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The mysterious and haunting bunker in the entrails of Mount Soratte, some 45 km north of Rome, will be open to the public on 12 and 13 May on the anniversary of the heavy allied bombardment it suffered in 1944. Actors...
On 25 April Italy celebrates Liberation Day which marks the country
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Australians and New Zealanders are commemorating Anzac Day on Wednesday 25 April with remembrance services in Rome and Milan. In Rome there is a memorial service at the Rome War Cemetery, Via Nicola Zabaglia in the Pi...
On the occasion of the 12th International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, numerous memorial events are being held in Rome, many of them involving schoolchildren. Established in 2000 by the European parliament to...
The city of Rome remembers the anniversary of the entry in Rome of the allied forces on the night of 4 June 1944 with a parade and reenactment of the event on Sunday 12 June. More than 50 vintage military vehicles wi...
Rome commemorates the 67th anniversay of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre on 24 March, in which 335 people were killed by the then occupying nazi forces on 24 March 1944. The mass killing was in retaliaton to a partisan atta...
On the night between 16 and 17 March Rome's museums and shops stay open late to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. Reminiscent of the Notte Bianca from former mayor Walter Veltroni's administrat...
At midday on 17 March, 150 shots will be fired from the cannon on the Janiculum hill. In what is sure to be the loudest celebration of Rome's festivities in honour of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, th...
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, Rome
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The monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi on Rome
Six perfectly preserved statues dating from the third century have been discovered during an archaeological dig on the site of an ancient Roman villa in Anagnina in the south-east of Rome. Described as a "miracle find",...
The original copy of the 1849 constitution declaring a Roman Republic is on display at the Capitoline museums on the occasion of its 162th-anniversary. On loan from the Augusta library in Perugia, the volume can be viewe...
The balcony at Palazzo Venezia has been cleaned and restored. The restoration was commissioned by the ministry for cultural heritage after Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano asked to view the balcony while attending th...
The House of the Vestal Virgins in the Roman Forum, which has been out of bounds for 20 years, has reopened to the public. Situated at the foot of the Palatine, it was close to the Temple of Vesta, the goddess of the hea...
After a two year restoration programme between 2007 and 2009, and 11 months of rendering the site safe for visitors, the Villa Quintili has opened to the public. The ten hectare architectural complex is located about eig...
After a major restoration the excavations under Palazzo Valentini have now opened to the public on a permanent basis. A small baths complex dating from the second century AD was discovered seven metres below street level...
The marble cornerstone of the Cavour monument in Piazza Cavour has been removed as part of the square
A series of events organised by some of Rome
23 - 26 September. As part of a celebration of the life and culture of ancient Rome, the Museum of Ancient Roman Civilisation and its environs in EUR is hosting a
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