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Fiorina Fiorelli congratulated by president of Lazio region.
She has lived through the Spanish flu, two world wars and now - aged 107 - the covid-19 pandemic.
Fiorina Fiorelli, born on 13 January 1913, lives in a nur...
Deaths of birds occurred during Rome fireworks for New Year.
Hundreds of dead birds covered a central Rome street in the aftermath of last night's fireworks for New Year.
The birds, believed to be starlings, were fou...
Vatican Secretary of State to celebrate New Year's Day Mass instead of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis will not preside over the Vatican's New Year's Eve and New Year's Day celebrations due to "painful sciatica," the Vatican...
The many positive news stories from Italy in 2020 were too often drowned out by a sea of negative headlines.
By Andy Devane
Few in Italy would deny that 2020 was a terrible year but looking back on this annus horribi...
Rome moves New Year party online this year due to covid-19.
New Year's Eve in Rome, and all over Italy, will be drastically different to previous years, due to the nationwide coronavirus restrictions in place.
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Rome nurse closes social media accounts following threats and insults after becoming the first in Italy to get covid-19 vaccine.
The nurse who became the first person in Italy to receive the covid-19 vaccine on 27 Decem...
Rome to swap sampietrini for asphalt on several major streets.
Rome's traditional cobblestones or sampietrini are to disappear from 68 streets in the centre, including several thoroughfares with heavy traffic, as part o...
First Italians to get Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine were a doctor, a nurse and a social health worker at a Rome hospital.
Italy launched its covid-19 vaccination programme this morning at 07.20, on 27 December, by...
Nativity scenes beamed onto façade of Rome's Palazzo Senatorio each evening of the Christmas season.
Rome city hall celebrates Christmas by projecting images of Nativity-themed frescoes and paintings onto the façade of...
Pompeii will open up a newly unearthed thermopolium at Easter.
The Pompeii archaeological park has announced that it will open up a recently discovered thermopolium, a sort of ancient 'fast food' counter, with visits se...
Rome's Christmas lights are on but its streets are deserted under Italy's 'red zone' lockdown.
Christmas Eve in Rome, like in most other cities, normally involves a mad dash for last-minute presents, taking the kids int...
"Dear Santa Claus, all I want for Christmas is to hug Papà" - Rome hospital lets children hug their parents thanks to anti-covid curtain.
Rome's S. Raffaele hospital has made the wishes of its little patients come true...
"I have wonderful news to tell you: Chico Forti will return to Italy. I have just told his family and I have informed the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte. The Governor...
Italian citizens resident in Italy can return from UK along with those who have urgent reasons to come back.
Italian citizens who live in Italy but are currently in Britain are allowed to return, despite a travel ban in...
Pope will not read Urbi et Orbi message from the balcony of St Peter's this year.
Pope Francis will deliver his traditional Christmas message indoors this year instead of from the outdoor central balcony of St Peter’s B...
Italy plans to construct a new Colosseum floor to allow visitors to enjoy views from the amphitheatre's centre and to host high-level cultural events.
Italy's culture ministry has launched an €18.5 million tender to reb...
Army will distribute Pfizer covid-19 vaccine around Italy.
A nurse at Rome's Spallanzani hospital, a specialist centre for infectious diseases, will become the first person in Italy to receive the Pfizer covid-19 vaccin...
Rome Christmas music project is titled 'Let's pretends everything is all right.'
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi has announced a plan to raise the city's spirits this Christmas: a double decker bus of musicians who will tak...
Italy honours its doctors and nurses in Christmas crib tradition.Christmas Nativity scenes are a hugely popular tradition in Italy, and this year they have some new figures.
Doctors and nurses - heroes of Italy's battle...
The first case to reach Italy has been identified in a patient in Rome.
The Ministry of Health has announced that the new covid-19 mutation spreading through the UK was confirmed in a subject who returned in rece...
Italy joins Austria, Belgium and Netherlands in banning UK flights.
Italy has banned air travel from the UK, until 6 January 2021, due to concerns over the new strain of coronavirus, the foreign ministry announced this...
People living in Italy will face many restrictions due to the covid-19 pandemic during the upcoming Christmas holidays. Here is a list of the most significant things you can and cannot do in Italy over the Christmas per...
Italy is the first country in the world for lethality from Covid-19. This was revealed by Johns Hopkins University after analysing data of the mortality rate per 100,000 inhabitants.
Another study, meanwhile, confirms...
Music-themed Nativity installation in Florence features celebrity musicians from David Bowie to Freddie Mercury.
Italy, home of the Nativity scene, continues to present ever more imaginative interpretations of an ancien...
Italy is to become a 'red zone' for much of the Christmas holiday period, with the country effectively placed under a national lockdown into the new year.
The Italian government has declared the maximum level 'red zone'...
American chain seeks a slice of Rome's pizza market.
Domino's Pizza, the American multinational pizza chain, has launched in Rome as part of an expansion plan in the north and centre of Italy.
Its two new Roman outle...
The Mausoleum of Augustus, closed for the last 14 years, will reopen finally on 1 March 2021.
Rome’s Mausoleum of Augustus will reopen to the public on 1 March 2021 following a major restoration funded principally by It...
During the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic, many "violations of human rights" in socio- medical residence facilities were perpetrated in Italy. The statement made by Amnesty International has initiated an investigat...
In March he had lost his twin brother Nicola to covid-19 and now the virus has killed him too.
Lieutenant Michelangelo Sansipersico, 56, serving in the judicial police section at the Prosecutor's Office in Bari, has die...
Italy is set to begin vaccinating against covid-19 between Christmas Day and the new year, pending approval from the EMA.
Italy expects to begin its covid-19 vaccination campaign between Christmas and New Year’s Day, a...
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