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Investigation underway into cause of fire at much-loved book stand.
A well-known stall selling used books in Rome's Piazzale Flaminio is getting ready to reopen, days after it was destroyed by fire, according to Italian...
Gualtieri "not intimidated" and will push ahead with plans for incinerator to tackle Rome's trash crisis.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said "there was certainly the hand of man" behind the recent spate of fires in the I...
Tourist had strayed off visitor path and was not seriously injured.
A 23-year-old American tourist fell into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano looming over Naples, Italian media reports.
The incident occurred...
Måneskin resist doctors' calls to postpone Rome concert over covid fears.
Rome bar owners are protesting over "unfair" alcohol restrictions in the city centre on Saturday 9 July for the Måneskin concert at the Circus Ma...
Shelley planned to spend the summer of 1822 sailing along the coast of Tuscany but he drowned when his new boat went down in a summer storm.
Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in a summer storm in the Gulf of Spezia on 8 July...
Find a top doctor in the Rome Metro Area- from oncologists to pediatricians, dermatologists to surgeons. The clinics listed here will assist you in accessing english- speaking medical providers. For specific needs, we...
Filming for Without Blood taking place in Rome from 6-9 July.
Rome is to close several streets in the city centre this week to allow for the filming of Angelina Jolie's new movie Without Blood.
Filming will take plac...
Medics' appeal comes amid surge of new covid-19 infections in Italy.
More than 70,000 people are expected at a sold-out concert by Rome band Måneskin at the Circus Maximus on Saturday 9 July, billed as one of the bigges...
Valentino to restore Roman mosaic at Baths of Caracalla.
Luxury fashion house Valentino will showcase its autumn-winter 2022-23 collection at the Spanish Steps in Rome on Friday 8 July.
The gala event, organised in c...
Happy ending for man who got married while on the verge of death in hospital bed.
An Italian man dying due to complications from a heart attack married his partner in the intensive care unit of a hospital in north Italy...
Just like fine wine, Italian honey has centuries of tradition behind it.
There are more than 300 types of honey on the market in Italy with different colours and flavours depending on the plants from which the bees draw...
Florence to unveil first two rooms of Museo Nazionale dell'Italiano.
Italy will launch a new Museum of the Italian Language, at the S. Maria Novella complex in Florence, on 6 July.
Italian culture minister Dario Fran...
€36.5 million allocated to Italian regions worst hit by drought.
Italy has declared a state of emergency in five northern regions battling the worst drought in 70 years, the government announced on Monday night.
Emer...
Rome mourns last Roman Jew to survive the horrors of Auschwitz.
Donato Di Veroli, the last Roman Jew to survive the Holocaust, has died in the Italian capital aged 98, the city's Jewish community announced on Monday....
Fire in north Rome park fuelled by heatwave and strong gusts of wind.
A large wildfire broke out on Monday in Parco del Pineto, a regional park in the north of Rome, between Pineta Sacchetti and Monte Mario.
The blaz...
Willy Monteiro Duarte was beaten to death after coming to aid of friend.
Marco and Gabriele Bianchi have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Willy Monteiro Duarte, a 21-year-old Cape Verdian-Italian beate...
Caravaggio paintings can be found in churches and palaces across Rome.
The masterful paintings of 16th-century artist Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), better known as Caravaggio, continue to fascinate more than 400 year...
Taxi drivers to protest in centre of Rome on 5 July.
Italy's taxi drivers have confirmed a nationwide 48-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday in protest over the government's competition bill.
Trade unions representi...
16 still missing after chunk of glacier collapses from Marmolada peak.
At least six people have been killed after part of a mountain glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps on Sunday, leaving nine injured and 16 missing....
Tram 8 line also to be upgraded.
Rome's Metro A line will close early for a year and a half to allow the city to carry out maintenance work, starting from Monday 4 July.
The early closures, at 21.00, will be from Sun...
Colosseum tackles touts hoarding tickets to rip off tourists.
Rome's Colosseum has introduced new tickets with the name of each individual visitor in an effort to stamp out the widespread practice of touts reselling tic...
Italy lifts mask mandate in private sector but companies must provide FFP2 masks.
The Italian government updated its mask rules in the workplace on Thursday 30 June, the day the existing protocols were due to expire, li...
Rome's state and city-run museums free on first Sunday of the month.
State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will be open for free on Sunday 3 July thanks to the Domenica al Museo initiative....
Villa Aurora goes under the hammer again after failing to sell twice at auction earlier this year.
An historic Rome villa with the world's only known ceiling painting by Caravaggio goes up for sale a third time, on 30 J...
Fire fuelled by strong winds during hottest June day on record.
Rome firefighters battled a vast wildfire on the north-west outskirts of the city on Monday afternoon amid the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the ca...
A guide to the best rooftop in Rome.
During those hot summer nights in Rome, there’s nowhere better for aperitivo or a quick end-of-the-night tipple than a rooftop terrace bar with panoramic views of the city. Some wil...
Italy bids farewell to leading business figure.
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the Italian founder of Luxottica and president of EssilorLuxottica, the world's largest producer and retailer of glasses and frames, has died in Ital...
Rome catacombs with newly restored frescoes to reopen to public.
The fourth-century Catacombs of Commodilla in the Garbatella area of Rome will soon reopen to the public after their frescoes were restored by the Vatican...
22-year-old Khaby Lame has more than 143 million followers on TikTok.
Khaby Lame, whose wordless ironic videos are wildly popular on the social media platform TikTok, has become the most followed TikToker in the world....
Frescoes of gods from different belief systems in domus that predates third-century Roman bath complex.
The visitor experience at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome has been further enriched with the opening to the public o...
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