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...
Musk acknowledges Salvini's "kind" offer on Twitter.
Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday acknowledged indirectly an invitation to invest in Italy by the nation’s deputy premier and infrastructure minister Matteo Salvini....
Protests are taking place across Italy on Friday.
Student protests against the education policies of Giorgia Meloni's government are being held in cities across Italy on Friday, including Rome and Milan.
Under the sl...
Rome's Città delle Arti plan to breathe new life into landmark site.
A major project is underway to transform a large part of Rome's former abattoir in the Testaccio district into the headquarters of the capital's Acade...
Meloni says she has a right to be a mother as she sees fit.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has hit back at criticism for taking her young daughter with her to Bali while representing Italy at the G20 summit earli...
How to get to and what to see in Orvieto. The hilltop city makes a delightful day trip from Rome. Situated in the province of Terni in south-west Umbria, Orvieto stands on the summit of a large outcrop of volcanic tufa r...
Er Giro de Peppe challenges players to find parking in Rome.
The challenge of finding a parking space in Rome is the subject of a fun new board game launched in the Italian capital in time for the Christmas market.
T...
Centuries-old tree to stay in forest after last-minute reprieve.
The majestic silver fir that had been destined to become the Vatican's Christmas tree in St Peter's Square this year has been spared from the chop after a...
Gemmato claims comments about vaccines were taken out of context.
Italian health undersecretary Marcello Gemmato on Tuesday hit back at calls for his resignation after saying there was no proof that the covid situation...
Rome city museums stay open late for Musei in Musica 2022.
Musei in Musica returns to the capital on Saturday 19 November, with many of Rome's city museums staying open from 20.00 until 02.00 to host concerts and live p...
Here are our suggestions on where to find the best pizza in Rome. Quite what the Italians manage to achieve from a circle of bread and cheese is still something of a wonder to we stranieri. And like an amply-stuffed crus...
Museo della Scienza to be located in Flaminio area.
Rome has launched an international design competition to create a Museum of Science in the Flaminio district, the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced on Monday....
Azzurri stun with first ever victory over Wallabies.
Italy's rugby team made sporting history by defeating Australia 28-27 in the Autumn Nations Series at the Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence on Saturday.
It was t...
Science meets fun at the Museo delle Ilusioni in Rome.
Rome's newest museum, the Museo delle Illusioni or Museum of Illusions, opened to the public for the first time on Saturday 12 November.
The new museum, located...
Lucamaleonte creates latest Rome mural for AS Roma.
Rome paid tribute to the celebrated Italian composer Ennio Morricone with a large-scale mural on what would have been the maestro's 94th birthday.
The mural dedicat...
France suspends deal to take in thousands of asylum seekers.The diplomatic spat between Paris and Rome over migrants escalated on Thursday when the French government suspended a plan to take 3,500 asylum seekers currentl...
Italian premier gave the good news personally to Rome woman's parents.Alessia Piperno, a 30-year-old Italian woman detained in Iran since September, has been released from prison and will soon return to Rome, the prime m...
Trieste Synagogue vandalised on anniversary of Kristallnacht.
A police investigation is underway after an anti-Semitic message was sprayed across the front of the Synagogue in the north Italian city of Trieste.
The m...
Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia wants to take club all the way to Serie B.
The grandson of Italy’s last king is seeking to buy Savoia, an historic Italian football club near Naples that bears his family's name and royal cr...
Rossi receives Lupa Capitolina from mayor of Rome.
Italian rock legend Vasco Rossi received Rome's top honour from the capital's mayor Roberto Gualtieri during a ceremony at city hall on Wednesday 9 November.
Gualtie...
A guide to some of the most beautiful and fascinating fountains that you can find in Rome.
Water was a sacred gift from the gods for ancient Romans. The word fountain, “fontana” in Italian, is rooted in the name of the...
Earthquake was felt in Rome and across central Italy.
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the Adriatic coast near Pesaro in Italy's central Marche region early on Wednesday 9 November.
The earthquake occurred at 07...
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...
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