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The Guglielmo Marconi library in the Marconi area (south of Monteverde) of Rome has been completely renovated and is now open to the general public.
Marconi is now the largest public library in the capital
The long-term plan to extend the space for exhibiting pictures within the Palazzo Barberini, which houses the Italian states main collection of antique pictures, reaches its first stage on 13 December. In the presence of...
The season opens at La Scala in Milan on 7 Dec , with the prima of Zeffirellis new production of Aida; tickets for all performances were sold out on the first day. However, although Italy is where opera was invented, it...
There was a sharp increase in the number of cars sold in Italy in November 2006 according to the ministry of transport figures. In November this year sales of cars totalled 190,460 compared with 179,411 during the same m...
The Fondazione Moravia has announced that it will donate the apartment in which Alberto Moravia lived to the city of Rome so that it may be opened to the public. The apartment on Lungotevere dell Vittoria (Rome) in which...
Francesco Rutelli, Italy's minister of fine arts, has presented at the Italian cultural institute in New York an important archaeological discovery made this summer in the course of excavations in Rome led by Clementina...
The city has presented the plans which have won the competition for the second phase of the long-term revamping of the Piazza Augusto Imperatore and its mausoleum. These have been drawn up by a group coordinated by Franc...
The 14th century open-air fresco depicting Il Cristo di Piet in Piazza Ara Coeli has been vandalized by excrement thrown from the street. The department of arts and heritage was alerted on 12 November but, according to...
A bookshop near Stazione Termini has launched Italys first official book swapping zone for children. The Esquilibri e Caff bookshop in Via Giolitti, run by eight Italian mothers, is holding the swapping event every Sunda...
Works have begun to restore the rectangular Temple of Portumnus, frequently and erroneously known as the Temple of Fortuna Virilis. It stands in the Foro Boario or cattle market of ancient Rome, and was dedicated to the...
Berninis celebrated bust of the head of Medusa is again on display at Romes Capitoline Museums after four months of cleaning and examination. Its exact dating is problematical, but it is believed to have been sculpted i...
The Getty Museum in Malibu, California, is refusing to return two important statues that the Italian government claims were removed illegally from the country. The two works in question are the Venus of Morgantina, a mar...
An interactive science and technology centre for children aged 11-17 has opened in Romes Villa Torlonia. Children (who can not be accompanied by adults) are able to take part in hands-on activities in the seven rooms of...
For the first time since they were painted in the early years of the seventeenth century, the two versions of Caravaggios Conversion of St Paul, originally commissioned by Cardinal Tiberio Cerasi for his chapel in the ch...
A group of researchers from the universities of Rome, Florence, Turin and Ferrara claim to have found evidence that the first human inhabitants of the continent that is now known as Europe lived in southern Italy. The re...
The Vatican committee for historical sciences (comitato vaticano per le scienze storiche) has launched an alarm over the decline of the study of the classical languages, Latin and Greek, in Europoean schools and universi...
The European Library, organized by the various European cultural academies and institutes in the capital, is set to open officially on 24 October. The 600-sqm library, hosted by the Goethe Institute in Via Savoia 15, hol...
The long-running saga of the attempts to dislodge the Circolo degli Ufficiali (officers club) from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome is finally reaching a conclusion. The present minister of fine arts and culture, Francesco...
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano and the president of the republic of Turkey, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, are due to inaugurate an exhibition celebrating Turkish history at the Palazzo del Quirinale on 10 January. The free e...
Italians restorers have been asked to assist in the restoration of the Forbidden City in China and to train Afghan restorers in Rome.
Restoration experts from the Florence university architectural planning department ha...
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