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Rome prepares for freezing conditions on 6 and 7 January.
Temperatures in Rome and across Italy are expected to drop significantly for the feast of the Epiphany, better known as La Befana, a national public holiday on M...
US student fined for defacing Florence landmark.
A 21-year-old American tourist has been fined €160 after being caught scrawling his name on Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
The incident took place on 3 January, with polic...
Italy's state museums and archaeological sites in Rome will be open specially on the feast of the Epiphany, or La Befana, on Monday 6 January 2020.
For full details including opening times and tickets see Beni Culturali...
Pompeii will open the Casa del Frutteto to the public from 1 February.
Pompeii, the vast archaeological site near Naples in southern Italy, will open its Casa del Frutteto, or House of the Orchard, on 1 February 2020 on...
Rome will be central to the Raphael 500 celebrations in 2020.
Italy will mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael by placing a red rose on the tomb of the High Renaissance master in the Pantheon, on each day o...
Local residents protest as Rome announces new dump near Fiumicino airport.
Rome city council and the Lazio Region jointly announced a new landfill site for the Italian capital, to be located at Monte Carnevale, near Fiu...
Souvenir stalls to be relocated away from sites in Rome's historic centre.
Rome is to move 17 souvenir stalls away from some of the capital's most prestigious sites for "decorum and security" reasons, according to the c...
Museums in Rome free on first Sunday of every month.
Italy's state-run museums and archaeological sites are open free of charge on the first Sunday of every month, with the next edition of Domenica al Museo taking place...
Rome's winter sales begin on 4 January 2020.
The post-Christmas sales season begins in Rome and throughout Lazio on Saturday 4 January, running for six weeks, until 15 February 2020.
Shopkeepers are obliged to displa...
Pontiff admits that even he sometimes loses his patience.
Pope Francis has apologised for slapping a woman’s hand as he greeted pilgrims after visiting the Vatican's Nativity scene in St Peter's Square on New Year’s Eve...
Rome puts 500 police on patrol for New Year.
Rome security chiefs have placed the capital on an "elevated" Level 2 terror alert over New Year.
The anti-terrorism plan will see 500 officers patrolling the streets of R...
Rome's best pizzerie according to the 2019 Pizza Awards.Where to find the best pizza in Italy? This is the quest of the annual Pizza Awards - the 'Oscars of Italian pizza' - organised by RistorAgency, MangiaeBevi and Sca...
Artribune votes MAXXI Best Museum in Italy.
Rome's MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo has been voted the Best Museum in Italy for 2019 by the influential Italian art newspaper Artribune.
MAXXI was single...
23 ATAC buses burst into flames in 2019 compared to 49 last year.
Another Rome bus has been engulfed by flames while in service, the second in two days, along Via Cristoforo Colombo on 29 December.
As with the bus th...
Zannone island near Rome was infamous for orgies in the 1960s.
The death has occurred of Salvatore Pagano, the last caretaker of Zannone, a small Italian island that was once a decadent destination for the rich and famo...
Zingaretti says Roma-Lido and Roma-Viterbo rail services are "gross".
The Lazio Region is to invest €800 million in the Roma-Lido and Roma-Viterbo rail routes which up to now have been managed by Rome's municipal public...
Rome will host opening match of Euro 2020 and inaugural concert in Colosseum.The opening ceremonies for the Euro 2020 football championship will take place in Rome whose Olympic Stadium will host three Group A matches an...
No injuries in Rome's latest bus blaze.
Rome's public transport company ATAC has launched an investigation after a city bus was engulfed by flames before 06.00 on the morning of 27 December.
The incident, which took...
Ticket changes at the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill in 2020.
From 1 January 2020 Rome will introduce the Forum Pass Super at the Colosseum Archaeological Park, granting access to Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, I...
Two 16-year-old girls killed in Rome crash on 22 December.
Pietro Genovese, the 20-year-old driver of the car that hit and killed two 16-year-old girls in Rome in the early hours of 22 December, has been arrested on cha...
Rome urges car sharing and public transport to curb air pollution in city.
Rome has issued guidelines aimed at improving the air quality in the capital after tests on Christmas Day detected smog levels exceeding the sta...
Castle in Bracciano hosts living crib with over 200 real people.
Italy's largest Nativity scene, featuring more than 200 real people in period costume, will take place over three days in the Lazio lakeside town of Bracc...
Celebrating New Year 2020 in Rome with Festa di Roma.Rome celebrates New Year's Eve and New Year's Day with Festa di Roma, a 24-hour programme of free concerts and cultural events, with 100 events featuring 1,000 artists...
Raggi says city ready to show results of her administration in 2020.
“In recent years we have rebuilt the foundations but from 2020 Rome can dream once more", pledged the city's mayor Virginia Raggi.
"We will tell yo...
Befana market to reopen on Christmas Day.
Rome's annual Befana Christmas market in Piazza Navona is to reopen on Christmas Day.
The market had been shut down on 12 December after police discovered that it did not adh...
Rome pays homage to Renaissance genius Raphael with blockbuster exhibition in 2020.
Rome is to host an "unprecedented" exhibition dedicated to Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, on the 500th anniversar...
Best things to do in Rome on Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve.
Christmas in Rome 2019: from museums to transport, cribs to Christmas for kids - here is some information to help you enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day i...
English-language religious services in Rome over Christmas 2019.All Saints' Anglican ChurchVia del Babuino 153/b, tel. 0636001881.24 Dec. Crib Service 17.00, First Eucharist of Christmas 23.30.25 Dec. Said Eucharist 08.3...
Where to shop for Christmas presents in Rome during the 2019 holiday season.
Christmas shopping in Rome need not be a stressful experience, with gift ideas for everybody if you know where to look and don't leave it unti...
The Isola Sacra necropolis offers a rare insight into cosmopolitan middle-class life and death over three ancient Roman dynasties.
Located just south of the coastal town of Fiumicino, some 30km south-west of Rome, the I...
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