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Rome installs smart bins on city streets. Rome has unveiled dozens of new smart bins equipped with an intelligent system that provides data relating to the amount of waste inside the bin and the type of rubbish it recei...
April begins with public holiday for Pasquetta. Italy celebrates Easter Sunday and Easter Monday - Pasqua and Pasquetta - with national public holidays on Sunday 31 March and Monday 1 April. All public offices and sc...
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Colomba pasquale is a popular Easter tradition in Italy. The traditional 'dove-shaped' Colomba di Pasqua or Colomba pasquale has been a firm fixture on the Easter calendar in Italy for almost a century. Its origins d...
Florence celebrates Easter with spectacular fireworks display. Florence marks Easter Sunday morning with a centuries-old tradition called the Scoppio del Carro, or the Explosion of the Cart, which attracts large crowds...
Message raises eyebrows in Rome and Milan. Train travellers in Italy were taken aback on Monday morning when a strange message appeared on timetable displays at central rail stations in Rome and Milan. "Siete insetti...
Central European Summer Time begins on 31 March. Clocks in Italy and across Europe will "spring forward" by one hour at 02.00 Central European Time (CET) on Sunday 31 March 2024. The custom dates back to more than a...
Tibetan bridge located midway between cties of Foligno and Spoleto. A new Tibetan bridge, billed as the highest in Europe, was inaugurated on Saturday over the Vigi valley in the central Italian region of Umbria. The...
Italy celebrates Father of the Italian language. Italy marks the fifth edition of Dantedì, the national day dedicated to Dante Alighieri, on Monday 25 March. The annual event in honour of the mediaeval poet and philo...
Rome remembers victims of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre. Italy will mark the 80th anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre with a series of official commemorative ceremonies in the capital this weekend. On 24 March...
Traffic restrictions on five Sundays to combat air pollution in Rome. Rome is to ban motorists from driving within the fascia verde (green belt) on five Sundays between November and March 2024. The next date is 24 Ma...
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Uffizi introduces evening openings and paperless tickets. The new director of the Uffizi Galleries, Simone Verde, has unveiled several changes at the Florence museum including evening openings and paperless ticketing....
A short guide to exploring seven charming hilltop towns and villages in Italy's central Lazio region and how to get there on day trips from Rome. BomarzoThis mediaeval town in north Lazio is best known for its fantastic...
A brief historic overview on Italy's most powerful mafias. To outsiders, Italy is famous for pasta, pizza, mandolino, and what is generically referred to as “the mafia.” Mafia groups, or rather, mafie are embedded in It...
Rome rally to recall innocent victims of the mafia. Italy on Thursday marks the Day of Remembrance for Innocent Victims of the Mafia, a national day held each year on 21 March. Thousands of people from all over Italy...
Iconic Roman fountain turns 150 years old. Rome celebrates 150 years since the installation of the city's first nasone drinking fountain by unveiling three new nasoni fountains in the shadow of the Colosseum. The thr...
Rome flower garden returns for seventh edition. TuliPark, which allows visitors to pick their own tulips for purchase, reopens in Rome on 22 March, with tickets already available for purchase online. There will be te...
Bomb squad assisted by robotic dog Saetta. Italy's culture ministry in the historic centre of Rome was evacuated on Tuesday morning following a bomb alert.   Around 400 people were evacuated from the building, just of...
English-language religious services in Rome at Easter. All Saints’ Anglican Church, Via del Babuino 153/b, tel. 0636001881.24 March. Palm Sunday 10.30.28 March. Maundy Thursday Eucharist. 19.00.29 March. Good Friday. Th...
Strike to affect Trenitalia, Italo and Trenord services. Italy faces a national 24-hour rail strike this weekend, from 21.00 on Saturday 23 March until 21.00 on Sunday 24 March, affecting train services across the count...
Pompeii to stage 10 concerts in June and July. Italy's culture ministry has announced a programme of 10 concerts to be held this summer in the ancient Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii archaeological park. The diverse li...
Historic sites across Italy open for 2024 edition of Giornate FAI di Primavera. More than 750 noted Italian buildings and historic sites open their doors to the public on 23-24 March for the Spring Days initiative organ...
Annual tradition marked on St Joseph's Day. Italy celebrates Father's Day on 19 March, the feast of St Joseph, in contrast to many other countries around the world which mark the day on the third Sunday in June. Jose...
Festa dell'Unità d'Italia is a national day of celebration in Italy. Italy marks the occasion on 17 March each year with the Festa dell'Unità d'Italia, a national day of celebration to commemorate the birth of the count...
A quick guide to St Patrick's Day events in Rome. St Patrick's Day, the annual celebration in honour of Ireland's patron saint, is marked in many countries around the world each year, including Italy. There are numer...
Fire broke out in apartment in outskirts of Bologna. Italian authorities have opened an investigation into a fire that caused the deaths of three children and their mother in the northern city of Bologna on Thursday nig...
Rome's Largo Argentina site to host historical re-enactment. Rome will mark the Ides of March and the assassination of Julius Caesar on Friday 15 March 2024 with an historical re-enactment of that fateful day in 44 BC....
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