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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...
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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...
Mausoleum of Augustus Museum to open in 2026. Luxury jeweller Bulgari will finance the construction of the Mausoleum of Augustus Museum with funding of €700,000, Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said on Tuesday. The mayo...
Travellers can choose from 9,000 products online and pick up at the airport. Passengers travelling through Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport, better known as Fiumicino, can reserve online duty free products which they ca...
Rome installs smart bins on city streets. Rome has unveiled dozens of new smart bins equipped with an intelligent system that provides data relating to the amount of waste inside the bin and the type of rubbish it recei...
Message raises eyebrows in Rome and Milan. Train travellers in Italy were taken aback on Monday morning when a strange message appeared on timetable displays at central rail stations in Rome and Milan. "Siete insetti...
Tibetan bridge located midway between cties of Foligno and Spoleto. A new Tibetan bridge, billed as the highest in Europe, was inaugurated on Saturday over the Vigi valley in the central Italian region of Umbria. The...
Uffizi introduces evening openings and paperless tickets. The new director of the Uffizi Galleries, Simone Verde, has unveiled several changes at the Florence museum including evening openings and paperless ticketing....
A brief historic overview on Italy's most powerful mafias. To outsiders, Italy is famous for pasta, pizza, mandolino, and what is generically referred to as “the mafia.” Mafia groups, or rather, mafie are embedded in It...
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Iconic Roman fountain turns 150 years old. Rome celebrates 150 years since the installation of the city's first nasone drinking fountain by unveiling three new nasoni fountains in the shadow of the Colosseum. The thr...
Bomb squad assisted by robotic dog Saetta. Italy's culture ministry in the historic centre of Rome was evacuated on Tuesday morning following a bomb alert.   Around 400 people were evacuated from the building, just of...
Strike to affect Trenitalia, Italo and Trenord services. Italy faces a national 24-hour rail strike this weekend, from 21.00 on Saturday 23 March until 21.00 on Sunday 24 March, affecting train services across the count...
Pompeii to stage 10 concerts in June and July. Italy's culture ministry has announced a programme of 10 concerts to be held this summer in the ancient Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii archaeological park. The diverse li...
Fire broke out in apartment in outskirts of Bologna. Italian authorities have opened an investigation into a fire that caused the deaths of three children and their mother in the northern city of Bologna on Thursday nig...
Milan 10th in Resonance Consultancy report. Rome has been ranked the fourth Best City in Europe for 2024 in the annual report by the international consultancy firm Resonance, climbing from eighth place in last year's ra...
L'Aquila to be Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2026. L'Aquila, the city devastated by the massive earthquake that struck Italy's central Abruzzo region almost 15 years ago, has been announced as Italian Capital of Cultu...
Sport and culture meet in Rome museum initiative. Rome's city-run museums will offer free admission to participants in the 2024 edition of the Rome Marathon which takes place on the streets of the capital this weekend....
Iconic toy store launches in Galleria Alberto Sordi. Hamleys of London, the world’s oldest toy retailer, will launch in Rome on Thursday with a flagship store at the Galleria Alberto Sordi shopping mall in the city cent...
Palazzo Farnese to regain its original splendour. The ongoing restoration of the exterior of Rome's Palazzo Farnese, seat of the French embassy to Italy and the École française de Rome, has entered its third and penulti...
Marsilio win is boost for Meloni's right-wing coalition. The right-wing incumbent governor of Italy's central Abruzzo region has been returned to office, election results showed on Monday, in a boost for the 'centro-des...
Azzurri claim historic victory in Rome. Italy defeated Scotland 31-29 in a thrilling rugby clash at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on Saturday to secure their first Six Nations home win in 11 years. After the historic v...
Italy U20s claim second victory in Six Nations. Italy hammered Scotland in the Six Nations Under-20s Rugby Championship in the northern Italian city of Treviso on Friday, claiming a resounding 47-14 victory. Although...
New luxury rail journey from Paris to Portofino. A new luxury train route from Paris to Portofino on Italy's Ligurian coast will become a reality this summer courtesy of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. The three-n...
Italy to face Scotland at Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Italy will play the second of two home games in the 2024 edition of the Six Nations rugby union championship when the Azzuri face Scotland on Saturday 9 March. The I...
New rules and fines on the way for Frecce trains. Italian rail operator Trenitalia is set to introduce revised luggage rules on its high-speed Frecce trains after hastily suspending the move last week amid much criticis...
Genoa launches three new flavours of ice cream dedicated to women. As Italy prepares to mark International Women's Day on Friday, a controversy has broken out over an initiative in Genoa offering women three new flavour...
Cycle raises funds for motor neuron disease charity. Rome will welcome more than 100 cyclists from various European cities, including Edinburgh, as they arrive in Piazza Navona on Friday 8 March at 17.00. The bike ri...
Cesanese, an unknown Italian wine gemAnyone over the age of 30 likely recalls the Pinot Noir mania of the early-2000’s. Sideways, an independent film released in 2004 about a trip through a Southern California wine regio...
Alessandro Borghi takes on the role of Siffredi. Supersex, an original Netflix series based on the life and career of legendary Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi, will be released by the streaming platform on 6 March....
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