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Keats-Shelley House to restore ceilings of museum and library.
The museum and library of the Keats-Shelley House in Rome will close for important restoration work from 8 December to 23 February, reopening to the public...
Skin will be DJ at Rome's New Year concert in Circo Massimo.
Rome will ring in the new year with 1,000 artists performing over 24 hours in the area around the Circus Maximus, from 31 December 2019 into 1 January 2020....
Italian schools to devote one hour a week to studying climate change from next year.
Italy will become the first country in the world to make learning about climate change compulsory for school students, with 33 hours a...
Rome residents and cultural figures gather in solidarity with La Pecora Elettrica bookstore.
A police investigation is underway after a fire gutted a renowned anti-fascist bookshop and cafè in Rome - for the second time...
Celtic fans warned not to wear their club jerseys in Rome.
Two Celtic fans were stabbed outside the Flann O'Brien Irish pub on Via Nazionale in central Rome just before midnight on 6 November.
A group of masked Lazio...
Rome launches P.STOP Project in tourist areas.
Tourists in Rome can now avail of new kiosks offering numerous services including tourist information, toilets and wi-fi.
The P.STOP kiosks are located in tourist areas ar...
Rome's debt-laden public transport company leases its unused spaces.
Three long-abandoned bus depots in Rome have become centres of culture after the city's debt-laden public transport company ATAC leases its industrial...
Opinion poll puts Giorgia Meloni as favourite for next Rome mayor.Eight Romans out of ten would not vote for the current mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi in the local elections in 2021, according to an opinion poll conducted...
Armed robber shot dead during attempted robbery in Rome suburb.
A police investigation is underway after a 69-year-old armed robber was shot dead during the attempted robbery of a bar in an east Rome suburb on the eveni...
Bastion of expat life in Rome closes down due to dwindling members.
The St Patrick's English-Language Lending Library, which is better remembered by Rome's expats as the S. Susanna Library, is to close its doors for goo...
Large domestic items can be dropped to collection centres on 10 November.
The capital's refuse agency AMA Roma will accept bulky household waste, such as old furniture, mattresses, televisions and washing machines, from...
Two-day strike will affect gas stations across Italy.
Trade unions have confirmed a two-day petrol station strike throughout Italy on 6-7 November.
The strike will take effect from 06.00 on Wednesday 6 November and r...
9,000 Celtic fans expected in Rome for Europa League clash against SS Lazio on 7 November.
The British embassy to Italy has strongly advised Celtic fans not to wear their club colours while visiting Rome ahead of their...
Rome's American community celebrates Thanksgiving 2019.
Thanksgiving is not a holiday widely celebrated in Rome however there are some places offering traditional food and festivities on Thursday 28 November 2019.
Th...
Italian tourists shocked with bill for four panini at bar near Vatican.
Tourists visiting Rome were charged almost €120 for three hot dogs and a ham and cheese sandwich, plus four cans of Coca Cola and a bottle of water...
Rome calls for cultural ideas to celebrate Garbatella 100.
Ahead of the centenary of Rome's Garbatella district in February 2020, the city has invited citizens to contribute "project ideas or supply of services" to mark...
New trains destined for Rome's A, B and B1 metro lines.
Rome's transport department has issued a tender for the supply of 20 new metro trains for the city's A, B and B1 subway lines.
Thanks to state funding of €169 m...
Passengers rank Rome airport among the best in Europe.
Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport, better known as Fiumicino, has achieved a new record for the quality of its passenger services, with a score of 4.46 out of five o...
Rome's state and city-run museums open for free on Sunday 3 November.
State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will be open for free on Sunday 3 November thanks to the ever-popular Domenica al Mus...
Florence city council votes to increase tourist tax.From 1 January 2020, visitors staying overnight in Florence will pay an increased tourist tax after the city council voted to increase the so-called tassa di soggiorno....
Quattro Fontane is to show some movies in original language.
Rome's Quattro Fontane Cinema reopens to the public on 30 October, after an extended period of closure, with an additional room.
The renovated cinema, loca...
Rome honours former chief rabbi with street in Jewish Ghetto.
Rome is to dedicate a street to Elio Toaff, the chief rabbi of Rome from 1951 until 2001, in the Jewish Ghetto district of the capital on 31 October.
The...
Whoever eats 1 kg of spaghetti alla carbonara doesn't pay.
A carbonara challenge is taking place at Il Maritozzo Rosso restaurant in the Trastevere district of Rome, on 31 October, for Halloween.
Whoever manages to e...
Plans for a fourth runway at Fiumicino airport have been rejected.
Italy's environment ministry has rejected a plan to expand Rome's Fiumicino airport after the project was deemed "incompatible” with the surrounding nat...
Vintage steam train connects Rome to lakeside papal retreat.
The long-awaited return of the historic Castelli Romani steam train from Rome's central Termini station to Castel Gandolfo, the summer retreat of the popes ov...
Rome to display world's most important private collection of ancient art.
The legendary Torlonia Collection, considered by many as the world's most important private collection of ancient marble sculptures, will at long...
Sicilian speciality listed in prestigious English dictionary.
Arancini, Italy's deep-fried rice balls, have been listed in the revised 2019 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Arancini, among 650 new words adde...
Rome mayor thanks police for reducing crime in the capital.
"Anger, anger and shame. The death of a 24-year-old man killed by two criminals is unacceptable, unjust, heart-wrenching and [leaves us] torn apart."
This w...
Two suspects transferred to Rome's Regina Coeli prison.
Rome police have detained two suspects in relation to the murder of Luca Sacchi, a 24-year-old personal trainer who was shot in the head on a street in the capital...
Venice entry fee will apply to tourists on day-trip visits.
Venice will begin charging tourists an entry fee from 1 July 2020, according to the city council.
The fee, which was first announced late last year, will on...
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