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Happy birthday to Rome: Eternal City celebrates 2,774 years today

21 Apr, 2021

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Dies Natalis: the Pantheon's magical arc of light for Rome's birthday

20 Apr, 2021

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Natale di Roma: the legends and traditions behind Rome's birthday

20 Apr, 2021

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How the Nazis helped Mussolini to escape from Campo Imperatore

20 Apr, 2021

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Rome celebrates 2,774th birthday in 2021

18 Apr, 2021

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Rome remembers Nazi deportation in Quadraro

History 17 Apr, 2021

Rome residents commemorate 77th anniversary of Nazi raid. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Nazi raid on Quadraro, a south-eastern suburb of Rome, during world war two. The district was well kn...

Rome to open Largo Argentina site to visitors thanks to Bulgari

History 14 Apr, 2021

Largo Argentina site will become accessible to the general public for the first time thanks to raised paths that will allow visitors to "walk through history." Rome's archaeological site at Largo di...

Rome marks ANZAC Day 2021 with virtual memorial service

History 07 Apr, 2021

ANZAC Day memorial service in Rome will be online on 25 April. The New Zealand and Australian embassies in Italy will commemorate ANZAC Day this year with a virtual memorial service from the Rome War...

Tracing the origins of Rome's Circus Maximus

History 18 Mar, 2021

Time's winged chariot: reverse laps around Circus Maximus back to its beginnings. By Martin Bennett Early morning. But for a man slowly walking his dachshund, the vast oval of grass and tawny-colo...

Ides of March: Rome remembers Julius Caesar

History 15 Mar, 2021

Rome remembers the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BC. The Ides of March was the 74th day in the Roman calendar, determined by the full moon, and corresponded to 15 March....

Italy's president recalls 'horror' of the Foibe

History 10 Feb, 2021

Italy commemorates victims of the Foibe with national day of remembrance. Italy's president Sergio Mattarella has recalled the "horror" of the Foibe during a ceremony today to remember the victims of...

Herculaneum to unearth ancient beach buried for nearly 2,000 years

History 28 Jan, 2021

Archaeologists to dig down to ancient Roman beach buried in 79 AD. Herculaneum, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is to begin excavating its hidden beach for t...

Italy remembers the horrors of the Holocaust

History 27 Jan, 2021

Holocaust victims remembered in Italy 76 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Italy marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2021 with hundreds of memorial events in Rome, Mila...

Pompeii unveils its treasures in reopened Antiquarium museum

History 26 Jan, 2021

Antiquarium reopens as permanent exhibition space in Pompeii. Pompeii’s museum has been given a new lease of life after a long history of "ups and downs," announced the director of the archaeological...

Savoy prince apologises to Italy’s Jews over 1938 racial laws

History 23 Jan, 2021

The great-grandson of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III writes a letter of apology to Italy's Jewish community. Prince Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, heir to the defunct Italian throne, last night is...

Rome remembers Holocaust victims with new bronze cobblestones

History 21 Jan, 2021

Rome installs 21 new stolpersteine Holocaust memorials. Rome has installed 21 new brass cobblestone memorials to victims of the Holocaust at various locations throughout the capital, ahead of Interna...

Rome's Arch of Septimius Severus to be restored

History 05 Jan, 2021

Parco archeologico del Colosseo to carry out restoration work on Roman Forum landmark. The Arch of Septimius Severus - one of ancient Rome's most recognised monuments - is to undergo a programme of c...

Italy: Pompeii to open ancient 'street food' diner to visitors

History 26 Dec, 2020

Pompeii will open up a newly unearthed thermopolium at Easter. The Pompeii archaeological park has announced that it will open up a recently discovered thermopolium, a sort of ancient 'fast food' cou...

Rome's pilgrim routes

History 09 Dec, 2020

Much of the layout of Renaissance Rome was dictated by the needs of pilgrim routes to St Peter's from all parts of the city. By Arianna Farina The layout of Rome in the early 15th century was stil...

Italy: Pompeii unearths bodies of master and slave

History 22 Nov, 2020

Well-preserved bodies found in a "truly exceptional" discovery at Pompeii. The skeletal remains of two men, believed to be a master and his slave, have been discovered at Pompeii, the ancient Roman c...

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