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Festa della Liberazione is a public holiday in Italy.
Italy will open its state museums and archaeological sites for free on Friday 25 April for the 2025 edition of Liberation Day, or Festa della Liberazione, the cultur...
Rome boosts public transport to deal with crowds.
The faithful will be able to pay their final respects to Pope Francis whose body will lie in state in St Peter's Basilica from Wednesday until Friday, the Vatican said....
Italian culture ministry pays tribute to Francis.
Rome's Colosseum will be plunged into darkness on Tuesday night as a "sign of mourning" for Pope Francis who died on Monday aged 88, Italy's culture ministry has announc...
Rome makes arrangements for pope's funeral.
The Italian government on Tuesday declared five national days of mourning for Pope Francis who died in the Vatican on 21 April, Easter Monday, at the age of 88.
The five-da...
Pope Francis's body to lie in state in St Peter's from Wednesday.
The funeral of Pope Francis who died on Monday aged 88 will take place in St Peter's on Saturday 26 April at 10.00, the Vatican has confirmed.
The fu...
In his will, Pope Francis asked for simple tomb.
The Vatican on Tuesday morning released photographs of Pope Francis laid out in state in the Casa Marta chapel following his death on Monday at the age of 88.
The move...
Cardinal Farrell is acting head of the Vatican until a new pontiff is elected.
Who is running the Vatican after the death of Pope Francis and what is the role of a camerlengo?
These are questions that many people beg...
Vatican releases Pope Francis' death certificate.
Pope Francis died of a cerebral stroke and irreversible cardiovascular arrest, falling into a coma before he died, according to his death certificate released by the Vat...
Pope Francis died at Vatican aged 88.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella led tributes to Pope Francis who died at the Vatican on 21 April, Easter Monday, at the age of 88.
"The death of Pope Francis arouses pain and...
Francis' pontificate was marked by milestone reforms and papal firsts.
Pope Francis, who died in the Vatican on 21 April aged 88, served as pontiff for just over 12 years.
The Argentine pontiff had been recovering fr...
Pontiff served 12 years at helm of Catholic Church.
Pope Francis died in the Vatican on 21 April, Easter Monday, aged 88.
The news was announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo.
"At 7:35 this mor...
Rome marks Natale di Roma on 21 April.Rome celebrates 2,778 years today, Monday 21 April, in a popular birthday tradition called Natale di Roma.The annual celebration - known in ancient times as Dies Romana or Romaia - i...
Pope Francis marked Easter Sunday with Urbi et Orbi blessing.
US vice president JD Vance was granted a brief, private meeting with Pope Francis at the pontiff's Casa Santa Marta residence at the Vatican on Easter Sunday...
Azaleas return to the Spanish Steps in time for Easter.
Rome's Spanish Steps landmark, the 18th-century staircase linking Piazza di Spagna with the church of Trinità de’ Monti, is once again decorated with hundreds of a...
Italy marks Easter with public holidays.
Italy celebrates Easter Sunday and Easter Monday - Pasqua and Pasquetta - with national public holidays on Sunday 20 and Monday 21 April.
All public offices and schools will b...
Rome's birthday, on 21 April, is known as Natale di Roma. This year the city will celebrate its 2,778th birthday.
Traditionally the Eternal City marks its birthday with historical re-enactments of ancient Roman rituals,...
English-language church services in Rome for Holy Week and Easter 2025.
All Saints’ Anglican Church, Via del Babuino 153/b, tel. 0636001881.13 April. Palm Sunday 10.30.17 April. Maundy Thursday Eucharist. 19.00.18 April...
Netflix celebrates Made in Italy movies.
Netflix is showcasing a series of iconic Italian movies until 15 May to mark the Made in Italy Day which celebrates Italian creativity, quality and innovation.
The 15 April da...
Rome will blow out 2,778 candles in 2025.
The Eternal City celebrates its 2,778th birthday on 21 April with historical re-enactments including costumed parades past the Colosseum and gladiator fights in the Circus Maxim...
GRAB adds a new, green layer to Rome's ancient fabric.
Rome is creating a new 50-km long ring road for cyclists and walkers as part of an ambitious project known as the Grande Raccordo Anulare delle Biciclette, or GRAB....
Tight security in Rome for Vance visit.
US vice president JD Vance attended the Vatican's Good Friday liturgy in St Peter's Basilica on the afternoon of 18 April on the first day of a three-day Easter visit to Italy....
Way of the Cross at the Colosseum in 2025.
The annual Via Crucis or Way of the Cross ceremony will take place at the Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday, 18 April, at 21.15.
The torchlit procession - which dates to the...
Rome boosts security measures for Easter.
Rome is stepping up security ahead of the three-day visit of US vice president JD Vance who arrived on Friday and will stay in the Italian capital over the Easter weekend.
Va...
Meloni tells Trump she wants to “make the West great again”.
Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni met with US president Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday to discuss US tariffs on EU imports amid efforts to ea...
Tragedy on the Faito Cable Car: Cabin Falls, Four Dead and One Seriously Injured
Four people were killed and one was critically injured in a cable car disaster on the Monte Faito cableway near Sorrento in Italy's southe...
Rose garden opens on Easter Monday.
Rome will reopen the Roseto Comunale, the municipal rose garden on the Aventine Hill, on Monday 21 April, which falls on Easter Monday or Pasquetta in 2025.
The reopening is part o...
Rome commemorates 81 years since Nazi raid.
Rome on Thursday will mark the 81st anniversary of the Nazi raid on the Quadraro district during the German occupation of the city in world war two.
A procession to commemo...
Pontiff continues Holy Thursday tradition of visiting prisons.
Pope Francis is expected to visit Rome's Regina Coeli prison on the afternoon of 17 April to mark Holy Thursday, according to Vatican sources cited by Itali...
Mattarella returns to Quirinale Palace in Rome.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella was discharged from Rome's Santo Spirito hospital on Thursday morning after undergoing pacemaker surgery on Tuesday night.
Mattarell...
Vance's visit to Rome will coincide with Easter.
US vice president JD Vance is to meet the Vatican's secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin during his upcoming visit to Italy, the White House confirmed on Wednesday....
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