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Italy pays tribute to Pasolini with exhibitions, events and new publications.Italy is marking the centenary of the birth of the film director, poet, writer and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini with a series of special ev...
Meloni government under fire over new measures.Italy's new government of far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni is to crack down on unauthorised rave parties by introducing stiff fines and lengthy jail terms.
The measu...
McCourt makes history as first non-Italian rector of an Italian university.Irish academic John McCourt begins his six-year term as the rector of the University of Macerata on 1 November, becoming the first non-Italian re...
Fascist sympathisers gather in Mussolini's birthplace.An estimated 2,000 people marched on Sunday in Predappio, in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region, where Italian fascist dictator Mussolini was born and is buried....
Knox met Sollecito while in Italy on holiday during summer.Amanda Knox and her former lover Raffaele Sollecito reunited in Italy, almost 15 years after they were arrested and wrongfully convicted of the murder of British...
Thousands show up for Witchtrek rave over holiday weekend.Italy's new interior minister Matteo Piantedosi has ordered police to break up an illegal rave in a large abandoned warehouse near Modena in the northern Emilia-R...
Calcata, in north Lazio, is a bohemian haven whose residents hark back to a more beautiful era.
Less than an hour north of Rome lies Calcata, a mediaeval village clinging to a volcanic cliff surging out of the mists of...
Italy set to drop daily covid bulletin and allow return of unvaccinated medical staff.The Italian government is set to approve measures allowing for the re-integration of "No Vax" doctors and nurses currently suspended b...
Banners pro and against Mussolini appear in Rome overnight.Rome police removed two banners featuring Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini from a footbridge near the Colosseum where they appeared on Thursday night, o...
100 years since Mussolini's March on Rome: what really happened and why it still matters today.
This week marks the centenary of the March on Rome but while Mussolini's fascist dream might be over, the chequered legacy...
A giude on how to get from Rome to Pompei and back.Pompeii was once a significant city of the ancient Roman empire dating back to 2000 years ago. Located in the Campania region of modern-day Italy, the posh villas and el...
A selection of 50 of the best contemporary art galleries in Rome.Rome hosts around 70 museums, including city and state galleries dedicated to contemporary art –MACRO and MAXXI respectively. The capital is also home to a...
Colosseum closed to visitors on 25 October.Pope Francis will join other religious leaders at a prayer service for peace at Rome’s Colosseum on the afternoon of Tuesday 25 October.
During his Angelus at the Vatican on Su...
ATAC slams conduct of bus driver.Rome's public transport company ATAC has suspended a driver without pay after he was filmed by a passenger watching a movie at the wheel on Monday morning.
The company said it acted imme...
2022 is Italy's hottest year in 222 years.
The Ottobrata Romana, a term used to describe Rome's balmy Indian Summer weather that traditionally occurs in October, is set to continue into the month of November.
The uns...
Meloni makes history as Italy's first woman prime minister.
Italy's new right-wing coalition government, led by the far-right Giorgia Meloni as prime minister, was formally sworn in at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on Sat...
Meloni set to be sworn in as premier on Saturday.
Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Fratelli d'Italia party, is set to become Italy's first woman prime minister after Italian president Sergio Mattarella on Friday...
Economist cover features Liz Truss with pizza and spaghetti.
The Welcome to Britaly cover of this week's edition of The Economist faced widespread criticism in Italy where the publication was accused of playing on outda...
Ireland remembers Violet Gibson with plaque outside her childhood home in Dublin.
A plaque dedicated to Violet Gibson, the Irishwoman who tried to assassinate Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini almost a century ago...
Hundreds of Italy flights risk cancellation or delays on Friday.
Passengers face travel disruption and flight cancellations in Italy on Friday 21 October due to a nationwide 24-strike by staff working in air traffic con...
President Mattarella to hold talks on formation of new government.
The right-wing coalition preparing to form Italy's next government faced a fresh crisis on Wednesday over secretly recorded comments about Ukraine by fo...
Friday strike action involves Roma TPL and Cotral but not ATAC.
Bus lines operated by Roma TPL in the suburbs of Rome are at risk on the morning of Friday 21 October due to a four-hour strike called by the USB trade uni...
No students or staff found under the rubble.
The Aula Magna lecture hall at the University of Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia, collapsed on Tuesday night, a couple of hours after students attended lectures t...
Mussolini photo displayed for anniversary of ministry building.
A photograph of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was removed from Italy's ministry of economic development (MISE) on Tuesday after being displayed alongsi...
Ryanair to operate 70 routes to and from Rome over winter.
The low-cost Irish airline Ryanair is to launch 18 new routes out of Rome airports Fiumicino and Ciampino this winter, the company's chief executive Michael O'L...
Second collapse at Poggioreale cemetery this year.
Naples authorities have sealed off the Poggioreale cemetery after the collapse of a four-storey wall in the graveyard left at least a dozen coffins hanging precariously...
Casino dell'Aurora goes under the hammer again after failing to sell at auction three times.
An historic Rome villa with the world's only known ceiling painting by Caravaggio is up for auction, on 18 October, for the fo...
Italian premier Draghi offers Egonu his full support.
Political leaders in Italy, including outgoing premier Mario Draghi, expressed solidarity with Paola Egonu on Sunday after the Italian volleyball star threatened to ...
Rome commemorates deportation of Jews in 1943.
Rome's Jewish community commemorates today the 79th anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz.
The...
Fontana's election comes day after La Russa elected senate speaker.
Lorenzo Fontana, a prominent member of Matteo Salvini's right-wing Lega party, was elected speaker of Italy's chamber of deputies on Friday.
Fontana...
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