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The giant head in marble of Constantine the Great, which once adorned the Basilica of Maxentius and at the moment is on display in a courtyard of the Musei Capitolini, will be replaced with a replica being made in Schoen...
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...
As from Monday 8 January private visitors without a guide booked through a tourist agency will not be able to get into the Vatican Museums until 10.00. This will cut visiting hours by one hour fifteen minutes for people...
A museum for music composed in Nazi concentration camps during world war two is now in the making at Rome
After restoration lasting five years, the Museo Barracco, one of the most attractive small museums in Rome, has reopened; this is housed in the little palace known as the
Rome-born composer Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Academy Award during the 2007 Oscars ceremony to be held in Los Angeles on 25
February. Morricone has written the music for over 300 films in a career spannin...
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...
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