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Alitalia cancels 160 flights on Friday as staff protest job cuts.Hundreds of Alitalia workers blocked the motorway between Rome and Fiumicino airport on Friday afternoon in protest over major job cuts at the Italian flag...
Rome is the backdrop to Luna Park: another original, all-Italian Netflix series.
Netflix is set to air a new series called Luna Park set in the amusement park of the same name against the backdrop of Rome's dolce vita e...
Ferrero launches chocolate bars hot on the heels of Nutella Biscuits and Ferrero Rocher ice-creams.
Ferrero, the Italian confectionery giant known around the world for Nutella and Ferrero Rocher, has unveiled a new rang...
Italy moves to defend Prosecco amid record sales for the bubbly Italian drink.
The 'Prosecco War' between Italy and Croatia has stepped up a gear after the European Commission published an application for EU-protected l...
Wild boar continue to make the news in Italy.
A video showing a dozen wild boar, or cinghiali, strutting along a busy Roman street has gone viral in Italy.
The footage, filmed on Via Trionfale in the city's northern...
All you need to know about the happy new year celebrations in Italy.On the 31st of December, the entire world celebrates the last night of the year, which in Italy is also known as the “Notte di San Silvestro”. This is t...
Referendum to call for Italy to liberalise cannabis.
Italy is set for a referendum on liberalising the use of cannabis after activists gathered half a million signatures, the threshold required to trigger a public vote....
Benvenuti in casa Esposito lampoons the Camorra.
Poking fun at the Camorra - the notorious mafia group based in the Campania region around Naples - is the subject of a new movie directed by Gianluca Ansanelli.
Benven...
Raoul Bova to take up the baton as Terence Hill leaves the stage.
Veteran Italian actor Terence Hill is standing down from the long-running television series Don Matteo, in which he has played the lead role for more tha...
Pines in Rome are under attack from a sap-eating parasite.
Rome neighbourhood associations are recruiting ladybirds in a bid to save the city's umbrella pine trees from a deadly parasite called the pine tortoise scale....
Vatican to require vaccine passport or negative covid test.
From 1 October people who enter the Vatican will be required to have the covid Green Pass, the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State announced on Monday...
Rome's Ragazzi del Cinema America undertake their most ambitious project yet.
In an age when many cinemas are closing, hampered by streaming platforms and covid restrictions, Rome is bucking the trend.
A refurbished,...
Italy to give covid vaccine 'booster' to most fragile people first.
Italy is to begin giving a third dose of the covid-19 vaccine from 20 September, starting with the most vulnerable people, such as cancer patients and...
Italian diva feted by Hollywood days after her 87th birthday.
Oscar-winning Italian actress Sophia Loren will be honoured by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the long-awaited Los Angeles venue set to open this wee...
Tucci's show sees off competition from David Letterman and Oprah Winfrey.
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy has won an Emmy award - the equivalent of the Oscars for television - for 'Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Serie...
Double triumph for Italy's volleyball teams.
Italy is the new European champion of volleyball after its men's team beat Slovenia 3-2 in Katowice last night, winning gold for the first time since 2005.
The victory com...
Both admired and criticized for the last five years, Rome Mayor, Virginia Raggi, faces elections in October. She discusses the future of the city in an interview with Wanted in Rome.by Marco Venturini
What condition d...
Vaccination bookings up by 20 to 40 per cent since Italy unveiled new Green Pass rules.
Bookings for covid vaccinations have surged in Italy since the government announced sweeping new Green Pass restrictions on Thursda...
Italian presenter claims her shock remarks were "extrapolated".
A television journalist has sparked outrage in Italy after suggesting that a recent spate of killings of women could have been provoked by the "exasperatin...
Rome marathon to result in road closures in capital.
The Acea Run Rome Marathon takes place on Sunday 19 September with a 42-km route beginning and ending at the Colosseum.
The 26th edition of the marathon, which start...
Italy ushers in some of the strictest anti-covid measures in the world.
The Italian government has brought in sweeping restrictions that will require all workers, in both the public and private sector, to have a Green P...
Italian government brings in sweeping Green Pass restrictions for 23 million workers.
Italy has become the first country in Europe to make the covid Green Pass mandatory for all workers, in both the public and private s...
Wild boar become election issue in Rome.
Rome's wild boar are back in the news again after a dozen of the tusked animals showed up among children and parents outside a school in a northern suburb of the city on Thursday...
Critics say move is forced vaccination by the back door.
Italy is set to require all workers in both the public and private sectors to have the covid Green Pass certificate, from mid-October, with a new decree expected...
Draghi makes TIME 100 list for third time.
Italy's premier Mario Draghi has been included in this year's TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world according to the American news magazine.
Draghi is th...
Tramjazz offers a unique combination of music, food and sightseeing in Rome.If you’re looking for a really original way to get to know Rome, if you want to discover the secret of the dreamy atmosphere that makes it so tr...
Calls grow for urgent action to save Rome's pines from killer parasite.
Rome's umbrella pine trees are at risk of dying - or being cut down before they die - due to a sap-eating parasite called the pine tortoise scale o...
Here is a list of the months with their Italian translation, origin and significance.
Have you ever wondered why the months that make up the year have those strange names? The subdivision of time in years, months, weeks...
Sigonella, when Italy stood up to the United States. The United States’ recent chaotic withdrawal of military forces from Afghanistan, and the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, bring to mind the country’s long histor...
Ryder Cup to take place in Italy for first time in 2023.
The first tickets and packages for the 2023 Ryder Cup at the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club north-east of Rome will go on sale on 21 September, organisers h...
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