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What is allowed and what is forbidden in yellow zones under Italy's covid-19 restrictions.
Italy has relaxed its coronavirus restrictions for most regions, with effect from 1 February 2021.
The move will see much of...
Vatican Museums will reopen on 1 February with advance booking required.The Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel, will reopen their doors to the public from Monday 1 February after being closed for 88 days, the...
Italy allows museums in most regions to reopen from 1 February.
Italy is to ease its coronavirus restrictions across most of the country, with the exception of five regions, from Monday 1 February (not from 31 January a...
Most Italian regions become yellow zones with effect from Monday 1 February.
Italy has eased its coronavirus restrictions for most of the country including the Lazio region around Rome and the Lombardia region around Mi...
Doctors sound the alarm as "English variant infects even those who wear surgical masks”
Less aggressive but more contagious, the English variant of covid is in Rome. Pier Luigi Bartoletti, head of the USCAR, the anti-co...
Starlings move to Villa Celimontana after New Year fireworks.
Rome's central Villa Celimontana park has been closed due to fallen branches and the arrival en masse of starlings.
The birds have moved in to roost in th...
Exactly one year ago, Italy began to come to terms with the dreaded covid-19 pandemic emergency. Although the virus had been circulating for several months - according to many experts – the news and images of the lockdow...
Raggi slams those responsible for dumping trash on Rome's streets.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi said she was "infuriated" by the sight of 15 mattresses dumped overnight on a street in the city's upmarket Prati district....
After triggering a political crisis in Italy, Renzi flew to Saudi Arabia to attend a forum with the "great" Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, who plunged Italy's government in...
S. Gennaro catacombs win award from online booking platform Tiquets.
The Catacombs of S. Gennaro in Naples have won the "Global Remarkable Venue Awards 2020", an international recognition launched by the online booking...
The restrictions related to covid for cities in orange zones have led managers of the bars of Rome to send out an appeal: "Let us open to the public, one cannot stay without toilets".
Meanwhile, drivers of Atac...
Piazza S. Silvestro finally gets trees almost a decade after the square's restyling.
Rome's central Piazza S. Silvestro is to have an injection of greenery after the city planted four trees in the square: two melias and...
The first anti-Covid dogs are part of the security and vigilance group “Italpol”.
They carried out a "demonstrative" exercise at the arrivals area of Terminal 3 of Fiumicino airport, that did not involve passengers,...
Archaeologists to dig down to ancient Roman beach buried in 79 AD.
Herculaneum, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is to begin excavating its hidden beach for the first time in 40...
Raggi replaces culture councillor Luca Bergamo with Lorenza Fruci.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has reshuffled her cabinet, making the 19th change to her council since 2016, and the city now has a new culture councillor....
Holocaust victims remembered in Italy 76 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Italy marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2021 with hundreds of memorial events in Rome, Milan and about 60 other...
Conte has resigned in a tactical move that he hopes will allow him to build a new coalition.
Giuseppe Conte resigned as Italy's prime minister on 26 January, tendering his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella, in...
The residents are ready to bring the matter to court.
The inhabitants of Rome’s historical center have written to the Mayor, and put in the crosshairs municipal workers for whom Raggi has allocated a financial bonus. T...
Antiquarium reopens as permanent exhibition space in Pompeii.
Pompeii’s museum has been given a new lease of life after a long history of "ups and downs," announced the director of the archaeological park, Massimo Osann...
Conte will hand in his resignation on 26 January.
Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte will offer his resignation to the president on Tuesday 26 January, his office said tonight.
Conte has convened his cabinet for a...
Italy's streaming platform for Italian culture will be called .ITsART.The logo and name of Italy's ambititious project to create the "Netflix of Italian Culture" has been unveiled, reports online art newspaper Artribune....
Nigerian homeless man was found dead near St Peter’s a few days ago.
Pope Francis prayed for a homeless man from Nigeria who died just metres away from St Peter’s Square, inviting everyone to pray for him, after yesterd...
Traffic restrictions on Sunday 24 January to battle air pollution in Rome.
Rome has banned motorists from driving within the fascia verde (green belt) on Sunday 24 January from 07.30 to 12.30, and from 16.30 until 20.30...
Italy takes action against TikTok following death of 10-year-old girl in Sicily.
Italy has temporarily blocked access to TikTok for users whose age cannot be verified, following the accidental death of a 10-year-old gir...
The great-grandson of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III writes a letter of apology to Italy's Jewish community.
Prince Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, heir to the defunct Italian throne, last night issued a televised apo...
The moving story of a community rallying together to help a friend in need.
John, from Nigeria, has lived for several years in Ciampino, near Rome, where he makes ends meet by sweeping the streets and helping out with o...
House of US civil rights hero goes on display in Naples.
The dilapidated timber house of US civil rights icon Rosa Parks has gone on public display at the Royal Palace in Naples.
Rosa Parks was an African American ci...
Florence reopens Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens after covid-19 shutdown.
Florence reopened its Uffizi Gallery today, 21 January, after 77 days - the longest closure since world war two.
The reopening of the famed m...
Dead whale believed to be "one of the largest" ever found in the Mediterranean.
The carcass of a huge fin whale found in the waters off Sorrento in southern Italy has been towed to the nearby sea port of Naples where ma...
A guide to the most famous parks in Rome.
While there is no end to amazing museums and archaeological sites in Rome, it is also refreshing to visit the city's parks, which offer vast expanses of greenery and have more t...
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