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American Overseas School of Rome responds to covid-19 case.
A number of students and teachers at the American Overseas School of Rome, a prestigious private school in north Rome, have been placed in isolation after a Ye...
"We didn't touch him," say the brothers accused in the death of Willy Monteiro Duarte.
Two brothers who are among four people accused of beating to death a 21-year-old Cape Verdian-Italian in Colleferro south of Rome on...
Italy's culture ministry to restore Palazzo Silvestri-Rivaldi in Rome.
An abandoned Renaissance palace in the shadow of the Colosseum is to be restored by the Italian culture ministry under its €103 million Grandi Proge...
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Predicted impact of covid-19 on Italian tourism is worse than expected.
Italy's tourism industry has suffered more than predicted this summer due to the covid-19 crisis, according to a joint report by tourism confederat...
Death of Willy Monteiro Duarte has caused outrage in Italy.
Four men in their 20s have been arrested on charges of manslaughter in the beating to death of a 21-year-old Cape Verdian-Italian man in Colleferro, a town so...
For locals or students in Italy there is a convenient way to travel in Lazio with the COTRAL buses.
Many expats or Erasmus students will tell you that one of the best parts about staying in Europe is that the whole con...
Rome says the new requirement is "not a declaration of war on plus size" police officers.
Rome has launched a recruitment drive for 500 new municipal traffic police, or vigili urbani, in the coming months, with a stipul...
Turnout for Rome no mask protest smaller than expected.
Around 1,500 people demonstrated on 5 September in central Rome against Italy's covid-19 regulations, with barely anybody in the crowd wearing masks or keeping the...
First case of covid-19 among students at reopened school in Rome.
A final-year student at Marymount, a prestigious private international school in north Rome, tested positive for covid-19 on 4 September, two days after...
Race against time to save Rome's iconic pine trees.
Rome residents may have noticed an unusually heavy carpet of pine needles, covered in sticky honeydew, under some of the city's umbrella pines, or stone pines, in rece...
Lazio Region leader condemns planned march as "irresponsible madness".
Two thousand people are expected to attend a rally in Rome against Italy's covid-19 regulations, in particular the protocols introduced by the healt...
Silvio Berlusconi, according to Forza Italia sources, was hospitalized last night at the San Raffale Hospital in Milan as a precautionary measure. The same sources specify that the clinical situation is stable and not wo...
Survey by Save the Children finds parents in Italy worried about return to school.
The reopening of Italy's schools and the return of students after a six-month school closure due to the covid-19 pandemic is causing wor...
Rome's municipal museums are free to all visitors this Sunday.Rome's city-run museums will be open for free to all visitors on Sunday 6 September.
There are new rules attached to the monthly appointment, held on the fir...
Two Italian men caught splashing about in 16th-century Rome fountain.
Rome police fined two 20-year-old men for bathing in the Fountain of the Moor in Piazza Navona while their friend filmed them, reports Italian news a...
MAXXI L'Aquila contemporary art museum will open in October.
MAXXI L'Aquila, a new contemporary art museum under the management of Rome's Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, is set to open in the Abruzzo capital...
Teaching unions raise fears that schools in Italy will be understaffed.
Italian schools face being understaffed when the academic year begins across Italy on 14 September, trade unions representing teachers have claimed...
Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for coronavirus.
His personal physician, Alberto Zangrillo, stated that, "He is asymptomatic and in isolation at home". The swab was performed after his recent stay in Sardinia, exp...
Dante's Divine Comedy comes to life with readings at the Baths of Caracalla.
Rome's Baths of Caracalla hosts readings from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy each week from 20 July until 3 September, on the 700th anniversa...
Italian influencer visits one of Rome's most important museums.
Chiara Ferragni, Italy's most popular influencer on Instagram, paid a visit to Palazzo Barberini, one of the finest museums in Rome, on 1 September.
Why...
Baby born in mid-air between Lampedusa and Palermo.
A migrant woman who tested positive for covid-19 gave birth to a baby on board a helicopter as she was flying to Sicily from the tiny southern Italian island of Lamped...
Lazio Region opens drive-in testing centre at Fiumicino airport.
Rome's Fiumicino airport is launching a drive-in centre for coronavirus tests, organised by the Lazio Region, in the long stay car park.
The facilities...
Tunnels for Rome's third metro line now reach Piazza Venezia.
Excavations for Rome's Metro C tunnels from the Roman Forum to Piazza Venezia have been completed, the city's mayor Virginia Raggi announced.
"Another goa...
Schools in Italy reopen for first time since March.
Teachers in Italy return to work today as schools prepare to begin the new academic year on 14 September, after a nationwide closure of six months due to the covid-19...
"The right to health and the right to education must go hand in hand," says Italy's health minister.
The safe reopening of Italy's schools as planned on 14 September remains the government's "top priority" said premier...
No new coronavirus cases detected at Fiumicino airport on 30 August.
Italian health authorities have recorded zero new covid-19 cases at Rome's Fiumicino airport for the first time since rapid coronavirus testing began...
St George's begins school year with online lessons due to number of covid-19 cases.
St George's British International School of Rome has delayed its reopening, scheduled on 1 September, due to the number of positive cov...
Italian woman caught with feet in Fontanone.
Rome police fined a 35-year-old Italian woman €400 for dipping her feet in the basin of the Fontana dell'Acqua Paola, better known as the Fontanone, on the Janiculum Hill.
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Amarena the bear and her cubs pay a visit to S. Sebastiano dei Marsi.
A bear known affectionately as Amarena took her four cubs for a ramble through the streets of the tiny Abruzzo village of S. Sebastiano dei Marsi whe...
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