Culture
The following city museums will be shut on 25 December and 1 January. They will be open as usual on 26 Decemeber, but on 24 and 31 December the hours will be 09.00-14.00. The city museums are Musei Capitolini, Centrale M...
The thousands of tourists and art lovers who have visited the Church of S. Agostino in Rome in recent years will have been aware of the ongoing renovation work due to the preponderance of scaffolding and cordoned-off cha...
The Vatican Museums will be shut on 25 and 26 December, as well as on 1 and 6 January. However from 27 December to 7 January (excluding 1 and 6 January) the museums will be open Monday to Saturday from 08.45-16.45, with...
The Domus Aurea, once the home of the emperor Nero, has been closed to the public because of structural damage caused by the recent heavy rain in Rome. Some of the frescoes are also in danger lifting off the walls becaus...
The Teatro alla Scala opera house in Milan will open for the 2005-2006 season, at 18.00 on 7 December, (the feast of the citys patron saint, S. Ambrogio) with a production of Idomeneo King of Crete by Wolfgang Amadeus Mo...
When the lights go down at the beginning of the next concert you attend, look carefully at what the conductor is wearing; you might find that fashions are changing. The black tailcoat, or frac as the Italians call it, is...
Musicians in Italy are drawing attention to the general strike on 25 November with simultaneous productions of requiem masses in opera houses and theatres all over Italy from Trieste to Cagliari. In Rome the S. Cecilia o...
A new Jewish museum has opened in Rome.
The old museum, which was on the first floor of the Roman synagogue on the Lungotevere Cenci, has been moved into five rooms, 600 square metres in all, on the garden level of the...
A unique treasure has been found in archaeological excavations just beside the Via dei Fori Imperiali near the Basilica dei SS Cosma e Damiano. The ivory bust, 25 cm high, is thought to be that of a Roman emperor carved...
Rehearsals are under way for the Christmas pantomime at All Saints Anglican Church in Rome.
This years production is "Jack and the Beanstalk", with performances on 10 and 11 Dec at 14.30 and 18.00. Tickets are 10 for ad...
The Teatro Olimpico in the Flaminia area of Rome has reopened after a six-month restoration project by a team of four architects, Francesca Argentero, Barbara Deledda, Carlotta Montefoschi and Martina Murzi. The work has...
Fifty additional police and traffic wardens took to the streets of central Rome last Tuesday and will be on duty every day from 07.00 to 21.00 until the festive period ends. The extra personnel are part of a seasonal tas...
The 4th-century BC Asteas vase from Campania, a 6th-century BC funerary stele from Selinunte in Sicily and a precious Etruscan bronze candelabra are the first returns on a long list of historical works of art that Italy...
A treat is in store for lovers of gold and jewellery at a special exhibition from 11 November-26 February entitled I Castellani e oreficeria archeologica italiana.
In the second half of the 19th century, the rich in Rom...
Fifteen teams of Italians, specialists in fine art and archaeological restoration are at work in seven countries in the Middle and Far East, thanks to an international convention, signed 1972, for the protection of the w...
The MedFilm festival will take place in Rome from 7-13 November with more than 200 films from 40 countries in Europe and the Middle East. The most important competition, known as the Premio Amore a Psiche, is only open t...
A report on Romes economy has revealed that the city is the capital of audio-visual production in Italy. In 2004 there were 1,486 production companies in Rome and they made 101 films, 69 short films, 193 advertisements a...
Trouble is brewing in theatres and opera houses all over Italy, where workers are anxious about their future in view of threatened cuts to state funding for the arts, known as FUS (Fondo unico per lo spettacolo). The cli...
The department of contemporary art and architecture of the Italian ministry of fine art and culture has presented a list of 92 buildings, constructed in Rome within the last 50 years, which it considers to be architectu...
On Saturday 1 October, 106 buildings belonging to 55 Italian banks will open their doors and offer free guided tours of their cultural assets to the general public. The buildings, in 59 cities all over Italy, vary from m...
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