Rome's annual film festival is scheduled from 15-25 October 2020.
The 2020 edition of the Rome Film Festival will screen a documentary about the career of former AS Roma captain and Italy striker Francesco Totti, report...
Rome zoo christens its two lion cubs Naisha and Aasha.
Rome's Bioparco zoo has presented two lion cubs to the world - Naisha and Aasha - both born during Italy’s covid-19 lockdown.
The female cubs were the first Asia...
Hidden cameras caught Rome cemetery workers involved in macabre scam.
A police investigation is underway after Rome cemetery workers were filmed dismembering bodies buried at Prima Porta graveyard as part of a scam that...
On 15 June 2000, ex-windsurfing champion and Italian television producer Enrico ‘Chico’ Forti was sentenced to life in prison without parole in Florida for the murder of Dale Pike.
20 years later Italian officials are...
Ancient Roman monument illuminated with new lights.
Rome has illuminated the Arch of Constantine with new LED lights, replacing the old lighting system at the fourth-century landmark beside the Colosseum.
Rome's mayo...
Classic bread roll in continuing decline in Rome.
Rome's bakeries are producing fewer and fewer rosette, the rose-shaped hollow white bread roll, which has been in decline over the past few years.
The average daily p...
Lake Nemi is a volcanic lake located in the Park of Castelli Romani, a rural pocket of the Lazio region.
Lago di Nemi in Italian, Lake Nemi is 33 metres deep and nestled among the Colli Albani, the Alban Hills. Two sma...
Italy adds three more countries to travel ban list.
Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo have been added to the list of countries banned from entering Italy due to the covid-19 crisis, reports Italian news agency ANSA.
The...
AMA workers shot with air gun while working in Rome suburb.
Two workers from Rome's trash collection service AMA were hit with pellets fired from an air rifle in the S. Basilio suburb of the capital, reports Italian new...
President Mattarella attends production of Rigoletto under the stars in Rome.
Rome's opera house, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, staged the premiere of a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto in the Circus Maximus la...
Weather alert in place for 9-12 hours today in Rome and Lazio region.
Rome has issued a weather alert, following a warning from the regional civil protection agency, from late morning on Friday 17 July, in the capital a...
Italian cultural organisations restart by thinking outside the box and moving events into the open air.
Italy's cultural sector has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus crisis which has dashed the plans of man...
The US has more reported coronavirus cases and deaths than any country in the world.
Despite growing case numbers, the population of the country is caught in a tug of war between reopening the economy and protecting at...
Luci sul Tempio di Adriano takes place each evening at nightfall.
The monumental façade of Rome's Temple of Hadrian in Piazza di Pietro in the historic centre is illuminated each evening in a spectacular light and sound...
Sicilian capital hit by flash floods as firefighters continue to search for missing people in underpass.
Firefighters in Palermo have spent all night searching for people who may be trapped in a car in a flooded underpa...
Italy's Campania region seeks UNESCO recognition for the Neapolitan culture surrounding espresso coffee.
The regional council of the Campania region, whose capital is Naples, is seeking to have the "culture of Neapolita...
Music from the Windows at theatre in centre of Rome.
Rome classical musicians perform a series of free concerts from the windows of Teatro Argentina in the city centre.
The Musica dalle finestre initiative is organis...
Passengers on flights to and from Italy can take cabin baggage from 15 July.
Italy has lifted a ban on carry-on luggage in overhead lockers on aircrafts to and from Italy, with effect from 15 July, reports Italian newsp...
Italy will "constantly update" coronavirus travel ban with high risk countries.
Italy has renewed its restrictions to counter the covid-19 crisis, including the obligation to wear masks in enclosed public spaces and the...
Rome holds summer opera festival in 2,800-year-old Roman arena.
Rome's Circus Maximus, the ancient chariot racing arena, is preparing to welcome the city's summer opera festival, organised by Teatro dell'Opera di Roma,...
Banksy's Bataclan door was discovered in Abruzzo region of Italy.
The French embassy to Italy, in Rome's central Palazzo Farnese, is celebrating Bastille Day by showing Banksy's stencilled door, stolen from the Bataclan...
Pompeii recreates its lost gardens, orchards and vineyards.
The Archaeological Park of Pompeii has inaugurated new "green" itineraries around the site, since it reopened after the covid-19 lockdown, offering an insight...
The Hand of God film by Sorrentino will be set in Naples.Paolo Sorrentino, the Oscar-winning Italian director, is to make a movie for Netflix in his hometown of Naples, reports Variety.Titled The Hand of God, the film wi...
Italian police perform concert for all those affected by coronavirus in Italy.
Italy's state police performed a concert outside the Italian interior ministry in honour of all the victims of covid-19, as well as the nati...
Police move crowds away from nightlife spots in Rome.
Rome's Piazza Trilussa and Piazza Bologna - two areas associated with nightlife in the capital - were sealed off temporarily over the weekend due to large crowds....
Camilleri is buried in Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery.
Italy pays tribute to Andrea Camilleri, one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, with a special screening of a film starring the great Sicilian writer, one year after h...
Efforts to save the north Lazio town of Civita di Bagnoregio have been in place for centuries but have intensified in recent years.
The spectacular mediaeval hilltop town of Civita di Bagnoregio, known as the "castle in...
Rolling Stones frontman is renting a villa near the Tuscan coast.
Mick Jagger, the frontman of veteran British rock group The Rolling Stones, is spending summer 2020 in the Tuscany region of Italy, according to reports...
Rome welcomes back Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia after the lockdown.
The summer symphonic season of Rome's Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia has begun, following the covid-19 lockdown, with a...
Rome mayor paid tribute to Ennio Morricone at Pantheon.
Rome illuminated the Pantheon with a new lighting system on the evening of 10 July in a ceremony attended by the city's mayor Virginia Raggi.
During the inaugur...
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