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Multimedia website presented by director of Vatican Museums.
The Vatican Museums' new multimedia website was presented on 23 January by the museums' recently-installed director, Barbara Jatta.
The new website, whic...
Italian director's film nominated in best documentary section.
Gianfranco's Rosi's poetic film is about the inhabitants of the Italian island of Lampedusa against the background of the dramatic rescue of refugees from...
Drunk tourists attempt break-in at Colosseum.
Two Brazilian tourists suffered injuries after attempting to break into the Colosseum in the early hours of 16 January.
The pair managed to bypass the surrounding fence...
Culture minister says Pantheon's seven million visitors should pay.
Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini has raised the prospect of an entry fee to Rome's Pantheon, which welcomed seven million visitors in 2016...
Public can visit Roman Forum area by day after 20-year closure.
The archaeological area between the Forum of Trajan and that of Caesar will be open to visitors, including wheelchair users, during day time from Friday...
Margaret Stenhouse has now published her second and more authoritative book on Lake Nemi and all its fascinating history, ancient and modern. She goes right back to its glacial formation and finishes in contemporary time...
Tusk snapped off Bernini obelisk in Rome centre.
Rome's Elephant and Obelisk sculpture designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini was vandalised in the early hours of 14 November.
A tusk detached from the 17th-century elefan...
Rome's theatres highlighted on subway-style map.
A new map showing Rome's theatres in their proximity to the city's metro stations has been creating a stir on social media in the capital.
Designed in a subway forma...
Wanted in Rome put a series of questions to Roman artist Mauro Pallotta, better known as Maupal, about his Pope Francis murals which have generated headlines around the world.
Andy Devane
You recently created a mural i...
Rome Art Week is a contemporary art festival of free cultural events in Roman galleries and studios.
Art lovers in the capital can look forward to a new cultural project with the first edition of Rome Art Week (RAW),...
Rome remembers Gregory Peck on centenary of his birth.
The recently restored Spanish Steps will host a screening of Roman Holiday, the 1953 classic starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, on Tuesday 18 October, as p...
Italian Nobel laureate playwright dies aged 90.
Dario Fo, the internationally celebrated Nobel prize-winning playwright, actor and director, died in Milan, aged 90, on the morning of 13 October.
Best known for his...
History and technology meet in new 3D exhibition at Rome's Ara Pacis museum.
The rich history and legends of Imperial Rome will be displayed in an immersive exhibition at the capital's Ara Pacis, using 3D technology t...
Colosseum exhibition features replicas of ancient works destroyed by conflict.
Life-size replicas of three lost ancient works from Syria and Iraq are on display at the Colosseum in an exhibition whose aim is to highli...
Priceless Van Goghs had been missing for 14 years.
Two priceless Van Gogh paintings have been recovered 14 years after they were stolen from Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, following a major investigation into the Camorr...
Invito a Palazzo offers free tours of bank buildings in Rome.
The 15th edition of Invito a Palazzo offers the public a glimpse inside the head offices of a variety of Italy’s banks, free of charge, on Saturday 1 Octob...
Rosi's documentary on Lampedusa immigration crisis is Italian Oscar contender.
Gianfranco Rosi's documentary film Fuocoammare will represent Italy in the best foreign language film category at the 2017 Academy Awards...
Fee allows visit plus one photo posing with hand in Mouth of Truth.
Tourists must pay a €2 fee to visit Rome's Bocca della Verità, known in English as the Mouth of Truth, which was previously free.
The charge allow...
Second edition of Rome's Muracci Nostri street art project.
Several streets in the northwest Rome district of Primavalle have been enlivened with murals and installations thanks to the community street art organisatio...
New contemporary art festival of free cultural events in Roman galleries and studios.
Art lovers in the capital can look forward to a new cultural project this autumn with the arrival of Rome Art Week.
This collabo...
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