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ITA Airways cancels 20 flights due to strike.
Air travellers in Italy face disruption on Monday 8 January due to a nationwide 24-hour strike by airport security staff and baggage handlers.
The strike will involve bag...
Dog's age yet to be verified by Guinness Book of Records.
Italy is home to the oldest dog in the world, according to the owners of Lilly who celebrated their pet's 24th birthday in a town near Naples on New Year's Day....
Bumper year for bringing Ancient Rome back to life.
Ancient Rome was a hot topic in 2023, exploding as a trend on TikTok and making headlines around the world frequently throughout the year.
Here is a round-up of som...
Christmas and New Year opening hours for Rome museums.
Rome's city-run museums will be open on 24 December, Christmas Eve, and on 31 December, New Year's Eve, from 10.00 to 14.00.
They will be closed on 25 December,...
Händel’s Messiah was target of latest blitz by climate activists in Italy.
Climate activists on Thursday evening interrupted a performance of Händel’s Messiah in Rome in the latest of a series of protests in cities acro...
Italy lures international luxury hotels to Rome.
Rome is second only to London for attracting the world's top luxury hotel brands in 2023, according to a new report by Luxury Travel Intelligence.
The LTI rankings put...
Influencer makes €1 million donation to Turin hospital amid storm over misleading charity claims
Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni is at the centre of a controversy for allegedly profiting handsomely from charity drive...
Carabinieri recruit Saetta, the robot police dog.
Italy's Carabinieri military police on Tuesday unveiled Saetta, a remote-controlled robotic dog which initially will be assigned to the bomb squad in Rome.
The four-l...
Rome's public transport system follows reduced schedule on main holiday dates over 2023 Christmas season.
24 Dec. Christmas Eve. Rome's entire public transport system will be free this day. All metro, buses, trams and...
S.P.Q.R. quiz is devoted to Ancient Rome.
A new quiz game designed to test players' knowledge of Ancient Rome has been launched in Italy in time for the Christmas market.
Aimed at players aged upwards of 14, the boxe...
Rome to transform grounds in front of landmark church.
Italy's annual May Day concert will leave behind its traditional venue outside Rome's Basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano next year and move to the Circus Maximus,...
Population of Italy continues to shrink.
Italy's population has dropped to under 59 million, national statistics agency ISTAT said on Monday, with the number of elderly people continuing to rise as the nation's birth ra...
A list of the best museums in Rome.
The city of Rome is an historical treasure trove. You could spend an entire lifetime here and still not manage to see everything it has to offer.
Paintings, sculptures, tapestries...
Becciu expected to appeal sentence by Vatican court.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu was convicted by a Vatican criminal court on Saturday of embezzlement and fraud and sentenced to five and a half years in jail in a historic ru...
Italy marks 800 years since first Nativity scene in Greccio.
The pilgrimage town of Assisi in Italy's central Umbria region lights up this Christmas in honour of the first living Nativity scene created by St Francis in...
Cortellesi movie scores record-breaking ticket sales at Italy’s box office, beating Barbie and Oppenheimer.
C’è ancora domani, the directorial debut of Rome actress Paola Cortellesi, has become one of the top 10 highest...
Schmidt to swap Uffizi for Capodimonte in Naples.
The Italian culture ministry on Friday announced the appointments of new directors of some of Italy's most important museums, following a public selection process.
Ov...
Cast of Money Heist spin-off to meet fans in Rome.
Netflix Italy will present the cast of Berlin, the new spin-off based on the hit Spanish heist crime drama series Money Heist (La Casa del Papel) in Rome on Tuesday 19...
Rome public transport services at risk from 09.00 to 13.00.
Commuters in Rome and the surrounding Lazio region face disruption to public transport services due to a regional four-hour strike on Friday 15 December.
Th...
Move stokes tensions between unions and government.
Italy's transport minister Matteo Salvini has once again issued an injunction to limit a planned 24-hour strike by public transport workers on Friday 15 December.
S...
Pontiff says he will simplify papal funeral ritual.
Pope Francis said his tomb is "already prepared" in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, in an exclusive interview with Mexican broadcaster N+, reported by th...
Discovery includes exceptional mosaic from second century BC.
A newly discovered ancient Roman domus, unearthed between Rome's Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum, was unveiled by the Italian culture ministry on Tuesday....
Jesolo hosts 12 giant sand sculptures this Christmas
Sculptors from around the world return to Jesolo, a seaside resort near Venice in north-east Italy, for an annual sand festival dedicated to religious art.
The 202...
Unions confirm strike 10 days before Christmas.
Trade unions have confirmed a 24-hour public transport strike in Italy on Friday 15 December, after postponing a protest originally scheduled for Monday 27 November.
Th...
Hotels in Rome expect tourism surge over festive season.
Rome hotels are expecting to see a 30 per cent increase in arrivals this Christmas, compared to last year, with bookings for New Year in Rome set to be up 20 per...
Garrone movie is also in the running for an Oscar.
The migration-themed Italian movie Io Capitano by renowned director Matteo Garrone is up for a Golden Globe award in January, organisers announced on Monday.
Based o...
Who and what did Italians search for most on Google in 2023?
Sport, politics and celebrities all feature highly in the most searched topics on Google in Italy over the past year, the internet search engine said on Monda...
17 people received minor injuries in train crash.
An investigation is underway after two trains crashed into each other at low speed in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region on Sunday night, injuring 17 people.
The...
Protests in Venice, Milan, Rome, Turin and Bologna.
Rivers and canals in several major Italian cities on Saturday were dyed green by the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group as part of a protest calling for action to tackle...
Vatican lights up Christmas tree on Saturday.
The Vatican will unveil this year's Nativity scene and light up its Christmas tree at a ceremony in St Peter's Square on Saturday 9 December at 17.00.
The Vatican's mange...
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