Italy’s Tourism Minister, Daniela Santanchè, finally resigned yesterday afternoon (25th March). She gave in to an unprecedented public call from the prime minister, insisting she was no scapegoat for the government’s referendum defeat.
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Born in Florence on 25 March 1541, the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, Francesco I, left behind a legacy of art, alchemy, political ambiguity, and a death that has puzzled historians for more than four centuries.
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Italy’s flag carrier, ITA Airways, closes 2025 with a net profit of €209 million. It marks a historic milestone for an airline born from the wreckage of one of Europe’s most spectacular aviation collapses.
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A foreign-language teacher, stabbed in Trescore Balneario, is in a critical condition in hospital following the latest act of violence to strike Italy’s schools.
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Italy’s embattled Tourism Minister, Daniela Santanchè, arrives at her ministry undeterred, as opposition prepares a no-confidence motion from which Meloni appears unwilling to shield her.
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Andrea Delmastro becomes the first of two government officials to resign on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition reels from its first major electoral defeat.
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Julius Caesar remains, more than two thousand years after his death, one of the most recognisable figures in all of human history. His name became a title — Kaiser in German, Tsar in Russian — and his life a byword for ambition, brilliance, and the perils of absolute power. But who was the man behind […]
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On 24 March 1926, one of the most provocative and prolific figures in twentieth-century theatre was born in the small Lombardy town of Leggiuno Sangiano, in the Province of Varese. Dario Fo would go on to write more than 80 plays, win the Nobel Prize in Literature, be banned from Italian television, and spend a […]
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Travellers in northern Italy have more options than ever to swap city life for the Ligurian coast this spring and summer. An expanded programme of special weekend sea trains launches on Saturday, 28 March.
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Italy’s two most prominent left-leaning national newspapers have changed hands, as the Agnelli family’s GEDI media group completes the sale of both la Repubblica and La Stampa.
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