Italy: The day Michelangelo’s Pietà was vandalised
Rome: 50 years ago today, a Hungarian man called Laszlo Toth climbed over an altar rail in St Peter’s Basilica...
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Italy: Nicola Piovani new artistic director of Rome’s Globe Theatre
Rome: Italian composer Nicola Piovani has been named the new artistic director of Rome's Globe Theatre in Villa Borghese, succeeding...
Italy: Barberini Bees and Bernini – a Roman story
Rome: The Barberini family, an aristocratic Italian dynasty, attained enormous riches, power and influence in 17th-century Rome, peaking with the...
Italy: Puglia Farms need 100,000 seasonal workers from third countries
Rome: The branch of the Italian Farmers’ Association’ Coldiretti’ located in the southern region of Puglia, Italy, has announced that...
Italy: Draghi to visit Turkey in July
Rome: Italy’s Prime Minister will visit Turkey in July for discussions about the Ukraine war, the leader said Thursday, as...
Italy: Rome’s Colosseum opens for moonlight tours
Rome: Rome's Colosseum opens up its labyrinth of underground chambers and tunnels for night visits this summer, starting from May...
Italy: Rome’s Fiumicino airport opens major new boarding area
Rome: Rome's Leonardo da Vinci international airport, known as Fiumicino, inaugurated a major new boarding area on Wednesday in the...
Italy: Wolf population rises to 3,300
Rome: Italy's wolf population has grown to an estimated 3,300 animals living in the wild, according to a study by...
Italy: Rome mayor wants subway to stay open 24 hours at weekends
Rome: Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said he wants the city's subway system to run all night at weekends and to...
Italy: Farmers in Puglia warn of labor shortage
Rome: A branch of the Italian Farmers' Association 'Coldiretti' in the southern Puglia region says there it is facing a...
Italy: Thousands of people out and about
Rome: A chilling scene, the prelude, some fear, to what could happen in the coming weeks, with summer nights pushed...
Italy: The best art on show at the Venice Biennale
Venice: The recently opened Venice Biennale -- an 8-month-long international festival of art and culture staged every other year (though...
Italy: Buc-ee’s opens Florence
Florence: A massive gas station and travel center spreading across the Southeast from Texas opened Monday its first location in...
Italy: Rome’s Night of Museums returns
Rome: Rome museums stayed open until 02.00 on the night of Saturday 14 May as the capital celebrated the return...
The longest river in Italy is drying up
Rome: Last month, residents of Boretto in northern Italy discovered that the wide stretch of the Po River, running just...
Italy: Tourist fined for climbing on Rome’s Pantheon
Rome: An American tourist, 26, was fined after being caught by Rome police while attempting to climb the dome of...
Italy: Florence shaken by another 3.7 magnitude earthquake
Florence: The area around Florence was shaken by an earthquake, measuring 3.7 in magnitude early Friday. The epicentre of the...
Italy: Rome grants Roma Tre University use of Testaccio landmark
Rome: The city of Rome has approved a plan to grant the free concession of a large part of the...
Italy: Rome police seek Maserati driver who damaged Spanish Steps
Rome: Rome police have launched an investigation after a motorist drove a Maserati down the Spanish Steps on Tuesday night,...
Italy: Open House Roma 2022: Discover Rome’s hidden architectural gems
Rome: Registration is open for the 2022 edition of Open House Roma which opens the doors of 200 of Rome’s...
Italy: Easy grocery shopping delivery services in Rome
Rome: Always nostalgic for the supermarkets back home, as well as the car to load a formidable grocery haul into,...
Pakistan’s exports to Italy increase 35% to $758 million in 3 quarters
Islamabad: Pakistan’s exports of goods and services to Italy witnessed an increase of 35.58 percent during the first three quarters...
Italy donates 45 fire engines to Ukraine
Rome: Firefighters in Ukraine have welcomed a convoy of 45 fire engines, donated from Italy as part of European efforts...
Italy sets course for ITA Airways sale by end of next month
Rome: Italy's government aims to sell state-owned ITA Airways, the successor to Alitalia, by the end of June after setting...
Italy: Rome celebrates Europe Day with concert
Rome: Rome marked Europe Day with a concert on Monday to celebrate European unity and demonstrate Europe's solidarity with Ukraine,...
Italy: Rome’s dog beach reopens for the summer
Rome: Baubeach, Rome’s beach designated exclusively for dogs and their owners, reopens for the summer season on 14 May. Located...
Italy seeks Unesco world heritage status for Appian Way
Rome: Italy has begun the candidacy process to have the Via Appia Antica inserted in the Unesco World Heritage List,...
Italy: Tourist falls in Rome’s Borghese Gallery, damages Guido Reni painting
Rome: Rome museum experts are assessing the damage caused to a painting by Baroque master Guido Reni after a visitor...
Italy: Stolen Nostradamus manuscript is returned to library in Rome
Rome: An ancient manuscript by the French astrologer Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, stolen from a library in...
Italy: One of Venice’s most iconic landmarks opens to visitors for the first time in 500 years
Venice: Visitors to Venice are now able to enter the Procuratie Vecchie after it opened to the public for the...
