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Italian state-run museums and art galleries are offering couples two tickets for the price of one in honour of St Valentine
On 7 February, the day of the anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth in 1812, the classic film Great Expectations (1946), directed by David Lean, will be shown at the Keats-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna 26 at 14.30 (11...
Vandals have attacked and stolen several statues from the gardens of Villa Medici in Rome, the seat of the French Academy, situated between the Spanish Steps and Villa Borghese.
The academy
The Vatican Museums attracted just over five million visitors in 2011, its highest number ever, according to the director of the museums Antonio Paolucci.
Paolucci said that the wear and tear of almost 5.1 million vi...
A new space for hosting temporary exhibitions opened at Palazzo Barberini on 16 December, with a major show dedicated to Guercino, a leading figure in Italian 17th-century painting.
The additional 1,000-sqm on the gr...
The Tomb of the Scipios, a burial complex for the political and military Scipio dynasty during the Roman republic, has reopened after renovations began in 2008. To celebrate, on the weekend of 17-18 December there will b...
Rome's Capitoline Museums have installed a high-tech service that uses Near Field Technology (NFC) to explain the history behind some of their 300 art works.
By holding NFC-supporting smartphones near the antennas on...
The inauguration of the French Academy of Rome's restored Room of the Birds takes place at Villa Medici on 9 December.
The room forms part of the Pavilion of Ferdinando de' Medici, two halls constructed in the 16th c...
The Rome opera season began with Giuseppe Verdi
While much of the entertainment media in the Italian capital has focused on the recent Rome International Film Festival, another much smaller cinematic event celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. The annual IrishFi...
Rome's Teatro Arciliuto celebrates 45 years on 18 November with an evening of theatre, music and poetry. Situated close to Piazza Navona, in the 16-century Palazzo Chiovenda in Piazza di Montevecchio, the theatre was fou...
The inaugural Doc International film festival takes place at Rome
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