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Luca Signorelli and Rome. Oblivion and Rediscovery. Luca Signorelli, most fortunate and most neglected among painters, was fortunate in his early patrons. First there was Lorenzo de’ Medici; then came Sixtus IV for w...
Italy's culture minister welcomes the court's decision over Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man will now join several other works by the Renaissance master at a blockbuster exhibition in the...
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Cultural marathon to save Rome's oldest coffee bar which opened in 1760. Caffè Greco, the historic bar on Via dei Condotti near the Spanish Steps, faces closure on 22 October - after more than 250 years in business - fo...
Villa Farnesina hosts works created in da Vinci's Rome workshop. Rome pays homage to Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci on the 500th anniversary of his death by showing restored works created in the artist's Roman wor...
Italy's culture minister hails "unprecedented discovery" in Pompeii. An intact fresco portraying fighting gladiators has been unearthed by archaeologists in Pompei, the ancient Roman city buried under a thick carpet of...
Courts say da Vinci's Vitruvian Man too fragile to travel to Louvre. Italy's culture minister Dario Franeschini is expected to challenge the ruling of an Italian court which blocked the loan of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitru...
Historic sites in Rome and across Italy open this weekend. More than 700 noted Italian buildings and historic sites will open their doors to the public free of charge on 12 and 13 October as part of the Giornate FAI d'a...
Giornate delle Catacombe takes place on 12 October. Catacombs around Rome will be open for the second edition of Giornate delle Catacombe, organised by the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology, on Saturday 12 Oct...
Exclusive tour company offers dawn tours of Vatican Museums. Did you ever wonder what it would be like to be the first person to walk into the Sistine Chapel at dawn, and gaze in amazement at Michelangelo's ceiling as t...
Musja private art museum opens in central Rome. Musia, the multi-functional space first opened in Rome's historic centre in 2017 by Roman entrepreneur and art collector Ovidio Jacorossi, has become a private museum....
Marymount - International School Rome
Marymount - International School Rome
Marymount - International School Rome
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Italy's state museums attracted 53 million visitors last year. Italy's 358 state museums in 2018 generated €27 billion, or 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product, according to a report commissioned by the Italian cultur...
Attackers of Cinema America group are from right-wing circles. Rome police have arrested three men for the 16 June assault on four volunteers from Cinema America, the Trastevere-based collective of young people which or...
Rome's state and city-run museums open for free on Sunday 6 October. State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will be open for free on Sunday 6 October with the return of Domenica al Museo. The...
Rome's museums free for grandparents on Festa dei nonni. On Wednesday 2 October, on the occasion of Grandparents Day, all over-65s who visit Rome's municipal museums accompanied by a grandchild will be granted free entr...
Free guided tours of around 100 bank buildings across Italy.The historic head offices of banks in Rome and across Italy open their doors, free of charge, as part of the 2019 edition of Invito a Palazzo on Saturday 3 Octo...
Newly-returned culture minister freezes counter-reforms of predecessor. The administration of Italy's National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome is currently in a state of limbo after a contentious decree abolishi...
Weekend of special cultural events in Rome.Italy hosts a nationwide programme of cultural events to mark the 2019 edition of European Heritage Days which is held in Rome and across Europe on the weekend of 21-22 Septembe...
Museo del Saxofono to open in Maccarese near Rome. Italy's first museum dedicated entirely to saxophones is to open in Maccarese, a coastal district near Rome, on 7 September. The Museo del Saxofono houses around 600 i...
Rome tourists can pass through "3,000 years of history" between Roman Forum with Imperial Fora. It is now possible to visit the Roman Forum, the Imperial Fora and the Palatine Hill with a single ticket costing €16, allo...
Municipal museums in Rome free to residents on 1 September 2019. Rome's city-run museums are open free to residents of the capital on Sunday 1 September. The initiative also includes free access to temporary exhibiti...
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