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Masks no longer required in most outdoor areas in Italy.
Italy lifts its outdoor mask mandate on Friday 11 February, with the government pledging to relax other restrictions amid an improving coronavirus situation.
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Singer sends message to young girls: "Your body is perfect the way it is."
Italian pop star Emma Marrone has hit back at a male journalist over his negative comments about her physical appearance, amid accusations of bo...
Como mayor calls on residents to attend funeral as the "family" of woman whose death went unnoticed.
The macabre discovery of the remains of a 70-year-old woman seated at the kitchen table of her house more than two yea...
News in Italy: 21-gun salute and Frecce Tricolori flypast to mark return of Mattarella as head of state.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella, who was re-elected at the weekend, will be sworn in during a pomp-filled cere...
News of anti-Semitic incident comes as Italy prepares to mark International Holocaust Day.
Italian police are investigating an alleged anti-Semitic attack on a 12-year-old boy by teenagers in a village near Livorno, in...
Savoia family back in the news in Italy as they take legal action to reclaim crown jewels after 75 years.
Descendants of Italy's former royal family are suing the Italian state in an attempt to reclaim the crown jewels...
A genuine Made in Italy love story, Baci Perugina marks 100 years with a special limited edition chocolate.
Italian luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana celebrates one century of Baci Perugina by designing a limited...
"In Italy, coffee is much more than a simple drink"
Italy is bidding to have Italian espresso coffee inserted on the UNESCO list of "intangible cultural heritage", the nation's deputy agriculture minister Gian Marco Cen...
No reports of injuries or damage in Calabria earthquake.
Italy's southern Calabria region was hit by a 4.3-magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning, according to the National Institute of Geology and Volcanology (INGV)....
Italy's Green Pass rules expanded again from 20 January.
The Italian government has further tightened the rules around its Green Pass, the digital certificate proving the holder has been vaccinated, tested negative or r...
Airbnb offers a chance to live rent-free as a host in Sicily for one year.
Airbnb, the online short-term rental platform, is offering a free one-year stay in a newly-refurbished property in the small rural village of Sa...
Malkovich in Venice to shoot TV series Ripley.
Hollywood star John Malkovich was turned away by a top Venice hotel last week as his covid Green Pass certificate had expired, according to Il Gazzettino newspaper.
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Villa Aurora price tag dropped by 20 per cent after no bids at 'auction of the century'.
The sale of a Roman villa with the world's only Caravaggio ceiling painting, which was put on the market valued at €471 million, h...
Villa Aurora is set to go under the hammer on Tuesday.
Rome's Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, home to the world's only ceiling mural painted by Caravaggio, is up for auction on 18 January with an estimated value o...
Fauci joined Rome university via video link from Washington.
Rome's La Sapienza University has awarded an honorary doctorate to Anthony Fauci, the US infectious diseases expert and covid advisor to President Biden.
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Eight referendums to be assessed by courts next month.
Italy's constitutional court is to rule on the validity of eight referendums on 15 February, including one referendum each on legalising euthanasia and cannabis, an...
Costa Concordia ran aground off west coast of Italy on 13 January 2012.
Italy marks 10 years since the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio, resulting in 32 deaths, in one of the worst...
Controversy over funeral of extreme right activist in Rome.
A police investigation is underway after a coffin was draped with a Nazi swastika flag outside a church in Rome.
The incident took place following the funer...
Investigation underway after vandals deface Sicilian natural wonder.
Police in Italy have launched an investigation into the vandalisation of the Scala dei Turchi, the famed white marl cliffs on the coast of Realmonte i...
Italy's flag dates back to 7 January 1797.
Italian president Sergio Mattarella marked the 225th anniversary of the nation's tricolour on Friday, hailing the flag as "symbol of Italy and witness to the path that led to t...
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