Culture
Guided tours in Italian, French and English
The French Academy in Rome has begun its latest round of guided tours of the Villa Medici, located between Trinità di Monti and Villa Borghese, for the duration of t...
Fun for all the family at hundreds of museums around Italy
More than 550 museums around Italy are celebrating the second edition of the annual Giornata Nazionale delle Famiglie al Museo on Sunday 12 October. The nat...
First dismissal of its kind in history of Italian opera
Rome's Opera House sent dismissal notices to 182 of its orchestra and choir in an unprecendented move that has been backed by the theatre's management and the...
Invito a palazzo offers tours of Italian bank buildings
The 13th edition of Invito a palazzo offers the public a peek inside the buildings housing Italy's various banks on Saturday 4 October.
The buildings on show...
City museums free to Rome residents
Rome's civic museums, excluding the Ara Pacis, are open free of charge to Rome residents on the first Sunday of every month, beginning on 5 October. The initiative is currently in a...
Conductor Riccardo Muti has written to the director of Rome's Teatro dell' Opera saying that he can not guarantee his next two engagements, Verdi's Aida scheduled for November and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro set for next...
Five days of talks, dance, literature, music and food
Rome hosts the seventh edition of the International Festival of Jewish Literature and Culture from 13-17 September. Family is the theme of the five-day festival...
Ex-occupiers move in next door
The former occupants of Cinema America Occupato, evicted by police on 3 September, have moved into a disused bakery next door to the cinema building on Via Natale del Grande in Trasteve...
Mayor seeking corporate funds for restoration of Rome heritage
The mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino travels to California on 10 September to seek corporate sponsorship for the restoration of Rome's monuments.
Marino is...
€1 entry to Rome museums
A nationwide programme of events takes place in Italy on 20 September to mark European Heritage Days which takes place across Europe on the second-last weekend of September.
Organised...
Police evict activists from occupied space
The Cinema America Occupato building in Trastevere, which has been occupied illegally by activists and artists since November 2012, was cleared by police on the morning of 3...
Reforms include several major Rome sites
Italy is changing the way its 20 most important museums and heritage sites are managed, according to radical reforms announced by the country's culture minister Dario Francesch...
Increased ticket prices at ten other Rome museums
Seven of Rome's municipal museums are now free to visitors while ticket prices have been increased at another ten museums under city management.
The free museums a...
Rome's new culture councillor also faces problems at Teatro Valle and Teatro Eliseo
A tentative agreement has been reached between management and unions representing the staff of Rome's Opera House, following recent s...
Japanese sponsor visits site
Japanese entrepreneur Yuzo Yagi visited Rome's Piramide Cestia mid July to observe the final stages of the €2 million restoration process that he has funded since work began in March...
Rome residents can contribute to installation by Japanese artist
The Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome is collecting old keys to be used by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota in the Japan pavilion at the 56th Venice Bi...
A book belonging to John Keats has been bought by the Keats Shelley House in Rome and will go on display this autumn in the museum at the bottom of the Spanish Steps.
Keats’s autographed copy of Tacitus’s...
Visitors over 65 to pay for tickets
Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini has introduced new legislation regarding visiting times and ticket prices for Italy's heritage sites, taking effect from 1 July. The mi...
Private money needed to retore Rome's monument
Italy is seeking a corporate sponsor to provide the estimated €31 million required to preserve Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea in central Rome.
Situated on the Oppian...
Extra finances result of protest by festival organisers
Rome is to provide an additional €600,000 to the organisers of Estate Romana, under whose banner a range of festivals take place in the capital each summer...
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Aperitif at the organic restaurant
Join Club Tutti Expats & Locals of Roma (https://www.meetup.com/clubtuttiroma) for a delightful aperitif which will be held on Friday April 26th at 6:30 PM at the organic restauran...
