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How a 19th-century protest folk song became the anthem of Italy's anti-fascist Resistance. Every year on 25 April, Bella Ciao is sung across Italy on the Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from...
Sun lights up Pantheon entrance on Rome’s birthday. Rome's birthday, known as Natale di Roma, falls on 21 April, and this year the city marks 2,776 years since its legendary founding by Romulus in 753 BC. One spectac...
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Rome's birthday, on 21 April, is known as Natale di Roma. This year the city will celebrate its 2,776th birthday. Traditionally the Eternal City marks its birthday with historical re-enactments of ancient Roman rituals,...
Rome marks Natale di Roma on 21 April. Rome celebrates 2,776 years today, 21 April, in a popular birthday tradition called Natale di Roma. The annual celebration - known in ancient times as Dies Romana or Romaia - is...
Rome blows out 2,776 candles this year. The Eternal City celebrates its 2,776th birthday on 21 April 2023 with historical re-enactments including costumed parades past the Colosseum and gladiator fights in the Circus Ma...
Rome commemorates anniversary of Nazi raid. Today marks the 79th anniversary of the Nazi raid on Quadraro, a south-eastern suburb of Rome, during world war two. "One of the saddest and darkest pages in the history of...
Garbatella hosts Festa della Resistenza from 23-25 April. Rome will stage a festival dedicated to the Italian Resistance movement with a three-day programme of cultural and historical events to be held in the city's Gar...
Italy's partisan association ANPI brands La Russa's words "shameful". Italy's senate speaker Ignazio La Russa was at the centre of a political controversy on Friday after he criticised the partisan attack in Rome that l...
Rome marks the 79th anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre. On 24 March 1944 the Nazi forces then occupying Rome carried out one of the most horrific atrocities against civilians during the second world war in Ital...
Works on Museo della Shoah could start this spring. Italy's right-wing government has approved plans to build a Holocaust Museum in Rome, allocating €10 million for the project which was first proposed two decades ago....
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Research claims that da Vinci was only half-Italian. Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci was the son of a slave who was trafficked to Italy from her home in the Caucasus, according to new research presented in Florence...
Rome's Largo Argentina site to host historical re-enactment. Rome will mark the Ides of March and the assassination of Julius Caesar on Wednesday 15 March with an historical re-enactment of that fateful day in 44 BC....
S. Francesca Romana monastery opens on 9 March for one day only. The feast day of the patron saint of motorists, Santa Francesca Romana (1384-1444), is marked in Rome each year on 9 March. The Roman saint, who is bur...
Italy marks Giorno del Ricordo on 10 February. Italy on Friday commemorates the victims of the Foibe mass killings in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia by Tito's partisans, both during and after world war two....
Italy's last remaining survivors of the Holocaust, several of whom are well-known figures. There are believed to be about 10 Holocaust survivors still alive in Italy, according to the Union of Italian Jewish Communities...
Italy remembers the horrors of the Holocaust 78 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Italy marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday with hundreds of commemorative events on the 78th anniversary of the...
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