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Rome also rated sixth Most Popular Tourist Destination in the World.
Rome has come first in the Best Food Destinations in the World in the 2025 Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Destination Awards, compiled by travel r...
Italy bakes 2.7 billion pizzas a year.
Four out of 10 families in Italy make their own pizza at home, according to a poll commissioned by Italian agricultural lobby Coldiretti ahead of World Pizza Day on Friday.
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Teatro dell'Opera di Roma returns to the Baths of Caracalla this summer with its opera festival under the stars.
Rome's opera house will stage a diverse programme of events at its summer festival held among the ancient...
Rome's oldest English-language bookstore opened near the Spanish Steps in 1953.
Rome's Anglo American Bookshop, a landmark for the English-speaking community in the capital for more than 70 years, closed its doors for g...
Tradition is marked in Vatican and across Italy.
Italian farmers celebrate the feast day of St Anthony Abbot or Antonio Abate, the patron saint and protector of animals, on Friday 17 January 2025.
The event is marked...
Rome Marathon to be held on 16 March 2025.
The 30th edition of the Maratona di Roma, hailed by many as "the most beautiful marathon in the world", is set to attract a record number of runners on Sunday 16 March.
The...
Lufthansa acquires 41 per cent stake in ITA Airways.
Italy and Lufthansa reached a deal on Wednesday for the German airline to acquire a minority stake in state-owned ITA Airways, following two years of talks.
Luftha...
Rome installs new stolpersteine memorials.
Rome has installed 24 new brass cobblestone memorials to Holocaust victims at locations across the city ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January.
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Italy's opposition leaders round on Salvini over rail chaos.
Italy's deputy premier and transport minister Matteo Salvini faced renewed criticism on Tuesday after the country's rail network was disrupted by major delays...
Venice to stage two weeks of carnival fun in 2025.
Venice will host 18 days of Carnevale this year, with events taking place along the city's canals and across its bridges and squares from 14 February until 4 March....
A closer look at what to do, where to go, and when to visit Sardinia in winter.
Sardinia, well-known for its sunny beaches and thriving summer tourism, becomes a peaceful secret spot in the winter, where visitors l...
Piazza del Cinquecento revamped for Jubilee Year.
Rome mayor Robert Gualtieri on Tuesday inaugurated the new-look Piazza dei Cinquecento outside the central Termini train station as part of works for the Vatican's Jubil...
Giro d'Italia to end in Rome for the seventh time.
The final stage of the 108th edition of the Giro d'Italia, the cycling world's second-biggest annual stage race after the Tour de France, will be held in Rome on 1 June...
Bernabé was at centre of controversy in the past for fascist salute to Mussolini chant.
Italian football club SS. Lazio fired their falconer Juan Bernabé on Monday after he shared images and video footage on social medi...
Tosca had its world premiere in Rome on 14 January 1900.
Rome's opera house will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with a series of productions of the opera classic which premiered in the Italia...
Zucchero to perform solo concerts at Circus Maxius for first time.
Italian singer-songwriter and musician Zucchero 'Sugar' Fornaciari is to perform two concerts at the Circus Maximus in Rome on 23 and 24 June as part of...
Costa Concordia ran aground off west coast of Italy on 13 January 2012.
Italy on Monday marks 13 years since the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio, resulting in 32 deaths, in one of...
Toscani died after battling terminal illness.
Oliviero Toscani, the Italian photographer famed for his provocative advertising campaigns for fashion brand Benetton, died on Monday at the age of 82.
Toscani, who was d...
High fashion takes centre stage in Rome in 2025.
Rome is to act as the backdrop for catwalks showcasing new haute couture collections by renowned fashion houses including Dior, Fendi and Dolce & Gabbana.
The city...
Zelensky travels to Rome after Ramstein.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky met with Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni for talks at Palazzo Chigi in Rome on Thursday evening, after meeting other allies in Germany....
Meloni gives press conference in Rome.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday fielded dozens of questions from journalists at an annual end-of-year press conference at parliament buildings in Rome.
Meloni...
Biden cancels trip to Rome at last minute to deal with wildfire emergency in California.
US president Joe Biden has cancelled a trip to Italy to focus on "directing the full federal response" to unprecedented wildfires...
SS. Lazio is fifth oldest football club in Italy.
More than 4,000 fans of SS. Lazio gathered in the Prati neighbourhood of Rome at midnight on Wednesday to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Italian Serie A football...
Journalist had been imprisoned in Tehran for three weeks.
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been released from prison in Iran and is on a flight back to Italy, prime minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Wednesday morn...
Fascist salutes at Rome event to mark 47 years since killing of three neo-fascist militants.
Rome police have launched an investigation after hundreds of men performed the fascist salute during an annual commemorative e...
Vatican hails "very significant" start to Jubilee Year.
More than half a million people have passed through the Holy Door at St Peter's in the first two weeks since Pope Francis launched the Vatican's Jubilee Year on Ch...
A guide to the contracts and taxes involved in purchasing a property in Italy.
Many people fall in love with Italy and dream about buying a home here. As in every country around the world, it is always a good idea to be...
Map and audio guides highlight Rome sites associated with Ireland.
A new interactive map featuring historic and religious sites in Rome associated with Ireland charts the centuries-old links between the Emerald Isle and...
The Italian flag, or “Il Tricolore,” is one of the most recognisable flags in the world.
With its trio of green, white, and red splashed across Italian restaurant signs all over the world and printed on T-shirts in tour...
Strikes set to impact local public transport services, rail travel and airports in Milan and Venice.
The Italian media is labelling Friday 10 January a venerdì nero, or "Black Friday", due to series of strikes affecting...
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