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Rome celebrates its patron saints with free visit to Forum sites. From 29 June, the feast day of Rome's patron saints Peter and Paul, it will be possible to visit the Roman Forum and the Imperial Fora with a single tick...
  New pedestrian routes through Roman and Imperial Fora – and beyond. Rome mayor Virginia Raggi and Italy's culture minister Alberto Bonisoli on Thursday inaugurated a new pedestrian route connecting the Roman Forum...
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Ancient marble head found in Rome dates back to the Imperial age. The white marble head unearthed during excavations at the Roman Forum on 24 May is believed to represent a male deity, most likely Dionysus, also known a...
Rome's deputy mayor announces surprise discovery. A beautiful female head from a marble statue has just been discovered during excavations along Via Alessandrina at the Roman Forum. The surprise discovery, made on 24...
Students clean Rome's 288 stolpersteine to keep memory alive. On Tuesday 21 May, World Day of Cultural Diversity, Rome's German embassy and the association Arte in memoria invite school students and their families to pa...
Rome makes major discovery at Emperor Nero's Golden Palace.Rome archaeologists have rediscovered the Sala della Sfinge, the Room of the Sphinx, hidden at Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea or Golden Palace for almost 2,000 years...
Annual commemoration at Rome War Cemetery. New Zealanders and Australians in Rome will mark ANZAC Day 2019 with a memorial service on Thursday 25 April at the Rome War Cemetery on Via Nicola Zabaglia, in the Testaccio d...
Rome celebrates 74th anniversary of liberation on 25 April.On 25 April Italy celebrates the 74th Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from German occupation and fascist rule at the end of world wa...
Rome parade on 22 April will feature centurions, gladiators and vestal virgins.  A parade, featuring 1,500 participants dressed in ancient Roman costumes, takes place in Rome on Monday 22 April to mark the city's 2,772n...
Random discovery took place in grounds of Rome's Corsini palace. Rome archaeologists have presented the well-preserved remains of a ancient Roman workshop with large-scale furnace, or kiln, used in the commercial produc...
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Rome's birthday celebrations for Natale di Roma include historical re-enactments including a costumed parade and gladiator fights. Rome celebrates its 2,772nd birthday on 21 April which this year coincides with Easter S...
Nero's Domus Transitoria palace opens for guided tours on Rome's Palatine hill. The ruins of Emperor Nero's first palace, known as the Domus Transitoria, have opened to the public following a decade of restoration and s...
335 people were killed at the Fosse Ardeatine in Rome in 1944. Rome is holding several ceremonies in memory of the 335 people killed by the then occupying Nazi forces 75 years ago, on 24 March 1944. The mass killing...
Guided tours of Mussolini bunker at Villa Torlonia. A wartime air-raid shelter used by Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, along with two adjoining bunkers, is open for guided tours which must be booked in advance....
Rosetta Stame read names of Fosse Ardeatine victims at memorial each year. Italian president Sergio Mattarella has led tributes to Rosetta Stame, the daughter of Ardeatine massacre victim and partisan fighter Nicola Ugo...
Largo Argentina to become accessible to visitors thanks to Bulgari. Rome's archaeological site at Largo di Torre Argentina is to be restored in a €1 million project sponsored by luxury jeweller Bulgari, with a completio...
Rome installs new stolpersteine memorials as well as replacing those stolen in December. Rome will install 26 new brass cobblestone memorials to Jewish victims of the Holocaust at various locations throughout the capita...
Centenary of the end of world war one is marked in Rome this November.At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the so-called Great War ended. An armistice was signed in a railroad car in France outside...
Death of Lello Di Segni comes 75 years after 1943 raid in Rome's Jewish Ghetto. Lello Di Segni, the last survivor of the 1943 raid on Rome's Jewish Ghetto district to deport Jews to Nazi extermination camps, has died in...
2018 marks the 75th anniversary of the deportation of Rome’s Jews.Rome's Jewish community will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at A...
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