Cinema2Day to launch in Italian cinemas on 14 September.
Going to the cinema on every second Wednesday of the month will now only cost €2 thanks to a nationwide initiative announced by Italy's culture minister Dario F...
Like Rome’s monuments, a stay in the Eternal City is a many-layered experience and needs time to appreciate.
Mike Dilien
“A-NI-MAL! A-NI-MAL!” three year-old Stivan yells. He is sitting on the kitchen floor and dru...
Raggi loses two councillors plus heads of two city companies in one day.
The mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi was hit by the resignations of two key figures from her administration on 1 September: her cabinet chief and b...
Pope Francis to declare Mother Teresa a saint at Vatican ceremony.
Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata is set to be canonised by Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sunday 4 September, almost 13 years after her beatification...
Majority of Ciampino flights will move to Rome's main Fiumicino airport.
Rome's second airport Ciampino is scheduled to close for renovation and maintenance works from 14-29 October.
During the temporary closure th...
New look for Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.
Renovations at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) in Rome are nearing completion following a re-evaluation of the gallery's spaces by its new director...
Full tram service between Valle Giulia and Trastevere in Rome.
Rome's Tram 3 line resumes its original route, from Valle Giulia to Trastevere train station, on Monday 8 August.
For many years the terminus had been...
This is a small collection of work from the 9th grade Creative Writing class at St Stephen's School in Rome. Among the pieces in this sampling is a prose poem, a syllabic work based on the Fibonacci sequence, and several...
The office of Wanted in Rome, on Via di Monserrato 49, will be closed from 1 until 31 August, and will reopen on 1 September.
Wanted in Rome wishes all its readers a very happy summer.
British premier Theresa May meets Italian counterpart in Rome.
Britain's new prime minister Theresa May arrived in Rome on Wednesday 27 July to hold talks with her Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi at Villa Doria Pamp...
Fines of €450 for tourists caught in Rome's historic fountains.
Italian police have handed down heavy fines to several foreign tourists caught frolicking in Rome's fountains in recent days.
Two young American visit...
ATAC employees stage 24-hour public transport strike in Rome.
Rome's ATAC public transport workers represented by the UGL trade union are holding a 24-hour strike on Tuesday 26 July, despite the company's other transp...
Assets of airport bus company seized as part of probe.
Police have seized all assets belonging to airport bus transfer service Terravision, whose boss Fabio Petroni has been placed under house arrest, as part of an in...
Rome's so-called Nuvola conference centre set to open in October.
Construction work on the so-called Nuvola conference centre in Rome's southern suburb of EUR has finally reached completion, after €236 million and 18...
Raggi introduces €400 fine for Rome's illegal "centurions".
Rome's new mayor Virginia Raggi has banned costumed "centurions" and unlicensed rickshaws from operating around tourist sites in the capital.
Those caught...
Scientists make surprise discovery about volcano in Rome's Alban Hills.
Italian scientists have warned that a long-dormant volcanic complex in Colli Albani, a set of hills about 20km southeast of Rome, is actually sti...
MAXXI celebrates the legacy of Italy's foremost "radical architecture" group.
Jacopo Benci
The exhibition Superstudio 50 at the MAXXI in Rome celebrates the 50th anniversary of Superstudio, the most iconic among th...
International flights delayed due to burnt fiber-optic cables.
Terminal 3 at Rome's Fiumicino airport is experiencing significant delays with passenger check-in since early on Monday 18 July, due to a breakdown in int...
Growing rubbish problem leads to rat emergency in Rome.
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi has promised stiff penalties for those caught dumping rubbish illegally around Rome, as the capital grapples with the mounting proble...
O’Flaherty saved the lives of over 6,000 escapees in Rome during world war two.
On 8 May 2016 a plaque was unveiled at the Vatican's Collegium Teutonicum to honour the Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty (1898-1964)...
Prison at Roman Forum will reopen with new visitor facilities.
The Mamertine prison at the Roman Forum will reopen to the public on 21 July, following a year-long closure to allow for archaeological work and the insta...
Rome mayor orders removal of homeless camps from Tiber river.
Rome has begun to clear out the illegal homeless camps along the river Tiber, between Ponte Sublicio and Tiber Island, following an order from the mayor of...
Over 20 dead in head-on rail collision in southern Italy.
At least 20 passengers have been killed and many more seriously injured in a collision between two trains on a single track in Puglia in southern Italy. Many o...
Experimental third entrance designed to reduce queues into Colosseum.
A third entrance to the Colosseum, at the Via Labicana corner of the amphitheatre, will be in operation on a trial basis from 15 July until 31 Octo...
Former Fox News correspondent will be flanked by Spanish reporter.
Pope Francis has appointed American journalist Greg Burke as director of the Vatican's press office, replacing Fr Federico Lombardi who steps down on...
Police close pub in Rome's Campo de' Fiori over anti-social behaviour.
Rome police have temporarily suspended the license of the Drunken Ship pub in Campo de' Fiori, closing down the popular bar for 30 days.
The cl...
The president of the American University of Rome outlines how Lampedusa could turn to archaeology to help it through difficult times.
Richard Hodges
Flying south of Agrigento the blue begins, even on All Saints' Da...
24-hour strike by ATAC postponed until 26 July.
A 24-hour strike by Rome’s public transport company ATAC, previously scheduled for Monday 11 July, has been postponed until 26 July.
However a 24-hour strike by Roma...
Outrage in Italy over hate-attack murder of asylum seeker.
Italian premier Matteo Renzi has condemned the murder of Nigerian asylum seeker Emmanuel Chidi Namdi who was beaten to death in a hate attack by an Italian "u...
Rome autopsy reveals victims died "slow and painful death".
Italy's foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni has told the senate in Rome that Italy "will not forget" the nine Italians killed during a 12-hour siege in the Bang...
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