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CDC warns against travel to Italy. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added Italy to its highest-risk category in its latest travel advisory issued on 13 December. The CDC has placed Italy in...
All you need to know about Rome's Botanic Garden.  The Orto Botanico in Rome's Trastevere district offers a beautiful escape from the bustle of the city’s streets. For images of paradise, visitors flock to the Sistin...
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Annual survey once again underlines north-south divide in Italy. Trieste in northern Italy has come first in the annual quality of life index of Italian provinces published on Monday by leading business newspaper Il Sol...
Italy is currently home to more than 600 McDonald's outlets. American fast-food giant McDonald's plans to open 200 new outlets and hire 12,000 staff in Italy by 2025. This is what the new chief executive of the McDon...
Scuderie del Quirinale takes visitors on a hellish tour inspired by Dante's Inferno. The exhibition Inferno at Scuderie del Quirinale, open until 23 January, marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri....
Neapolitan Christmas tradition honours Greta Thunberg. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been chosen as the 'person of the year' by master crib-maker Genny Di Virgilio in Naples, reports news agency ANSA. N...
Italy brings in new covid restrictions over the Christmas season. Italy's new two-tiered covid Green Pass system, which comes into force on Monday 6 December, will restrict the movements of those who are unvaccinated....
Rome is the most visited city in Italy, with around 10 million tourists heading to the "Eternal City" each year. There are countless restaurants, historic buildings, and museums to see in the city. It can be overwhelming...
Dramatic footage showed Rome bridge going up in flames. Rome's Ponte dell'Industria, better known as Ponte di Ferro, reopens to traffic at 11.00 on Sunday 12 December, 70 days after it was damaged by a fire. Rome may...
Gas leak likely cause of explosion in Sicilian town. Two people are dead and seven still missing after a four-storey building collapsed in the town of Ravanusa, in the sout-west Agrigento area of Sicily, on Saturday nig...
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Christmas tree illuminated in Piazza S. Pietro on 10 December. The Vatican's Christmas tree and Nativity Scene in St Peter's Square was lit up under the rain on Friday evening. The 113-year-old tree is a 28m-high spr...
Serial offender faces charges of interrupting a public service. Police in Italy have caught a man accused of applying the emergency brake on almost 100 trains, seemingly for his own entertainment. The 47-year-old, orig...
Garbage disposal at risk across Italy on Monday. Workers employed in Italy's rubbish collection and environmental hygiene sectors are set to join a nationwide strike on Monday 13 December. The 24-hour strike action w...
Italian bishop accused of wrecking Christmas magic for children. A bishop in Sicily has stirred controversy in Italy after he told his stunned congregation, including many small children, that "Santa Claus does not exis...
Burano's floating Nativity scene returns this Christmas season. A floating Nativity scene has been installed in the waters around the island of Burano, in the northern part of the Venice lagoon, for the second year in a...
Biella dentist says he has received first dose of covid vaccine. An Italian anti-vaxxer dentist who made news headlines around the world after he presented a fake silicone arm to dodge the covid vaccine says he has sinc...
Rome mayor had pledged to clean up capital by Christmas. Rome residents have been asked to wrap fewer Christmas presents as the city battles to clean up its rubbish-strewn streets. The bizarre appeal came from the ci...
Legendary Italian movie director received an oscar in 2019. Lina Wertmüller, one of Italy's greatest film directors and screen-writers, died in Rome on Wednesday night aged 93. The news was announced on Thursday by a...
Zaki to be released, pending trial, but has not been acquitted. Italian premier Mario Draghi has expressed his satisfaction at the news that Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian human rights activist and student of Bologna Univer...
Oldest woman in Italy is Ida Zoccarato, aged 112. Giuseppe Venturi, who was the oldest man in Italy, died on Tuesday aged 109 after a bout of bronchitis. The news was announced by his granddaughter Roselena Nigro who...
Italy police carry out Green Pass checks on public transport commuters. A bar in Rome has been closed for five days after police discovered that the owner and her staff did not have a covid Green Pass. In addition to t...
Wild boar once again make the news in Italy. After a wild boar family outing in Roman traffic made headlines around the world in September, the hogs are back in the spotlight again. There is nothing new about wild boar...
Italy registers record 1.3 million Green Pass downloads in 24 hours. The first fine in Rome for travelling on public transport without a Green Pass was handed to a commuter on Monday morning, the day Italy's new covid r...
New covid rules will have major impact on unvaccinated as Italy brings in two-tiered Green Pass system over Christmas. Italy's restrictions centred around the Green Pass will be tightened significantly from Monday 6 Dec...
Six-year-old left Israel with aunt amid bitter custody dispute. Eitan Biran, the six-year-old boy who was the sole survivor of a horrific cable car crash in May, returned to his family home in Italy on Friday night foll...
Museums in Italy to remain open for visitors with 'basic' Green Pass. Italy will tighten its Green Pass restrictions with tough new rules against the unvaccinated coming into force from 6 December until at least 15 Janu...
Italian cabinet gives green light to new plans to tackle domestic abuse and violence against women. Italy's council of ministers has approved a package of new measures granting greater protection to women and increasing...
Municipal museums in Rome open for free this Sunday. Rome's city-run museums will open for free to all visitors - residents and tourists - on Sunday 5 December. In addition to municipal museums there will be free acc...
Italy considers new Green Pass e-tickets for public transport. Italian police and carabinieri, supported by municipal traffic police, are to carry out checks on commuters once Italy's new Green Pass rules come into forc...
Man was trying to obtain Italy's Green Pass without getting vaccinated but his desperate attempt failed to fool doctors in Biella. An anti-vaxxer in the northern Piemonte region of Italy faces criminal charges for showi...
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