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Pence to meet pope, president and prime minister in Rome.
US vice president Mike Pence arrives in Italy on the morning of Friday 24 January, landing at Ciampino airport in Rome.
Donald Trump's second-in-command comes...
Holocaust victims remembered in Rome 75 years after liberation of Auschwitz.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2020 is being marked in Rome with more than 170 memorial events, organised by the city,...
Wildflower honey and extra virgin olive oil from Palatine Hill in Rome.
Rome is producing organic wildflower honey and extra virgin olive oil on the slopes of the Palatine Hill, as part of an experimental project organi...
202 passengers from Wuhan land in Rome airport.Rome's Fiumicino airport has created a special 'sanitary corridor' for passengers arriving from the Chinese region of Wuhan, the epicentre of an outbreak of a fatal virus wh...
49.4 million travellers passed through Rome's airports last year.
2019 was another record year for passenger numbers at Rome's two international airports, Fiumicino and Ciampino, which between them welcomed 49.4 million...
Abruzzo, known as the greenest region in Europe, lies 80 kilometres from Rome in central Italy. Abruzzo has set aside almost half of its land to green space and is renowned for its lush national parks and nature reserves...
100 chasms opened up on Rome streets in 2019.
There is renewed focus on the phenomenon of Rome's sinkholes - chasms opening up on streets around the capital - following the news of a 24-apartment building near the Colos...
Breathtaking views from 40m-high summit of Trevi Fountain.
Rome's Palazzo Poli contains a secret walkway, leading to a viewing area at the summit of the Trevi Fountain, which could soon be open to visits by the public....
Sicilian Region to cover costs of medical cannabis use.
The cost of prescriptions for medical cannabis for patients in Sicily will now be covered by regional authorities, following a decree signed by Sicilian health chi...
The colourful stories behind the final painting by High Renaissance master Raphael.
If every picture tells a story, then The Transfiguration by Raphael on view in the Vatican Museums tells several. There is the story of...
American fast food chain KFC opens its fifth outlet in Rome.
KFC, also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, has opened a fast food restaurant in Rome's Tiburtina train station.
This is the fifth outlet to be opened in th...
Fiumicino airport checks passengers arriving into Italy from Wuhan.Rome's Fiumicino airport is screening passengers arriving from the central Chinese city and region of Wuhan following the outbreak of a new fatal virus i...
Rome drivers waste 254 hours a year stuck in traffic.
Rome is the world's second worst city in relation to the number of hours its drivers spend stuck in traffic, according to an annual report produced by traffic analyt...
60 people evacuated from central Rome street.
Rome firefighters have evacuated the residents of a building containing 24 apartments on Via Marco Aurelio after part of the pavement collapsed.
Around 60 people have been...
Rome airport police swoop on two Chinese traders.Police at Rome's Fiumicino international airport confiscated a total of €3 million in cash from two Chinese businessmen who were attempting to return to China.
The seizur...
Raphael show in Rome 2020: dates, times, tickets and preview of some of the masterpieces on display.
Raphael's exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome in 2020 is destined to be the show of the year, as the worl...
Traffic-free Sunday in Rome on 19 January.
Rome has banned motorists from driving within the fascia verde (green belt) on Sunday 19 January from 07.30 to 12.30, and from 16.30 until 20.30.
The traffic ban is designed...
Tom Cruise in Rome: 40 days of open-air film sets and car chases in the city centre.
Hollywood film star Tom Cruise and his film crew are to take over some of central Rome's most prized locations for the filming of a ma...
For hundreds of years, a small village in a remote corner of Umbria produced many of Europe’s most celebrated doctors and surgeons.
The village of Preci lies at the northern end of the Monte Sibillini Park in Umbria. Pe...
Rome to host two Six Nations rugby games in 2020.
Italy's national rugby team will play two home matches at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome during the 2020 Guinness Six Nations rugby tournament, which begins on 1 February a...
Rome's ancient ruins of the Stadium of Domitian can be visited under Piazza Navona.
As you quietly sip a coffee in Piazza Navona, a pinch of zest is added by the thought of being seated in what once would have been the...
€450 fine for Bollywood stunt at Trevi Fountain.
A 20-year-old Egyptian man was apprehended by Rome police as he climbed up the side of the Trevi Fountain on 15 January.
The man, who was not carrying any identification...
Diesel car ban in Rome for three days.
Rome has extended its three-day ban on diesel vehicles until Friday 17 January as the city battles a smog emergency.
All diesel vehicles are banned from circulating within the c...
Starbucks to open in former bookshop in Rome.
Starbucks, the American chain of coffee shops, is to open an outlet in Rome near Vatican City, in 2020.
The arrival of Starbucks follows several years of rumours, however...
Visitors to Rome can stay in the frescoed rooms of Villa Medici
Villa Medici, the magnificent 16th-century palace located between the Spanish Steps and Villa Borghese, is home to the French Academy in Rome.
In additio...
No injuries after Rome bus splits in two.
A Rome city bus broke in half as it drove along Via Nomentana on the evening of 14 January.
The floor of the central part of the trolleybus, which connects both ends of the veh...
Borghese Gallery needs to raise €8 million to purchase Bernini sculpture.
Rome's Galleria Borghese has begun a fundraising campaign, through Italy's Art Bonus favourable tax regime, for the purchase of an important bron...
Wanted in Rome Junior article by Lucie Dumont and Laith Zehni, students at St Stephen's International School, Rome.
AS Roma defender and Manchester United legend Chris Smalling was invited to talk to the students of St...
Rome installs 34 new stolpersteine memorials.
Rome will install 34 new brass cobblestone memorials to victims of the Holocaust at various locations throughout the capital, from the historic centre to the suburbs, on 13...
Child injured accidentally in argument at IKEA restaurant in Rome.
A banal dispute over who was first in line at the restaurant of an IKEA store in Rome quickly escalated, causing injury to a child, on Sunday 12 January...
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