Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli has announced the Colosseum will reopen on Saturday, three days after 22-year-old rope-access worker Andrea Moretti fell to his death while installing lighting inside the monument, in what he called Italy’s “umpteenth workplace fatality”.
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A violent, prolonged downpour on Friday flooded neighbourhoods across the city of Agrigento in Sicily, sent mud and debris onto roads leading out of town, and swallowed a car when the road gave way in Piazza Marconi.
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The Barilla Group is restructuring its southern Italy operations, with two other plants set to pass to industrial partners under multi-year supply deals.
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The 66-year-old literature teacher, in her final year before retirement, is in shock but not in a life-threatening condition. A 13-year-old pupil has been identified as the attacker.
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According to reports, Giuseppina Tittaferrante takes over the case of the British-Australian couple and their three children, known as the ‘family of the woods’. The Abruzzo Order of Social Workers opens proceedings against their previous social worker who removed the children from their off-grid family.
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We look at the history of balsamic vinegar and how a centuries-old Este court tradition became one of Italy’s most fiercely protected culinary exports.
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Francesco 1 d’Este was a warrior-duke who survived plague, played both sides of the Thirty Years’ War, and left Modena one of Italy’s finest baroque palaces.
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Federico Vella allegedly ambushed and abducted his ex-partner Lorenza Isceri before he threw her from the A1 motorway viaduct. Italy records its eighth femicide since Ferragosto.
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Veneto has become the fourth Italian region to regulate medically assisted suicide, despite the absence of national legislation on end-of-life care. It is the first centre-right administration to make the decision.
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The lack of female directors competing for the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival reflects a wider “systemic problem”, jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal said as the world’s oldest film festival prepared to open on Wednesday.
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