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“Come and read a book in the heart of the city”.
Rome launches its first Reading Party, an event in which people meet to read together in silence, at the Casa delle Letterature on Friday 27 September from 18.00 to 20.00...
G7 agriculture ministers meet in Sicily from 26-27 September.
Italy's agriculture minister Francesco Lollobrigida will host the Group of Seven (G7) Agriculture Summit in the Sicilian city of Syracuse on Thursday and Fri...
Rome rallies banned for "public security" reasons.
Rome police chiefs have banned two pro-Palestinian rallies from taking place on the streets of the Italian capital on Saturday 5 October, citing public security concern...
Citizenship reform petition reaches 500,000 signatures.
A petition in Italy calling for a referendum to make it easier for foreigners to claim Italian citizenship has reached the half a million signatures needed to trig...
Plaque unveiled in honour of Mandela in Villa Ada.
Rome has named a piazza in the Villa Ada park in honour of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and the man who guided his country out of apartheid....
Italy marks Giornate Europee del Patrimonio.
Italy will host a nationwide programme of cultural events to mark the 2024 edition of European Heritage Days on the weekend of 28-29 September.
Under the theme Heritage of...
Wine windows make a comeback in Tuscany.
Florence's wine windows, whose origins date back to the 16th century and the rule of Cosimo I de' Medici, have been enjoying a Renaissance in recent years.
The curious traditi...
Major search operation underway for baby and grandmother in Pisa province.
Firefighters on Tuesday continued a search for a five-month-old baby and his grandmother missing after floods hit Italy's central Tuscany region...
ITA Airways cancels 28 flights due to strike action.
Air travellers in Italy face disruption on Tuesday 24 September due to a 24-hour strike by airport staff and baggage handlers at some of the country's main airports....
Final death toll of Saviano disaster rises to four.
Four people from the same family, including two young siblings, died after a two-storey apartment building collapsed in the town of Saviano, near Naples, early on Sund...
Police hunt for the criminals who killed Ricky.
Rome police are hunting for the burglars responsible for throwing a dog to its death from the sixth floor of an apartment block after a failed robbery on Friday.
The do...
Roma CEO Souloukou resigns in fallout from De Rossi sacking.
Roma fans angry at the dismissal of Daniele De Rossi as head coach protested at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on Sunday as the club secured its first win of the...
Backlash from Roma fans after De Rossi dismissal.
Roma CEO Lina Souloukou has been assigned police protection amid a backlash from the club's supporters after Daniele De Rossi was sacked as head coach, according to Ital...
Viggo Mortensen also to receive career award at Festa del Cinema di Roma.
Hollywood actor Johnny Depp will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 2024 Rome Film Festival which takes place in the Italian ca...
Italy pays tribute to Sophia Loren in Rome.
Hollywood legend Sophia Loren will mark her 90th birthday on Friday with a gala event and a party in Rome, surrounded by her family, friends and special guests.
The Oscar-w...
Giuli hosts G7 Culture Summit in Naples.
Italy's new culture minister Alessandro Giuli will host the Group of Seven (G7) Culture Summit in Naples on Friday and Saturday, with events scheduled to take place in nearby Pom...
Strike to affect local public transport services in Italy.
Commuters in Rome, Milan and other cities across Italy face disruption to local public transport services on Friday 20 September due to a nationwide 24-hour str...
Our ultimate guide on what to see and what to do in Ventotene.
Ventotene is the smallest inhabited island of the Pontine archipelago and the smallest municipality of Lazio with its 743 inhabitants.
Named in the Odyss...
Loren will celebrate her milestone in Rome.
Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren, one of the last stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, will celebrate her 90th birthday in Rome on Friday 20 September.
The Italian cultur...
Emergency situation in Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions.
More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna amid torrential rain and severe floods caused by Sto...
Ivan Juric to replace Daniele De Rossi.
Croatian football manager Ivan Jurić will replace Daniele De Rossi as head coach at AS Roma, the Rome Serie A club confirmed on Wednesday evening.
His contract runs until 30 Ju...
Italy mourns Italia '90 hero Schillaci who has died following a long battle with cancer.
Salvatore "Toto" Schillaci, the legendary Italian footballer best known for his iconic performance in the 1990 World Cup, died in...
De Rossi signed a three-year contract as AS Roma coach in June after replacing Mourinho in January.
Daniele De Rossi has been "relieved of his duties as head coach" at AS Roma, the club announced unexpectedly on Wednesd...
Ryanair asks Italy to double flight limit at Rome airport ahead of Vatican's Jubilee next year.
Low-cost airline Ryanair has called on the Italian government to double the daily flight limit at Rome's Ciampino airport f...
How to reach the centre of Rome from Fiumicino and Ciampino, the two airports in the Italian capital.
When visiting Rome, the first part of your trip will involve getting from the airport to your accommodation in the ci...
Leonardo Express to leave Fiumicino airport after midnight.
Rome's express train service between Termini station and Leonardo da Vinci airport, better known as Fiumicino, will run later at night from Wednesday 18 Septem...
New passport service to launch in Rome, Milan and Naples in September.
Italy is now offering passport services at select post offices in Rome, after launching the initiative at post offices in 300 small towns earlier th...
UK prime minister on first official visit to Italy.
British prime minister Keir Starmer is to meet Italian premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Monday to discuss tackling illegal immigration as well as support for Ukraine....
Rome's trams will be replaced by buses during Porta Maggiore works.
Rome will take all trams out of circulation from 16 September, replacing them with buses until 3 November, as works at the Porta Maggiore tram depot en...
Open Arms trial: Meloni defends Salvini who faces six years in prison.
Italian prosecutors on Saturday requested a six-year jail sentence for Italy's former interior minister and current deputy premier Matteo Salvini on...
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