A dentist in Rome’s Prati neighbourhood found himself at the centre of a viral parking dispute this week. The free space where he had parked his car turned into a paid one overnight, and he woke up to a fine for not displaying a ticket.
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A long restoration of the roofs and façades of one of Rome’s most magnificent and famous Renaissance buildings, Palazzo Farnese, seat of the French embassy, has been completed.
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One of the most fascinating domus at Herculaneum, the Roman town buried and preserved by the Vesuvius eruption along with Pompeii in 79 AD, has reopened after a 30-year restoration. The House of the Carbonized Furniture is open again thanks to a restoration project carried out in a public-private partnership with the Packard Humanities Institute […]
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Deputy Premier and Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini suggested political motives could lie behind the suspension of train services in Calabria early on Thursday. The rail sabotage is the latest in a long series of major disruptions to hit Italy’s rail network.
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An 86-year-old man killed his ex-wife with a knife inside a hospital on the Tuscan coast on Friday, before taking his own life by jumping from a third-floor window of the same building.
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Rome revokes Special Economic Zone authorisation for the Tavolara Bay glamping development at Cala Finanza, two days after a municipal council U-turn and a mass protest on the beach.
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The €2 increase, the first since paid admission to the Pantheon was introduced in 2023, will fund local libraries in disadvantaged areas under the Piano Olivetti per la Cultura scheme.
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ROME — Italian authorities have launched an intense manhunt following a brutal triple homicide late Friday night in the Casalotti district, on the western outskirts of Rome. Three members of a family of Bangladeshi origin were stabbed to death in their apartment on Via Montiglio.
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ROME — Two centuries after Mary Shelley published her radical, visionary novel about the end of humanity, The Last Man, Rome’s Keats-Shelley House is honouring the milestone with a new exhibition. Titled A World on the Verge, the exhibition explores the haunting contemporary relevance of a work that essentially founded the modern apocalyptic fiction genre.
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Stefano Tonin, 57, collapsed at a construction site in San Martino di Lupari on Wednesday afternoon. This despite a regional ordinance prohibiting outdoor work during the hottest part of the day. Padua prosecutors and workplace safety inspectors are now investigating.
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