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No damage caused to Renaissance painting.
Climate protesters glued themselves to Botticelli's celebrated Primavera painting at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on Friday morning in front of shocked tourists, Italian media...
Rome is up against Busan and Riyadh in bid to host Expo 2030.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said on Thursday that environmental sustainability will be at the heart of Italy's bid to host Expo 2030 in the Eternal City....
Mattarella dissolves parliament after Draghi resigns.
Italy will hold a snap national election on 25 September following the resignation of prime minister Mario Draghi after three coalition parties withdrew their suppor...
'Romeo' stuns 'Juliet' by asking for her hand in Verona Arena.
The audience at the 'Roberto Bolle and Friends' show in Verona Arena on Wednesday night was thrilled after two lead dancers got engaged on stage.
The pri...
Draghi resigns after three coalition parties withdrew support from national unity government.
Italy has been plunged into political chaos after prime minister Mario Draghi resigned following a boycott in a government vo...
Rome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri has raised the prospect of introducing "free or almost free" public transport in the capital this autumn, according to Italian news reports.
Citing similar projects in Spain and Germany,...
Gladiator star returns to Eternal City with family.
In the summer of 2000, Ridley Scott's smash-hit movie Gladiator with its epic portrayal of ancient Rome captured the imagination and hearts of cinema-goers all over th...
Gualtieri pledges that Rome will be "as clean as a village in Trentino" within a couple of years.
Rome will overcome its current rubbish emergency "within a week", the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri said during an inter...
Draghi set to clarify his intentions on Wednesday.
Rallies were held in several Italian cities on Monday calling on premier Mario Draghi to stay in office as pressure mounts on the former ECB chief to remain at the helm...
Incident comes after couple splashed around in Bernini fountain in Piazza Navona.
A man dressed in swimming trunks climbed between the statues of Rome's Trevi Fountain and dived into the waters of the Baroque monument b...
Ultimo is latest act to perform in prestigious Rome venue.
Rome has closed streets around the Circus Maximus on Sunday 17 July due to a concert by Italian pop singer Ultimo.
Around 70,000 people are expected to atten...
Controversy erupts over lack of security cameras at Rome landmark.
Rome's Pantheon has been vandalised with graffiti that reads "Aliens Exist" alongside what appears to be two flying saucers, sprayed on the exterior of...
Europe is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.
Italy faces another wave of intense heat over the coming days, driven by an anticyclone which has seen hot air currents from north Africa sweep in across the country...
Third strike by airline workers in Italy in recent weeks.
Flight attendants and pilots from low-cost airlines Ryanair, easyJet, Volotea and Malta Air, along with staff from cabin crew agency CrewLink and air traffic con...
Ischia wins first place in annual Travel + Leisure survey.
Ischia has been named best island in the world by readers of the American magazine Travel + Leisure in the 2022 edition of The World's Best Awards, the annual i...
Taxi drivers call off Rome protests.
Italy faces a two-day nationwide taxi strike on 20-21 July as cab drivers protest against the government's competition bill amid claims that deregulating the sector would lead to the...
M5S snub of key vote plunges Italian government into crisis.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella refused to accept the resignation of prime minister Mario Draghi on Thursday night after the populist MoVimento 5 Stelle (...
New cinema venue will have two screens devoted to archive films and movie premieres.
The Fiamma cinema, which closed its doors in 2017, is to reopen as a multifunctional cinema centre with two screens, a study room, a m...
Italy faces fresh political crisis as M5S threatens to shun vote of confidence.
The Italian government led by premier Mario Draghi risks collapse after the populist coalition partner MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S) pledged to...
Tourists also fined for defacing archaeological remains in Roman Forum.
Rome police caught up with a 30-year-old Canadian tourist after she used a stone to carve the initials of her name into an external wall of the Col...
Police seal off area around Italian parliament as taxi drivers protest.
Italian taxi drivers demonstrated near parliament in central Rome on Wednesday, in protest over the government's competition bill amid claims that...
Pontiff addresses retirement rumours in interview.
Pope Francis said that in the event of an eventual resignation from the papacy he would live in Rome, ruling out a return to his native Argentina or staying in the Vati...
Plans to let passengers check-in baggage in railway stations before boarding their flight in Rome.
Rome's Fiumicino airport, known officially as Leonardo da Vinci, has three new direct high-speed connections with Naples...
AIFA gives green light to "second booster" for over-60s after approval from EMA.
Italy has begun offering a fourth dose of the covid vaccine to the over-60s, as well as to those considered most at risk from the virus, I...
Break-up follows months of rumours.
Italian TV presenter Ilary Blasi announced the end of her 17-year marriage to AS Roma legend Francesco Totti in a statement on Monday night, Italian news agency ANSA reports.
"Afte...
Investigation underway into cause of fire at much-loved book stand.
A well-known stall selling used books in Rome's Piazzale Flaminio is getting ready to reopen, days after it was destroyed by fire, according to Italian...
Gualtieri "not intimidated" and will push ahead with plans for incinerator to tackle Rome's trash crisis.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said "there was certainly the hand of man" behind the recent spate of fires in the I...
Tourist had strayed off visitor path and was not seriously injured.
A 23-year-old American tourist fell into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano looming over Naples, Italian media reports.
The incident occurred...
Måneskin resist doctors' calls to postpone Rome concert over covid fears.
Rome bar owners are protesting over "unfair" alcohol restrictions in the city centre on Saturday 9 July for the Måneskin concert at the Circus Ma...
Shelley planned to spend the summer of 1822 sailing along the coast of Tuscany but he drowned when his new boat went down in a summer storm.
Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in a summer storm in the Gulf of Spezia on 8 July...
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