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Italy's bid to host Euro 2032 gets support of sports minister.The Italian government’s new sports minister Andrea Abodi has written to European soccer's governing body UEFA in support of Italy’s bid to host the 2032 Euro...
San Casciano discovery hailed as "most important since Riace Bronzes".
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed 24 ancient bronze statues at the San Casciano dei Bagni thermal bath site in a discovery described as "except...
Altars of water: exploring the aqueducts of ancient Rome.South of Giulio Agricola metro stop stretches one of Rome's best kept secrets – il Parco degli acquedotti – as majestic in its way as the Colosseum but hardly a to...
2022 report sees gap between Italy's north and south widen further.
There was good news for the north Italian province of Trento in this year's Quality of Life in Italy report, conducted by ItaliaOggi magazine and La Sa...
Italy's prime minister slams stunt as "vandalism, pure and simple".
Italian climate activists who threw vegetable soup over a Van Gogh painting at an exhibition in Rome on Friday risk hefty fines and up to five years in...
Where does tiramisu come from and what is the original recipe?
Sugar, marscapone cheese, coffee, ladyfingers, eggs and cocoa. The recipe for this dessert might be based on a few simple ingredients, but its origins are...
Remembrance Day service at Commonwealth Cemetery in Rome.
A Remembrance Day service will be held on the morning of Friday 11 November at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the Testaccio area of Rome....
Rome strike to affect bus, metro, tram and light rail services.
Commuters in Rome face a four-hour public transport strike on Friday 11 November, from 08.30-12.30.
The strike will affect Rome's network of buses, tram...
Humanity 1 refuses to leave until Italy allows everyone to disembark.
Italy's new right-wing government is in a standoff with a German-registered migrant rescue ship, Humanity 1, after refusing to allow 35 passengers to...
Two separate peace rallies will be held in Italy on Saturday.Rome will host a major rally on the afternoon of Saturday 5 November calling for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and the establishment of international peace...
Activists strike at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome.
Climate activists threw vegetable soup over a Van Gogh painting in Rome on Friday afternoon, according to Italian news reports.
The work, titled The Sower and protected...
Christmas tree in Piazza S. Pietro to be lit up on 3 December.
This year's Christmas tree in the Vatican will be a 30-m high silver fir from the small mountain village of Rosello in Italy's central Abruzzo region.
Th...
Next edition of Domenica al Museo comes amid debate about free museums.
State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will open their doors for free on Sunday 6 November as part of the monthly Domenica...
Florence landmark says closure due to staff shortage.Italy's new culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has criticised the Uffizi Galleries for staying closed on Monday 31 October in the middle of what was a four-day holid...
Italy is hot right now for Americans, and the proof is in the numbers. As the US dollar continues to surge and easing pandemic border restrictions boost travel confidence, US tourists continue to flock to Rome. This is h...
An in- depth and honest guide to vacationing in PugliaDreamlike bays, stone villages, olive groves, wilderness, unique architecture and four UNESCO sites, one more fascinating than the other. Puglia is unrivaled, and it'...
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...
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