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17 people received minor injuries in train crash. An investigation is underway after two trains crashed into each other at low speed in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region on Sunday night, injuring 17 people. The...
Protests in Venice, Milan, Rome, Turin and Bologna. Rivers and canals in several major Italian cities on Saturday were dyed green by the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group as part of a protest calling for action to tackle...
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Vatican lights up Christmas tree on Saturday. The Vatican will unveil this year's Nativity scene and light up its Christmas tree at a ceremony in St Peter's Square on Saturday 9 December at 17.00. The Vatican's mange...
All patients evacuated from Tivoli hospital. Three people died after a large fire broke out on Friday night at a hospital in Tivoli, a town located about 30km east of Rome, with around 200 patients evacuated. The fir...
Santa Lucia brightens Italy's Christmas calendar. The 2023 festive season in Italy sees a return of a popular Swedish tradition - the celebration of Santa Lucia - thanks to the embassy of Sweden in Rome. For more tha...
Rome moves Christmas tree to Piazza del Popolo. Rome's Christmas tree, which this year moves to a new location in Piazza del Popolo, is to be illuminated on Friday 8 December at 18.00. The Christmas tree leaves behin...
Holiday marks the start of the Christmas season in Italy. Italy marks the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Catholic holy day, with a national public holiday on Friday 8 December.   More than 13 million Italians a...
Dior also lights up streets in Rome suburbs. French luxury fashion house Dior has sponsored a dazzling gold and white Christmas tree at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome. The 15-metre high tree - created by Rome-b...
"Enough is enough" says Venice mayor. A group of climate activists on Thursday splattered mud onto the façade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice as part of a protest they termed "a fire alarm". The protestors used fire...
Three days of free buses, subways and trams in Rome. Rome's Christmas mobility plan, in place from 8 December to 7 January, offers incentives to use public transport and take taxis in the capital over the festive season...
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Culture minister hails news as "great success" for Italy. Italian opera singing has been added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the UN cultural agency announced on Wednesday. Culture mi...
Public transport services at risk from 09.00-13.00. Commuters in Rome and the surrounding Lazio region face disruption to public transport services due to a regional four-hour strike on Thursday 7 December. The strik...
City announces new rubbish collection measures for festive season. Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri on Tuesday unveiled new-look rubbish bins which will be placed along streets across the capital in the coming months. Th...
Gondola capsized after tourists ignored gondolier. A group of tourists travelling in a gondola in Venice ended up in the waters of a canal after refusing to sit still and stop moving around to take selfies. The incid...
Metro A resumes full service in time for Christmas Rome's Metro A subway line will resume its full service on Friday, on completion of major overnight works that began 18 months ago, the city confirmed on Wednesday....
Christmas Coca-Cola Truck comes to Rome for the seventh year in a row. Coca-Cola once again supports Banco Alimentare, the non-profit organisation which has distributed surplus food to people in need across Italy for th...
100 Presepi returns to Piazza San Pietro. The 2023 edition of 100 Presepi, Rome's international Nativity crib exhibition, takes place under the colonnade of St Peter's Square from 9 December until 7 January 2024. A f...
Vatican to light up Christmas tree and Nativity Scene on 9 December. This Christmas in St Peter's Square, the Vatican will evoke the first living Nativity scene of St Francis on the 800th anniversary of its creation in...
A quick guide to the best Christmas markets in Rome over the 2023 festive season. Piazza Navona: Festa della BefanaRome's popular Christmas market and Festa della Befana takes place in Piazza Navona until 6 January 2024...
Where to Ski near Rome. The mountains in central Italy offer skiers in Rome a closer alternative to the Alps. There are many skiing resorts within an easy drive of Rome along the Apennines in Lazio and Abruzzo. Each reso...
A guide on what to see and what to do in Val d'Orcia.A Unesco heritage site since 1991, Val d'Orcia was considered by Renaissance artists to be the place that most perfectly expresses the balance between Man and Nature....
Christmas in Rome sees return of market stalls and carousel in Piazza Navona. Rome's popular Christmas market returns to Piazza Navona this festive season, running throughout December until 6 January 2024. The event,...
Festa dell'Immacolata is a public holiday in Italy. Rome marks the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Friday 8 December - a Catholic holy day and a national public holiday in Italy - with a series of traditions and s...
Medics protest over provisions in 2024 budget bill. Doctors in Italy are to stage a nationwide 24-hour strike on 5 December in protest over measures affecting the public health sector, including pension cuts, in the gov...
Christmas trees are sold at select garden centres, markets and florists in Rome. For Rome residents who wish to create Christmas magic in their home, there are numerous outlets around the capital selling real trees of v...
84 historic sites in Lazio region open to visitors this weekend. The Lazio region around Rome opens the doors of historic private homes and important cultural sites that are normally closed to the public on the weekend...
Rome holds 2023 edition of Maritozzo Day. Maritozzo Day, Rome's annual tribute to the maritozzo, takes place in the capital on Saturday 2 December.   Now in its seventh edition, Maritozzo Day is devoted to celebrating...
Rome's Stazione Termini welcomes Eataly. Eataly, the chain of high-end Made in Italy food halls, on Friday opened a new outlet in Rome's central Termini station, the city announced. The 700-sqm store, located in the ...
Outcry after Italian ski resort dropped Cervinia. The famed ski resort of Cervinia in northern Italy on Thursday reverted to its pre-Fascist era name of Le Breuil before doing an about-turn following political pressure....
Italian state had lost track of Botticelli work valued at €100 million. A painting by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, said to have been missing from state records for 50 years, has been recovered from a private ho...
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