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A protective barrier will be installed around the Colosseum as a precaution measure to prevent passersby from dislodged fragments falling off the amphitheatre’s exterior walls.
The announcement was made on 27 No...
Rome's Tritone Fountain in Piazza Barberini is being restored with private funds generated from advertising.
It will be the first in a series of Roman fountains to be restored privately, according to the city's cultur...
The National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia is displaying several hundred antiquities from among the thousands illegally exported and now repatriated to Italy. They are mainly from central and southern Italy and are par...
On 31 October Pope Benedict XVI marks the 500th anniversary of the completion of the Sistine Chapel frescoes by renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti.
The pontiff will hold a vespers prayer service in the chapel,...
Rome's Palazzo Farnese, home of the French embassy to Italy, has launched a tender for the restoration of its Carracci Gallery, a 17th-century baroque masterpiece.
The €1.2 million one-year restoration project, w...
The 13th edition of the Asiatica Filmmediale festival dedicated to cinema from the Near to the Far East returns to Rome from 5-13 October.
Based at La Pelanda in Testaccio, the festival is screening 60 films - t...
Some of Rome's most magnificent houses will be open to the public during the month of October. The inaugural edition of "Ville di Roma a porte aperte" takes place from 1-31 October and is organised by the Palladio cultur...
6 October. Museums, galleries, monuments and archaeological sites in Rome and throughout Italy open free of charge on the night of Saturday 6 October from 20.00 until 02.00, with last admission at 01.00.
Rome’s...
Under the slogan “Italy, the treasure of Europe”, Italy will again be taking part in the European Patrimony Days on 29-30 September.The ministry of culture is contributing to the festival with almost 1,500 ap...
Rome's recently-expanded Casa di Goethe was inaugurated by Germany’s culture minister Bernd Neumann and his Italian counterpart Lorenzo Ornaghi on 20 September.
The 250 sqm addition – the equivalent of abo...
A new outdoor theatre overlooking the banks of the river Tiber will be inaugurated in Rome on 28 November.
The €1.5 million theatre space is a project of the city of Rome and is likely to be managed by Fondazione...
10 - 17 Sept. Rome celebrates the 69th edition of the Venice Film Festival with a parallel event titled 'From Venice to Rome'. Over the course of a week, film lovers in the capital are treated to previews of a cross sect...
Plans are in place to install a 15-metre buffer zone around the Colosseum for safety reasons, according to the city's archaeological superintendent Mariarosaria Barbera.
The cordoned-off "fascia di rispetto" around th...
From 7 September until 26 October, the Vatican Museums open their doors every Friday evening from 19.00-23.00, with last admission at 21.30.
The visit includes the Pio-Clementine museum, the Egyptian museum, the upper...
The 13th edition of the European Day of Jewish Culture takes place on 2 September under the theme "The spirit of Jewish humour", a trait organisers describe as a cultural phenomenon and psychological coping mechanism dev...
Experts are repairing a damaged section of the Trevi fountain and assessing the overall level of restoration required, which the city's mayor Gianni Alemanno believes could cost €2.5 million.
The damage - probabl...
A large-scale restyling programme involving pedestrianisation, traffic restrictions and a new look is underway in the area of Rome known as the Tridente. Located in the heart of the historic centre, the Tridente is centr...
The ancient Greek statue of the Lion Attacking a Horse owned by the Capitoline Museums in Rome is now on view at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California.
The loan of the marble masterpiece, which has never been out of R...
Long-awaited plans to restore Rome's Colosseum were presented by Italian culture minister Lorenzo Ornaghi and the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno on 31 July.
The controversial plan, which is to take two and a half years...
Ruins of the Vergine Aqueduct, one of the most important in ancient Rome, have been discovered under the former Rinascente building off Via del Corso, now the home of Spanish retail giant Zara.
Archaeologists came acr...
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