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Olympic champion wins high jump final in Budapest.
Italian Olympic champion Gianmarco "Gimbo" Tamberi won his first-ever world high jump title at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Tuesday night.
Tamber...
Cutugno died in Milan after a long illness.
Italian pop singer-songwriter Toto Cutugno, best known for his 1983 international hit L'Italiano, died on Tuesday in Milan's San Raffaele hospital at the age of 80.
The new...
Key museum contracts in Italy set to expire soon.
Italy's right-wing government has given a further signal that the practice of hiring foreign directors for top Italian museums could be coming to an end, following new r...
Italian premier Giorgia Meloni pictured holding plate of cooked blue crabs for Sunday lunch.
Italy has allocated €2.9 million to tackle the rapid spread of blue crabs, an invasive species that is threatening the marine...
Eternal City prepares for millions of pilgrims in 2025.
Rome has unveiled plans to pedestrianise Piazza Pia, near the Vatican, as part of a major €70 million project ahead of the Jubilee Year in 2025.
A busy thorough...
Italian tourists ran off without paying in Albanian restaurant.
Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni settled an unpaid restaurant bill in Albania after a group of Italian tourists did a runner without paying for their...
Rome police investigate major jewellery heist.
The central Rome penthouse of an Italian princess was broken into on Wednesday by thieves who escaped with a trove of jewellery and valuables worth an estimated €2 million....
Musk responds to Italian culture minister.
Tesla and X boss Elon Musk said on Thursday that the proposed cage fight in Italy with fellow tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg would not take place as the Facebook founder had...
Italy issues red alert heatwave warning for five cities on Friday, rising to nine on Saturday, including Rome.
Italy faces another heatwave in the coming days, after the mid-August Ferragosto holiday, with temperatures...
MIC Card gives Rome residents unlimited access to municipal museums for one year.
Rome's MIC Card, which costs €5, entitles the capital's residents to unlimited access to city-run museums for 12 months from the date of...
Discount coffee for customers who bring own cup, spoon and sugar.
In a summer of negative headlines in Italy about diners being ripped off, a bar in the northern Liguria region is making the news for its low price for c...
Sensational discovery made headlines around the world.
The famed Riace Bronzes, two ancient Greek warrior statues, were found by chance in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Italy's southern Calabria region on this day 51...
La Sapienza ranked among top 150 universities in the world.
Rome's Università La Sapienza is the top university in Italy according to the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) of Shanghai Ranking Consultanc...
Palio is held each summer on 2 July and 16 August.
The historic Palio di Siena horse race returns on Wednesday, the day after Italy's Ferragosto holiday, with bareback riders battling it out in the mediaeval heart of th...
What are the origins of the Ferragosto summer holiday?
Italy marks the national holiday of Ferragosto each year on 15 August, the feast of the Assumption, the day when Catholics believe the Virgin Mary ascended to heave...
Mattarella calls for justice and responsibility amid protracted trial into bridge's fatal collapse in 2018.
Italy on Monday marks the fifth anniversary of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in the north-west city of Gen...
State museums in Italy stay open for Ferragosto 2023.
Italy's state museums, archaeological sites, galleries and historic villas will open on the Ferragosto public holiday on Tuesday 15 August, the culture ministry has...
Sicily's main airport suspends flights on Monday.
Catania airport on the Italian island of Sicily has suspended all departures and arrivals until 06.00 on Tuesday 15 August due to the eruption of the nearby Mount Etna v...
Pompeii rumours grow as Colosseum is ruled out.
When Elon Musk confirmed on Friday that he would fight Mark Zuckerberg at an "epic location" in Italy with an ancient Roman backdrop, many assumed the venue would be the C...
Rumours persist about Colosseum as potential fight venue.
Elon Musk on Friday confirmed media reports that he is to fight Mark Zuckerberg at an "epic location" in Italy, following months of rumours.
Musk, who owns Tw...
Travis Scott show sparked calls for no more concerts at Circus Maximus.
Rome is to continue staging concerts at the Circus Maximus after authorities reached an agreement following the controversy over the recent show by...
Murgia died in Rome after battle with cancer.
Michela Murgia, the award-winning Italian writer, intellectual and rights activist, died in Rome on Thursday aged 51, a few months after announcing that she had stage four k...
Sangiuliano says Circus Maximus was not suitable venue for Travis Scott concert.
Italy's culture minister has waded into the debate over the concert by American rapper Travis Scott at the Circus Maximus on Monday night,...
Notte di San Lorenzo occurs on 10 August.
One of Italy's most magical summer traditions falls on 10 August each year when Italians look to the night sky in the hope of catching a glimpse of a shooting star and making a...
Calabria region deploys drones to catch 32 suspected arsonists in the act in past two weeks.
A 10-year-old boy was surprised by a drone as he set fire to vegetation in the Calabrian countryside in southern Italy, the pr...
Sora Lella (1915-1993) has a special place in Romans' hearts.
Elena Fabrizi, popularly known as Sora Lella, was an Italian actress, cook, restaurateur, television personality and legendary Roman character.
Born in th...
Rome subway works scheduled from 11-24 August.
Rome's Metro A subway is to close partially over 14 days in August to allow for major maintenance works to be carried out on the line's tracks, the city said.
The closur...
Rome landmark is "not stadium or concert hall".
Rome's Circus Maximus is being put at risk by rock concerts held in the ancient Roman venue, according to the director of the Colosseum archaeological park.
"The Circus...
Scott performed Utopia album in Circus Maximus.
A flurry of people in Rome rushed to Twitter on Monday night to ask if there had been an earthquake, with the city's fire brigade reportedly receiving dozens of calls from...
Rome cat shelter appeals for donations and distance adoptions.
Rome's Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary, located among the ruins of the Largo Argentina archaeological area, has provided shelter, food and love to cats in the...
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