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Naples honours tenor Caruso with museum. Italy's first national museum devoted to the great tenor Enrico Caruso opened in Naples on Wednesday, 150 years after the opera legend was born in the Italian city. Housed in...
Pistoletto's Venus of the Rags was installed two weeks ago. A public art installation by the celebrated Italian contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto was completely destroyed by fire in Naples early on Wednesday 1...
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Globe Theatre in Villa Borghese still off-limits after stairway collapsed last year. Rome's annual Shakespeare festival returns to Villa Borghese this summer but not to the Globe Theatre which remains sealed off followi...
Art Nouveau Week marked in Italy and across Europe. Italy celebrates its Art Nouveau architecture and design with guided tours of Liberty landmarks as part of the fifth edition of the Art Nouveau Week, from 8-14 July 20...
Strega Prize won by the late Ada D'Adamo. Italian culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano is under fire after implying that he had not read the books shortlisted for the Strega Prize, Italy's top literary award, despite ha...
Discovery made in central Piazza Augusto Imperatore. A marble head was unearthed during works in the historic centre of Rome on Thursday, the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced on Twitter, posting a photograph of...
Discovery made during cleaning of lake floor. A marble head has been found in Lago di Nemi, leading to speculation that it could once have decorated Emperor Caligula's ships best associated with the small volcanic lake...
Tourists to be charged €5 entry fee to Pantheon. Visitors to the Pantheon in Rome will be charged an entry fee from 1 July, Italy's culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano confirmed on Sunday. The minister, speaking to...
Glass lift completed after five years of works. The Colosseum on Tuesday inaugurated an elevator to make the site more accessible for people with mobility difficulties as well as offering panoramic views over the Rome l...
Portoghesi designed the Mosque of Rome. Paolo Portoghesi, the renowned Italian architect, died on Tuesday 30 May aged 92. The leading theorist of postmodern architecture in Italy died at his home in Calcata near Rome...
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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Festa della Repubblica was added to Italy's list of free museum dates earlier this year. State museums and archaeological sites across Italy will open their doors for free on Sunday 4 June as part of the monthly Domenic...
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma presents Caracalla Festival 2023. Rome's opera house, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, is staging a bumper programme for its summer festival among the ancient Roman ruins at the Baths of Caracalla....
Temporary price hike to restore cultural heritage damaged by floods. Italy is to raise the price of state museum tickets by €1 to help finance the restoration of cultural heritage sites damaged by the recent floods in t...
Open House Roma takes place from 20-28 May. Rome hosts a bumper edition of the Open House initiative which opens the doors of more than 200 of the city’s most fascinating buildings, both ancient and modern, over the cou...
Free visits to Italy's castles, villas and gardens on 21 May. Italy sees the return of the National Day of the Italian Historic Houses Association (ADSI), now in its 13th edition, on Sunday 21 May.   More than 500 cas...
Borromini e Bernini. Sfida alla perfezione in Italian cinemas for three days. Cinemas in Italy will show a film documenting the rivalry between Baroque masters Francesco Borromini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini for three days...
Bridget Riley ceiling mural 'Verve' unveiled on 4 May. The British School at Rome (BSR) unveiled the first ceiling painting by Bridget Riley, the celebrated English artist known for her op art paintings, on 4 May. Ri...
Baths of Diocletian hosts L’istante e l’eternità. Tra noi e gli antichi from 4 May until 30 July. An ancient ceremonial carriage discovered at Civita Giuliana near Pompeii is one of the star attractions in a major new e...
While this article may not act as a guide to raising a baby genius, it will give you an idea of the early years of one of the greatest geniuses of the modern age, who, being human, was undoubtedly once a baby and then a...
Florence rolls out red carpet for Hope Carrasquilla. Florence mayor Dario Nardella on Saturday welcomed the US school principal who was forced to resign after parents complained that children were shown "pornographic" i...
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