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The work to repave the area around the base of the Colosseum on its western side has brought to light new archaeological findings. At the beginning of April a marble piece measuring a metre and a half of an equestrian st...
The chapel in Palazzo Barberini containing a crucifix by Pietro da Cortona and ceiling vault frescoes by either his pupils or him together with his pupils is now open to visitors after many years of closure. The newly re...
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Palaces, theatres, villas, aqueducts, and other sites in Italy normally closed to the public will open their doors on 5 and 6 April for the Fondo per l
For the fourth consecutive year, an initiative called Cin Cin Cinema that offers reduced cinema tickets will run for the whole month of April. As a result, tickets at participating cinemas Monday through Thursday cost on...
A Roman fresco stolen from the Vesuvian town of Oplontis and recovered by Italian art police from a private house in Paris has gone on show to the public for the first time at Rome
This year the annual week of culture organised by the ministry for culture takes place from 25-31 March. During the event all state-run museums, galleries, monuments and archaeological sites across the country are open t...
City-run museums and archaeological sites in Rome are open on Easter Day and on Easter Monday. These include the Capitoline Museums, the Ara Pacis, the Musei dei Fori Imperiali, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni among others...
Four frescoed rooms in the house of the Emperor Augustus on the Palatine Hill open to the public on 10 March. The house, which was first discovered in 1970s is made up of a dining room, a bedroom, a large entrance and a...
Go to any state museum or archaeological site in Italy on 14 February as a couple and only one of you will pay. This initiative from the ministry of culture is an offer to the
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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The spiral ramp used to transport scenery to the film studios of Cinecitt
Rome city council is launching a new service that allows tourists to receive tickets to the cultural events at their hotel. Some 65 venues in Rome and 128 hotels three-, four- and five-star hotels are participating in th...
A new interactive cyberspace experience has been created at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome allowing visitors to wander around recreated landmarks along the Rome section of the ancient Via Flaminia. Up to four people at...
The Vatican Museums have announced new opening hours as from 2 Jan. The museums will now be open from 8.30 to 18.00 (last entry 16.00) all year. The opening time has been brought forward to 8.30 instead 10.00. But ther...
The city council has officially inaugurated its 060608 culture hotline, which gives out information in five different languages and sells tickets to the city
Art historian former Italian culture minister Antonio Paolucci has taken over from Francesco Buranelli as the director of the Vatican Museums this month. Paolucci was previously superintendent of the Polo Museale Fiorent...
A stunning new set of doors designed by the Greek-born artist Jannis Kounellis has been inaugurated at the monastic garden of the church of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, in the Manzoni area of Rome south of Termini Station. T...
Archaeologists digging on an unexplored area of the Palatine hill in Rome earlier this year may have found the Lupercal shrine, minister for culture Francesco Rutelli officially announced on 20 November. The shrine was f...
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