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Luca Signorelli and Rome. Oblivion and Rediscovery.
Luca Signorelli, most fortunate and most neglected among painters, was fortunate in his early patrons.
First there was Lorenzo de’ Medici; then came Sixtus IV for w...
Hollywood stars and world premieres at Rome Film Fest.
The 2019 Rome Film Fest, which kicks off in the Italian capital on 17 October, features a plethora of big names from US cinema including Bill Murray, Edward Norton,...
Italy's culture minister welcomes the court's decision over Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man will now join several other works by the Renaissance master at a blockbuster exhibition in the...
Rome hospital hosts simultaneous screenings for the sick and their families.
The 2019 Rome Film Fest, which runs from 17-27 October, will screen select movies from its official line-up at the city's Gemelli hospital for...
Number of injured in Rome bus crash now reported as 42.
The driver of the Rome city bus that crashed into a tree on Via Cassia was allegedly looking at his telephone moments before the crash, passengers told Italian new...
Cultural marathon to save Rome's oldest coffee bar which opened in 1760.
Caffè Greco, the historic bar on Via dei Condotti near the Spanish Steps, faces closure on 22 October - after more than 250 years in business - fo...
Investigation underway into serious bus crash in Rome.
A Rome city bus crashed into a tree on the city's Via Cassia, causing multiple injuries, four of them serious but none believed to be life-threatening.
The incid...
Rome commemorates 1943 deportation of Jews.Rome's Jewish community commemorates the 76th anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz, on 16 October.
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Rome Metro A station of Furio Camillo closed due to escalator problems.
The Furio Camillo station on Rome's Metro A line closed on the morning of 16 October due to problems related to its escalators.
Trains are curre...
Basilica is latest Rome landmark to be newly illuminated.
Rome's Basilica of St John Lateran, or S. Giovanni in Laterano, has been illuminated with a new light system, inaugurated by the city's mayor Virginia Raggi on t...
Tourists face charges of drunkeness and threatening Rome police.
Three Australian tourists were arrested at Rome's Trevi Fountain during the night of 14 October, after an altercation with city police, according to Itali...
Rome's Metro A station Baldo degli Ubaldi will close from 18 October.
Rome is to close the Baldo delgi Ubadli station on the city's Metro A line for "about three months" - from 18 October - to carry out a "20-year revie...
Culling of Rome's wild boar is a marked change in direction for Raggi's hitherto animal-friendly administration.
The wild boar that congregrate in the parks and streets of Rome's suburbs are to be culled or, when possib...
Villa Farnesina hosts works created in da Vinci's Rome workshop.
Rome pays homage to Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci on the 500th anniversary of his death by showing restored works created in the artist's Roman wor...
Italy's culture minister hails "unprecedented discovery" in Pompeii.
An intact fresco portraying fighting gladiators has been unearthed by archaeologists in Pompei, the ancient Roman city buried under a thick carpet of...
Travolta will retrace career highlights during public talk in Rome.
The 2019 Rome Film Fest will confer the Lead Acting Award on John Travolta for his performance in The Fanatic in which plays a film fan obsessed with a...
Wolf-dog hybrids born at Castel di Guido in outskirts of Rome.
Seven wolf-dog hybrid cubs have been filmed by hidden cameras in a nature reserve at Castel di Guido, located between Rome and the capital's coastal distric...
Religious radio station publishes carta d'identità for Jesus.
Radio Maria, the Italian-based Catholic broadcaster, has caused controversy among its faithful followers after it posted a picture on social media of an iden...
Rinascente sponsors redevelopment of two streets in central Rome.The Italian department chain Rinascente will finance the redevelopment of Via del Tritone and Via dei Due Macelli, the two streets which flank its flagship...
Consumer watchdog prepares complaint on taxi situation at Termini.The lack of taxis at Rome's central Termini train station and the justifications on behalf of taxi drivers, who complain of excessive traffic in the area,...
Principal David Tongue joined St George’s from Brighton College Bangkok in January 2019, after leadership posts in the UAE, the Falkland Islands and Spain.
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Courts say da Vinci's Vitruvian Man too fragile to travel to Louvre.
Italy's culture minister Dario Franeschini is expected to challenge the ruling of an Italian court which blocked the loan of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitru...
Historic sites in Rome and across Italy open this weekend.
More than 700 noted Italian buildings and historic sites will open their doors to the public free of charge on 12 and 13 October as part of the Giornate FAI d'a...
Environmentalists protest outside Rome metro station closed since March.
Italian environmental association Legambiente held a protest outside Rome's Barberini metro station as it reached its 200th day of closure on 9 Oc...
Rome mayor orders investigation following television programme.
Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation into the failure to recycle rubbish left out at night by the capital's bars, restaurants and shops, in a case...
John Henry Newman's first sermon in Rome, soon after he arrived to study for the priesthood in 1846, raised eyebrows among Catholics and Protestants alike.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) ordained priest in the Church of...
Giornate delle Catacombe takes place on 12 October.
Catacombs around Rome will be open for the second edition of Giornate delle Catacombe, organised by the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology, on Saturday 12 Oct...
Exclusive tour company offers dawn tours of Vatican Museums.
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to be the first person to walk into the Sistine Chapel at dawn, and gaze in amazement at Michelangelo's ceiling as t...
Investigation into Lemmetti's transport expenses between Rome and Livorno.
Gianni Lemmetti, the city councillor in charge of Rome's budget, is under investigation by the audit court in relation to personal transport e...
Musja private art museum opens in central Rome.
Musia, the multi-functional space first opened in Rome's historic centre in 2017 by Roman entrepreneur and art collector Ovidio Jacorossi, has become a private museum....
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