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Cavalli was famed for his exotic prints and sand-blasted jeans.
Roberto Cavalli, the Italian stylist and founder of the high-end fashion house that bears his name, died on Friday aged 83 after a long illness.
Cavalli...
Landmark bridge to undergo €2 million restoration.
Florence is to restore the world-famous Ponte Vecchio bridge in the first comprehensive restoration of the Italian landmark which dates to 1345.
The €2 million proje...
Azaleas return to the Spanish Steps this spring.
Rome's Spanish Steps, the 18th-century staircase linking Piazza di Spagna with the church of Trinità de’ Monti, is once again decorated with hundreds of azalea plants....
Concert-goer dies in hospital in Florence.
A police investigation is underway after a 47-year-old man died following an altercation at the end of a concert by Italian rock band Subsonica in Florence on Thursday night....
Frescoes hailed as among the finest ever found in Pompeii.
A black banquet hall with pristine frescoes depicting Greek mythological figures has been unveiled in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption of V...
Where to find Bramante's High Renaissance buildings in Rome and the Vatican.
Donato Bramante (1444-11 April 1514), was an Italian architect who introduced the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his original plan for...
Italian trade unions to stage protest on Thursday over workplace deaths.
At least three people were killed and four are missing following an explosion at a hydroelectric power plant on Lake Suviana in northern Italy on...
Thursday's strike action will not affect air travel.
Italy faces a day of nationwide strikes affecting local and national public transport services, including rail travel, on Thursday 11 April.
The day of strikes has...
MIC Card gives Rome residents unlimited access to city-run museums.
Rome is offering a year of unlimited free entry to municipal museums and archaeological sites to residents of the capital who are 18 or turn 18 in 2024...
City paves street between Circus Maximus and Aventine Hill.
Rome is replacing an asphalt-covered road on the Aventine Hill with traditional sampietrini cobblestones as part of a slew of public works projects in the city...
Project underway to make laghetto swimmable.
The artificial lake in Rome's EUR district, known to Romans as the laghetto, could open to bathers within five years thanks to a plan to make its waters suitable for swimming...
Three subway stations to shut for revamp.
Rome is closing the entire Metro A line early from 8 April until 5 December to complete maintenance works on the subway ahead of the Vatican's Jubilee Year 2025.
The city con...
L'Aquila holds torchlight procession to mark 15 years since earthquake.
Italy marks the 15th anniversary of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila in the early hours of 6 April 2009, killing 309 p...
Ancient bath site installs a new reflecting pool.
Rome's Baths of Caracalla has unveiled a pool whose waters reflect the ruins of the ancient bath complex 1,800 years after its construction in the second century.
The...
Mussolini bunkers at Villa Torlonia reopen to public.
A wartime air-raid shelter and bunker built by Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini reopen to visitors on Friday following renovation works and the addition of a...
70 years since carbonara recipe first published in Italy.
Carbonara, one of the signature dishes of Roman cuisine, will be celebrated in Italy and around the world with the annual Carbonara Day on Saturday 6 April.
T...
Colosseum registers 24 per cent rise in visitors.
The Colosseum in Rome attracted more than 12 million visitors in 2023, Italy's culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano announced during an Easter visit to the ancient amphi...
Another major Jubilee 2025 project gets underway in Rome.
Rome has started works to transform the piazza in front of the papal Archbasilica of St John Lateran, or San Giovanni in Laterano, for the Vatican's Jubilee Year...
Binario della Memoria unveiled at Tiburtina.
A multimedia memorial commemorating Italian victims of the Holocaust was unveiled at the Tiburtina train station in Rome on Wednesday.
The memorial was installed on Platfo...
Studio Labics wins international competition.
The winning design for a New Archaeological Walk linking Rome's ancient landmarks was unveiled at a presentation on the rooftop terrace of Trajan's Forum on Tuesday.
Rome...
State and city-run museums open in Rome at Easter but Vatican Museums shut.
Italy's state museums and archaeological sites will be open to the public on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday this year, on 31 March and 1 April...
Central European Summer Time begins on 31 March.
Clocks in Italy and across Europe will "spring forward" by one hour at 02.00 Central European Time (CET) on Sunday 31 March 2024.
The custom dates back to more than a...
New Berlusconi series set for release on 11 April.
A new docuseries about the former Italian prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, who died last year aged 86, is set for release on Netflix on 11 April.
Ti...
Tight security at Via Crucis after Moscow attack.
Rome is increasing its security measures over the Easter weekend, security officials said on Thursday, in light of the deadly terror attack in Moscow on 22 March.
Sec...
Raphael, Titian, Rubens exhibit runs from 29 March until 30 June.
Two priceless art collections in Rome merge this spring when Palazzo Barberini hosts 50 masterpieces from Galleria Borghese while the latter undergoes re...
Michele to be based at Valentino studio in Rome.
Italian fashion designer Alessandro Michele on Thursday was named Valentino's creative director and will take up the new role in Rome on 2 April.
Michele, 51, is the f...
Carlo Fuortes set to appeal sentence.
A court in Rome on Wednesday sentenced the former superintendent of Rome's opera house, Carlo Fuortes, to 16 months in jail over the accidental death of a cleaner in 2017.
Oberda...
Nobody injured in sinkhole incident.
Two parked cars were swallowed by a large sinkhole - 10 metres deep and 10 metres wide - which opened up in the Quadraro district of Rome in the early hours of Thursday.
Police an...
April begins with public holiday for Pasquetta.
Italy celebrates Easter Sunday and Easter Monday - Pasqua and Pasquetta - with national public holidays on Sunday 31 March and Monday 1 April.
All public offices and sc...
Way of the Cross at Colosseum in 2024.
The annual Via Crucis or Way of the Cross ceremony led by Pope Francis will take place at the Colosseum on Good Friday, 29 March, from 21.00 until 23.30.
The torchlit procession...
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