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Painting to be shown near the Pantheon A watercolour by Adolf Hitler will be displayed at an art gallery near the Pantheon in Rome on 18 July. The work on paper will be shown during a press conference at the Galle...
Imperial Roman monument on Appia Antica restored The Mausoleum of Romulus on Rome's Via Appia Antica has reopened to the public after more than two decades. Built in the early fourth century AD, the circular monument...
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Annual event coincides with canonisation weekend On 25 April Italy celebrates the 69th Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from German occupation and fascist rule at the end of world war...
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied bombardment The group of local enthusiasts that has cleaned and opened long stretches of the mysterious bunker in the entrails of Mount Soratte will take visitors on guided t...
Annual commemoration at Rome War Cemetery Australians and New Zealanders in Rome will mark ANZAC Day 2013 with a memorial service on Friday 25 April at the Rome War Cemetery on Via Nicola Zabaglia, in the Piramide dis...
Residents commemorate 70th anniversary of Nazi raid Today is the 70th anniversary of the Nazi raid on Quadraro, a south-eastern suburb of Rome, during world war two. The district was well known for its numerous pa...
70th anniversary of Rome massacre The traditional commemoration ceremony takes place at Rome's Fosse Ardeatine mausoleum on Monday 24 March, in memory of the 335 people killed by the then occupying Nazi forces 70 year...
Damage to many of Rome’s artistic treasures during world war two was prevented by a dedicated group of experts and academics attached to the Allied military forces. By Theresa Potenza As you wander the small streets...
Remains may be the world's oldest Roman temple Archaeologists in Rome have announced the discovery of what may be the world's oldest Roman temple, dating to the seventh century BC. The remains of the temple were di...
But memorial marred by anti-Semitic incidents On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday 27 January, numerous memorial events are being held in Rome, many of them aimed at school children...
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Anniversary occurs amid controversy over Priebke funeral A series of commemorative events take place in Rome on 16 October, 70 years after more than 1,000 of the city's Jews were deported to the Nazi extermination cam...
Priebke's final testament reveals no remorse for his Nazi past The controversy continues over the funeral arrangements for Erich Priebke, the former SS officer who died in Rome aged 100 on 11 October. The Vicariate...
Nazi war criminal was 100 years old The former SS officer Erich Priebke, one of the world’s last surviving Nazi criminals, has died in Rome on 11 October, just over two months after reaching his 100th birthday....
Skilled artists embellished the façades of buildings in 15th- and 16th-century Rome but few survive today. There exists – or rather, there used to exist – an “open-air art gallery” in Rome, most of which has nowadays be...
 The approaching 100th birthday of former SS officer Erich Priebke – a Rome resident and one of the world’s last surviving Nazi criminals – has prompted a statement from the partisan group Associaz...
Five monumental buildings have been unearthed at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, located 30km north-east of Rome. Archaeologists came across the complex of buildings, surrounded by large statues, in an area previously regarde...
The first photographs have been released of Benito Mussolini's secret wartime bunker under his Rome headquarters in Palazzo Venezia, three years after it was rediscovered. The 80-sqm reinforced concrete bunker lies be...
The traditional commemoration ceremony takes place at Rome's Fosse Ardeatine mausoleum on Sunday 24 March in memory of the 335 people killed by the then occupying nazi forces 69 years ago, on 24 March 1944. The ceremo...
A bomb disposal unit from the Italian army carried out a scheduled detonation of a massive bomb found at Ciampino airport, on Sunday 10 February. The bomb, which was left over from world war two and contained about 25...
A mystery love letter has been discovered in the Colosseum where it was hidden 60 years ago. The letter, which dates back to the early 1950s, was written by Domenico and addressed to Franca. Domenico wrote: «Tu...
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