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Nazis deported more than 1,000 Jews from Rome to Auschwitz in October 1943. Rome is holding a series of special events to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the...
Vajont Dam disaster occurred 60 years ago today. Italy marks the 60th anniversary of the Vajont Dam disaster which claimed the lives of almost 2,000 people in the Piave valley, in the northern Friuli-Venezia Giulia regi...
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How ancient treasures from the sacred Temple of Diana on the shore of Lake Nemi, near Rome, ended up in Nottingham and Copenhagen. In 1885, when Sir John Savile Lumely, Her Britannic Majesty's ambassador to Italy, began...
Discovery made during excavations near Vatican. Rome archaeologists on Wednesday announced the discovery of what they believe are the ruins of the Theatre of Nero whose location has always been a mystery. The legenda...
Manuscript had been stolen from Venice library. Italy's culture minister has hailed the return of a precious manuscript in which Christopher Columbus, on his return from the Americas, announces the discovery of the New...
80th anniversary of Allied bombing of S. Lorenzo in 1943. Italy's president Sergio Mattarella is to attend a ceremony in Rome on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city's S. Lorenzo dist...
Tycoon grandfather of kidnapped teen refused at first to pay ransom. John Paul Getty III, the 16-year-old grandson of the American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, was abducted by criminals in Rome's central Piazza Farnese in...
Visitors can walk through site where Julius Caesar was killed.  Rome will open the archaeological site in Largo di Torre Argentina to the public for the first time on Tuesday following a major development project sponso...
Italy looks back on anniversary of Vermicino tragedy whose doomed rescue attempts unfolded on live television. On this day 42 years ago, a small boy fell deep into a well in a village near Frascati, about 20 km south-ea...
Notorious attack on Michelangelo's Pietà occurred on 21 May 1972. 51 years ago today, a Hungarian man called Laszlo Toth climbed over an altar rail in St Peter’s Basilica and attacked Michelangelo’s Pietà with a geologi...
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Italy marks Festa della Liberazione on 25 April. Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri will visit the Historic Museum of the Liberation of Rome on 25 April to mark Liberation Day, a national public holiday in Italy. However n...
Italy marks 78th anniversary of Liberation in 2023. Italy celebrates Liberation Day, known in Italian as Festa della Liberazione, with a national public holiday each year on 25 April. In addition to the closure of sc...
How a 19th-century protest folk song became the anthem of Italy's anti-fascist Resistance. Every year on 25 April, Bella Ciao is sung across Italy on the Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from...
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 2,776 years since its legendary founding by Romulus in 753 BC. One spectac...
Rome's birthday, on 21 April, is known as Natale di Roma. This year the city will celebrate its 2,776th birthday. Traditionally the Eternal City marks its birthday with historical re-enactments of ancient Roman rituals,...
Rome marks Natale di Roma on 21 April. Rome celebrates 2,776 years today, 21 April, in a popular birthday tradition called Natale di Roma. The annual celebration - known in ancient times as Dies Romana or Romaia - is...
Rome blows out 2,776 candles this year. The Eternal City celebrates its 2,776th birthday on 21 April 2023 with historical re-enactments including costumed parades past the Colosseum and gladiator fights in the Circus Ma...
Rome commemorates anniversary of Nazi raid. Today marks the 79th anniversary of the Nazi raid on Quadraro, a south-eastern suburb of Rome, during world war two. "One of the saddest and darkest pages in the history of...
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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