien with a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.
Titled T...
Hidden chamber opens to public on 15 November
Michelangelo's little-known "Secret Room", a tiny chamber with sketch-filled walls, opens to the public almost 50 years after it was discovered hidden behind a trap door in...
Italy adds 4 November to list of free museum dates.
State museums and archaeological sites across Italy will open their doors for free on Saturday 4 November to mark national unity and the armed forces, the culture mini...
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