A network of historic theatres across Marche, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna has been recognised for entire towns that pooled their money to build, own and run a theatre together.
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A limewood crucifix inside the Basilica di Santo Spirito, carved when Michelangelo was still a teenager, is drawing fresh attention after a New York Times feature named it one of the artist’s most affecting works. Discover more about one of Florence’s best-kept secrets.
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Every summer, the high plains beneath the Sibillini Mountains erupt into a sweep of red, purple, blue and yellow. The plant responsible for the Umbrian spectacle isn’t a flower at all, but the humble lentil.
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St Clare was born on 16 July 1194 in Assisi, into a noble family whose sheltered future she abandoned at eighteen for a life of poverty. She founded one of the great religious orders of medieval Europe.
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Glovo and Deliveroo couriers in the Tuscan capital will down tools on Wednesday, 15 July. It is the first move in a wider campaign against falling pay rates and gruelling summer working conditions for delivery riders.
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The Tuscan capital tops Travel + Leisure 2026 World’s Best Awards for the region. Readers cite its art, food and walkability and its role as gateway to Chianti and Montalcino.
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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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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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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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