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Municipal museums in Rome are free this Sunday. Rome's city-run museums are open for free to all visitors - residents and tourists - on Sunday 6 February. In addition to municipal museums there is free access to the...
Shortlist unveiled for Italian Capital of Culture 2024. Italy's culture ministry has announced the 10 finalists for the 2024 edition of the Italian Capital of Culture. The shortlisted towns and cities vying for the t...
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Cortona competes with two more famous contemporaries. Open any guide-book and, to reduce fame to a crude word-count, the Bs have it: Bernini and Borromini. Or vice-versa. Part alphabetical/alliterative coincidence pe...
Tourists coming to Rome have an extra six weeks to see the legendary Torlonia Marbles. Rome's Torlonia Marbles exhibition has been extended until 27 February 2022, organisers announced today, just days before the blockb...
Court upholds previous ruling stopping McDonald's from opening near Rome heritage site. Italy’s highest administrative court has definitively blocked McDonald’s from opening a drive-through near the third-century Baths...
Municipal museums in Rome open for free today. Rome's city-run museums are open for free to all visitors - residents and tourists - on Sunday 2 January 2022. In addition to municipal museums there is free access to t...
Orvieto lights up unique landmark at Christmas. The central Italian cathedral city of Orvieto has lit up the inside of the Pozzo di S. Patrizio, a 54-metre deep well, with Christmas lights. The well's festive albero...
Renaissance drawings and Nativity scenes light up Rome this Christmas. Rome will illuminate the city hall building at Palazzo Senatorio with a light show of Roman Renaissance drawings over the Christmas period. Title...
Christmas in Italy is rich in traditions and offers a feast for the senses. The presepe or Nativity scene plays a central role in Italy over the festive season, with Christmas cribs appearing across the country, and not...
Fendi continues to sponsor restoration of Rome landmarks. The Temple of Venus and Roma, located in the Roman Forum opposite the Colosseum, has undergone a €2.5 million restoration sponsored by the luxury fashion house F...
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Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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Scuderie del Quirinale takes visitors on a hellish tour inspired by Dante's Inferno. The exhibition Inferno at Scuderie del Quirinale, open until 23 January, marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri....
Legendary Italian movie director received an oscar in 2019. Lina Wertmüller, one of Italy's greatest film directors and screen-writers, died in Rome on Wednesday night aged 93. The news was announced on Thursday by a...
Museums in Italy to remain open for visitors with 'basic' Green Pass. Italy will tighten its Green Pass restrictions with tough new rules against the unvaccinated coming into force from 6 December until at least 15 Janu...
Municipal museums in Rome open for free this Sunday. Rome's city-run museums will open for free to all visitors - residents and tourists - on Sunday 5 December. In addition to municipal museums there will be free acc...
Wooden dragon becomes social media star in Italy. A giant wooden sculpture of a dragon has emerged from a north Italian forest devastated by Storm Vaia three years ago. The winged dragon, described as the largest of...
Damiano from Måneskin stars in a Neapolitan crib. Naples is renowned for its Christmas crib tradition and each year people look forward to seeing who the "new entries" will be - often figures from the world of politics,...
Lego Trevi Fountain to go on tour of Sardinia. Rome's most famous fountain made international headlines after G20 leaders lined up to throw coins into its waters last weekend. Now the Baroque monument is in the news...
Ognissanti, or Tutti i Santi, is a public holiday in Italy. Italy's state museums and archaeological sites will open on Monday 1 November, an Italian national holiday to mark All Saints' Day. Many Italian state museu...
Florence museum comes ahead of Louvre and Tate Modern in global rankings. The Uffizi in Florence has come first in a list of the best museums and galleries in the world according to Time Out magazine. The Uffizi, the...
Klimt exhibition in Rome includes a painting missing from 23 years after being stolen from a gallery in Italy. Paintings by Gustav Klimt go on display in an exhibition at Palazzo Braschi, the Rome museum overlooking Pia...
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