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Rome commuters face price hike in fares on public transport.
The cost of tickets on Rome's public transport network is set to increase this summer from the current €1.50 to €2, according to reports in the Italian media....
The best places to visit and things to do in Rome.
Rome, a city steeped in history and culture, beckons travelers from around the globe with its stunning mix of ancient ruins, captivating art, and vibrant street life. K...
Sun lights up Pantheon entrance on Rome’s birthday.
Rome's birthday, known as Natale di Roma, falls on 21 April, and this year the city marks 2,777 years since its legendary founding by Romulus in 753 BC.
One spectac...
Rome marks Natale di Roma with Appia Run.
Rome celebrates the city's 2,777th birthday on Sunday 21 April with the Appia Run, a unique sporting event held along the ancient Appian Way.
The 25th edition of the Appia R...
Alfa Romeo renames new Milano model Junior' after Made in Italy clash with Italian government.
Italian luxury car maker Alfa Romeo has decided to change the name of its new 'Milano' SUV model to 'Junior' after coming un...
National day to promote excellence of Italian creativity.Italy's trade ministry on Monday launched the first Made in Italy Day, with a nationwide programme of events in celebration of Italian creativity, quality and inno...
Baglioni receives Rome's top honour.
Veteran Italian pop star Claudio Baglioni received the Lupa Capitolina, Rome's highest honour, at a ceremony at city hall on Saturday.
The city celebrated Baglioni's 50-year caree...
Cavalli was famed for his exotic prints and sand-blasted jeans.
Roberto Cavalli, the Italian stylist and founder of the high-end fashion house that bears his name, died on Friday aged 83 after a long illness.
Cavalli...
Landmark bridge to undergo €2 million restoration.
Florence is to restore the world-famous Ponte Vecchio bridge in the first comprehensive restoration of the Italian landmark which dates to 1345.
The €2 million proje...
Azaleas return to the Spanish Steps this spring.
Rome's Spanish Steps, the 18th-century staircase linking Piazza di Spagna with the church of Trinità de’ Monti, is once again decorated with hundreds of azalea plants....
Concert-goer dies in hospital in Florence.
A police investigation is underway after a 47-year-old man died following an altercation at the end of a concert by Italian rock band Subsonica in Florence on Thursday night....
Frescoes hailed as among the finest ever found in Pompeii.
A black banquet hall with pristine frescoes depicting Greek mythological figures has been unveiled in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption of V...
Rome university retains top place for Classics in world rankings.
La Sapienza in Rome has been rated the top university in the world for Classical Studies and Ancient History, for the fourth year in a row, in the 2024 e...
Where to find Bramante's High Renaissance buildings in Rome and the Vatican.
Donato Bramante (1444-11 April 1514), was an Italian architect who introduced the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his original plan for...
Italian stamp to honour Berlusconi on first anniversary.
Italy is to honour the late three-time former premier and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi with a postage stamp to mark the first anniversary of his death last June...
Italian trade unions to stage protest on Thursday over workplace deaths.
At least three people were killed and four are missing following an explosion at a hydroelectric power plant on Lake Suviana in northern Italy on...
Giro d'Italia to end in Rome for second year in a row.
The final stage of the 107th edition of the Giro d'Italia, the cycling world's second-biggest annual stage race after the Tour de France, will be held in Rome on 26...
Thursday's strike action will not affect air travel.
Italy faces a day of nationwide strikes affecting local and national public transport services, including rail travel, on Thursday 11 April.
The day of strikes has...
MIC Card gives Rome residents unlimited access to city-run museums.
Rome is offering a year of unlimited free entry to municipal museums and archaeological sites to residents of the capital who are 18 or turn 18 in 2024...
City paves street between Circus Maximus and Aventine Hill.
Rome is replacing an asphalt-covered road on the Aventine Hill with traditional sampietrini cobblestones as part of a slew of public works projects in the city...
Project underway to make laghetto swimmable.
The artificial lake in Rome's EUR district, known to Romans as the laghetto, could open to bathers within five years thanks to a plan to make its waters suitable for swimming...
Three subway stations to shut for revamp.
Rome is closing the entire Metro A line early from 8 April until 5 December to complete maintenance works on the subway ahead of the Vatican's Jubilee Year 2025.
The city con...
L'Aquila holds torchlight procession to mark 15 years since earthquake.
Italy marks the 15th anniversary of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila in the early hours of 6 April 2009, killing 309 p...
Ancient bath site installs a new reflecting pool.
Rome's Baths of Caracalla has unveiled a pool whose waters reflect the ruins of the ancient bath complex 1,800 years after its construction in the second century.
The...
Mussolini bunkers at Villa Torlonia reopen to public.
A wartime air-raid shelter and bunker built by Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini reopen to visitors on Friday following renovation works and the addition of a...
70 years since carbonara recipe first published in Italy.
Carbonara, one of the signature dishes of Roman cuisine, will be celebrated in Italy and around the world with the annual Carbonara Day on Saturday 6 April.
T...
Colosseum registers 24 per cent rise in visitors.
The Colosseum in Rome attracted more than 12 million visitors in 2023, Italy's culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano announced during an Easter visit to the ancient amphi...
Another major Jubilee 2025 project gets underway in Rome.
Rome has started works to transform the piazza in front of the papal Archbasilica of St John Lateran, or San Giovanni in Laterano, for the Vatican's Jubilee Year...
Binario della Memoria unveiled at Tiburtina.
A multimedia memorial commemorating Italian victims of the Holocaust was unveiled at the Tiburtina train station in Rome on Wednesday.
The memorial was installed on Platfo...
Italy's museums open for free on first Sunday of each month.
State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will open their doors for free on Sunday 7 April as part of the monthly Domenica al Museo init...
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