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Millions on the move for Italy's Ponte dell'Immacolata.
This year more than 12 million people in Italy are expected to take a short break around the Festa dell'Immacolata on 8 December, according to projections by Itali...
Waste-to-energy plant set to open in 2026.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri is moving ahead with his plans to build a giant incinerator south of the capital, calling for expressions of interest to construct the plant, the c...
Zaki was released from jail in Egypt one year ago.
Rome has conferred honorary citizenship on Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian human rights activist and researcher of gender studies, the Italian capital announced on Thursday....
Search continues for last missing person.
The bodies of three of the last four people missing after Saturday's landslide on the Italian island of Ischia were found on Thursday, raising the death toll to 11.
The bodie...
Rome's environment councillor, Sabrina Alfonsi, says city looks worse than it is in reality.
Sabrina Alfonsi, Rome's councillor with responsibility for the environment, responds to Wanted in Rome’s questions about the c...
Rome faces a venerdì nero due to transport strike.
Rome commuters face widespread disruption to public transport services on Friday 2 December as part of a 24-hour national general strike.
The industrial action will...
Free screening in Rome for HIV and Hepatitis C.
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, Rome's Villa Maraini Foundation will offer free screening for HIV and Hepatitis C at Via Torre Annunziata 1 on 1 December.
A mobile t...
Christmas tree returns to Piazza Venezia in 2022.
Rome's Christmas tree arrived in the Italian capital before dawn on 29 November, with technicians at work to set it up in its traditional base in Piazza Venezia.
The...
General strike to affect air, road, sea and rail travel across Italy.
Italy faces major disruption to public transport as well as schools, health services, logistics and rubbish collection on Friday 2 December due to a...
From 'backuppato' to 'zoomando': anglicisms as language enrichment or self-harm?
As an alternative to foreign travel, one could take a pleasure (or horror?) tour along the frontiers where English and Italian meet, all w...
Where to find Bernini statues, fountains, art and architecture in Rome.
Italian sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was a genius of the Baroque era who left an indelible mark on Rome's artistic and a...
Rescue workers continue search throughout night.
The death toll from a landslide on the southern Italian island of Ischia rose to seven on Sunday night, with five people still missing and more than 200 people displaced,...
At least one dead and 11 missing after landslide.
The Italian government on Sunday declared a state of emergency on the southern island of Ischia after a deadly landslide hit the town of Casamicciola Terme at dawn on Sa...
Ischia mayor urges people on the island to stay indoors.
At least 13 people including a newborn baby were missing on the Italian island of Ischia after a landslide engulfed buildings at dawn on Saturday morning, ANSA ne...
New insights into snacking habits in ancient Rome.
A year-long study of the sewerage system under the Colosseum has cast new light on the snacking habits of Roman spectators watching the games in the ancient arena.
S...
Pontiff saddened by death of German homeless man in the shadow of St Peter's Basilica.
Pope Francis has prayed for Burkhard Scheffler, a 61-year old homeless man, who died on Thursday night near the colonnade of St Pete...
Irish tourist collapsed on street near Termini station.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has paid tribute to a taxi driver who saved the life of a tourist after the man collapsed on a street near the central Termini station...
Valditara had called for public humiliation of violent school students.
Italy's new education minister Giuseppe Valditara apologised on Thursday for saying that students who are violent in school should be "humiliated"...
Rome to host Non Una di Meno demonstration on Saturday.
The Italian government lit up the façade of its Rome headquarters in red on Thursday night to show its support for the International Day for the Elimination of Vio...
Valditara wants to remove welfare benefit from young people who have not completed schooling.
Italy's new right-wing government is set to ban phones in class during lessons to prevent students from getting distracted, e...
Has Mayor Gualtieri found the silver bullet for Rome’s never-ending rubbish crisis or is the planned €700 million incinerator just a quick fix?
Rome’s waste crisis is hard to miss, but its causes are far from obvious....
Gladiator star pays homage to Rome and Romans.
Russell Crowe says he "feels like everybody's uncle" when in Rome, a city he is inexorably linked with ever since he played the Oscar-winning role of Maximus Decimus Meridi...
Giovanna Melandri to step down after decade at the helm of MAXXI.
Italy's culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has chosen journalist Alessandro Giuli as the new president of MAXXI, the national museum of 21st century ar...
Italian capital is full of traces of Mussolini 100 after March on Rome.
An online map charting the existing monuments, buildings and memorials honouring fascism in Italy was launched on Tuesday by the Istituto Ferruccio...
M5S leader Conte threatens to stage protests against move.
Italy's new right-wing government is set to toughen the terms for the welfare benefit payment for the poor and unemployed in 2023 as part of a draft €35 billion...
Senior leghista politician had been battling illness.
Roberto Maroni, former Italian interior minister and leader of the federalist Lega Nord - the precursor to the Lega - has died aged 67.
Maroni, who served as Ital...
Many areas of Italy braced for storms on Tuesday.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has ordered the closure of the capital's parks and cemeteries on Tuesday 22 November due to the expected high winds, heavy rain and thunders...
Palazzo Chigi says move is not under consideration.
A proposal by five deputies from the right-wing Lega party to offer couples up to €20,000 to get married in church provoked a backlash in Italy on Sunday.
After opp...
The Voice winner Suor Cristina now goes by Cristina Scuccia.
Suor Cristina, the nun who won Italy's version of reality singing competition The Voice in 2014, stunned Italian television viewers on Sunday by announcing th...
Rome's American community and friends celebrate Thanksgiving 2022.Thanksgiving is not a holiday widely celebrated in Rome however there are some venues in the city offering traditional food and festivities on Thursday 24...
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