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Paolo Berdini ninth senior figure to leave Raggi team. Rome's urban planning chief Paolo Berdini has become the latest high-profile figure to abandon the administration of the capital's mayor Virginia Raggi of the ant...
Valentine's Day map aims to help victims of domestic violence. A new map showing Rome's police stations in their proximity to the capital’s metro stations has been released on Valentine's Day by the website Giulia sot...
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Market stall-holders claim they have been evicted by city. The Mercato di Campagna Amica, a popular zero-km food market near Rome's Circus Maximus, has been closed by the administration of mayor Virginia Raggi. The...
Rome monument vandalised yet again. A traffic warden from the south of France has become the latest tourist arrested for defacing Rome's recently-restored Colosseum. The 46-year-old French tourist, who was caught c...
An interview with Elio D’Anna, Founder and President Of the European School of Economics After the financial crisis, the frontiers and the players of the global economy have changed. The technological developments and...
Some suggestions for a romantic Valentine’s Day in Rome. Numerous Valentine's Day events are taking place in the capital whose MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo and Chiostro del Bramante have special two...
Third-grade student Jonah Giuliani, aged eight, writes about life at Ambrit International School. My name is Jonah and I am an Ambrit student. Ambrit is an international school in Rome. It has kids from all around the...
The process of applying for Italian citizenship is complicated and costly and the treatment reserved for future Italians leaves much to be desired. Laura Clarke To become or not to become an Italian citizen? That is th...
Anti-Pope Francis posters coincide with Knights of Malta feud. Rome police have launched an investigation into the appearance of dozens of illegal posters critical of Pope Francis posted around the capital during the...
Raggi questioned over life insurance policy as part of corruption probe. Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi, of the anti-establishment Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S), faces fresh corruption allegations following an eight-hour hear...
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Sit-in and vigil on Via Veneto in protest over Trump travel ban. Two separate protests against President Donald Trump's order restricting entry into the US took place outside the US embassy on Rome's Via Veneto on 2 F...
Italy's rugby federation partners with culture ministry for Rome museum initiative. There will be free admission for two people to ten Rome museums for holders of tickets for the Six Nations rugby tournament during th...
Visitors can reserve 3D tour of Nero's residence from 4 February. Rome's Domus Aurea will offer virtual reality tours to visitors every weekend from 4 February, providing visual insights into how Emperor Nero's golden...
Trump names Lewis Eisenberg to represent US in Italy. Lewis Eisenberg, a 75-year-old financier and veteran New Jersey Republican fundraiser, has been named to represent Washington in Italy and San Marino. Once his...
Rome's oldest Irish pub has been an expat oasis for four decades. Andy Devane "There were queues outside every night,” Gino Bottigliero reminisces with a nostalgic twinkle in his eye, “we were packed from the start.”...
Mayor Raggi celebrates as revised Rome budget wins approval. Rome mayor Virginia Raggi hailed the "historic" approval of the capital's 2017-2019 budget on 30 January, a month after an earlier budget was rejected by th...
Rome's Chinese new year returns for the seventh time. On 28 January 2017, the centre of Rome saw a colourful and cheerful festival that celebrated the first day of the lunar year, according to the traditional Chinese...
Pope Francis requests Vatican coat of arms and EU stars to replace his face on coins. The Vatican will cease minting euro coins bearing the image of Pope Francis from March, according to Italian news agency ANSA. I...
Rome transport initiative causes disbelief on social media. Roman survivors of the Holocaust are to be granted free annual bus passes in an initiative announced on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January,...
Lions Club fund restoration of artists' fountain on Via Margutta. The Fontana degli Artisti on Via Margutta has been restored following a €10,000 cleaning programme funded by the Lions Club Roma Aurelium. The marbl...
Rome’s museums highlighted on subway-style map. A new map showing Rome’s museums in their proximity to the city’s metro stations has been released on social media, two months after the launch of a similar map showing...
Judges overturn run-off vote, uphold winner’s bonus. The Constitutional Court has ruled that the run-off vote contemplated under the 2015 Italicum electoral law is illegitimate. However, in its eagerly awaited deci...
Pope Francis asks Grand Master of Malta to resign. The head of the Knights of Malta, an ancient Catholic order, has agreed to Pope Francis' request for him to resign from his post, following a row relating to the orde...
John Ochsendorf succeeds Kimberly Bowes as AAR director. Dr John Ochsendorf has been named the 23rd director of the American Academy in Rome. Ochsendorf, a preservation engineer, historian and educator, succeeds Ki...
Multimedia website presented by director of Vatican Museums. The Vatican Museums' new multimedia website was presented on 23 January by the museums' recently-installed director, Barbara Jatta. The new website, whic...
Raggi to be probed in relation to appointment of Rome tourism chief. Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi is under investigation as part of a probe into the proposed appointment as head of the capital’s tourism department of Ren...
Italian director's film nominated in best documentary section. Gianfranco's Rosi's poetic film is about the inhabitants of the Italian island of Lampedusa against the background of the dramatic rescue of refugees from...
Six people aboard when helicopter crashed in poor weather conditions. An emergency services helicopter has crashed in the central Italian province of L'Aquila, with six people aboard, according to Italian news agency...
Rome hosts three Six Nations matches. The 18th edition of the annual Six Nations rugby union championship – which is contested by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales – kicks off on 4 February and fin...
Holocaust victims remembered in Rome 72 years after liberation of Auschwitz. International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January is being marked in Rome with around 100 memorial events over a ten-day period from 23...
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