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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,...
A new dawn begins for air travel in Italy.
Italy's new national airline ITA takes to the skies on Friday 15 October after Alitalia made its final voyage last night, with a flight from Rome to Cagliari.
ITA, whose ful...
Mozzarella knocks camembert off the soft cheese throne in France.
French appetites may be changing when it comes to soft cheese, with Italian mozzarella outselling camembert for the first time.
The Made in Italy dair...
Rome Film Fest 2021: All you need to know, from tickets to programme highlights.
The 16th edition of the Rome Film Fest kicks off on 14 October, offering cinema fans an action-packed programme of premieres, special scre...
Alitalia lands - for good - as ITA takes off.
Alitalia will take its last flight on Thursday evening before passing the baton to Italy's new national airline, ITA, which begins operations on Friday.
The final flight,...
Italy's Green Pass rules will affect 23 million workers from Friday.
The Italian government's plan to require all workers in Italy to have a covid Green Pass has met a hurdle as dockers at the north-eastern port of Trie...
23 million Italians will be affected when the new Green Pass rules come into force on 15 October.
All workers in Italy will be required to have a Green Pass from Friday 15 October, under contentious new restrictions bei...
Rome marks 700 years of poet's death with first major exhibition dedicated to Dante's Inferno.
Following the success of the Raphael 500 exhibition, the Scuderie del Quirinale returns with a new show marking another impo...
End of an era as Italians say addio to Alitalia.
Italia Trasporto Aereo (ITA) will take to the skies on 15 October, replacing Alitalia as Italy's new national airline.
Alitalia will cease operating on 14 October, end...
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