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Chicken Kiev and Varenyky will be on the menu in Rome schools next week.Children in Rome's city-run schools, from kindergarten up to junior high school, will be served a special Ukrainian menu from 2 May.
Each of the ci...
Masks will continue to be required in certain indoor places in Italy for a further six weeks.
Italy is to retain the obligation to wear masks on public transport and in some indoor public settings until 15 June, the gov...
Ham and pineapple pasta recipe likely to be badly received in Italy.
The BBC has published a recipe for Hawaiian Spaghetti, a dish it describes as "a family-friendly pasta recipe that makes the most of tinned foods."...
Roma fans outnumber Lazio supporters in Rome by 3 to 1.
A new map of Rome showing the areas most populated by football fans of local clubs AS Roma and SS Lazio aims to give a definitive answer to which neighbourhoods ar...
Court says laws requiring children to take father's name are unlawful and discriminatory.Italian rules requiring children to be given automatically only their father’s surname are unlawful, the country’s constitutional c...
Four-hour strike to affect bus, metro, tram and light rail services.
Commuters in Italy face a four-hour public transport strike on Thursday 28 April, with times varying from region to region.
In Rome, the strike is...
Italy sees return of tourists behaving badly.
Rome police fined two Dutch tourists a total of more than €1,000 for entering the waters of the Trevi Fountain on Friday afternoon.
The two men, both in their 30s, attemp...
La Sapienza is 113th in the world in CWUR university rankings.
Rome's Università La Sapienza is the top university in Italy according to the 2022-23 ranking by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), a leading...
Tourist loses control of drone in Piazza Venezia.
Italian police sanctioned a tourist who crashed his drone into the roof of Palazzo Venezia in the heart of Rome on Saturday.
The tourist, a 39-year-old man from Argen...
Planetario di Roma returns with new cutting-edge technology.
Rome's Planetarium, which offers visitors an immersive astronomical experience, reopens to the public on Friday 22 April after being closed for the last eight...
Italian capital aims to tackle trash crisis with major new plan.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has unveiled a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant capable of handling 600,000 tonnes of refuse a year as part of efforts t...
The Romans, through the Latin language and the far-reaching cultural influences of the ancient Roman empire, are arguably founders of Western culture.
Their position as members of an ancient Mediterranean society meant...
Italian government seeks to curb dependence on gas from Russia.
Italy is set to prohibit public offices from setting their air conditioning lower than 25 degrees Celsius this summer amid efforts by the government to red...
Venice to charge tourists entry fee from 2023.
Tourists travelling to Venice will have to reserve their visits to the city's historic centre from this summer, the mayor Luigi Brugnaro announced on Monday.
"Tourism st...
BK opens in former bookshop originally destined for Starbucks.
Burger King, the American multinational chain of hamburger fast food outlets, has opened a new branch in Rome near St Peter's and the Vatican Museums.
Th...
Drone crash did not cause damage to Tuscan landmark.
Two Mexican tourists were fined after they crashed their drone into the Leaning Tower of Pisa on Sunday evening.
The pair, a brother and sister aged 18 and 26, wer...
Rome commuters face disruption on Metro B for almost two months.
Rome's Metro B is to close at 21.00 every night between Castro Pretorio and Laurentina, from 19 April to 4 June, to allow for maintenance works linking th...
Municipal museums mark Natale di Roma with free entry.
Rome celebrates its 2,775th birthday by opening city-run museums for free on Thursday 21 April 2022.
The free opening is part of the city's cultural programme of...
Italian premier will miss trip to Africa.
Italy's prime minister Mario Draghi has tested positive for covid-19 but is asymptomatic, a government spokesperson announced on Monday.
This means that the premier will miss...
Ambassador Zazo and team return to Ukrainian capital.
Italy has reopened its embassy in Kyiv, after it moved temporarily to Lviv in western Ukraine in early March as Russian forces advanced on the capital.
Over the E...
Natale di Roma is marked with re-enactments of ancient Roman customs from 21-24 April.
Rome celebrates its 2,775th birthday on 21 April 2022. The annual event, known as Natale di Roma, is based on the legendary founding...
All you need to know about the most beautiful fountain in Rome: The Trevi Fountain. The English poet Percy Blythe Shelley said that "fountains are enough to justify a trip to Rome". And he was right. The fountains of t...
Starbucks will be relying on Romans to embrace Frappuccino as they shop at Castel Romano.
The American multinational coffee chain Starbucks opened its first outlet in the greater Rome area, at the Castel Romano shopping...
Street closures and buses re-routed for Good Friday ceremony.
The first major religious event in Rome since the start of the covid-19 pandemic will take place on the evening of Good Friday, 15 April, with the Via Crucis...
Pontiff resumes Holy Thursday prison tradition for first time in two years.
Pope Francis visited a prison near Rome to preside over a Holy Thursday Mass during which he washed and kissed the feet of 12 prisoners.
The...
Poste Italiane employee hid mail in her car and home.
A postal worker in the central Italian town of Spoleto faces criminal charges after being found in possession of around 3,000 letters that she had never delivered....
Italy's trashiest TV show
Every country has its own form of trashy dating television shows that are defined by its culture. The UK has Love Island, The US has The Bachelor and Italy has Uomini e Donne which directly tra...
Rome waxwork of Russian leader is missing an eye.
A statue of Russian president Vladimir Putin in Rome's Wax Museum was vandalised on Wednesday, reports Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
The wax effigy of Putin has been...
A double degree can now be obtained in Italy
The Italian Senate has approved a new bill that makes it possible to enroll simultaneously in two degree programs in Italy. Students can now have a joint degree in Italy, ev...
Rome needs to rethink outdoor dining tables
To meet the needs of restaurant operators, surfaces, umbrellas and chairs have invaded meters and meters of public space, changing the face of the city.
In some cases, res...
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