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Cardinal Henry Stuart, Duke of York was Bishop of Frascati, where he lived peacefully for many years - until the Stuart jinx caught up with him.
Many people are surprised to find, to the left of the entrance to Frascati...
Italy's culture ministry captures one of history's "first great special effects" in an empty Pantheon on Rome's birthday.
Rome's birthday, known as Natale di Roma, falls on 21 April, and this year the city marks 2,773 y...
Natale di Roma 2020 moves online due to the Coronavirus.
Rome celebrates its 2,773rd birthday on 21 April 2020.
Known as Natale di Roma, the annual birthday celebration is based on the legendary founding of Rome by R...
Lady Gwendoline Talbot was known as “La Madre dei Poverelli” for her tireless charity work and ministry to Rome's sick.Lady Gwendoline Talbot married Prince Marcantonio V Borghese in Rome on 11 May 1835.
Cardinal Thomas...
No procession in Rome to mark 76th anniversary of massacre.
With Italy in lockdown due to the Coronavirus emergency, no public events are permitted, including the annual procession to mark the anniversary of the Fosse A...
"Extraordinary discovery" from sixth century BC at the Roman Forum.
Rome archaeologists have discovered a hypogeum or underground temple and tomb believed to be devoted to the cult of Romulus, the city's legendary found...
Renaissance palace in Rome open each 16 March from 07.00-13.00.
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, a Renaissance palace fronting onto Rome's Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, opens to the public each year on 16 March, for one da...
Rome's birthday celebrations for Natale di Roma include historical re-enactments featuring costumed parades and gladiator fights.
Rome celebrates its 2,773rd birthday on 21 April 2020. Known as Natale di Roma, the annua...
Pope Francis urges Rome to be a city of solidarity and peace.
Rome has begun a year-long programme of celebrations leading up to its 150th anniversary as the capital city of Italy in 2021.
The anniversary commemorate...
Experts claim skull from Pompeii belongs to Roman admiral.
A mysterious skull preserved at Rome's Accademia di Arte Sanitaria belongs to Roman military leader Pliny the Elder, experts have claimed.
However while scie...
The Isola Sacra necropolis offers a rare insight into cosmopolitan middle-class life and death over three ancient Roman dynasties.
Located just south of the coastal town of Fiumicino, some 30km south-west of Rome, the I...
Rome's mysterious underground basilica was discovered in 1917.
One of Rome's most magical and mysterious underground sites, the so-called Basilica of Mysteries, is being restored with funding from the Swiss foundation E...
Italy's culture minister opens restored Casa del Bicentenario at Herculaneum.
The ancient House of the Bicentenary, or Casa del Bicentenario, reopened at the Italian archaeological site of Herculaneum near Naples after...
Mediaeval tombs discovered in the heart of Rome.
Two tombs dating from the Middle Ages were unearthed during gas works on Via del Governo Vecchio, a street near Piazza Navona in central Rome, according to the city's arc...
Rome commemorates 1943 deportation of Jews.Rome's Jewish community commemorates the 76th anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz, on 16 October.
T...
Skeletons of woman and child dug up outside Piramide Station.
Two more human skeletons have been unearthed during works in Rome's Piazzale Ostiense, outside the Piramide metro station, days after another skeleton was di...
Mediaeval church of S. Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum.
The sixth-century S. Maria Antiqua church in the Roman Forum, one of Rome’s earliest surviving Christian monuments, can be visited as part of the S.U.P.E.R. ticke...
Rome organises tours of rarely-opened underground sites.
More than 30 of Rome's underground sites which normally have limited public access will open for special guided tours between September and December.
The guide...
Honorary citizenship for Rome-born astronaut.
Rome is set to confer honorary citizenship on astronaut Michael Collins on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, according to an announcement by the city's may...
Rome workers unearth human skeleton outside Piramide metro station.
A human skeleton has been unearthed during road works in Rome's Piazzale Ostiense, outside the Piramide metro station and across the street from the fi...
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