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Airport fully operational again after fire in mid-July.
Catania airport on the Italian island of Sicily resumed full services this weekend after three weeks of travel chaos caused by a major fire that broke out in the b...
Italian culture minister says numbers "exceed all expectations".
The Pantheon has taken in more than €865,000 in ticket sales since the launch of a new ticketing system at the Rome landmark a month ago, Italy's culture...
UrbanV partners with AWS to develop vertiports in Rome.The prospect of tourists being transported across Rome in electric flying taxis is set to become a reality by the end of 2024, the company behind the venture, UrbanV...
Skipper of speed boat results positive in toxicology test.
Italian authorities have opened an investigation into the death of a 45-year-old American tourist who was killed after the chartered motorboat she was travellin...
High-speed service to run four times a month.
Italy's newly unveiled direct train service between Rome and Pompeii is to run every Sunday, starting from 6 August, the culture ministry has announced.
The high-speed Fr...
Six night clubs in Italy sign up to pilot project for drivers over alcohol limit.
Italy's transport ministry is to introduce trial measures to provide free taxis to drivers who, after undergoing alcohol tests on leaving...
Grattachecca is a cold dessert popular in Rome on hot summer nights.
Sold at kiosks around Rome during the summer months, grattachecca is made with manually-grated ice and blended with sweet sciroppo or fruit syrup....
Traffic restrictions in Circo Massimo at weekend.
Imagine Dragons, the American pop rock group, will perform a concert at the Circus Maximus in Rome on Saturday 5 August.
The band is the latest big-name act to play...
ITA Airways defends use of tape in repairs to plane.
A video of a Rome-bound passenger plane patched with adhesive tape went viral in Italy on Thursday, sparking a safety debate on social media.
The footage was share...
Travis Scott concert in Rome announced at last minute.
American rapper and record producer Travis Scott is to perform his new live show Utopia at the Circus Maximus in Rome on Monday 7 August.
The Rome event was anno...
Italy remembers victims of deadly terrorist attack.
Italian president Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday recalled the victims of the Bologna Massacre in which 85 people were killed and 200 were injured on 2 August 1980....
Air passengers travelling between Rome's Fiumicino airport and Naples can avail of a new rail link.
Italy's state railway Trenitalia will launch a new direct high-speed train service between Rome's Fiumicino airport and...
UNESCO says Italy not doing enough to protect Venice.
Venice is at risk of "irreversible damage" from climate change and mass tourism, according to UNESCO which wants to declare the Italian city an endangered world heri...
Rome recreates a miracle snowfall every August.
Rome celebrates La Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows) by recreating a miracle snowfall outside the Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore during the height of summer.
Th...
A quick guide to what's on in Rome in August 2023.
August in Rome sees hordes of tourists arrive on vacation in the Eternal City as a large percentage of local residents bail out of the capital for Italy's Ferragosto su...
Mysterious island in Lake Bolsena opens to visitors in 2023.
Bisentina, a tiny privately-owned island in the heart of Lake Bolsena in central Italy, reopens to visitors this summer, with guided tours on select dates unt...
How ancient treasures from the sacred Temple of Diana on the shore of Lake Nemi, near Rome, ended up in Nottingham and Copenhagen.
In 1885, when Sir John Savile Lumely, Her Britannic Majesty's ambassador to Italy, began...
Rome "does not deserve or need" this type of tourism.
Rome's tourism councillor on Friday requested help from the Italian government to stop tourists jumping into the waters of the city's Trevi Fountain.
Alessandro O...
Tickets for four Coldplay concerts in Rome sold out.
There was widespread disappointment among Coldplay fans in Italy on Friday after the British band's concerts scheduled in Rome next summer sold out immediately.
La...
Rome is to hold a torchlit procession between the two churches targeted in bombings by the Sicilian mafia in 1993.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella on Thursday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the bombings by the...
Winx Club helps to promote The Magic of Italy.
The Italian foreign affairs ministry has teamed up with the children's animated series Winx Club to promote Italy around the world as a tourist destination.
The internat...
Discovery made during excavations near Vatican.
Rome archaeologists on Wednesday announced the discovery of what they believe are the ruins of the Theatre of Nero whose location has always been a mystery.
The legenda...
Wildfires in Sicily leave devastation in their path.
Mourners were forced to flee the wake of an elderly man, abandoning his coffin, after the sudden arrival of a wildfire in a residential area of Sicily's capital Paler...
Calabria governor pledges zero tolerance for arsonists.
Authorities in Italy's southern Calabria region used a drone to catch an arsonist in the act, amid a spate of wildfires in the south of the country in recent days,...
Five killed in storms in north and wildfires in south.
The Italian government is drawing up emergency legislation to help five regions to cope with the devastating effects of storms in the north and wildfires in the sou...
Incident sparks animal welfare debate in Italy.
A horse pulling a wedding carriage collapsed during one of the hottest days of the year in the southern Italian city of Trani, sparking outrage on social media.
The ani...
Palermo airport shut on Monday night due to fires.
The Milan area of northern Italy was hit by a violent thunderstorm in the early hours of Tuesday, with strong winds uprooting trees, ripping roofs off houses and causin...
Dangerous stunt took place in Polignano a Mare.
Police in Italy are seeking to catch up with a tourist who made a 32-metre jump off a cliff into the sea in Polignano a Mare, a popular seaside resort in the southern Pugl...
Colosseum urges tourists to respect heritage.
The Colosseum archaeological park has published a notice on its website warning of prison sentences of up to five years and hefty fines for those who vandalise the monument....
Rome bridge to reopen in September 2024.
Rome's Ponte dell'Industria, better known as Ponte di Ferro, has closed to traffic for around 14 months to allow for works to be carried out ahead of the Jubilee 2025.
The lan...
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