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Investigation opens into cause of blaze.
A vast wildfire on the remote Italian island of Pantelleria was brought under control on Thursday morning by firefighters who battled the blaze throughout the night.
Emergency...
Benito Mussolini's granddaughter rules herself out as election candidate.
Rachele Mussolini, the granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator, said on Wednesday that she would not be a parliamentary candidate in the countr...
Lame has almost 150 million followers on TikTok.
Khaby Lame, the most followed TikToker in the world, received Italian citizenship at a ceremony on Wednesday in the northern town of Chivasso near Turin where he grew up....
Mayor seeks help to identify those involved in Grand Canal stunt.
Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro has offered dinner to whoever can identify the two "arrogant idiots" filmed surfing down the Grand Canal, between shocked tou...
Jacobs won men's title in Munich with a time of 9.95 seconds.
Italian Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs won the 100m men's title in the European Athletics Championships in Munich on Tuesday night in a spectacular return a...
Guided tours of Rome excavations by appointment only.
Rome opens an archaeological dig in Largo Corrado Ricci to visitors, with free guided tours on select dates over the coming months.
The excavations, at the Roman...
Number of femicides in Italy up by more than 15 per cent over last 12 months.
125 women were killed in Italy over the past year, between 1 August 2021 and 31 July 2022, according to data released by the Italian interior...
Rescued animals get stay of execution until Thursday.
Rome health authorities have postponed until 18 August the culling of 140 healthy pigs and wild boar on a farm sanctuary following a court order over the weekend....
Man accused of burning down landmark book stall in Rome.
Rome police have arrested a 51-year-old homeless man believed to be responsible for deliberately starting a spate of fires in the Italian capital this summer, the...
Cinema icon to re-enter Italian politics.
Gina Lollobrigida, the veteran Italian actress from Hollywood's golden age, is to run in Italy's general election next month.
The screen legend, who recently turned 95, will...
Angela was a much-loved and respected figure in Italy.
Piero Angela, the celebrated Italian television host, science journalist and writer, died on Saturday aged 93.
The news was announced on Twitter by his son Alber...
Frecciarossa 1000 trains to debut in Spain by December.
Italy's Trenitalia is set to launch a new high-speed Frecciarossa service between Madrid and Barcelona later this year, with technical tests getting underway on Fr...
Man buried alive after tunnel collapses near Vatican.
A police investigation is underway in Rome after a man became trapped in a tunnel about six metres under a street near the Vatican on Thursday morning.
Firefighte...
Italy's capital sees major return of foreign tourists.
Rome is thronged with tourists this summer, with the capital set to return to pre-covid levels in 2023, according to Alessandro Onorato, the city's councillor for t...
No damage caused to archaeological site.
A 33-year-old Australian tourist was caught driving a rented moped around the Pompeii archaeological site, Italian media reported on Thursday.
The man had entered the archaeol...
Discovery on the Via Tiburtina.
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman bridge from the Imperial era during an excavation alongside the Via Tiburtina in north-east Rome.
The discovery came to light durin...
American chain quits land of pizza.
Domino's Pizza, the American multinational pizza chain, has closed all of its 29 branches in Italy after being squeezed out of the home delivery market by local pizza-makers.
The d...
Fiorentini played key role in organising the Via Rasella attack against occupying German troops.
Mario Fiorentini, a legendary figure in the Italian Resistance movement during the second world war, died in Rome on Monda...
Four Italian regions to offer vaccinations against monkeypox.
Italy's vaccination campaign against monkeypox got underway on Monday with the first vaccines administered at Rome's Spallanzani hospital for infectious dise...
'Cinema Opera' takes place in Rome for first time.
Rome's opera house, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, is staging a free festival of opera and dance films in the piazza in front of its base at Teatro Costanzi, from 10 to 13...
Italy's foreign tourism market bounces back after covid.
Italy is seeing a surge in foreign tourists who will generate an estimated €17 billion between July and September this year, according to a new report by retailer...
Calenda quits pact with Partito Democratico in shock move.
Carlo Calenda, leader of Italy's small centrist Azione party, on Sunday quit a centre-left alliance with the Partito Democratico (PD) just days after the partie...
Enzo Ferrari is subject of new movie and tv series.
Filming of a new Hollywood movie dedicated to the life of Italian motor racing icon and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari is underway in Modena, northern Italy, with a TV seri...
Rome included in 'bollino rosso' heatwave warning.
Italy's health ministry has issued a maximum 'red alert' warning for three cities on Friday 5 August due to an intense heatwave, the latest to sweep the country this su...
Rome's state and city-run museums free on first Sunday of the month.
State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will be open for free on Sunday 7 August thanks to the Domenica al Museo initiative....
Violent incident comes days after Nigerian street seller was beaten to death in Italian town.
Police in the Italy's southern Calabria region have launched an investigation after a Nigerian woman was physically assaulted...
Dante's Peak in Ciociaria: Discovering Patrica and Monte Cacume.
The year 2021 witnessed a flurry of events centred on the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death and a small, inconspicuous town in the historic region of Cio...
An Italian menu guide with extra helpings of etymology.
First up is ‘a’ for abbacchio. These days it means meat of a young lamb, an Easter and Christmas favourite; less appetisingly the word comes from the shepherd’s cr...
A comprehensive list of beautiful lakes near Rome just a drive away from the Italian capital.
Lago Albano
This volcanic crater lake presents visitors with beautiful views of its clear water and surrounding forests. Th...
Activists say the horse was "hot and tired", driver claims the animal "slipped".
A carriage horse collapsed in front of tourists at Rome's Trevi Fountain on Saturday night, amid claims by two American activists that the...
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