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Tourists fined for bathing in historic fountain in Piazza Navona.Rome police caught three young American tourists splashing around in the waters of Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona last night, at ar...
12 million people eligible to vote in Italy's municipal elections.Italy's four largest cities - Rome, Milan, Naples and Turin - along with Bologna, are preparing for municipal elections to elect new mayors and city counc...
Museums open for free on Sunday but must be booked by Friday 1 October or at tourist info points on the day.
Rome's city-run museums will open for free to all visitors - residents and tourists - on Sunday 3 October....
G20 meeting to be held two weeks before Rome summit.
Italian premier Mario Draghi has announced an extraordinary G20 meeting to discuss strategies to confront the crisis in Afghanistan since Kabul fell to the Taliban in...
Italy PM Draghi credits covid vaccinations as key factor in recovery.
Italy's economy is set to bounce back stronger than expected, according to an updated economic forecast announced by premier Mario Draghi on Wednesda...
Caravaggio was born on this day in 1571.
Italy is celebrating 450 years of Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, whose masterful paintings continue to fascinate more than four centuries after his death.
To...
Italy's bid for Rome Expo 2030 comes after Milan hosted Expo 2015.
The Italian government is to propose Rome as a candidate to host the 2030 Universal Exposition, or Expo, premier Mario Draghi announced on Tuesday.
"It...
Draghi promises major funding to help reconstruct L'Aquila.
Italian premier Mario Draghi travelled to L'Aquila on Tuesday morning to inaugurate a park in memory of the 309 victims of the earthquake that devastated the A...
Five Guys comes to Rome after Milan.
Five Guys, the world-famous American burger chain, will open its first Rome branch in the capital's central Termini train station on Monday 4 October.
The arrival of Five Guys in...
James Bond car chase scenes filmed in Matera.
No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond movie, will have its world premiere in London's Royal Albert Hall tonight before being released in cinemas around the world on 30 Septemb...
CTS gives green light to ease covid restrictions for cultural and sporting events in Italy.
Italy's theatres, cinemas and stadiums could soon host more people, equipped with the Green Pass, under the latest recommendati...
Controversy in Italy over 'gleaner' statue in Sapri.
A controversy has broken out in Italy over a 'sexist' statue representing a female gleaner from a famous 19th-century poem by Italian writer and poet Luigi Mercantini...
As Rome prepares for local elections on 3-4 October, we take a look at the four main contenders for the city's top job.
By Andy Devane
The current mayor Virginia Raggi, in the final days of her five-year term, is see...
Abortion has been illegal in San Marino since 1865.
San Marino, the tiny landlocked republic within northern Italy, voted overwhelmingly in favour of legalising abortion in a referendum on Sunday, overturning a law dati...
Restoration project revealed imperfections in marble.
The restoration of Michelangelo’s Bandini Pietà at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence's cathedral museum, has been completed.
Researchers working on the m...
Restoration works underway at S. Ivo alla Sapienza after earthquake damage in 2016.
The Roman church of S. Ivo alla Sapienza - a masterpiece of Baroque architecture designed by Francesco Borromini - has undergone the fi...
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...
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