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Italy marks Festa della Liberazione on 25 April.
Italian culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano visited the Historic Museum of the Liberation of Rome on Thursday to mark Liberation Day, a national public holiday in Italy....
Italy celebrates global legacy of Marconi.
Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor and electrical engineer who pioneered the science of radio communication, was born in Bologna on this day in 1874.
Known as the fathe...
How a 19th-century protest folk song became the anthem of Italy's anti-fascist Resistance.
Every year on 25 April, Bella Ciao is sung across Italy on the Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from...
Italy marks 79th anniversary of Liberation in 2024
Italy celebrates Liberation Day, known in Italian as Festa della Liberazione, with a national public holiday each year on 25 April.
In addition to the closure of sch...
Rome marks Natale di Roma on 21 April.
Rome celebrates 2,777 years today, Sunday 21 April, in a popular birthday tradition called Natale di Roma.
The annual celebration - known in ancient times as Dies Romana or Roma...
Rome's birthday, on 21 April, is known as Natale di Roma. This year the city will celebrate its 2,777th birthday.
Traditionally the Eternal City marks its birthday with historical re-enactments of ancient Roman rituals,...
Rome blows out 2,777 candles in 2024.
The Eternal City celebrates its 2,777th birthday on 21 April with historical re-enactments including costumed parades past the Colosseum and gladiator fights in the Circus Maximus....
Rome commemorates anniversary of Nazi raid.
Rome on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi raid on the Quadraro district during the German occupation of the city in world war two.
The capital's mayor Rober...
Sun lights up Pantheon entrance on Rome’s birthday.
Rome's birthday, known as Natale di Roma, falls on 21 April, and this year the city marks 2,777 years since its legendary founding by Romulus in 753 BC.
One spectac...
Mussolini bunkers at Villa Torlonia reopen to public.
A wartime air-raid shelter and bunker built by Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini reopen to visitors on Friday following renovation works and the addition of a...
Binario della Memoria unveiled at Tiburtina.
A multimedia memorial commemorating Italian victims of the Holocaust was unveiled at the Tiburtina train station in Rome on Wednesday.
The memorial was installed on Platfo...
Mausoleum of Augustus Museum to open in 2026.
Luxury jeweller Bulgari will finance the construction of the Mausoleum of Augustus Museum with funding of €700,000, Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said on Tuesday.
The mayo...
Rome remembers victims of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre.
Italy will mark the 80th anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre with a series of official commemorative ceremonies in the capital this weekend.
On 24 March...
Rome's Largo Argentina site to host historical re-enactment.
Rome will mark the Ides of March and the assassination of Julius Caesar on Friday 15 March 2024 with an historical re-enactment of that fateful day in 44 BC....
Santa Francesca Romana monastery opens once a year.
The feast day of the patron saint of motorists, Santa Francesca Romana (1384-1444), is marked in Rome each year on 9 March.
The Roman saint, who is buried in the cr...
Discovery sheds new light on the exact location of the Porticus Minucia.
A newly-discovered part of an ancient Roman site where free grain was distributed to Romans until the third century AD has been unveiled in the ba...
Restoration project changes the landscape of Trajan's Forum.
A major restoration project to reconstruct part of the Basilica Ulpia, once the largest basilica in Rome, is currently nearing completion in Trajan's Forum....
An insight on the Roman archaeological Ruins of Otricoli
In the heart of Italy, nestled among the verdant hills of Umbria, lie the ancient ruins of Otricoli, a site that whispers the tales of a bygone era. Once a flouri...
Italy marks Giorno del Ricordo on 10 February.
Italy on Saturday will commemorate the victims of the Foibe mass killings in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia by Tito's partisans, both during and after world war...
Italy remembers the horrors of the Holocaust 79 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Italy marks Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday with a series of commemorative events on the 79th anniversary of the liberation...
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