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Artist writes names on Rome street of those who died trying to reach Europe.
Italian artist Fabio Saccomani has undertaken a project to transcribe the names of almost 37,000 migrants and refugees, who died on their way...
Fiumicino airport first in Italy to test biometric system.Rome's Fiumicino airport has introduced facial recognition for passengers boarding flights, on an experimental basis over the next six months.
The biometric syst...
Palazzo Barberini rearranges its priceless art collection.
Rome's Palazzo Barberini, home to Italy's national gallery of ancient art, has introduced a new visitor route and rearranged its art collection which contains w...
Five Guys comes to Rome after Milan.
Five Guys, the world-famous American burger chain, will launch in central Rome on 16 December.
The arrival of Five Guys in Rome follows the opening of its first Italian venue in M...
Rome's mysterious underground basilica was discovered in 1917.
One of Rome's most magical and mysterious underground sites, the so-called Basilica of Mysteries, is being restored with funding from the Swiss foundation E...
Architectural Digest ranks Via dei Coronari among the ten most beautiful streets in the world.
Rome is home to one of the world's top ten most beautiful streets - Via dei Coronari - according to the influential US publi...
Taxi driver attacked customer in vicious assault at Rome airport.
Rome city hall has begun the process to revoke the licence of a taxi driver who broke a customer's nose in a recent assault outside Fiumicino airport....
Family adopts Filippo following appeal by Rome bus drivers.
Filippo, the little dog found abandoned on a Rome bus, has found a new home following a high-profile adoption appeal.
Bus drivers discovered the dog whining...
Rome's city-run museums host live music until late at night.Rome’s municipal museums come to life with live music with the 2019 edition of the Musei in Musica initiative on the night of Saturday 14 December.
A selection...
Books always make great Christmas presents. In addition to choosing the perfect gift for your friends and loved ones, it is also good to support your neighbourhood bookstore. We asked four of Rome's independent English-l...
29 Rome buses have burst into flames in 2019.
Three more Rome buses have caught fire in the last three days, two belonging to the city's public transport company ATAC and the other belonging to Roma TPL, the capital's s...
No casualties reported in earthquake near Florence.A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Italy, north of Florence, at 04.37 on the morning of Monday 9 December.
There were no injuries reported due to the earthquake whose ep...
Popular park venue in Rome appeals to mayor to avert eviction.
Vivi Bistrot has launched an appeal, directed at Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi, to intervene ahead of its impending closure and eviction on 3 January, leaving...
Rome electric buses serve city's historic centre over Christmas.
Christmas shoppers in Rome can avail of a special "Linea Shopping" bus shuttle service in the city's historic centre as well as extra bus and metro servic...
Limited traffic zone (ZTL) in centre extended one hour in the evenings.Rome's ZTL, or limited traffic zone, in the historic centre will be closed to traffic for an additional hour in the evening from 7 December, remainin...
Rome's Circus Maximus to host Vasco Rossi in summer 2020.
Italian rock star Vasco Rossi is to perform two concerts at the Circus Maximus on 19 and 20 June 2020, with ticket prices ranging from €79 to €91.
The 67-year...
Rome Metro C works unearth ancient oak boards from modern-day France.
Rome archaeologists have announced that oak timbers discovered during excavations for the city's third subway, Metro C, came from modern-day France a...
Plebiscito Roma will stock Made in Italy food products in central Rome.
A major new emporium of Italian food will open within the walls of Rome's historic Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, near the central Piazza Venezia, on 8 De...
Rome's 2019 Christmas tree is sponsored by Netflix.
Rome's Christmas tree, known as Spelacchio, will be illuminated by the city's mayor Virginia Raggi at 19.00 on 8 December, the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
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Heavy rain led to flooding on streets across Rome.
Repubblica station on Rome's Metro A line remains closed on 3 December after being flooded during a violent rainstorm the evening before.
Trains are currently runnin...
Rome's Pecora Elettrica bookshop was destroyed by fire twice this year.
La Pecora Elettrica, a renowned anti-fascist bookshop and bistrot in Rome's Centocelle suburb, will not reopen following a second fire that gutted...
Rome's Metro A stations Repubblica and Manzoni are closed due to flooding caused by torrential rain on the evening of Monday 2 December. There is also flooding in the Metro B station of the city's central Termini station...
Rome's successful bid comes a decade after the capital hosted the World Swimming Championships in 2009.
Rome has won its bid to host the 2022 European Swimming Championships, announced the city's mayor Virginia Raggi....
Bocelli to open 2020 summer festival at Baths of Caracalla in Rome.Andrea Bocelli will inaugurate the summer programme of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma with a concert at the Baths of Caracalla on 21 June 2020.
Accompani...
Taxi driver immortalised in tweet by Rome-based journalist.
"Taxi driver watching the Roma game while driving at 110 kmp/h. And it has just started. Welcome home."
This was the tweet, accompanied by a photograph, pos...
Pope Francis will visit Rome's Spanish Steps during national public holiday on 8 December.On the feast of the Immaculate Conception on Sunday 8 December, Pope Francis will pay homage to the Virgin Mary by making a pilgri...
Rome's Chiostro del Bramante presents Bacon, Freud and the School of London: Works from the Tate.
The term “School of London” was coined by the painter R.B. Kitaj for the catalogue text of the exhibition The Human Clay,...
Rome Opera House holds special fund-raising performance of Swan Lake.
Rome's opera house, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, will raise funds for Teatro La Fenice, the Venice opera house damaged in the lagoon city's recent deva...
Oscar Wilde's time in Rome, six months before his death in Paris, was characterised by a curious mix of boys, tourism and smells-and-bells Catholicism.
In 1875, during his first summer vacation from Oxford, Oscar Wilde...
Rome's state and city-run museums open for free on Sunday 1 December.State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will be open for free on Sunday 1 December thanks to the ever-popular Domenica al Museo...
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