Jubilee in Rome
Another major Jubilee 2025 project gets underway in Rome.
Rome has started works to transform the piazza in front of the papal Archbasilica of St John Lateran, or San Giovanni in Laterano, for the Vatican's Jubilee Year...
First restoration of Baldachin since the 18th century.
St Peter's Baldachin, the gilded bronze canopy that towers over the Vatican basilica's high altar, is being restored for the first time in 250 years.
Designed by...
Rome to become "open-air construction site" as city prepares for influx of pilgrims in 2025.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has pledged that the slew of public construction projects underway in the Italian capital ahead o...
New opening hours at Vatican Museums from 2024.
The Vatican Museums will extend its opening hours from 08.00 until 19.00, with effect from 1 January 2024, as part of a major shake-up of its admission policies ahead of J...
Rome roadworks coincide with back-to-school traffic.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri is under fire from motorists whose movement around the city has been slowed down significantly due to major infrastructure projects under...
Eternal City prepares for millions of pilgrims in 2025.
Rome has unveiled plans to pedestrianise Piazza Pia, near the Vatican, as part of a major €70 million project ahead of the Jubilee Year in 2025.
A busy thorough...
UrbanV partners with AWS to develop vertiports in Rome.
The prospect of tourists being transported across Rome in electric flying taxis is set to become a reality by the end of 2024, the company behind the venture, Urba...
Rome bridge to reopen in late 2024.
Rome's Ponte dell'Industria, better known as Ponte di Ferro, has closed to traffic for around 14 months to allow for works to be carried out ahead of the Jubilee 2025.
The landmark...
Rome mayor presents Jubilee 2025 projects.
Rome has unveiled dozens of major infrastructural projects to be carried out ahead of the Vatican's Jubilee Year 2025 when millions of pilgrims are set to arrive in the Italian...
Rome gets ready to host Jubilee Year 2025.
Rome's centre-left mayor Roberto Gualtieri has been named 'extraordinary commissioner' for the Vatican's Jubilee Year 2025 in the Italian capital.
The mayor was appointed "t...
Vatican area off limits to private traffic for four days over Christmas.
The Borgo district around the Vatican is off-limits to private traffic from 24-27 December, as part of increased security measures surrounding C...
Ban on traders around St Peter's for Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy.
Rome commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has signed a decree banning souvenir stalls and mobile sandwich-bars from the area around St Peter's Square for...
Free passes for major Jubilee events and Holy Door at St Peter’s.
Pilgrims coming to Rome for the Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy can obtain tickets, free of charge, for major Vatican ceremonies and for access to the Holy...
Rome struggles to prepare for Pope Francis' pilgrims.
No-one in Rome is pretending that the Holy Year of Mercy that Pope Francis will open on 8 December will be smooth sailing. The announcement of a special Jubilee (o...
How to volunteer.
Anyone interested in signing up as a volunteer to help pilgrims during the Holy Jubilee Year can find all the information and necessary application form on the easy-to-use official website, in six la...
Pontiff also recognises confessions made to irregular Society of St Pius X.
Pope Francis has given all priests discretion during the Catholic Church's Holy Year of Mercy to forgive women who have had abortions and are...
How to get pilgrims to and from St Peter's.
Cleaning up the city is one project for the Holy Jubilee Year that opens on 8 December. A much more difficult one is how to cope with the traffic. This is the main headache...
City starts public works.
The first public works in preparation for the Holy Year of Mercy are scheduled to start on 7 September around Stazione Termini.
The work around the station includes upgrading the surface...
Only three months before opening of the special Holy Year.
Announcing the city's plans for the coming Jubilee year Rome's mayor, Ignazio Marino, has outlined details and costs of some of the projects to make life easi...
Works to be completed ahead of Holy Jubilee.
The adminstration of Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino has sanctioned a €4 million project to upgrade the area around the capital's central railway station Termini.
The works,...
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