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Jubilee mascot designed to engage younger audience.
The Vatican on Monday launched the official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, a cartoon character called Luce, whose name means "light" in Italian....
Rino Gaetano was born in Crotone on this day in 1950.
Italy remembers the late, great Italian singer-songwriter Rino Gaetano on Tuesday, the 74th anniversary of his birth on 29 October 1950.
More than four decades af...
Italy's Liguria region elects centre-right Marco Bucci as governor in a tight race against centre-left Andrea Orlando.
Italy's right-wing coalition government on Monday celebrated the victory of its candidate Marco Bucc...
100 Pittori takes place on Via Margutta.
100 Pittori, Rome's historic open-air art event, returns to Via Margutta with its 122nd edition from 31 October until 3 November 2024.
The four-day art festival will feature w...
With the Jubilee of Hope beginning on December 24th, finding accommodation for the following year as an international student in Rome becomes increasingly difficult.
For students who do not speak Italian fluently, locat...
Vote reignites heated debate in Trentino.
Residents of Val di Sole in the autonomous Trentino province in the far-north of Italy voted overwhelmingly against wild bears and wolves in a consultative referendum on Sunday....
Strike to affect ATAC transport services in Rome.
Rome commuters face disruption to local bus and subway services on Monday 28 October due to a 24-hour strike by public transport workers.
The strike, called by the US...
Daylight will begin one hour earlier from 27 October 2024.
Italy's clocks go back one hour at 03.00 on the night between Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 October 2024, bringing an end to daylight saving time, or 'summer' time....
On World Pasta Day, a survey ranks the Top 10 most popular pasta dishes with tourists in Italy.
World Pasta Day, a day when pasta fans gather in restaurants, at home or online to celebrate their favourite dish, has been...
Venice to double number of entry fee days in 2025, from April to July, and hike the price of last-minute bookings.
Venice is to extend its day-tripper entry fee in 2025, after launching the controversial scheme earlier...
Rome hopes new AI guide will create "a quiet revolution" in how people experience the city.
Microsoft has unveiled Julia, a new Artificial Intelligence-based virtual assistant designed to help the more than 30 million v...
While studying abroad in Rome, the language I speak seems to act as a filter, changing how people respond to me and perceive me. Gracias and grazie, por favor and per favore—many Spanish words are similar to Italian. I f...
“When you are born in a country, you grow up, you study in that country, you make your first friends in that country, and then they tell you, 'No, you are not one of us. First of all, you get a disaffection to your count...
In a country renowned for its rich culture and history, lies a darker reality, where a woman’s autonomy can become justification for her murder. In Italy, the increasing number of women killed by their intimate partners...
Books return to Galleria Alberto Sordi in Rome.
Mondadori, the largest publishing company in Italy, will open a new bookshop at the Galleria Alberto Sordi shopping mall in the historic centre of Rome on Thursday.
Th...
Bernini's Baldachin will be restored in time for Jubilee Year 2025.
The Vatican is to unveil the restored gilded bronze canopy that towers over the high altar of St Peter's Basilica on 27 October, following a major 10-m...
No changes in Italy's top names for girls and boys.The most popular baby names chosen by new parents in Italy in 2023 were once again Sofia and Leonardo, according to a report by national statistics office ISTAT.
Sofia,...
Rome's autumn roses on display for 18 days.
Rome will reopen the municipal rose garden to the public from Thursday 24 October until Sunday 10 November 2024, the city announced on Wednesday.
For the duration of the sp...
Paolo Sorrentino's 10th film is set in Naples.
Parthenope, the latest movie by the award-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, is scheduled for release in cinemas across Italy on Thursday 24 October.
Like his la...
A local's guide to what's on in Rome in November.
November in Rome is traditionally one of the quieter times to visit the Eternal City however based on the hordes of tourists so far this year it may be more crowded than...
Allianz Stadium to host first rugby match.
Italy's national rugby team is to play against New Zealand's All Blacks in a test match at Turin's Allianz Stadium on Saturday 23 November 2024.
The game, hailed as a landma...
Births in Italy set to drop further in 2024.
Italy's birth rate fell by 3.4 per cent in 2023 with 379,890 births, 13,000 fewer than the previous year, according to data released by national statistic office ISTAT on Mon...
Togliatti Tram will serve Rome's three subways and the FL2 railway line in the east of the city.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri on Monday inaugurated the construction site for the Togliatti Tram, a new 8-km tram line in t...
New bus shelters to be installed across Rome.
Rome will soon install new high-tech bus shelters equipped with touchscreen services and USB charging points, the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced.
In addition to...
Italy faces wave of extreme weather this weekend.
The north Italian city of Bologna was largely underwater on Saturday night after more than 80mm of rain fell in a few hours, causing the river Ravone to break its banks....
Museo del Ricordo to remember Foibe victims.
Italy is to establish a museum in Rome to commemorate the victims of the Foibe massacres after the €8 million project got the green light from parliament on Thursday.
The...
Italian judges rule that 12 migrants must return to Italy in a major setback for the highly contested scheme.
A court in Rome on Friday ruled against the detention of 12 migrants sent for processing at centres in Albani...
Automotive workers to hold national protest in Rome on Friday.
Workers in Italy's entire automotive sector including the Stellantis automaker group will down tools on Friday 18 October, with a major demonstration planne...
Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli was at the helm of MAXXI for almost two years.
MAXXI, Italy’s National Museum of 21st Century Arts, saw ticket sales fall by 30 per cent last year under its former president Ale...
Italian law extends ban on surrogacy abroad, with penalties of up to two years in jail and up to €1 million in fines.
Italy has made it illegal for couples to go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy after the senate vote...
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