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Florence museum comes ahead of Louvre and Tate Modern in global rankings.
The Uffizi in Florence has come first in a list of the best museums and galleries in the world according to Time Out magazine.
The Uffizi, the...
Klimt exhibition in Rome includes a painting missing from 23 years after being stolen from a gallery in Italy.
Paintings by Gustav Klimt go on display in an exhibition at Palazzo Braschi, the Rome museum overlooking Pia...
Vikings crossed Atlantic 1,000 years ago, according to new study.
The debate about who 'discovered' North America first took a new turn this week when scientists presented what they say is proof that Vikings had settled...
Major news on the Italian property market as historic Rome home with ceiling painting by Caravaggio is put up for auction.
Italy's real estate and art worlds are all a flutter over the news that Rome's Casino di Villa B...
Baroque masterpiece dazzles after restoration.
One of Rome's greatest treasures - the Cornaro Chapel with its sculptural masterpiece by Baroque genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini - has been restored to its dazzling glory.
The...
Gualtieri promises to tidy up and relaunch a city plagued by a rubbish crisis.
Rome's new mayor Roberto Gualtieri, who took office on Thursday, has pledged to "clean up the city by Christmas, perhaps sooner if we can mo...
Italy's Green Pass rules see surge in demand for covid tests.
Pharmacies in Italy are to stay open after hours and on their days off to facilitate the surge in demand for covid-19 tests as a result of the government's G...
Taxi drivers to demonstrate in Rome.
Italy's taxi drivers are staging a nationwide strike on Friday 22 October, from 08.00 until 22.00, with difficulty expected for those travelling to and from airports.
The strike is...
Raggi hands over mayoral sash to Gualtieri.
Roberto Gualtieri arrived at Rome city hall this morning to take over officially from outgoing mayor Virginia Raggi, who leaves the office after five years.
Gualtieri, of the...
Oldest Irish pub in Rome marks milestone with a week-long party.
The Fiddler's Elbow in Rome, the first Irish owned and run pub in Italy, celebrates its 45th anniversary with a week of live music events from 23-31 Octob...
Ex-Alitalia staff undress in protest at Piazza del Campidoglio.
Around 50 former Alitalia flight attendants stripped out of their uniforms in a choreographed flash mob protest outside Rome city hall on Wednesday afterno...
The British Consulate in Milan, represented by Catriona Graham, hosted a Q&A event in Milan for UK Nationals to discuss and provide clarity about their rights in Italy after Brexit. In an interview with Wanted in Ro...
Lazio suspends falconer for 'Roman' salute at Rome match.
Italian football club S.S. Lazio is at the centre of a controversy over a viral video showing the club's falconer giving a stiff-armed 'Roman' salute to fans cha...
Rome G20 summit comes just before COP26 climate talks.
Rome will host the Group of 20 Leaders Summit on 30-31 October, the culmination of a series of high-level international talks held during Italy's presidency of the...
Prime minister pays tribute to Italy's medical workers and health system.
Italy's vaccination campaign is moving faster than the EU average, the Italian premier Mario Draghi said in the senate on Wednesday morning.
Spe...
Rome shows off its autumn roses on the Aventine Hill.
Rome's rose garden reopens to the public every day from 08.30-17.30 until 24 October.
The Roseto Comunale is home to 1,200 different varieties of rose. Visits are f...
Italy sees Green Pass surge after new rules came into force.
More than one million covid Green Pass certificates were downloaded in Italy on Monday, after the government brought in legislation making the health pass man...
Grape harvest reproduces the wine enjoyed in Pompeii before it was buried in volcanic ash almost 2,000 years ago.
The annual vendemmia, or grape harvest, gets underway on 20 October in the ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii...
Riot police used tear gas and water cannon to break up a peaceful sit-in as Trieste becomes the 'No Green Pass' capital of Italy.
Several thousand people took their protest against Italy's mandatory covid Green Pass to...
Gualtieri succeeds Virginia Raggi as mayor of Rome.
Roberto Gualtieri, the candidate for the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD), is the new mayor of Rome after winning the run-off mayoral elections on Monday evening....
Raggi congratulates Gualtieri who is on track to be the next mayor of Rome.
Centre-left candidates look set to win run-off mayoral elections in Rome and Turin, based on exit polls after voting stopped on Monday afternoo...
Police try to move Trieste dockers protesting against Italy's Green Pass.
A police operation began on Monday morning to clear a sit-in at Trieste port by dockers protesting over Italy's mandatory covid Green Pass certif...
Race between centre-right and centre-left in Rome, Turin and Trieste.
Voters return to the polls in 65 Italian towns and cities to elect new mayors in municipal run-off elections after there were no outright winners in...
Rome goes to the polls again as Gualtieri and Michetti battle to succeed Raggi as mayor.
Romans will vote for a new mayor on Sunday and Monday in a run-off election after there was no outright winner in the mayoral poll...
Protests against Green Pass in Milan and Trieste as Italy's trade unions hold Rome rally against neo-fascists.
Around 10,000 people took to the streets of central Milan on Saturday night to protest against the Green Pas...
Rome rally organised in response to attack on CGIL trade union base.
A major anti-fascist rally in defence of "work and democracy" is to be held in Rome on the afternoon of Saturday 16 October.
The demonstration has...
Rome commemorates deportation of Jews in 1943 as leader of far-right Fratelli d'Italia postpones visit to Jewish Ghetto on eve of election.
Rome's Jewish community commemorates today the 78th anniversary of the deportat...
Take a day-return train trip from Rome around an historically-rich area framed by the Alban Hills, the Sabine Heights and the Apennines.By Martin Bennett
"To stray in spirit better through the land/ This morn of Rome an...
New name and new look for Italy's new national airline.
Italy's new airline is to be called ITA Airways, despite paying €90 million for the brand and naming rights of its predecessor Alitalia which ceased operating on T...
Tension as Italy brings in new Green Pass rules for 23 million workers.
Italy is braced for protests and strikes as Mario Draghi's government introduces sweeping anti-covid legislation, among the toughest in the world,...
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