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Italy celebrates Republic Day with military parade in Rome. Italy marks Festa della Repubblica, a national public holiday in celebration of the Italian republic, with a series of major events in Rome on Sunday 2 June....
Trenitalia seeks to reduce number of dogs abandoned over holidays. Dogs can travel with their owners free of charge on Italy's Frecce and Intercity long-distance trains this summer, Trenitalia announced on Wednesday....
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Rome is a living museum whose rich cultural and historical treasures span more than two millennia, from ancient ruins and Renaissance palaces to baroque churches and medieval fortresses. However, the preservation of t...
It’s 9:42 am, and I am sitting at Caffe Di Rienzo, a caffè latte in hand, with a perfect view of Emanuele’s newsstand, known in Rome as an Edicola. The surrounding neighborhood buildings cast a shadow over the forest-...
Rome's newest McDonald's is in Testaccio. American multinational fast-food giant McDonald's is opening a new outlet in the Testaccio area of Rome, a district renowned for its Roman culinary culture. The new McDonald'...
Italy and US collaborate to repatriate stolen artefacts. Some 600 antiquities stolen from Italy and returned with the help of authorities in the US went on display in Rome on Tuesday in a repatriation valued at around €...
War of words continues between Meloni and De Luca. Italy's right-wing prime minister Giorgia Meloni introduced herself as "that bitch Meloni" to the centre-left governor of the southern Campania region on Tuesday. Th...
CVTà Street Fest returns to Molise village this summer. The ninth edition of CVTà Street Fest takes place in the village of Civitacampomarano, in the heart of the Campobasso countryside in Italy's Molise region, from 14...
Italy remembers victims of deadly terrorist attack. Italy's president Sergio Mattarella attended a commemoration ceremony in the northern city of Brescia on Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Piazza della Loggi...
Taxi strike comes ahead of EU elections. Taxi drivers in Italy are to stage a nationwide two-day strike on 5-6 June, trade unions confirmed on Monday, in protest over stalled talks with the government. The industrial...
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Siena unveils "the most beautiful, largest and most magnificent floor that ever was made". Each year the Italian city of Siena unveils the extraordinary inlaid marble mosaic floors of the city's cathedral as part of an...
ITA Airways cancels 24 flights due to strike. Air travellers in Italy face disruption on Tuesday 28 May due to strikes by ground staff at several airports and flight crews from Air Dolomiti and Wizzair. The industria...
On Sunday the famed Giro d'Italia cycling race finished in Rome for the second year in a row. The city wants to make it an annual fixture. Rome's mayor said the Eternal City is the "natural" choice for the grand finale...
Giro d'Italia ends in Rome for second year in a row. The final stage of the 107th 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 Sund...
Rome to host Russell Crowe's Indoor Garden Party concerts in June. Gladiator star Russell Crowe is to perform two "immersive" concerts with his band The Gentlemen Barbers at the Forum Theatre in Rome as part of a summer...
Skeleton found during Piazza Pia roadworks. A human skeleton was unearthed at a construction site near the Vatican in Rome where works are underway to build an underpass ahead of the Jubilee Year 2025. The macabre di...
A local's guide to the best events and things to do in Rome in June. June is one of the best times to visit Rome as the temperatures are usually warm but not scorching and many events at night are held outdoors. The mon...
Schools remain closed in Campi Flegrei area. The Italian government is set to allocate more than €500 million to make buildings safe in the Campi Flegrei area near Naples where a flurry of seismic activity in recent day...
Capaci bombing took place on this day 32 years ago. Italy marks the 32nd anniversary of the murder of the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone who was assassinated by the Corleonesi mafia in a bombing in Sicily on 23 May 1...
Piazza di Siena celebrates 91 years in Rome in 2024. The Piazza di Siena horse show, now in its 91st edition, returns to Rome from 22-26 May. The prestigious equestrian event takes place in the heart of Rome’s Villa...
Reports of seagull attacks rise during nesting season. Love them or hate them, seagulls have been part of Rome's urban landscape for decades and can regularly be seen feasting on discarded food, pigeons and even rats....
Bingham Cup comes to Italy for the first time. Rome will host the 2024 Bingham Cup, the international rugby tournament celebrating gay and inclusive rugby clubs, from 23-26 May. It is the first time that Italy welcom...
Rome remembers American founder of Roseto Comunale. Rome has paid tribute to Mary Gayley Senni, the American founder of the city's rose garden, with a plaque at the Roseto Comunale on the slopes of the Aventine hill....
Notorious attack on Michelangelo's Pietà occurred on 21 May 1972. 52 years ago today, a Hungarian man called Laszlo Toth climbed over an altar rail in St Peter’s Basilica and attacked Michelangelo’s Pietà with a geologi...
Campi Flegrei schools closed on Tuesday amid seismic storm. The Campi Flegrei or Phlegraean Fields, a highly seismic area in Italy's southern Campania region near Naples, was shaken by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake on Mond...
Celebrating the Barberini Bees in Rome. The Barberini family, an aristocratic Italian dynasty, attained enormous riches, power and influence in 17th-century Rome, peaking with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini a...
Taxi drivers to demonstrate in Rome on day of strike. Taxi drivers in Italy are to stage a nationwide strike on 21 May, trade unions have confirmed, after recent talks stalled with industry minister Adolfo Urso in Rome....
Rome gives Villa Aldobrandini a new lease of life. Rome has launched a major restoration project at Villa Aldobrandini as part of efforts to redevelop the park and make it more accessible to visitors. Despite its cen...
Forti welcomed back to Italy by premier Giorgia Meloni. Enrico 'Chico' Forti, an Italian entrepreneur who has spent the last 24 years in a US jail after being convicted of killing an Australian businessman in 1998, retu...
Museums in Rome celebrate Notte dei Musei on 18 May 2024. Rome's city-run museums will stay open until 02.00 on the night of Saturday 18 May as the capital celebrates Notte dei Musei or Night of Museums.   The 2024 ed...
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