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Two Italian men caught splashing about in 16th-century Rome fountain.
Rome police fined two 20-year-old men for bathing in the Fountain of the Moor in Piazza Navona while their friend filmed them, reports Italian news a...
MAXXI L'Aquila contemporary art museum will open in October.
MAXXI L'Aquila, a new contemporary art museum under the management of Rome's Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, is set to open in the Abruzzo capital...
Teaching unions raise fears that schools in Italy will be understaffed.
Italian schools face being understaffed when the academic year begins across Italy on 14 September, trade unions representing teachers have claimed...
Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for coronavirus.
His personal physician, Alberto Zangrillo, stated that, "He is asymptomatic and in isolation at home". The swab was performed after his recent stay in Sardinia, exp...
Dante's Divine Comedy comes to life with readings at the Baths of Caracalla.
Rome's Baths of Caracalla hosts readings from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy each week from 20 July until 3 September, on the 700th anniversa...
Italian influencer visits one of Rome's most important museums.
Chiara Ferragni, Italy's most popular influencer on Instagram, paid a visit to Palazzo Barberini, one of the finest museums in Rome, on 1 September.
Why...
Baby born in mid-air between Lampedusa and Palermo.
A migrant woman who tested positive for covid-19 gave birth to a baby on board a helicopter as she was flying to Sicily from the tiny southern Italian island of Lamped...
Lazio Region opens drive-in testing centre at Fiumicino airport.
Rome's Fiumicino airport is launching a drive-in centre for coronavirus tests, organised by the Lazio Region, in the long stay car park.
The facilities...
Tunnels for Rome's third metro line now reach Piazza Venezia.
Excavations for Rome's Metro C tunnels from the Roman Forum to Piazza Venezia have been completed, the city's mayor Virginia Raggi announced.
"Another goa...
Schools in Italy reopen for first time since March.
Teachers in Italy return to work today as schools prepare to begin the new academic year on 14 September, after a nationwide closure of six months due to the covid-19...
"The right to health and the right to education must go hand in hand," says Italy's health minister.
The safe reopening of Italy's schools as planned on 14 September remains the government's "top priority" said premier...
No new coronavirus cases detected at Fiumicino airport on 30 August.
Italian health authorities have recorded zero new covid-19 cases at Rome's Fiumicino airport for the first time since rapid coronavirus testing began...
St George's begins school year with online lessons due to number of covid-19 cases.
St George's British International School of Rome has delayed its reopening, scheduled on 1 September, due to the number of positive cov...
Italian woman caught with feet in Fontanone.
Rome police fined a 35-year-old Italian woman €400 for dipping her feet in the basin of the Fontana dell'Acqua Paola, better known as the Fontanone, on the Janiculum Hill.
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Amarena the bear and her cubs pay a visit to S. Sebastiano dei Marsi.
A bear known affectionately as Amarena took her four cubs for a ramble through the streets of the tiny Abruzzo village of S. Sebastiano dei Marsi whe...
Sea turtle had buried eggs on Torvaianica beach near Rome.
When a loggerhead sea turtle buried its eggs in the sands of Torvaianica beach near Rome in June there was much excitement among conservationists, amazed that a...
UK street artist funds search and rescue boat to help save migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
Banksy, the anonymous British street artist, has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north A...
Almost three quarters of Italians approve of national response to covid-19.
74 per cent of Italians have expressed a positive opinion in relation to how the government has managed the coronavirus crisis, according to a...
American actor to join international jury at 2020 Venice Film Festival.
Matt Dillon will be a special guest at Rome's Floating Theatre, in the EUR district of the capital, at 23.00 on Thursday 27 August.
The appearan...
Italy down almost €2 billion in lost income from foreign tourists in August.
Italy failed to see the surge of tourists it had been hoping for in mid-August, Demoskopika institute chief Raffaele Rio said in an interview...
Government holds talks ahead of reopening of schools as a number of teaching staff test positive for covid-19.
The Italian government is meeting with regional authorities today to draw up guidelines for the reopening of...
25 August
The number of covid-19 cases is decreasing in Italy: there have been 878 new cases registered in the last 24 hours and reported in the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health (953 yesterday).
The number of...
Faithful can begin attending weekly Wednesday audience with Pope Francis in September.
The faithful will be readmitted to the pope's weekly general audiences starting on Wednesday 2 September, the Prefecture of the Papa...
Spate of attacks against police in Rome in recent days.
Rome police are coming under increasing attack from people who refuse to wear protective face masks under Italy's rules to contain the spread of covid-19.
A 22-...
Zannone island near Rome was infamous for orgies in the 1960s.Zannone, a small Italian island off the coast between Rome and Naples, was once a decadent destination for the rich and famous.
Part of the cluster of Pontin...
Where to see Borromini's architecture in Rome.
Francesco Borromini (1599-1667), was an Italian-Swiss architect whose legacy continues to astound visitors to Rome three and half centuries after his death.
Borromini's na...
Rome votes to name future Amba Aradam metro stop after Giorgio Marincola.
Rome city council backed a motion in early August to name a future Metro C station after the so-called partigiano nero or 'black partisan' Giorgi...
Rome held 1960 Olympic Games at Stadio Olimpico and at ancient sites around the city.
The 1960 Olympic Games kicked off in Rome on this day, 25 August, 60 years ago, lasting until 11 September.
There were 83 nations...
Rome doctors hope to produce 'Made in Italy' coronavirus vaccine by next spring.
Human trials of an Italian-developed covid-19 vaccine have begun on volunteers at Rome's Spallanzani hospital on 24 August, reports Italia...
Travelers' Choice 2020 for Castello di S. Severa outside Rome.
The beachside Castello di S. Severa, located about 50km north of Rome, has been listed in the 2020 edition of Travelers' Choice by TripAdvisor.
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