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Garbatella hosts Festa della Resistenza from 23-25 April. Rome will stage a festival dedicated to the Italian Resistance movement with a three-day programme of cultural and historical events to be held in the city's Gar...
Italy's partisan association ANPI brands La Russa's words "shameful". Italy's senate speaker Ignazio La Russa was at the centre of a political controversy on Friday after he criticised the partisan attack in Rome that l...
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Works on Museo della Shoah could start this spring. Italy's right-wing government has approved plans to build a Holocaust Museum in Rome, allocating €10 million for the project which was first proposed two decades ago....
Research claims that da Vinci was only half-Italian. Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci was the son of a slave who was trafficked to Italy from her home in the Caucasus, according to new research presented in Florence...
Italy's last remaining survivors of the Holocaust, several of whom are well-known figures. There are believed to be about 10 Holocaust survivors still alive in Italy, according to the Union of Italian Jewish Communities...
Italy remembers the horrors of the Holocaust 78 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Italy marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday with hundreds of commemorative events on the 78th anniversary of the...
New insights into snacking habits in ancient Rome. A year-long study of the sewerage system under the Colosseum has cast new light on the snacking habits of Roman spectators watching the games in the ancient arena. S...
Italian capital is full of traces of Mussolini 100 after March on Rome. An online map charting the existing monuments, buildings and memorials honouring fascism in Italy was launched on Tuesday by the Istituto Ferruccio...
San Casciano discovery hailed as "most important since Riace Bronzes". Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed 24 ancient bronze statues at the San Casciano dei Bagni thermal bath site in a discovery described as "except...
Remembrance Day service at Commonwealth Cemetery in Rome. A Remembrance Day service will be held on the morning of Friday 11 November at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the Testaccio area of Rome....
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Ireland remembers Violet Gibson with plaque outside her childhood home in Dublin. A plaque dedicated to Violet Gibson, the Irishwoman who tried to assassinate Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini almost a century ago...
Discovery on the Via Tiburtina. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman bridge from the Imperial era during an excavation alongside the Via Tiburtina in north-east Rome. The discovery came to light durin...
Rome catacombs with newly restored frescoes to reopen to public. The fourth-century Catacombs of Commodilla in the Garbatella area of Rome will soon reopen to the public after their frescoes were restored by the Vatican...
Rome police sealed off an area around Porta Maggiore on Tuesday after part of one of the arches at the monumental Roman gateway became dislodged and fell to the ground. The incident occurred at around 06.15 at the inter...
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...
Natale di Roma is marked with re-enactments of ancient Roman customs from 21-24 April. Rome celebrates its 2,775th birthday on 21 April 2022. The annual event, known as Natale di Roma, is based on the legendary founding...
Rome marks 90 years since an elephant skull was dug up near the Colosseum. An exhibition at Trajan's Markets in Rome recalls how the skull and left tusk of an extinct elephant species were discovered during excavations ...
'Archaeological Box on the Aventine Hill' opens to larger tour groups. The remains of a magnificent Roman villa buried for almost 2,000 years at the foot of Rome's Aventine Hill can be visited on the first and third Fri...
Rome marks Natale di Roma with historical re-enactments. Rome celebrates its 2,775th birthday on 21 April 2022. Known as Natale di Roma, the annual birthday celebration is based on the legendary founding of Rome by R...
Rome's S. Pietro in Vincoli hosts the chains of St Peter as well as Michelangelo's Moses. The church of S. Pietro in Vincoli, known in English as St Peter in Chains, is a minor basilica hidden away in Rome's Monti quart...
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