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Hidden chamber opens to public on 15 November
Michelangelo's little-known "Secret Room", a tiny chamber with sketch-filled walls, opens to the public almost 50 years after it was discovered hidden behind a trap door in...
War of words between trade union leader and transport minister over strike on 17 November.
The Italian government has reduced to four hours a planned 24-hour national strike affecting the public transport sector on Frid...
Escaped lion fuels new calls for circus animal ban in Italy.
Animal rights campaigners have renewed calls to ban the use of wild animals in Italian circuses following the escape of a lion from a circus near Rome at the...
Lion sparked panic on the streets of Ladispoli.
A lion that escaped from a circus near Rome was sedated and captured on Saturday night after around seven hours on the loose in the seaside town of Ladispoli.
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Meloni confirms date and venue of 2024 G7 summit as Puglia prepares for international spotlight.
The next summit of G7 leaders will be held in Italy's south-eastern Puglia region on 13-15 June 2024, Italian premier Gior...
Graffiti featured swastika with Star of David.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has condemned the "unacceptable" and "vile" anti-Semitic graffiti that appeared in the city's Jewish quarter and the Trastevere district on Thu...
Travel back in time to see Rome's landmarks as they looked in the fourth century.
Flyover Zone, a pioneer in the emerging field of virtual tourism, has released a remastered version of its virtual aerial tour of ancient...
Netflix to release Suburra spin-off in November.
Suburræterna, the new Netflix series that continues the Suburra saga of Rome's criminal underworld, will be released in Italy and around the world on 14 November.
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Pope Francis approved document on 31 October.
The Vatican's doctrine office has said that it is permissible, under certain circumstances, for transgender adults to be baptised as Catholics and to serve as godparents....
Italian bars pay tribute to cappuccino on Tuesday.
Coffee bars in Italy mark Cappuccino Day, an annual homage to the espresso-based coffee drink made with steamed milk, on Tuesday 8 November.
Celebrations will be mai...
Fiuto offers fine dining for dogs in Rome.
Rome restaurants are known for their generally welcoming approach to dogs however the city now has a restaurant dedicated to dogs (and their owners).
Fiuto opened last mont...
Airbnb claims that it "acted within the law".
Italy's financial police have seized €779.5 million from the online short-term rental platform Airbnb for alleged tax evasion, the prosecutors' office in Milan announced on...
Baby Indi can be moved to hospital in Rome.
Italy on Monday granted Italian citizenship to a critically ill British baby to allow her to receive medical treatment in Rome, as doctors in the UK were preparing to withdraw...
Basilica to host religious and cultural events until 9 November 2024.
Rome's papal Archbasilica of St John Lateran, or San Giovanni in Laterano, will mark its 1,700th anniversary with a year of special events starting w...
4 November was a public holiday in Italy until 1976.
The Italian government is at work to restore National Unity and Armed Forces Day as a public holiday, Italian defence minister Guido Crosetto said on 4 November.
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Tuscany governor declares a state of emergency.
At least three people were killed as a result of severe floods that hit Italy's central Tuscany region on Thursday night as Storm Ciaran sweeps the country with heavy rain...
Italy adds 4 November to list of free museum dates.
State museums and archaeological sites across Italy will open their doors for free on Saturday 4 November to mark national unity and the armed forces, the culture mini...
Rome mayor slams "unacceptable and miserable act".
Rome police are investigating the vandalisation of four bronze-capped cobblestones installed outside the former homes of Jews who were deported by Nazis to their deaths...
Meloni talks of "fatigue" over war in Ukraine.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni was recorded saying there was "a lot of fatigue" from "all the sides" over the war in Ukraine, during a prank call with a pair of Russ...
Pontiff to celebrate All Souls' Day Mass in Rome War Cemetery.
Pope Francis will celebrate All Souls' Day Mass at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the Testaccio area of Rome on Thursday 2 November....
Skulls and bones of Capuchin friars on Via Veneto in Rome.
The vaults and walls of the crypt in the Capuchin Church of S. Maria della Concezione on Rome's Via Veneto are decorated with the bones and skulls of some 3,700...
Rottweiler plunged around 10 metres and died from impact.
A pregnant woman was hit and seriously injured by a Rottweiler dog that fell out of a third-floor building in the centre of Rome on Friday.
The woman, a 28-ye...
Mayor under fire from Rome motorists as 10-year project gets underway.
Rome's mayor has come under criticism from Roman drivers over the intense traffic in the city centre following the partial closure of Piazza Venezia...
Farnese Nymphaeum has been closed for decades.
The Ninfeo della Pioggia or Rain Nymphaeum on Rome's Palatine Hill will reopen to the public on 1 November following extensive restoration works by the Colosseum Archaeolog...
Giambruno will retain editorial role in talk show.
Italian television journalist Andrea Giambruno, former partner of Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni, has stood down as the host of talk show Diario del giorno in the wake...
Rome's EUR circuit no longer suitable for electric car race.
Formula E organisers have dropped Rome as a race venue from its 2024 calendar, citing the EUR circuit as no longer suitable for the more powerful Gen3 cars....
Bologna moves traffic away from Torre della Garisenda.
Italy culture officials have raised concerns over the safety of the Garisenda Tower in Bologna as authorities in the northern Italian city closed off streets around...
Circus Maximus event on 4 November cancelled.
Italy has scaled back its celebrations in Rome to mark national unity and the armed forces on 4 November, cancelling a planned military event at the Circus Maximus for "secu...
Staino was best known as the creator of Bobo.
Italian figures from the world of politics and culture on Saturday paid tribute to Sergio Staino, the leftist cartoonist and journalist who died in a hospital in Florence at...
Split follows series of embarrassing off-air remarks by TV presenter Giambruno.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday announced the end of her relationship with television journalist Andrea Giambruno.
"My r...
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