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Nutella Plant-Based to hit supermarkets in Italy.
Italian food giant Ferrero on Tuesday announced the launch in Italy of a plant-based version of its popular chocolate hazelnut spread Nutella.
The launch of Nutella P...
Rome established the Esquilino district in 1874.
Rome celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Esquilino quarter, located on the hill of the same name, with two days of cultural events on the weekend of 7-8 September....
First new taxi licences in Rome in 20 years.
Rome on Monday issued a public tender online for 1,000 new taxi licences, addressing a long-standing shortage of cabs in the Italian capital.
The 1,000 licenses will compr...
Italy faces series of strikes from 7-9 September.
People travelling and commuting in Italy face disruption between 7 and 9 September due to a series of strikes affecting air travel, trains and local public transport ser...
US tourists fined for Trevi Fountain stunt.
Two American tourists aged 57 and 53 were fined after Rome police caught them getting into the waters of the historic Trevi Fountain on Friday, Italian media reported.
The...
Santanchè defends Italian cuisine amid debate over tinned carbonara.
Italy's tourism minister Daniela Santanchè has added her voice to the online furore after the American food giant Heinz released spaghetti carbonara i...
Rome enters final dash for Jubilee Year 2025.
Several construction sites in Rome are operating around the clock as the Italian capital races to complete dozens of infrastructure projects ahead of the Vatican's Jubilee Y...
Rome prepares to issue 1,000 new taxi licences ahead of Jubilee Year.
A taxi driver operating out of Rome's Fiumicino airport has been fined €2,700 for refusing to take a blind couple and their guide dog in his car on T...
A local's guide to what's on in Rome in September.
September is one of the best times to visit Rome. The sweltering heat of August gives way to balmy sunshine and the nights are still warm enough to dine under the stars...
Top international athletes compete in Rome on 30 August.
The 2024 edition of the Golden Gala, Italy’s annual track and field event, will take place at Rome’s Olympic Stadium on Friday 30 August.
The Rome event, which...
Many expats in Rome have their favourite “overheard question” asked of the city’s tour guides. Wanted in Rome asked some of the capital's English-speaking guides to describe the most unusual questions they have faced.
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Ashes rain down on the centre of Rome.
Four teams of firefighters and three Canadair planes on Thursday battled a large wildfire that broke out around Via Monte Carnevale in the Muratella area to the west of Rome.
Th...
Heinz says product is aimed at Generation Z.
News that Heinz is launching spaghetti carbonara in a can has been met with horror in Italy, particularly in Rome where the classic pasta dish is most famously associated....
As one of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing cities, Rome consistently attracts millions of tourists every year.
But with such a large number of visitors to the city each month, there are always some business own...
New tourist trains to launch in Italy in the fall.
Italy will launch two new express rail services linking Rome with Assisi in the central Umbria region and Alba in the northern Piemonte as part of a tourist train initi...
Netflix to release Emily in Paris Season 4: Rome on 12 September.
Emily in Paris will move to Rome in part two of the fourth season of the hit series starring Lily Collins, as confirmed in the official trailer from Netf...
Eriksson had strong links to the Eternal City.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has paid tribute to the Swedish football manager and player Sven-Göran Eriksson who died of cancer on Monday at the age of 76.
Hailing him a...
Festival opens with Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
The 2024 Venice International Film Festival, which celebrates its 81st edition, will take place at the Lido in the Italian canal city from 28 August until 7 Sept...
Termini-Battistini section of Metro A reopens on 26 August.
Rome reopened its Metro A subway line between Termini and Battistini on Monday, which had been closed to commuters since 10 August to carry out works on the ra...
Mike Lynch's daughter Hannah was last person missing after Bayesian sank on Monday.
Divers have found the body of the sixth and final person missing after a superyacht sank off Sicily on Monday, believed to be 18-year-o...
Rome wildfire may have been caused by arson.
The head of Rome's civil protection department has urged residents to donate blood after four emergency responders were seriously injured in a vast wildfire in the city's sub...
Agrigento outlaws souvenirs that glorify Mafia.
The mayor of the Sicilian city of Agrigento has banned the sale of Mafia-themed souvenirs in an effort to promote legality and avoid negative stereotypes of the Italian is...
Rome police investigate cause of wildfire.
One firefighter and three civil protection volunteers were hospitalised with severe burns sustained while battling a vast wildfire in the eastern outskirts of Rome on Wednesday...
Search continues for final missing body on Bayesian
Divers searching for six missing people following the sinking of a superyacht off Sicily's coast have recovered five bodies, Italian authorities said on Thursday.
T...
Italian friar seeks to attract young people to Mass.
A Franciscan friar has sparked controversy in Italy over his "2 for 1" offer of a free spritz after Mass to churchgoers in Urbino on Sunday evenings.
A poster adve...
Burglar in Rome got distracted by book.
A burglar who broke into an apartment in Rome on Tuesday night was arrested after stopping in the middle of the robbery to read a book about Greek mythology.
The man, a 38-year...
Soldiers hidden under ice for more than a century.
The remains of two World War One soldiers, trapped under a mountain glacier in the Italian Alps for more than a century, have emerged after the summer heat thawed the i...
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley boss Jonathan Bloomer among those missing after Bayesian sank off Sicily.
Rescuers continued their search on Tuesday for six people missing after a luxury superyacht san...
The story of Rome's main airport, from the 1960 Olympic Games to its modern-day success.
Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, better known as Fiumicino, opened to air traffic on 20 August 1960, five days befo...
One dead and six missing in Bayesian yacht sinking.
One man died and six other people were missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm earl...
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Parallel to its successful run in Madrid, the versione romana of this multilingual comedy finally lands in Rome! Four roommates in an apartment near the center of the city decide t...
