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Giotto's Nativity scenes will be projected onto the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi each evening during the festive season.
Over the Christmas season the Umbrian town of Assisi will project images of Giotto's Nativity...
Police to use drones and helicopters to monitor the movement of people of the Immacolata long weekend.
Police in Italy are to use helicopters and drones to monitor the movements of people over this holiday weekend, repo...
Vatican Museums remain shut in line with closure of Italy's museums.
The Vatican Museums will remain closed to visitors until 15 January 2021, in line with the closure of Italy's museums, due to the covid-19 crisis....
Italian holiday traditions and the beautiful winter light make December in Rome a special time to visit.
Enjoy the atmosphere of the Christmas season, stroll the shopping streets alight with classic decorations, visit...
Italy's places of culture will remain closed until at least January.
Italy's museums, theatres, cinemas, concert halls and archaeological sites are to remain closed over Christmas - normally a busy season - following th...
Italy prohibits travel between regions from 21 December to 6 January.
Italy has banned non-essential travel between regions from 21 December until 6 January as part of a new decree aimed at averting a potential third wa...
Winter sales in Lazio region to begin officially on 12 January 2021 but are expected to start in mid-December.
The winter sales season in Rome and throughout Lazio begins officially on Tuesday 12 January 2021, however s...
Rome moves horse-drawn carriages to parks and offers botticelle drivers taxi licences in exchange.
Rome has banned the traditional horse-drawn carriages from operating on the city's streets, ordering that the so-called...
100 Presepi moves to colonnade of Piazza S. Pietro.
The 2020 edition of 100 Presepi, Rome's international Nativity crib exhibition, will be held under the colonnade of St Peter's Square, from 13 December until 10 Januar...
The effects of covid on quality of life: Rome moves up 26 positions while cities in Northern Italy collapse.
Italia Oggi and La Sapienza University of Rome have released their annual ranking on the quality of life in th...
Pontiff will not make annual pilgrimage on 8 December this year, breaking a tradition dating back to 1953.
Pope Francis has cancelled his annual pilgrimage into the centre of Rome for the feast of the Immaculate Concept...
Digital project to be funded with €10 million from Italian culture ministry.
An ambitious project to create what has been hailed as the "Netflix of Italian Culture" has taken further steps to becoming a reality, reports...
Piazza Venezia closed off this morning for Mission Impossible film set.
Rome's central Piazza Venezia will be sealed off this morning, Sunday 29 November, from 07.00 until 10.00, to allow the filming of scenes for Missi...
Rome gears up for Christmas with tree and festive lights.
Rome has had second thoughts about the location of the city's Christmas tree which will be set up as usual in Piazza Venezia, and not in Piazza del Popolo, accor...
Pediatricians describe what coronavirus took away from children in Italy
We have read and listened to it more than once these past months, and not without relief: children are less affected by covid- 19. And when they...
Maximo shopping mall - with Rome's first Primark store - opens today.
Rome police are to control the numbers of people entering the city centre today as consumers seek to combine Black Friday sales with their Christmas...
New travel corridor to eliminate quarantine requirement on covid-tested flights connecting Atlanta and Rome.
Delta Air Lines and Alitalia are to operate covid-tested, "quarantine free" flights between select airports in...
Guide on how to be seductive while at the supermarket causes storm of controversy in Italy.
Italian state broadcaster Rai has cancelled one of its shows after it offered women tips on how to "shop in a sexy way" to sedu...
Naples is to rename its stadium after the city's beloved football hero.
The death of Diego Armando Maradona, on 25 November, has plunged the Italian city Naples into mourning for the football legend who played seven gol...
Alice Pasquini paints mural project at Rome's Gemelli hospital.
Rome street artist Alice Pasquini has created two new murals in the grounds of the Gemelli hospital in the capital.
Alice Pasquini: Roman street artist...
A tourist repents after 4 years and returns stolen marble from the Roman Forum.
It was delivered in the morning. A voluminous package, rather heavy, packed with care. The recipient was the National Roman Museum, and d...
Rome's MAXXI honoured with an Italian stamp.
Italy celebrates the 10th birthday of MAXXI, the national museum of 21st century art, with a commemorative stamp.
Issued on 24 November by the ministry of economic develop...
Number of women killed in Italy so far in 2020 down slightly from same 10-month period last year but still one murder every three days.
91 women have been killed in Italy in the first 10 months of 2020, compared to 99 d...
Mayor condemns footage of motorbike stunt in newly-restored Rome fountain but the video turns out to be years old.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has condemned the "disgraceful" actions of a youth who drove his motorbike int...
Museum curator finds evidence to support claim that Michelangelo was indeed behind the mystery portrait in Florence.
A carving of a man’s face on the walls of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, often attributed to Michelangel...
According to the daily bulletin of the Italian Ministry of Health 22,930 new cases of coronavirus have been registered in Italy in the last 24 hours, about 5,400 less than yesterday (28,337 new positive with 188,747 swab...
A long night patrol in front of the Roman park of Tor di Quinto, in the distance the soft lights of the Grande Raccordo Annulare highway. A setting that sparked romance.
A few days ago, a Municipal Police servic...
Once popular Novello holiday wine close to extinction in the Castelli region of Italy: restaurants no longer ask for it.
The fashion for the Novello wines, which traditionally opened the winter sales season in winerie...
Well-preserved bodies found in a "truly exceptional" discovery at Pompeii.
The skeletal remains of two men, believed to be a master and his slave, have been discovered at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in volcan...
Joe Biden soon to be joined in Naples crib by Kamala Harris.
Naples is renowned for its Christmas crib tradition and each year people look forward to seeing who the "new entries" will be - often figures from the world o...
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