The British Spies Who Helped Free Italy: The Secret Missions of Cecil Richard Mallaby and the SOE.During the Second World War, while armies clashed across Europe, a quieter, more covert battle was being fought behind ene...
Rome marks Natale di Roma on 21 April.Rome celebrates 2,778 years today, Monday 21 April, in a popular birthday tradition called Natale di Roma.The annual celebration - known in ancient times as Dies Romana or Romaia - i...
Rome's birthday, on 21 April, is known as Natale di Roma. This year the city will celebrate its 2,778th birthday.
Traditionally the Eternal City marks its birthday with historical re-enactments of ancient Roman rituals,...
Rome will blow out 2,778 candles in 2025.
The Eternal City celebrates its 2,778th birthday on 21 April with historical re-enactments including costumed parades past the Colosseum and gladiator fights in the Circus Maxim...
Rome commemorates 81 years since Nazi raid.
Rome on Thursday will mark the 81st anniversary of the Nazi raid on the Quadraro district during the German occupation of the city in world war two.
A procession to commemo...
Rome commemorates victims of 1944 massacre.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella on Monday will commemorate the 335 victims of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, 81 years after the mass killing took place in Rome.
On 24 M...
Rome's Largo Argentina site to host historical re-enactment of Caesar's assassination as well as performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Rome will mark the Ides of March and the assassination of Julius Caesar on Sat...
Santa Francesca Romana monastery opens once a year.
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 buried in the cr...
As Italy marks the Giorno del Ricordo, Mattarella condemns the "ruthless violence" against Italians by Tito's partisans.
Italy on Monday commemorates the victims of the Foibe mass killings in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Istr...
Italy remembers the horrors of the Holocaust 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Italy will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday with a series of commemorative events on the 80th anniversary of the liberatio...
Spectacular new discovery in Regio IX area of Pompeii.
Archaeologists in Pompeii have unearthed a large thermal bath complex that has been hailed as a "once in a century discovery" by the site's director Gabriel Zuchtri...
Rome installs new stolpersteine memorials.
Rome has installed 24 new brass cobblestone memorials to Holocaust victims at locations across the city ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January.
Desig...
Rome mayor pays tribute to Iole Mancini who died aged 104.
Iole Mancini, the last surviving Italian partisan to experience the horrors of the Nazi prison on Via Tasso in Rome, died on Monday at the age of 104.
The ja...
The haunting story of Beatrice Cenci (1577-1599).
The tragic tale of Beatrice Cenci, the young Roman noblewoman who murdered her abusive father before being beheaded on a bridge in 16th-century Rome, still fascinates to...
Italy's Unknown Solider or Milite Ignoto was buried in Rome on 4 November 1921.
In the aftermath of world war one, many nations determined that they would bury an anonymous corpse to symbolise all those who died on the...
Museo del Ricordo to remember Foibe victims.
Italy is to establish a museum in Rome to commemorate the victims of the Foibe massacres after the €8 million project got the green light from parliament on Thursday.
The...
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