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News comes after woman attacked by wild boar in Rome. A case of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been detected among Rome's wild boar population in what is the first of its kind outside the area of northern Italy where an...
Visitor falls on 17th-century canvas in Galleria Borghese. Rome museum experts on Thursday were assessing the damage caused to a painting by Baroque master Guido Reni after a visitor to Galleria Borghese fell against th...
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Zuckerberg comes to Rome after visiting Siena, Milan and Turin. Italy's prime minister Mario Draghi is to hold a meeting in Rome with Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday 5 May. The meeting will...
ATMs to be installed in metro stations in the capital. Rome is to install cash machines in 25 subway stations on the Metro A and B lines over the next few months, with works set to begin on 4 May. There will be a tot...
Earthquake was also felt in Siena.An earthquake measuring 3.7 in magnitude shook Florence at 17.50 on Tuesday 3 May. The epicentre of the quake was in Impruneta, just south of the Tuscan capital, according to the Rome-b...
Visitor numbers to many museums in Italy return to pre-covid levels. Italy's state museums and archaeological sites welcomed a surge of visitors for the Free Museum Sunday on 1 May, with many venues seeing a return to p...
Who is eligible for Italy's €200 bonus and when will it arrive? Italian prime minister Mario Draghi on Monday unveiled a new package aimed at giving financial support to pensioners and workers with an annual income of l...
Draghi did not mince his words when asked about Lavrov interview.Italy's prime minister Mario Draghi on Monday said comments by Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview on Italian television were “obscene”...
Fines of up to €450 for dip in Rome fountains. Rome has seen a flurry of headlines in recent weeks about foreign tourists disrespecting the city's cultural heritage, from crashing drones into landmark buildings to jumpi...
Italy's Free Museum Sunday takes place on Labour Day. Italy will open its state museums and archaeological sites for free on 1 May in the second edition of a monthly event which resumed in April for the first time in mo...
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Green Pass no longer required in vast majority of places from 1 May as Italy eases mask mandate. The Italian government is to drop practically all requirements for the Green Pass - the digital certificate proving the ho...
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...
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